Las Vegas puts on a show
November 2008
The Vegas watch shows couldn’t be more different from the Swiss ones.
LAKIN@LARGE - Vive la Révolution!
November 2008
“In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da (…)
Fossil fashion brands
October 2008
The Fossil Group is one of the watch industry’s biggest and most successful, with revenues in 2007 near US$1.5 billion.
Quartz versus mechanical – do women care?
October 2008
Never before have there been so many ladies mechanical timepieces on offer. There is hardly a luxury watch brand on the market that hasn’t embarked on a (…)
The new watch designers: stars in the shadows
October 2008
They share some of the success of any given model, but most of the time the new watch designers work in the shadows of the brands that become the stars (…)
De Bethune, in harmony
October 2008
All of the true watch designers that I know are nostalgic about their many childhood afternoons spent building Meccano sets, dismantling alarm (…)
If watches had a home - the Bucherer retail operation
September 2008
Bucherer is unlike any other retailer in that they do it all - they sell the highest end watches and jewellery, they make high end jewellery themselves ...
Consumer Generated Media: marketing by consumers
September 2008
In September 2004, in an online discussion forum, an anonymous web surfer explained how Kryptonite branded locks could be opened with a Bic pen.
Long live the watch industry holiday!
August 2008
The watch industry in Switzerland is perhaps one of the only industries in the world to draw the curtain shut and stop production for three weeks every summer.
LAKIN@LARGE - When a safe isn’t!
August 2008
The term ‘fusion’, especially after Jean-Claude Biver made it into a powerful marketing tool for the Hublot brand, is quite in fashion.
‘There’s no Business like Show Business’
August 2008
Another year, another show, another successful conclusion to those two weeks in springtime that bring watch and jewellery buyers from every corner of the (…)
Spoilt for choice
July 2008
There has never been such an incredible choice of watches for women.