Clerc continues its ‘Odyssey’
February 2008
With a revisited offer and outstanding new models, Clerc is moving forward and expanding its distribution.
Paul Picot: classicism revisited
February 2008
It was in 1976, in the middle of the watchmaking crisis, when Mario Boiocchi created the Paul Picot brand, named after an 18th century pioneer (…)
Louis Erard celebrates the sale of its 50,000th watch
January 2008
Acquired in 2003 by Alain Spinedi and a group of investors, the Louis Erard brand, created in 1931, has risen from the ashes.
How four major brands approach the Internet
January 2008
For our latest magazine issue, IC-Agency asked Details, a crossmedia communication agency, to compare the websites of four luxury watch brands. (…)
USA Market Focus 2007 – The sun is still shining
January 2008
The North American market is, right now, the biggest market in the world, and probably the one with the most potential. For the last several years, it has (…)
After 175 years, a rise in strength without moving up-market
January 2008
Longines celebrated its 175th anniversary in timekeeping in 2007. Above all, however, the brand is looking towards the future—a future that seems to (…)
The successful re-positioning of Hugo Boss
January 2008
With some 300,000 watches, two ‘brands’, a third on the way, and a fourth in the works, the repositioning of Hugo Boss, under the (…)
In the search of legitimate horology: Chanel, Hermès and Louis Vuitton
January 2008
Chanel, Hermès, and Louis Vuitton. What do these three brands have in common? None of them is originally from the domain of watchmaking.
Strategic auctions
January 2008
We won’t go into detail, in this column, about the dramatic shockwaves travelling through the world of watch auctions. We are not looking to weigh (…)
An investigation into platinum
January 2008
One kilometre under the ground in the darkness and the heat of a South African mine lies one of the watch industry’s most luxurious materials: platinum.
LAKIN@LARGE - Swords at dawn in mid-Atlantic and other incidents
January 2008
As far as the eye can see, there’s a monotonous unbroken seascape of a glittering silver-blue.
The glitz and glamour of the Festival de Cannes
December 2007
This year Chopard celebrated its tenth anniversary as a partner of Cannes and the maker of the famous Palme D’Or (the Golden Palm). Ten years ago, Chopard (…)