Monaco’s glam and glitter
December 2007
To immerse oneself in glamorous surroundings alongside the jet setters, the beautiful people, French television anchormen and leggy models, just pop down to (…)
Parmigiani and Montreux
December 2007
Parmigiani has taken an innovative approach by associating the brand not with movies, but with music. And, this means not just any music, but the best in (…)
Harry Winston at Taormina
December 2007
Taking place for the last 53 years in the ultra-romantic setting of the city of Taormina in Sicily, the Taormina Film Festival is an intimate and exclusive (…)
Jaeger-LeCoultre and the Mostra of Venice
December 2007
While it may perhaps be a little less glamorous than Cannes, the Mostra of Venice, the doyenne of the world’s film festivals (it celebrated its 75th (…)
Watchmaking and the cinema, united by art and glamour
December 2007
You cannot help but notice a striking paradox when you attend the grand film festivals. It doesn’t matter whether you are in Cannes, Venice, Berlin or (…)
Ahmed Seddiqi and Sons
RETAIL
December 2007
Opened in the early 1950s, Ahmed Seddiqi and Sons started buying watches from watch distributors in other Persian Gulf countries, because Dubai (…)
Extreme Watches Push Luminox Forward
December 2007
Luminox, famous for its use of self-powered illumination, which needs no ‘charging’ from an external light source, is lighting up the extreme (…)
Faces for our 80th anniversary
November 2007
The watch industry is, above all, a vast community of men and women who work, day-in day-out, at imagining, elaborating, producing, decorating, distributing (…)
Giving back - watches and charity
November 2007
Charity is a good thing and, in the watch industry, charity is becoming an ever more popular thing.
Market Focus: Spain o’clock
November 2007
It seems like it was only yesterday that Spain joined the European Economic Community, but it was in fact, in 1986, 20 years ago.
A new generation of luxury websites
November 2007
The luxury industry today must deal with new issues tied to the advances of the Internet. This type of media touches all socio-cultural levels. The software (…)
Seiko’s Spring Drive – a human, industrial, technological, and artisanal adventure
November 2007
With its revolutionary Spring Drive, Seiko has accomplished two things: pushing the standards of ‘mechanical’ precision even farther, and competing (…)
