History never ends
October 2007
We remember that, a few years ago, an American essayist, Francis Fukuyama, predicted the ‘end of history’. In his opinion, the fall of (…)
Green with envy
October 2007
Everyone knows what glamour is, but it is one of those difficult things to define.
LAKIN@LARGE - The Prince and the strippers
October 2007
It’s been an odd few weeks. I seem to have been in a dozen places at the same time and in none of them really long enough to discover the journalists’ Holy (…)
Richard Mille – doing things his way
October 2007
Richard Mille watches are very technical, high performance machines that have taken the world by storm. I went to the Richard Mille during the spring (…)
The challenges of indexing
October 2007
Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, AskJeeves, and even Baidu (a leading search engine in China) are among the many names from the four corners of the (…)
Hong Kong’s International Airport retailer – Master of Time
October 2007
A joint venture between The Nuance Group (the No. 1 airport retailer worldwide) and The A.S. Watson Group, Nuance-Watson (HK) Limited is the leading (…)
Musical and mechanical
October 2007
A world first: under the brand name of Mermod Frères, the Swiss music box manufacturer, Reuge, is presenting a musical wristwatch.
Bulgari, where Italian culture meets the culture of watchmaking
October 2007
To what can be attributed Bulgari’s success in the domain of timekeeping?
Market Focus Ukraine
October 2007
They say that we live in a constant state of political crisis… and we cannot deny that this is true.
Ladies’ mechanicals: will the girls catch on?
October 2007
Most women love having the best, after all why have crystals when you can have diamonds, why have plastic when you can have leather, why have a (…)
An interview with Jack Mitchell – retailer and bestselling author
October 2007
Jack Mitchell is the Chairman and CEO of Mitchells, Richards and Marshs, an eight generation family business which owns and manages three upper-end (…)
Holy Horology
BASELWORLD REPORT
September 2007
Everything began by a ‘mass’ or ‘service’ on Tuesday April 10, the day before the opening of BaselWorld. At the end of the day, a small el-egant crowd (…)
