Simplicity at the summit of watchmaking art
April 2004
While all watchmakers (or rather watchmaking enterprises) are rushing to produce ‘complications’, ‘grand complications’ and spinning tourbillons, (…)
Special Market Focus - India / Distribution (PART V)
March 2004
India offers a very attractive potential for watch manufacturers. The positions are up for grabs and the race can begin. Everything is still possible.
Special Market Focus - India / Distribution: India’s evolving work of distribution (PART IV)
March 2004
About 35 to 50 Swiss and European watch brands are present in India. Few among them, if any at all, are making any money for the moment. (…)
Special Market Focus - India / Profile: Titan, the inevitable giant (PART III)
March 2004
In 1987, Titan did not exist. Or, more precisely, Titan was on the verge of being created under the dual auspices of the very powerful Tata (…)
Special Market Focus - India / Analysis: Overall Indian Watch Market (PART II)
March 2004
The overall Indian watch market amounts to more or less 48 million wristwatches per year, with a growth rate between 8% to 10%.
Special Market Focus - India / From a watch market to a brand market(PART I)
March 2004
With its 1.2 billion inhabitants, India appears to be one of the most promising markets for the global watch trade. After a long period of total closure (…)
V...like Versace
March 2004
About ten years ago, Versace started diversifying its activities with varying degrees of success, notably into the watch arena.
V...like Valentino
March 2004
It would be very difficult to transfer the superlative elegance of Valentino’s haute couture into a watch without crashing head-on into the formidable (…)
V...like Valentino, Versace
March 2004
It would be very difficult to transfer the superlative elegance of Valentino’s haute couture into a watch without crashing head-on into the formidable (…)
Y...like Yves Saint Laurent
March 2004
Made Artistic Director of YSL, in addition to Gucci, Tom Ford swept away the old collections and entirely redesigned new models and a new identity (…)
The wolf turns into a sheep
March 2004
“I became a billionaire because I believed in my own judgment and not in that of the analysts. I don’t trust the judgment of analysts because they are (…)
T...like Tommy Hilfiger
February 2004
Tommy Hilfiger began his career as a fashion designer in New York in 1979. His first signature collection appeared in 1984 the rest of the story is history. (…)