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My time against yours
March 2006
A conceptual American artist, Jonathon Keats, has just opened his own ‘Bureau of Standards’. He offers every person a personalized ‘conversion table’ (...)
Retrospective-Perspective: The Watch Industry 2005/2006 - Behind the velvet curtain
March 2006
Swatch Group declares “the best results in its history” – a turnover of 4.5 billion Swiss francs, or a “gross” increase of 8.3 percent; the year the (...)
Put the ‘masters’ at the centre of watchmaking
March 2006
In the Swiss watch industry, hardly a week goes by without someone announcing a new initiative in the domain of – how do we call it exactly – “Haute (...)
Unite for the Long-Term
January 2006
The guru of the Richemont group’s watch division, Doctor Franco Cologni, has just made a few ripples in the sea of watchmaking, by creating the (...)
(End of the) Swatch generation?
November 2005
The very first delivery of Swatch watches, into a test market, took place in October of 1982.
The parable of the sock
September 2005
At the end of the 1970s, a Chinese peasant from the Datang zone, in the Zhejiang province, recuperates old abandoned machines destined for the (...)
With a little constructive criticism and better recall - watchmaking could only be healthier
July 2005
A recent article in Europa Star has caused us to reflect upon the relationship that watchmakers, or rather watch “companies” and “brands” have with their (...)
The peak of craziness
April 2005
During my childhood, the word ‘watchmaking’ evoked an exclusively masculine universe, one that was technical, severe and (...)
Retrospective-Perspective: The Watch Industry 2004/2005 - On the road again
April 2005
11.1 billion Swiss francs! The value of Swiss watch exports has gone through the roof. Exports grew 9.2% to CHF 932.3 million in 2004 in relation to the (...)
The Internet - false fears and genuine challenges…
March 2005
The Internet is scary. Just look at what is happening in the music industry. Last year, sales for CDs and tapes fell 30%. What caused thisı Most would (...)
The Counterfeit is the accident of the brand
January 2005
The mindless copy, or fake, or counterfeit object, is a real economic scourge. That goes without saying. But isn’t it also, in a way, (...)
Two speeds – Incredible growth in China
November 2004
After leaving Beijing, one cannot help, unless deaf and blind, but be totally amazed by the incredible growth in China. Only a few years ago (...)
Time… is astronomy transformed into biology
August 2004
We all have a very precise internal biological clock, one that regulates our wake-sleep cycle that is exactly 24 hours and 30 minutes long. The (...)
“When I hear the word 'culture'…”
July 2004
“…I take out my pistol”, said the ‘Iron Chancellor’ Otto von Bismarck, who believed only in strength. In his military opinion, ‘culture’ could have (...)
The end of globalization?
April 2004
One of my watch journalist friends, Timm Delfs, just took over managing a boutique in Basel, specialized not in watches, but in… sundials. (...)
Retrospective-Perspective: The Watch Industry 2003/2004 - The year of living dangerously
April 2004
The year 2003 will not remain in the annals of watchmaking. Or, rather it will, but for the simple reason that 2003 was literally a year filled (...)
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 (...)
Casualties in the 'Race for Luxury'
January 2004
There is probably no doubt about it, the list of casualties in the 'Race for Luxury' is going to get longer between now and the large watch (...)
The colours of time
October 2003
I have noticed something. In good economic times, people dress in black and wear sober watches, usually made of steel with a geometric design and (...)
Stock market points versus confidence pointsce points
August 2003
A few of the newspaper clippings that landed on my desk… “Hong Kong watchmakers refuse to exhibit at Zurich”(1); Watch industry in distress: 26 jobs lost at (...)