An interesting article that appeared recently in The Economist (“The high-tech world of old-world watches”) offered a different take on the implications of (…)

Ludwig Oechslin is a simple man, and he appreciates the elegance in simple solutions to problems. Oechslin is also a famous man in the watch industry, (…)

Greubel Forsey recently had its ten year retrospective and this gave co-founder Stephen Forsey the opportunity to look back at how things have changed in (…)

Though it doesn’t get as much press as more expensive or complicated watches, one very important segment of the watch industry is the opening-price point, (…)

At a global level, interest in the High Range category has increased by 6% in the past year. The top most sought-after brands of the category are Rado, (…)

I’m sure that of the more than three hundred or so Swiss watch companies and the same amount of ‘foreigners’ at the last Baselworld, there were dozens of (…)

Côme de Valbray and Olga Corsini met by chance in 2009 and realized that their interests in horology, design and creativity were closely allied. They spent (…)

Oliver and Eva Ebstein – Managing Director and Chairman - took ownership of Chronoswiss in 2012. Neither having been in the watch industry prior to that (…)

When the Ateliers deMonaco was launched in 2009, the vision of the founders was to create a high-end watch brand despite that at that particular moment in (…)

At Baselworld, I had the honour and the pleasure of sitting down, one on one, with president, chairman and chief executive of Gucci Worldwide, Patrizio di (…)

The 25th Shenzhen watch and clock fair was heavily coloured by the Sino-Swiss Free Trade Agreement. In the watchmaking sector particularly, the agreement (…)

With China slowing down, brands are turning to other, more mature markets. The US market, in particular, is showing some signs of recovery, though the (…)