India’s luxury watch market, a complex case
ANALYSIS
July 2018
While 2017 was a year focused on absorbing the shock of “demonetisation” in India – as the government suddenly withdrew more than two-thirds of the (…)
Luxury market expectations in Australia
WORLD MARKETS
May 2018
Record continuous growth and buoyant conditions are strong indicators for the luxury makers but they face contradictory generational conservatism.
Russia, a challenging year
2017
March 2018
2017 has been a challenging year for the Russian watch market. For the first nine months of the year, the value of imported watches increased by 5%, but (…)
United Arab Emirates, oversupply?
2017: -4.1%
March 2018
The hub for luxury watches in the Middle East has been met with challenging times these last three years. Basically, there is too much supply, with the (…)
The geopolitics of world time
TRAVEL WATCHES
March 2018
In the late nineteenth century, dividing the world into slices, even if only for time-keeping purposes, raised serious problems between nations and empires (…)
Senegal: at the sickbed of the watch market
WORLD MARKETS
March 2018
On the beaches of Dakar, lapped by the Atlantic, time is on the move. It slips between the Western tourists languishing on the sand of Yoff or the pebbles (…)
Italy, a stable market and a deep watch culture
2017: -0.6%
February 2018
Contrary to Hong Kong, China or the UK, which have experienced dramatic increases or decreases these last years, the Italian market seems much more stable. (…)
An interview with Seddiqi
WORLD MARKETS
February 2018
The third edition of Dubai Watch Week was an incontestable success, despite the fact that the world of watch trade fairs is currently in turmoil. The event (…)
India: the slow-moving giant
February 2018
One of the fastest growing economies with a large, young population and a sizeable middle class, the south Asian power has not held all its promises for the (…)
New brands from the North
February 2018
Where brands from the North are concerned, there is not only Daniel Wellington from Sweden, Suunto from Finland and Skagen from Denmark (and quite a few (…)
Dealing with protectionism
MARKETS
June 2017
The increased taxes on watch purchases by Chinese tourists in Switzerland rank high on the list of the industry’s current woes. In Brazil and India, highly (…)
The true size of the Swiss watch market
DATA
June 2017
Everything you always wanted to know about the Swiss watch trade but were afraid to ask: a recent survey, published by The Mercury Project, created by (…)
