To launch or not to launch? The case of Maurice Lacroix

To launch or not to launch? The case of Maurice Lacroix

INTERVIEW

April 2020
Under the managing hand of Stéphane Waser, Maurice Lacroix has repositioned itself in recent years more as a maker of casual, urban and sporty watches. The (…)

Wolf: a solution for quarantined retailers

Wolf: a solution for quarantined retailers

PROFESSIONAL WATCH COMMUNITY

March 2020
Our friends at WOLF have crafted an innovative distribution concept in this “new normal” of social distancing and closed stores. We share here the letter (…)

New models: to launch or not to launch?

New models: to launch or not to launch?

CORONAVIRUS CHRONICLE

March 2020
One heck of a dilemma is facing all the watch brands in the starting blocks right now. Ready, or nearly, to launch their new models in the run-up to the (…)

Not enough masks, too many watches?

Not enough masks, too many watches?

CORONAVIRUS CHRONICLE

March 2020
The world is short of masks, but brimming over with watches. Stocks are overflowing. When business takes up again, the idea that it will be business as (…)

Pandemics and horology

Pandemics and horology

ARCHIVES

March 2020
In 1918, at the end of World War One, the Spanish flu pandemic strikes. It will go on to cause 50 to 100 million deaths worldwide. To save Swiss (…)

We're all in this together

We’re all in this together

EDITORIAL

March 2020
As we write these lines, the watch industry is in the throes of its worst existential crisis since the 1970s. A wave of bankruptcies has begun. And there is (…)

2003: Horology hit by SARS (from our archives)

2003: Horology hit by SARS (from our archives)

CORONAVIRUS

March 2020
The comparison is not 100% accurate, obviously. But we wanted to find in our archives the impact that the first pandemic of the 21st century, SARS, had on (…)

Xavier Dietlin: “Trade shows? They need reinventing!”

Xavier Dietlin: “Trade shows? They need reinventing!”

AN EXERCISE IN FORESIGHT ANALYSIS

March 2020
No introduction is needed for Xavier Dietlin, the joyous inventor and creator of new, playful, poetic, interactive, didactic or even humorous ways of (…)

Georges Kern: “A dozen global brands, no more”

Georges Kern: “A dozen global brands, no more”

INTERVIEW

March 2020
Surviving and thriving in our globalised, digital age means being one of those happy few brands that reach “godlike status”, as Georges Kern puts it. The (…)

Time for the watch industry to dig deep

Time for the watch industry to dig deep

ANALYSIS

February 2020
The announcements of the cancellation of Watches & Wonders and Baselworld, and the bankruptcy of RJ Watches, are symptomatic of the deep troubles (…)

Luxury: a gilded cage for the Swiss watch industry?

Luxury: a gilded cage for the Swiss watch industry?

ANALYSIS

February 2020
Is the watchmaking industry simply coming to the end of a 30-year revolution bent on pursuing the high-end segment as the ultimate goal? Or does the (…)

How Louis Erard is engineering its metamorphosis

How Louis Erard is engineering its metamorphosis

CASE STUDY

February 2020
From “entry-level mechanical watches” to “entry-level watchmaking excellence”: this more or less sums up the path of Louis Erard since 2004. CEO Alain (…)