Introducing the Shanghai Watch Festival
CHINA
June 2019
Organized for its second edition by a group of Chinese collectors, the event will take place over three days in December 2019. It provides watch brands with (…)
Surprise! Most people in Hong Kong don’t care about watches…
GUEST COLUMN
June 2018
The founder of the online retail platform for independent watch brands Skolorr, Sky Sit shares with our readers her vision of the industry. This first (…)
Time measurement in imperial China
HISTORY
June 2018
According to legend (even though writing was not invented until 1800 years later), Chinese astronomy is thought to date from the 61st year of Huangdi’s (…)
Farfetch: the online retail giant targets China
AN INTERVIEW WITH JOSÉ NEVES
May 2018
Currently the largest online luxury fashion retail platform in the world, Farfetch has been revolutionising the online luxury shopping experience since its (…)
One billion watches produced in China
FAR EAST TRAVEL JOURNAL
February 2018
My interlocutor is the honourable Mr Shunhua Zhu (朱 舜华), co-founder of the Shenzhen Watch & Clock Fair and a member of the Horologe Association since 1988.
Longines, an empire in China
CASE STUDY
février 2018
Like a cruise ship, moving forward slowly but surely, the world’s fourth-largest brand - underexposed in the Western media in comparison with its real (…)
China, the horizon brightens
2017: +19.6%
February 2018
The watch market of the Far Eastern giant should be worth 10 billion euros by 2020. The rush on China is far from over... Or, rather, the rush of the (…)
Beijing Watch Factory and FIYTA join forces
FAR EAST TRAVEL JOURNAL
February 2018
The “Beijing” and Fiyta signed a partnership agreement in October 2016 that could spawn the very best of Chinese watchmaking. An interview with the new (…)
The rise of the second-hand watch in China
FAR EAST TRAVEL JOURNAL
January 2018
It is hardly surprising to hear that watch auction sales are particularly buoyant at the moment compared with modern watches, when a single vintage watch (…)
China: trying to earn watchmaking credentials
FAR EAST TRAVEL JOURNAL
January 2018
Faced with the difficulties of the Swiss luxury manufacturers and their high prices, and encouraged by the new Chinese patriotism, some local companies are (…)
Chinese pride restored
WATCH MARKETS
January 2018
To understand the China-related upheaval that is affecting the watchmaking microcosm, we need to step backwards a pace to grasp the depth of the reforms (…)
Inside the world’s “watchmaking factory”
CHINA
January 2018
It is next to Hong Kong, in Shenzhen, that we traditionally find producers of a very large proportion of the watches and components used in world watchmaking.