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Swiss startup Adresta launches digital watch safe app

Swiss startup Adresta launches digital watch safe app

INNOVATION

ETH spinoff Adresta is officially bringing its digital safe for luxury watches to the Android and iOS app stores, making it ready for worldwide use. The (...)

Porsche: the right automotive partner for TAG Heuer?

Porsche: the right automotive partner for TAG Heuer?

HERITAGE

While the traditional partnerships between watchmakers and car manufacturers have seen some major reversals in recent months, TAG Heuer believes it has (...)

Baltic and the blueprint for creating a watch brand in the 21st century

TESTIMONY

Neo-vintage is all the rage in watchmaking, especially among millennials. Baltic, founded by representatives of that generation, is a start-up that has (...)

Watch enthusiast, collector or investor?

Watch enthusiast, collector or investor?

REPORT

Recent years have proved very profitable for collectible watches, with certain models reaching record values at auction. Indeed, many fear that (...)

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We're all collectors now!

We’re all collectors now!

REPORT

It has never been easier to start collecting watches. And there is no shortage of desire, with a vibrant and growing global community of (...)

A powerful new voice

A powerful new voice

EDITORIAL

A new voice has entered the conversation. This promises debate and controversy, but above all it ensures that the industry maintains its social and (...)

Discover our new issue

Discover our new issue

WATCHES AND WONDERS 2021

A special Collector’s report, including the unveiling of Patek Philippe’s new Nautilus and more than 180 pages of exclusive editorial (...)

The resilience of in-house jewellery for retailers

The resilience of in-house jewellery for retailers

INTERVIEW

For decades, family-owned London Jewelers has represented prestigious brands on Long Island. In the midst of the pandemic, the retailer renovated its (...)

Watchmaking in search of eternity

Watchmaking in search of eternity

ANALYSIS

While mechanical watchmaking – the existence of which dates back not millennia but “merely” a few centuries – could conceivably one day dwindle and die out, (...)

Ulysse Nardin ventures into jewellery watchmaking

Ulysse Nardin ventures into jewellery watchmaking

Diamonds, diamonds, and more diamonds... With the Sparkling Free Wheel, Ulysse Nardin launches a “ray of light into the stratosphere” with a masterpiece made (...)

Watchmaking and jewellery: intertwining of destinies

Watchmaking and jewellery: intertwining of destinies

MEETING ISABELLE CERBONESCHI

Some jewellers have become watchmakers, while other houses, in rares cases, have taken the opposite path. Isabelle Cerboneschi, who has a deep (...)

Jacob & Co.: Jewels & Complications

Jacob & Co.: Jewels & Complications

INTERVIEW

Maybe more than any other name in the industry, Jacob & Co has pushed the opulent mix of gems and complicated mechanisms. Even with the pandemic (...)

Learning from jewellery's successes

Learning from jewellery’s successes

EDITORIAL

In what is still a highly fragmented sector, where “no-name” brands dominate, the jewellery heavyweights – Cartier, Tiffany & Co., Bulgari and Van Cleef (...)

Customisation: from exclusive to unique

Customisation: from exclusive to unique

BESPOKE WATCHES

While production volumes for the Swiss watch industry are falling sharply, a segment that seems to be more resilient is that of customising collectors’ (...)

Deloitte: 2021 outlook for the Swiss watch industry

Deloitte: 2021 outlook for the Swiss watch industry

INTERVIEW

Covid-19, smartwatches, sustainability, second-hand or online sales: year after year, Deloitte provides a comprehensive overview of the Swiss watch (...)

eBay unveils ambitious plans for its watch segment

eBay unveils ambitious plans for its watch segment

E-COMMERCE

Online marketplace eBay has its sights on the top end of the market, starting with watchmaking. The e-commerce behemoth has just set up a new (...)

Bucherer BLUE: “Bringing exclusivity back to retailers”

Bucherer BLUE: “Bringing exclusivity back to retailers”

INTERVIEW

More and more brands are reserving their most sought-after models for their own shops, which is causing increasing difficulties for multi-brand retailers. (...)

“Jewellery will continue to outperform”

“Jewellery will continue to outperform”

INTERVIEW

In the wake of LVMH’s takeover of Tiffany & Co., the largest transaction in the history of luxury, we wanted to learn more about the dynamics of the (...)

“Jewellery is based on gut feeling”

“Jewellery is based on gut feeling”

INTERVIEW

Bulgari presents a rare example of a historical jeweller that has today become a fully-fledged watchmaker. It is master of its own in-house movements, and (...)

Building a gemstone super-expert

Building a gemstone super-expert

R&D

Far greater volumes of gemstones, evaluated automatically? This is the promise offered by Swiss jewellery house Gübelin, which has joined forces with CSEM (...)

Richard Mille: breakthrough in jewellery watchmaking

Richard Mille: breakthrough in jewellery watchmaking

The brand whose first model was born in 2001 has reached a time of generational transition. Cécile Guenat has already asserted herself as head of creation (...)

LUOXO: a new venue for watch enthusiasts opens in Hong Kong

LUOXO: a new venue for watch enthusiasts opens in Hong Kong

LUOXO, a new independent club, has been created to cater to Hong Kong watch enthusiasts. One of its first initiatives is to provide its members with a (...)

HourUniverse will take place in summer 2021 at the earliest

HourUniverse will take place in summer 2021 at the earliest

While new dates have not yet been communicated, HourUniverse remains committed to organising an event this year. Summer 2021 is currently targeted as the (...)

China: what is at stake for luxury watchmaking in Hainan?

China: what is at stake for luxury watchmaking in Hainan?

MARKETS

The rise of Hainan, the tropical island in the South China Sea, as a hub for Chinese mainlanders’ luxury offshore shopping – in the works since 2011 – has (...)