Time.Business

Japan transitioning from technology to luxury

All have developed a continuum of unparalleled technological innovations, from the use of quartz to solar energy. All have continued to produce large (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

A last word to start

WHERE TO?

February 2018

"Change, but in what direction?” This apparently simple question was put by French philosopher André Comte-Sponville at the most recent Forum de la Haute (...)

Our direction in 2018

EDITORIAL

February 2018

Every industry has been transformed by digital technology – the media as much as, if not more than the watch industry! Times of transition, periods of (...)

Bulgari’s cabinet of curiosities

RETAIL

February 2018

The Italian jeweler and watchmaker has opened a new concept store in Rome, next to its more than hundred-year-old historic boutique of Via Condotti. 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

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 (...)

Seiko has grand plans for the future

INTERVIEW

January 2018

This is the oldest Japanese watch brand, with more than a century of history. It has been in on every technological innovation. But 2017 will remain (...)

It may be smart, but is it clever?

WATCHWORDS

January 2018

The Internet of Things promises a multitude of additional smart devices that will embed internet connectivity into even more areas of our lives, making (...)

Worldtimer and the snob

FREELY SPEAKING

January 2018

Browsing on the internet I came across a blog by ‘Watch Snob’ on which a potential buyer wrote that he knew nothing about watches but was interested in a (...)

Citizen: a strategy of acquisitions

FAR EAST TRAVEL JOURNAL

January 2018

Unlike its two fellow watchmaking companies which are launching an offensive internationally by moving their own products upmarket, this giant has opted (...)

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 (...)

The real giants of the Chinese watchmaking industry

FAR EAST TRAVEL JOURNAL

January 2018

According to the figures of the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry, mainland China exported more than 652 million wristwatches in 2016! It is by far (...)

Have time, will travel

PORTFOLIO

January 2018

Watchmakers did not need Einstein to intuitively understand that time and space are closely associated, like the two faces of the same coin. Their art was (...)

Japan: Philippe Dufour, a master in his empire

FAR EAST TRAVEL JOURNAL

January 2018

Having seen the portrait of the watchmaker Philippe Dufour, who hails from the Swiss canton of Vaud, at the Seiko research and development studios, Europa (...)

Great eggspectations

FREELY SPEAKING

January 2018

I like Hong Kong. I love the vibrant ambience in the streets, the shops and the malls, the Temple Street Night Market, the hubbub around the food stalls in (...)

TIME.BUSINESS

Japan transitioning from technology to luxury

JAPAN

India: the slow-moving giant

China, the horizon brightens

2017: +19.6%

A last word to start

WHERE TO?

Our direction in 2018

EDITORIAL

Bulgari’s cabinet of curiosities

RETAIL

Beijing Watch Factory and FIYTA join forces

FAR EAST TRAVEL JOURNAL

The rise of the second-hand watch in China

FAR EAST TRAVEL JOURNAL

China: trying to earn watchmaking credentials

FAR EAST TRAVEL JOURNAL

Seiko has grand plans for the future

INTERVIEW

It may be smart, but is it clever?

WATCHWORDS

Worldtimer and the snob

FREELY SPEAKING

Recommended reading

WATCHPRINT.COM

Citizen: a strategy of acquisitions

FAR EAST TRAVEL JOURNAL

Chinese pride restored

WATCH MARKETS

Inside the world’s “watchmaking factory”

CHINA

The real giants of the Chinese watchmaking industry

FAR EAST TRAVEL JOURNAL

Have time, will travel

PORTFOLIO

Japan: Philippe Dufour, a master in his empire

FAR EAST TRAVEL JOURNAL

Great eggspectations

FREELY SPEAKING