Time.Business

time-business

TIME.BUSINESS

0 | ... | 1840 | 1860 | 1880 | 1900 | 1920 | 1940 | 1960 | 1980 | 2000 | ... | 2740

110 Years of Dubois Dépraz

110 Years of Dubois Dépraz

For those who need to know, Dubois Dépraz is famous, a complications manufacturer of extremely high quality, working with some of the best brand names in (...)

Harry Winston celebrates grand opening of newest salon in Dubai

Harry Winston celebrates grand opening of newest salon in Dubai

Harry Winston, the legendary jeweller to the stars and international luxury brand, celebrated the opening of its first salon in Dubai along with Ahmed (...)

First Dutch jeweller with an mCommerce website

First Dutch jeweller with an mCommerce website

Physical stores, website with e-commerce functionalities and now also a mobile website with m-commerce. The Amsterdam-based Ace Jewelers was the first (...)

Jaeger-LeCoultre's 1881 Heritage Boutique in Hong Kong

Jaeger-LeCoultre’s 1881 Heritage Boutique in Hong Kong

Jaeger-LeCoultre unveils exceptional “Proto Zero” models in support of Hong Kong’s “End Child Sexual Abuse” Foundation

Located at one of the most prestigious luxury hubs of Asia, the 1881 Heritage boutique is the third Jaeger-LeCoultre boutique in Hong Kong. It is also the (...)

The Original from Glashütte

The Original from Glashütte

If you believe that fine watches necessarily need to come from Switzerland, then you are mistaken. The small hamlet of Glashütte near Dresden in eastern (...)

Adieu old friend – Remembering Michael Balfour

Adieu old friend – Remembering Michael Balfour

You don’t invent people like Michael Balfour. He was an original, the incarnate of how the non-English see a slightly eccentric Englishman – although his (...)

Tutima's “hommage” as a symbol of its new ambitions

Tutima’s “hommage” as a symbol of its new ambitions

The Tutima brand has just presented the first totally German-made minute repeater, and never before realised in the city of Glashütte, where it recently (...)

King Fook, Hong Kong

King Fook, Hong Kong

Hong Kong has become Swiss Watch central, a shopping paradise for watch lovers. While covering the Hong Kong Watch and Clock Fair for Europa Star, I (...)

The first Patek Philippe watch with a regulator dial

The first Patek Philippe watch with a regulator dial

Patek Philippe recently presented a new timepiece, never before featured by the Geneva manufacture—a “regulator” type dial that also includes an annual (...)

The 150th Anniversary of Junghans

The 150th Anniversary of Junghans

Some 650km south-west of Germany’s watchmaking hub in Glashütte, nestled in the Black Forest, lies the town of Schramberg – the home of what was once the (...)

The Lange Akademie, getting to know the tree and its roots

The Lange Akademie, getting to know the tree and its roots

Every self-respecting brand seeks to train, as well as possible, their most influential “ambassadors”—those individuals who, by virtue of being in the stores, (...)

Glashütte, cradle of German haute horlogerie

Glashütte, cradle of German haute horlogerie

On the borders of Switzerland, Germany has always been a great watchmaking nation. It has two main areas—one in the southern part of the nation in the Black (...)

Swiss watches in the Chinese mirror

Swiss watches in the Chinese mirror

“What is the biggest challenge facing the watch industry today? The focus of the brands is on the Chinese customer right now, but there is no way to know (...)

LAKIN@LARGE - Battered, bruised, but British!

LAKIN@LARGE - Battered, bruised, but British!

I’ve obviously read about people being attacked and robbed and I suppose, like most of us, I wondered what I would have done in the same circumstances, (...)

The grand dance of the hypocrites

The grand dance of the hypocrites

Who, besides perhaps the directors of the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry, really wants to enforce the rules regarding the Swiss Made label? Well, (...)

Vacheron Constantin's First US Boutique Opening

Vacheron Constantin’s First US Boutique Opening

Vacheron Constantin, the world’s oldest watch manufacture in continuous operation, celebrated the grand opening of its first ever US boutique over three (...)

Louis Vuitton celebrates the opening of a new store in Milan

Louis Vuitton celebrates the opening of a new store in Milan

Louis Vuitton celebrates the opening of their store on Via Montenapoleone 2, Milan.

The resurrection of Besançon

The resurrection of Besançon

Watchmaking? Ask anyone and they will most probably think of Switzerland, the watchmakers in Geneva and the Jura.

Raymond Weil at Printemps Haussmann, Paris

Raymond Weil at Printemps Haussmann, Paris

At the end of 2010, Raymond Weil returned to the land of chic and luxury and now has a corner in the most famous shop in Paris, Printemps (...)

Bell & Ross opens its first store in Beijing China

Bell & Ross opens its first store in Beijing China

The brand announced the opening of its first boutique in Beijing China, a strategic step for the brand that attests to its dynamic international (...)