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    • Saturday, 25 January, 2020
      Watches & Jewellery
      Zodiac watch interest wanes as Chinese Year of the Rat starts

      Brands pander to Chinese tastes with limited edition releases

    • Sunday, 14 January, 2018
      European companies
      Watch industry works to prolong rebound as SIHH opens

      Brands at the Geneva trade fair must respond to long-term threats

      Visitors view the A. Lange & Soehne stand during the opening day of the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH) fair in Geneva, Switzerland January 16, 2017. REUTERS/Pierre Albouy - RC115A0E91A0
    • Thursday, 28 September, 2017
      European companies
      Hong Kong regains its appetite for Swiss watches

      Mainland China is fast outpacing Hong Kong, however

      A pedestrian walks past a Prince Jewellery & Watch Co. store on Russell Street in the Causeway Bay shopping district of Hong Kong, China, on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2015
    • Saturday, 2 September, 2017
      Currencies
      Swiss franc’s fall buoys embattled watchmakers

      But demand from China underlies a long-term recovery

      BEIJING, CHINA - JANUARY 19: Chinese pedestrians walk past an ad for swiss watches on January 19, 2016 in Beijing, China. In 2015 China's economy grew at its slowest rate in a quarter century, data released on Tuesday showed, compounding global fears of a lengthy slowdown in the world's second largest economy. The annual growth of 6.9% was just short of government forecasts of 7% but down from 7.3% in 2014. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
    • Thursday, 1 June, 2017
      Retail & Consumer industry
      Celebrations premature for watch and jewellery industry

      The business still faces significant challenges

      Watch this: guests at the Baselworld trade fair
    • Thursday, 1 June, 2017
      Retail sector
      The rise of the low-cost mechanical watch

      Today £500 will buy you a stylish product with a proper movement

      Gordon Fraser and Oliver Goffe of the mid-price Marloe watch company
    • Thursday, 23 March, 2017
      Personal & Household Goods
      Luxury watch industry hopes worst is behind it, at last

      Sales growth hints at end to two-year downturn, but bad news has not fully abated yet

      Baselworld 2016
    • Tuesday, 21 February, 2017
      World
      Swiss trade surplus hits record high with strong pharma sales, weak vehicle imports
    • Thursday, 26 January, 2017
      Personal & Household Goods
      Swiss watch exports in sharpest fall since financial crisis

      Luxury groups grapple with ‘crisis of the Chinese wrist’ as Hong Kong shipments decline 25%

      Visitors on the Roger Dubuis stand during the opening day of the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH) fair, where all brands of luxury giant Richemont present their new models, in Geneva, Switzerland, January 18, 2016.  REUTERS/Pierre Albouy/File Photo
    • Monday, 16 January, 2017
      Personal & Household Goods
      Sanctions and scandal call time on Russia luxury boom

      The appetite of rich Muscovites for expensive timepieces has diminished

      A security guard waits in the doorway of a Vacheron & Constantin SA luxury watch boutique at the GUM department store in Moscow, Russia, on Sunday, Dec. 20, 2015
    • Monday, 16 January, 2017
      Personal & Household Goods
      Watches round-up: Van Cleef & Arpels unveils automaton clock

      Aldo Magada passes his Zenith; Brexit means profit; Mickey Mouse deal

      Van Cleef & Arpels’ remarkable automaton
    • Friday, 11 November, 2016
      Personal & Household Goods
      Further gloom in store for Swiss watchmakers

      Sentiment is depressed but hope lingers on

      Wind up: the wrist of an employee at Beyer in Zurich
    • Friday, 11 November, 2016
      Personal & Household Goods
      London becomes world’s centre for watch sales

      Brexit will not slow down stores’ ambitious expansion plans

      the Watch Gallery, Covent Garden
    • Thursday, 20 October, 2016
      Global Economy
      Swiss trade surplus at record high but watch slump continues
    • Tuesday, 20 September, 2016
      World
      Swiss trade pulls back as watch exports decline
    • Saturday, 3 September, 2016
      Personal & Household Goods
      Brands turn to steel for entry-level watches

      The poor state of watch sales is compelling manufacturers to create cheaper products

      Ryan Reynolds at the launch of Piaget’s Polo S
    • Saturday, 3 September, 2016
      Personal & Household Goods
      Tech companies like Incopro and Netnames fight online counterfeits

      Online fraud costs luxury brands billions of dollars, but they have new ways of combating it now

      Counterfeit watches in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
    • Saturday, 3 September, 2016
      Personal & Household Goods
      Goldgena Project’s radical transparency riles watch industry

      A start-up watch brand is making no friends by pointing out widespread hypocrisy

      a visualisation of Goldgena’s ‘transparent’ watch
    • Saturday, 3 September, 2016
      Life & Arts
      Brexit boosted watch sales, says Watchfinder

      From post-Brexit vote sales spike to a Patek Philippe watch in a rare steel case

    • Wednesday, 1 June, 2016
      Personal & Household Goods
      Luxury watch industry’s recovery glimpsed despite economic gloom

      The US could lead a pick-up in fortunes for the watch industry, even if Hong Kong and China are still in trouble

      Guests at the TimeCrafters show in New York
    • Tuesday, 24 May, 2016
      World
      Swiss exports grow despite sluggish watch sales
    • Wednesday, 16 March, 2016
      Personal & Household Goods
      Jorn Werdelin on a glut of luxury watches

      Too many watches, not enough customers, says Linde Werdelin co-founder

      Jorn Werdelin
    • Wednesday, 16 March, 2016
      Personal & Household Goods
      Time is up for above-inflation price rises in the watch industry

      An outbreak of candour in the industry suggests rampant price increases are a thing of the past

      IWC CEO Georges Kern at the exclusive “For the Love of Cinema” event hosted by Swiss luxury watch manufacturer IWC Schaffhausen at the famous Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc, Cap d’Antibes, France, 19 May 2013
    • Sunday, 17 January, 2016
      Personal & Household Goods
      UK interest in luxury timepieces is growing

      Buyers are increasingly prepared to spend larger sums of money

    • Friday, 7 November, 2014
      Personal & Household Goods
      It takes more than a tax rise to spoil Japan’s taste for luxury

      Economic reforms and tourist shoppers have fuelled steady spending on fine watches

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