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Ed Sheeran is one of the top watch collectors in the musical sphere. Taking a page out of John Mayer’s book, his extensive ...
Abraham-Louis Breguet was the Henry Ford of watches. This anniversary piece honors his 1797 invention that established modern ...
The 31 percent tariff imposed on Switzerland by U.S. President Donald Trump’s new policy has shaken the luxury watch industry. While new Swiss watches will face steep price increases — a $ ...
The watch never loses any of its impact ... respectively. These three-jewel quartz movements feature HeavyDrive technology and an end-of-life indicator. With that out of the way, let’s focus on the ...
The watch industry after all is not immune to a global luxury slowdown. The Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry reports Swiss watch exports dropped by 2.8 per cent in 2024 to 25.9 billion Swiss ...
The U.S. is Switzerland’s largest export market for watches, making their trade relationship crucial to the country. In 2024, the value of Swiss watch exports to the States rose 5% to CHF 4.3 ...
THE WATCH FILES With both volumes and demand falling, the pandemic crisis has somewhat overshadowed the long-standing debate on the supply of Swiss mechanical movements to (...) The official ...
Swiss watchmakers’ CEOs, gathered in Geneva for Watches and Wonders last week, have been almost silent on how they plan to deal with the impact of America’s new tariffs beyond saying that they will be ...
Right: Luc Perramond, CEO of La Montre Hermès. In the beginning, the Bienne-based La Montre Hermès produced essentially ladies’ watches, which were mainly driven by quartz movements. The developments ...