9+ mon, 3+ week ago   (335+ words) For all the news and events that populate the high-end watch industry’s annual calendar, just two months really matter: April, or whichever month the Watches and Wonders Geneva fair falls in, and November, when a slew of auctions, award ceremonies,…...

11+ mon, 3+ week ago   (342+ words) The watch market is not operating like clockwork right now. Swiss watch exports dipped by 16.4 percent in August, hitting $1.98 billion (1.57 billion Swiss francs), a new report from the Federation of... The watch market is not operating like clockwork right now....

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (102+ words) Swiss watch exports fell by 3.6 percent in January, a decline that strays from the bright spot in December, with an increase of 3.3 percent. After a brief sign of relief in December, Swiss watch exports have slumped yet again. Nicole Hoey…...

8+ mon, 1+ week ago   (289+ words) The past 12 months have given the watch world plenty to fret about: punishing tariffs, staggering gold prices, confusing economic signals, a weakened dollar. “We are kind of in the perfect storm,” Georges Kern, chief executive of Breitling, said during a…...

9+ mon, 3+ week ago   (790+ words) At Dubai Watch Week, which is increasingly becoming one of the watch industry’s most important events, the most serious conversations weren’t about limited editions or new watches. They centered on something far bigger: how watchmaking will navigate the economic, political,…...

10+ mon, 3+ week ago   (561+ words) Swiss watch exports to the U.S. plummeted 55.6 percent in September, with the industry still reeling from the effects of Trump's 39 percent tariff. Fewer and fewer Swiss timepieces are making it to the U.S. Crucially, the U.S. is no longer the industry’s biggest market....