Compagnie Financiere Richemont SA

September 30, 2024

Small Independent Watchmakers Draw Big Brand Interest

Chanel has taken a stake in MB&F, the latest example of how customer enthusiasm for artisanal timepieces has prompted luxury groups to look for partners. In […]
September 11, 2024

A Celebration of Craftsmanship Draws Watch Brands

Homo Faber, the biennial fair held in Venice, draws independent makers as well as Richemont brands. The 2024 edition of Homo Faber, a biennial fair held […]
February 14, 2024

Piaget Reintroduces One of Its Classic Models

The Polo 79 looks a lot like the original Polo, but with some tweaks that appeal to buyers’ tastes and lifestyles today. The Piaget Polo 79, […]
July 23, 2023

Has Your Watch Been Lost or Stolen?

Whether a database created by Richemont will actually help curb thefts may depend on how many people use it. About five years ago, executives at Compagnie […]
March 26, 2023

Can’t Buy the Watch You Want? It’s Partly a Lack of Watchmakers.

With student enrollments down and retirements rising, Swiss brands worry that growth will stall. The watchmaking world is facing an unprecedented problem: a severe lack of […]
January 22, 2023

Journalist and Curator to Direct Jewelry Organization

Melanie Grant, who spearheaded Sotheby’s ‘Brilliant and Black’ exhibition, has been named executive director of the Responsible Jewellery Council. Melanie Grant, known in the jewelry world […]
February 14, 2020

Shuttered Stores, Fewer Tourists: Luxury Feels Coronavirus Effects

LONDON — Chinese tourists normally flock to Bond Street, home to some of the most expensive retail space in the world. They gather behind the velvet […]
October 25, 2019

Alber Elbaz Is Back in Fashion

Alber Elbaz is ready for his comeback. On Friday, Richemont, the Swiss luxury group, announced that it had entered into a partnership with Mr. Elbaz, the […]
January 22, 2018

Richemont Makes $3.4 Billion Offer to Take Over Yoox Net-a-Porter

Advertisement Competition has been intensifying in the high-end online retail sector. Now, one traditional luxury group is joining the fray. Compagnie Financière Richemont, the Swiss company […]
January 16, 2018

Watches: IWC Schaffhausen Celebrates 150 Years

Advertisement GENEVA — In 1868, a 27-year-old American engineer named Florentine Ariosto Jones arrived in Schaffhausen, a Rhine River town in the German-speaking part of Switzerland, […]