Over the last 10 years Asia has become the top market for Swiss watches, with exports in 2012 worth $12.84 billion. Though growth has slowed this year, the region remains a key market.
Pocket watch motifs are among the new trends in tattoos, and some watchmakers have reversed the idea, with watches that incorporate classic tattoo designs.
When it comes to men’s watches, the age of big, complex movements appears to be on the wane. Now, the slender profiles of the early 20th century are back in the form of ultrathins.
The British watchmaker Bremont has announced the release of its new Codebreaker model in honor of the work done by an elite group of World War II code-breakers.
Two major watch fairs are taking place in Hong Kong this month: the Hong Kong Watch and Clock Fair and Watches and Wonders, the latter billing itself as Asia’s first haute horlogerie exhibition.
A pragmatic return to a broader market focus is a departure from the dark days of the financial crisis, when many Swiss watchmakers decided that the only way to survive was to flock to the high-end.
Masahiro Kikuno, the first Japanese member of the elite academy of independent watchmakers, had long dreamed of reviving the “wadokei” traditional timepiece.