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An exercise in contrition
BASELWORLD 2018
April 2018
An official closing press conference? That’s unusual! In fact, it’s unheard-of at Baselworld. Was it to hurriedly extinguish the flames of a rumoured (...)
On the shortness of life
A LAST WORD TO START
March 2018
I am always astonished when I see people requesting the time of others and receiving a most accommodating response from those they approach. Both sides (...)
Klein Baselworld
BASEL 2018 NOTEBOOK
March 2018
The traditional opening press conference would have been an opportunity for Baselworld to indulge in a little transparency, and to explain publicly some of (...)
The resilience of the watch industry
EDITORIAL
March 2018
The watch industry, which tries so hard to control everything – production upstream, distribution downstream and communication at all points in between – is (...)
Basel-bashing
BASELWORLD 2018
March 2018
Let’s stop being dramatic. “Baselbashing” has reached an all-time high. In this digital age, all watch trade fairs must change their operational procedure. So (...)
Have time, will travel
EDITORIAL
March 2018
Watchmakers did not need Einstein to intuitively understand that time and space are closely associated, like the two faces of the same coin. Their art was (...)
A last word to start
WHERE TO?
February 2018
"Change, but in what direction?” This apparently simple question was put by French philosopher André Comte-Sponville at the most recent Forum de la Haute (...)
Our direction in 2018
EDITORIAL
February 2018
Every industry has been transformed by digital technology – the media as much as, if not more than the watch industry! Times of transition, periods of (...)
It may be smart, but is it clever?
WATCHWORDS
January 2018
The Internet of Things promises a multitude of additional smart devices that will embed internet connectivity into even more areas of our lives, making (...)
Worldtimer and the snob
FREELY SPEAKING
January 2018
Browsing on the internet I came across a blog by ‘Watch Snob’ on which a potential buyer wrote that he knew nothing about watches but was interested in a (...)
Great eggspectations
FREELY SPEAKING
January 2018
I like Hong Kong. I love the vibrant ambience in the streets, the shops and the malls, the Temple Street Night Market, the hubbub around the food stalls in (...)
Who are the brands’ main competitors? Themselves!
January 2018
The sale of a Paul Newman Daytona for 17 million dollars is just the tip of the iceberg. The vintage (and second-hand) market is stealing a march on the (...)
The Fat East
EDITORIAL
January 2018
Today, the Far East is the biggest producer and consumer of watches on the planet. This situation will remain for a long time to come, despite the abrupt (...)
Swiss brain vs Swiss made
OPINION (EPISODE 2)
December 2017
“The ‘Swiss-made’ label does not defend Swiss values and expertise. Even less does it protect Swiss subcontractors and their employees, since it can be (...)
Europa Star: 90 years of editorial adventure
RETROSPECTIVE
At the end of the Roaring Twenties, Swiss entrepreneur Hugo Buchser laid the foundations for the magazine Europa Star. Among tourist guides, a business (...)
Of bricks and paper, clicks and storms
EDITORIAL
October 2017
As a reading of this issue’s substantial “Brick & Click” dossier will reveal, watch retail is truly in the doldrums – or, more accurately, in total (...)
Automation and calculation
October 2017
All the marketing hype that seems to preoccupy the narrow little world of watchmaking more and more has helped to bury news of two upheavals that are (...)
1984 on your wrist
July 2017
“Before the advent of the railway, owning a watch was a mark of wealth, but afterwards it became proof of civilisation. There is no civilisation without (...)
What’s the deal with ‘vintage’? (and beards?)
July 2017
It’s not just a trend, it’s become practically an obligation. At Baselworld, you could count on the fingers of one hand the brands that weren’t launching a (...)
Dial or screen?
WATCHWORDS
June 2017
The word “dial” is the kind of linguistic fossil I love to discover. Most words are fossils, in the sense that they bear the imprints of a time long past, (...)