Now there are more doubts, the global COVID-19 pandemic has had and will have a heavy impact on the fine watchmaking sector. As we had already noted in recent months, after two consecutive months of decline (-9% in February and -22% in March), the Swiss Watch Federation (FHS) has just published its statistics for April 2020 and, as expected, exports fell sharply [...]
A few hours ago the shocking news of Rolex, Tudor, Patek Philippe, Chopard and Chanel choosing not to participate in Baselworld 2021 and to inaugurate a new collaboration with the Fondation De La Haute Horlogerie. The five maison mentioned above, in collaboration with the Fondation De La Haute Horlogerie (FHH), will organize their own fair at the beginning of April 2021 and the show will [...]
2019 is about to end. For watchmaking it has been, as always, a year full of news and surprises and, waiting for what next year has in store - starting with the increases announced by Rolex as early as January 2020 to those of Audemars Piguet and Patek Philippe. instead scheduled for February -, we relive with a special ranking what has happened from January to today. What you [...]
There are still a few days to go until the kick-off of the Rugby World Cup 2019 ™, which will take place from next September 20th in Japan. Tudor will be the official partner of this important event as "Official Time Keeper" and, playing ahead of time, wanted to celebrate the collaboration with the Rugby World Cup 2019 ™ and the legendary neozalendase national rugby team, better known [...]
The Tudor Black Bay collection is an endless success. This model has already appeared in different materials: steel, PVD-coated steel, bronze, two-tone. Now for Only Watch 2019 the brand introduces the Tudor Black Bay Ceramic One, the first made in this modern material. This new Tudor Black Bay Ceramic One is presented in matte black ceramic, with a bead finish, in a case [...]
Baselworld is going through tough times, amassing more and more criticism and seeing more than half of the brands on display leave the show. The announcement that we all remember was, of course, that of Nick Hayek who confirmed the final decision to leave the SWATCH GROUP from the show as of 2019. Nonetheless, the edition just ended was better than expected [... ]
Over the past few years, Tudor has been offering a series of sporty models that are really interesting from every point of view. The perfectly successful design since the introduction of the Black Bay onwards, and the advances in terms of technique - see the in-house movements - have earned the Geneva fashion house further prestige. This new model combines the aquatic character [...]
In 1967, TUDOR, which had been supplying watches to the US Navy since the late 50s, began developing a new watch that had to meet a set of requirements set by the US government and incorporated the results of cutting-edge research conducted by the brand's engineers. This led to the production of several prototypes, as well as the registration of a patent for a function up to [...]
The seventh edition of Only Watch, the biennial charity auction organized by the AMM (Association Monegasque contre les Myopathies) association with the help of Christie's, was held yesterday in Geneva, in support of medical and scientific research against Duchenne muscular dystrophy. To finance this praiseworthy cause, 11 haute horlogerie brands have created [...]