The Shortlisted Watches in This Year’s Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève The 2020 edition of the Grand Prix d'Horologerie de Geneve (GPHG) has announced the shortlisted (pre-selected) watches that will be competing for an award. Click here to see the full list. Read the article Sep 16, 2020 by WatchTime
Independent Swiss Watch Brand NORQAIN Celebrates NHLPA Partnership with Limited-Edition Launch NORQAIN's new Adventure Sport Chrono NHLPA Limited Edition is limited to 500 pieces and features unique design details that hint at the speed and thrill of professional ice hockey. Read the article Oct 1, 2020 by WatchTime
Sports Cars for the Wrist: Porsche Design Launches Custom-Built Timepieces Program Professor F.A. Porsche, originator of the iconic Porsche 911, founded the Porsche Design Studio in 1972, intending to apply the principles of luxury automobile design to other accessories such as watches. With the launch of Porsche Design's new Custom-Built Timepiece program, the worlds of car and watch design have connected so seamlessly. Read the article Jul 1, 2020 by Mark Bernardo
GPHG 2020: Open for Entries In the last few weeks, the newly founded GPHG Academy has kicked off the 20th edition of the industry’s leading award show with several hundred pre-selected models for the competition. Now the time has come for the brands to do the same: As of today, watch brands can officially enter the 2020 edition of the... Read the article Jun 24, 2020 by WatchTime
Update on WatchTime’s Upcoming Event Schedule This week, government officials announced a more rigorous approach towards large gatherings, stating the possibility of keeping significant events on pause until a vaccine is available. But what does that mean for WatchTime L.A and WatchTime New York? Read the article May 28, 2020 by Corey Vlahos
Fair Games: A Look at the Future of Swiss Watch Trade Shows Two weeks ago, on April 14, Baselworld’s parent company MCH Group took note “with great surprise […] of the cancellation of major exhibitors at Baselworld,” namely Rolex, Patek Philippe, Chanel, Tudor, and Chopard. Two years before that, on July 30, 2018, the company’s former CEO René Kamm was already caught off guard by Swatch Group’s... Read the article Apr 23, 2020 by Roger Ruegger
The Show Must Go On(line): Watches & Wonders 2020 Launches Digital Platform to Introduce New Products Watches & Wonders 2020, the watch salon formerly known as the SIHH, was initially set to take place in Geneva in late April but was cancelled due to concerns about the worldwide coronavirus pandemic. Today, however, the Foundation de la Haute Horlogerie (FHH), organizers of the event, announced that the 30 watch brands slated to... Read the article Apr 20, 2020 by Mark Bernardo
A Mass Exodus and a New Beginning: Rolex, Patek Philippe, LVMH Leave Baselworld, Unite for Geneva Show; MCH Responds The most chaotic and disruptive year in the watch industry in recent memory just got a little more so this morning, with the announcement that power players Rolex, Patek Philippe, Tudor, Chanel, and Chopard are exiting the Baselworld trade fair, re-scheduled to January 2021 after the 2020 exhibition was cancelled due to the worldwide pandemic.... Read the article Apr 17, 2020 by Mark Bernardo
NEWS (UPDATED): Watches & Wonders Geneva Cancelled for 2020; Baselworld Postponed to January 2021 The hits just keep on coming to the watch industry’s trade show and event schedule in 2020, thanks to the continued threat of the COVID-19 coronavirus. As of yesterday, the FHH has officially cancelled the Watches & Wonders Geneva salon that was scheduled to be held from April 25 to 29, citing the “potential risks... Read the article Feb 28, 2020 by Mark Bernardo
NEWS Norqain Announces New In-House Calibers in Partnership with Tudor-Founded Kenissi Norqain is an independent, family-owned watch brand located in the Swiss watch hub of Bienne. Its board of directors includes its founder and CEO, 32-year-old Ben Küffer; his father, Marc Küffer, former owner of another Swiss watch manufacturer, Roventa-Henex; Ted Schneider, of the family that owned Breitling for nearly 40 years; and Mark Streit, a... Read the article Feb 5, 2020 by Mark Bernardo
NEWS The Return of Benrus Watch Company Kicks off with New Heritage Collection Earlier this month, the 1921-founded, New York-based watch company Benrus has relaunched its historic brand and introduced the new, vintage-inspired Heritage collection. Benrus is a historical, fondly remembered American watchmaker, and is likely best known for its designs from the 1960s and ‘70s, which notably included a unique super-compressor dive watch, Vietnam-era standard issue field... Read the article Jan 24, 2020 by Caleb Anderson
NEWS End of an Era: SIHH Becomes Watches & Wonders Geneva Earlier this year, the SIHH announced that in 2020 it would be moving from its traditional January dates to April, to coordinate with Switzerland's other major watch fair, Baselworld. Today, the FHH announced even bigger changes to the 30-year-old salon, which will have a new format, a new concept, and even a new name. Read the article Oct 16, 2019 by Mark Bernardo
EVENTS: Worn & Wound Heads to the West Coast for the Second Edition of the Windup San Francisco Fair Worn & Wound is the world’s leading digital publication for value-driven horology. The eight-year-old website is also behind the Windup Watch Fair, which is, along with our own WatchTime New York and Los Angeles shows, one of the few truly great consumer-facing watch events in the United States. After starting the three-day long watch exhibition... Read the article Apr 8, 2019 by WatchTime
EVENTS: WatchTime Los Angeles 2019: Introducing the Brands, Part 2 As we previously announced, WatchTime is bringing the WatchTime New York event concept to the West Coast on May 3 – 4, 2019. We’ll be taking over the Hudson Loft space in Downtown Los Angeles — just minutes from Staples Center — for two days to bring you the best in luxury timepieces. For those who... Read the article Mar 8, 2019 by WatchTime
NEWS Eberhard & Co. Returns to Its Roots and Launches a New Caliber Eberhard & Co. was founded in La Chaux-de-Fonds — then, as now, the epicenter of Swiss watchmaking — in 1887 but moved its operations to neighboring Bienne in 1975, where it has been based ever since. This year, the venerable watch maison not only returns to its original home but also celebrates the milestone with... Read the article Mar 2, 2019 by Mark Bernardo
IN-DEPTH: Is the Watch Industry on the Cusp of a Physical Retail Renaissance? Part 2 For years, the watch industry has been resistant to selling online. But now, luxury watch brands and, most importantly, the larger groups are not only racing to embrace digital clientele but are also trying to gain more control over the final sale. As a result, traditional retailers are facing even more pressure in the age... Read the article Mar 1, 2019 by Roger Ruegger
IN-DEPTH: Is the Watch Industry on the Cusp of a Physical Retail Renaissance? Part 1 For years, the watch industry has been resistant to selling online. But now, luxury watch brands and, most importantly, the larger groups are not only racing to embrace digital clientele but are also trying to gain more control over the final sale. As a result, traditional retailers are facing even more pressure in the age... Read the article Feb 28, 2019 by Roger Ruegger
EVENTS: WatchTime Teams Up with Bremont for an Exclusive Preview of the 2019 Collection at Watches of Switzerland NYC Bremont is preparing to launch its 2019 novelties, and what better way to see them than with Co-founder Giles English during an exclusive dinner at the new Watches of Switzerland boutique in Lower Manhattan? That’s right, we’re teaming up with the British brand and the recently opened retail destination to introduce a select number of... Read the article Feb 22, 2019 by WatchTime
THE WATCHTIME Q&A An Interview with Catherine Rénier, CEO of Jaeger-LeCoultre Catherine Rénier was named CEO of Jaeger-LeCoultre in May 2018. In an interview with Rüdiger Bucher, editor-in-chief of WatchTime’s German sister magazine Chronos and International Editorial Director of Ebner Publishing, she discusses the values of the brand and what she is planning — and not planning — for the near future. Read the article Dec 20, 2018 by Ruediger Bucher
NEWS FHH Launches its New “Watch Live” App at WatchTime New York 2018 Ever experienced a watch buying situation at a retailer in which a lack of knowledge or training on the part of the sales associate left you frustrated? Take heart: thanks to the Foundation de la Haute Horlogerie (FHH), there’s now an app for that. And it made its U.S. debut today at WatchTime New York.... Read the article Oct 27, 2018 by Mark Bernardo
NEWS From Purpose to Style: The New Breitling Premier Collection “We want to fish in a bigger pond,” Breitling CEO Georges Kern announced to the assembled audience of international media at the first Breitling Summit, held October 22 at Spring Studios in London. It was a reference to Breitling’s initiative under the leadership of Kern, now in its second year, to embrace other product segments... Read the article Oct 23, 2018 by Mark Bernardo
