It’s the 1980s, and the Swiss watch industry, Switzerland’s lifeblood, was battling extinction. An innovation by Japanese watchmaker Seiko—a battery-operated quartz watch—kept time more ...

PARIS – Could the Swiss watch industry's woes be over in ... While precious-metal watches and gold-and-steel models grew 9.7 and 8.9 percent in value respectively, their volumes contracted ...

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It’s the 1980s, and the Swiss watch industry ... companies that make watch cases and batteries for timepieces. It owns and ...

Switzerland’s two per cent equates to 45 per cent of global revenue in watch sales. And of those 17m Swiss watches ... bronze, rose gold and ceramic, distinctive custom typefaces, automotive ...

To ensure that the watchmakers have enough time to work on the higher-end in-house movements and still offer watches at a more affordable price point, the company now shifts to Swiss-made Sellita ...

On a balmy afternoon in Geneva in early April, Swiss ... watch fans from April 5 to 7.) At the far end of the convention centre is Chanel’s show space. Anchored by a sundial fashioned from a ...

But a coincidental observation made me think about the ancient substance that has evolved into a high-tech material. Ceramic is the new gold. Whereas gold watches somewhat follow the price of the ...

The iconic Swiss watch brand’s genius strategy of slapping new pieces on outgoing ... Meet the new OMEGA Seamaster Diver 300M Bronze Gold and Burgundy, a warming and inviting watch fit for the ...

But private investors are not the only buyers of gold ingots. Right now, central banks are diversifying their foreign reserves. The most reliable component of these reserves is gold because it ...