As a journalist with a specialty in watches, a trade fair is more than just looking at new collections and posting them online as fast […]
Category: Watch Events
Trade fairs, special presentations, parties, celebrations.
Baselworld 2019: peaks and peeks
Baselworld 2019 was quite exciting even without a slew of major brands, which stayed away this year.
SIHH 2018: a touch of madness
Disclaimer: Those who know me also know I do not have the gift of termination. Sure, I could “keep it short,” after all, in my […]
SIHH 2016 (part 1): wild cards
Tivoli Soldat Dos The 26th edition of the SIHH closed its doors recently and so it is time to take a look back over four […]
This time at Baselworld (2011), part 2
From steam to punk and thereabouts As time moves along, styles are becoming jumbled. The 1930s and Art-Deco have become something of a fixation, and […]
This time at Baselworld (2011), part 1
Zenith represents well the changes that have swept the Swiss watch industry over the past, say, 10 years, when people believed in the magic growth of money and the Madoff snake oil. How could something promoted with loud and ostentatious events and fetching
absurd prices not be worth a lot of money?
Baselworld 2010 Part 1: Return of the watch
Watch yourself! Baselworld 2010: a review Part 1 If we are to believe the chroniclers of the wealthy like Steve Forbes, what affects the […]