After a long wait, and I know that it has been long because I was the second person to put my name down on a waiting list at the QVB Swatch Boutique in Sydney (but then took it off after… Read More ›
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Swatch to use Indian diamonds
Indian news media report that the Swatch Group, in order to meet the condition of 30 per cent local sourcing for foreign companies engaged in single-brand retailing in India, has notified the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion that it… Read More ›
Tiffany & Co ordered to pay Swatch Group over failed venture
The Tiffany & Co jewellery chain has been ordered to pay the Swatch Group $448m (£274m) over a failed joint venture. In 2007 a deal was struck between the two parties to make watches together under the Tiffany Watch Co… Read More ›
UPDATE : Swatch Sistem51 now on sale
Further to my post earlier this year about the groundbreaking Swatch Sistem51, this much anticipated watch has finally been released, a few months later than originally expected. The Australian release date was meant to be October 2013, but a local… Read More ›
NEWS : Swiss competition body orders Swatch Group to continue supply
On 8 July 2013 the Swiss Federal Competition Commission handed down a decision altering their previous agreement with the Swatch Group allowing the Group to cut watch movement and component supplies to non-Swatch Group companies. Whilst the Commission agrees in… Read More ›
A visit to the Swatch Museum : Geneva
Earlier this year whilst in Geneva for SIHH 2013, I had a day off before I left. Taking a walk around the city, of which I had barely seen for the previous days, I unexpectedly came across the Swatch Museum…. Read More ›
BASELWORLD 2013 : Some thoughts on Swatch’s new SISTEM 51 movement
What was arguably the biggest new release during Baselworld 2013 was neither an expensive complication nor an exciting new brand, but the Swatch Group CEO Nick Hayek announcing the new ‘Swatch SISTEM51’ automatic movement, to be used in an entirely… Read More ›
NEWS: Swatch buys Harry Winston jewellery for $750 million
The Swatch Group, which terminated a partnership with jeweller Tiffany in 2011, has re-entered the jewellery acquisitions territory, buying Harry Winston’s watch and jewellery for US$750 million in cash and US$250 million in net debt, according to Reuters. Swatch Group… Read More ›
Swatch buys case maker Simon Et Membrez
The Swatch Group has bought 100% of the shares in family-owned watch case maker Simon et Membrez in a move that it has described as “a seamless fit”. The shares were previously owned by Simon et Membrez CEO Philippe… Read More ›
Swatch’s Trésor Magique
Back in the early-mid 1990s, there was what I think of as the height of Swatch limited edition madness, when the release of special models would lead to overnight queues at Swatch boutiques, and it would get a little crazy…. Read More ›
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