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LFW: Fashion Scout - Ones To Watch SS19

Fashion Scout’s collaborative showcase, Ones To Watch, has a long reputation for propelling hot new designers onto the London Fashion Week scene and the three designers taking part for its spring/summer 2019 show were no exception, with Argentine brand Nous Etudions and Croatian Price on Request both showing their ethical credentials, while...

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Fairs

Baselworld: “The 2018 Event was a success”

Baselworld is, and remains the world's leading trade fair for watches and fine jewellery. This assessment was confirmed by its 2018 event, which recently closed its doors after seven intense days of activity. Luxury watchmaking has experienced somewhat of a crisis in recent years, with the fall in demand from China, a strong Swiss franc and...

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Swiss watch exports plunge on Hong Kong, US slowdown

Global exports of Swiss watches plummeted in March, amid a dramatic contraction of sales in main markets Hong Kong and the United States. Exports fell 16.1 percent from March 2015 to 1.5 billion Swiss francs (1.5 billion US dollars, 1.4 billion euros), the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry (FHS) said. In 2015, watch exports recorded their...

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Fashion

Fashionable or techie -- the modern watch dilemma

It's Milan fashion week, you've got tickets to the catwalk shows and an outfit to die for, but which watch to wear? A chunky smart watch or chic ticker that can't tell the time? Ahead of the hotly-anticipated Apple Watch launch this year, expected to revolutionise tech wearables, there are already watches you can use to check emails, Facebook or...

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Fashion

Watch fetches record 13.3 million pounds at Swiss auction

A Patek Philippe gold watch billed as the most expensive -- and most complicated -- in the world fetched a record 21.3 million dollars (13.3 million pounds) on Tuesday when it went under the hammer in Switzerland. The sale of the "Henry Graves Supercomplication", a handcrafted timepiece named after its original owner, a New York banker who...