By now, you should have seen a lot of the information that emerged as Watches and Wonders Geneva (WWG) bought underway, together with from us. WOW Singapore offers over the majority of its pages to the brand new watches of 2024 too. How does the difficulty differ from what you might need seen on LUXUO up to now?
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Sure, our interview with the brand new Zenith CEO, Benoit de Clerck went on-line simply because the Summer season challenge was being ready for the printer. That story is nearly precisely the identical, though we did handle to squeeze extra pictures into the web model. The identical can’t be stated for our protection of WWG or the novelties rising from it (or debuting concurrently). Our protection of the each day highlights of WWG, and Geneva Watch Week (GWW) general, are fairly totally different to our report on WWG within the Summer season challenge of WOW Singapore. Once more, you possibly can say all the challenge has been given over to the honest however not simply when it comes to new watch protection. That’s nice for information however not a specialist title akin to WOW; we have an interest within the hows and the whys and the related whatnots.
Any international debut of any class of product will probably be replete with which means. Consider CES in Las Vegas, for instance, after which add the Apple keynote into it. So it’s that the watches of 2024 will inevitably be thought of by means of the lens of one of many worst export months for the Swiss watch business, adopted by a exceptional subsequent restoration. There will probably be questions aplenty there, and a few solutions on this challenge, particularly in our persevering with particular on treasured metals.
Whereas we soldiered on for greater than 30 pages on this very topic within the Summer season challenge, we’re nonetheless not executed and can proceed in Autumn. A brief abstract is feasible so right here goes: watches are getting extra treasured and thus extra unique; costs are heading north however worth, nicely that continues to be to be seen. For these of you who is likely to be greater than somewhat within the funding angle, this will probably be dangerous information. Then once more, perhaps not…
We take up the dialogue instantly within the fifteenth installment of The Dialog, together with another postulations about WWG and GWW. On this considerably momentous event for this in style section, it appears World of Watches Malaysia Editor Daniel Goh will grow to be a fixture together with Ruckdee Chotjinda and myself. This story usually finds its means on-line too, and would possibly at some point grow to be a correct discussion board, if I’ve something to say about it. However that’s in regards to the undefined future…
The remainder of this challenge considerations itself with evergreen topics, together with the concluding story within the counterfeit watches phenomenon, and standout novelties of 2024. Properly, what we see as essential items, at any charge. On that word, the TAG Heuer Carrera Chronograph Skipper that stars on the quilt is certainly a kind of essential items, though it is only one of some Carrera chronographs that we managed to suit into the quilt story.
And that, girls and gents, is a very reasonable abstract of the difficulty that lies forward of you. Benefit from the learn!
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