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“Ten minutes, bro,” a friend told me once. “Usually, when people first meet you, and they learn what you do, they would talk about watches for, maybe, 10 minutes max. Right?” “Right…” “It’s different for me,” he continues. “They could spend the whole

The past few months at Montblanc saw the departure and arrival of new personnel at the upper rung of the luxury marque, suggesting that significant changes will be afoot for new product roll-outs. In December 2020, Laurent Lecamps joined the company

My journey into the watch trade truly started 20 years ago. That was when I first met Carlos Rosillo, the founder of Bell & Ross. His passion towards the brand was really infectious and inspiring. I was so intrigued by his gentlemanly demeanour in sh

Passion alone isn’t enough. That's the biggest misconception about transforming a passion into a business. Passion is the software but you need the hardware to run it. Picking the right products, people, place, and pricing are some key elements to ma

CHAIRMAN & CEO DAVID LEPPAN MANAGING DIRECTOR HRISTO SIMEONOV hristo.simeonov@highend.media PUBLISHER CONNIE YEUNG connie.yeung@highend.media VP, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT ALAN TAN alan.tan@highend.media ART DIRECTOR DENNIS GOH dennis.goh@highend.media ED

Baselworld had brought together everyone associated with watches. It provided brands with the platform to tell their stories in the right environment, and it allowed us to receive full product feedback from both our media and sales partners. Without

We are participating in Watches And Wonders this year. Of course, Baselworld was a unique event that we were proud to be a part of for decades. While we believe that the need for watch industry events will remain, perhaps a single focal point will su

Personally, I regret that Baselworld, the show where the whole industry gathered once a year, was given up like that. It was an important date in our calendar where our most important trade partners and press travelled to our hometown of Basel. And a

Ever heard the saying, ‘you cannot be everything to everyone’? Well, Corum appears to disagree. Whether earning accolades from seasoned watch collectors with its wholly unique Golden Bridge timepieces, or enticing new fans with the outrageously globu

Of all the quality assurance certifications for timepieces, the COSC (Contrôle Officiel Suisse des Chronomètres) certification, which attests to a watch’s chronometric performance, is probably the most widely known, often cited by the biggest names i

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It’s a cliché, but size matters in horology. In fact, the smaller or slimmer a movement, the more reverence it inspires. And no movement epitomises the art of mechanical miniaturisation more than Jaeger-LeCoultre’s legendary Calibre 101. Debuted in 1