Everything you need to know about the newness and watch news in summer 2025, to download for free as a Worldtempus player
Our magnificent watchmaking sector is no exception to cyclical upheavals, taken between the American hammer and the Chinese anvil, restrictive the vast majority of brands to reduce the sail. The captains of industry that we interviewed, which are not at their first weather alert, know how to adapt the course when the sky turns out to be threatening. Two of them sail in the accessible luxury segment, oh so popular and strategic in large times, when customers avoid excessive spending: Balm & Mercier and Frederic Constant.
The story of watchmaking is not a long, quiet river, but it is still moving towards the ocean. Among the big houses celebrating this year a secular birthday, Breguet, which blows its 250 candles, has always been very linked to maritime exploits. His new CEO evokes a horizon that emerges for its brand.
As for our editorial team, she chose the aquatic theme in the main file of the magazine, would it be the prospect of the holidays? The clocks whose skillfully complicated creations we have analyzed in our technical section we have deserved them well in any case. Whether it is the QP of Watches and Wonders, the return of the legendary caliber 135 of the Zenith GFJ in test bench, extraordinary automata of Van Cleef & Arpels, from the chronograph whirlwind to RED RM43-01 symbolizing the symbiosis between Ferrari and Richard Mille, or in the first place of the Monaco Chronograph F1 Heuer, both in one of the magazine and spearhead of the great return of Tag Heuer in Formula 1.
At the end of the lake (Lake Geneva) and at the end of the summer, the Geneva Watch Days fill the arms of their 6th edition with a record number of exhibitors of all sizes, auspicious? The essential GMT evening will be this time under the sign of the magazine’s 25th anniversary, thank you to our formidable watchmaking community for inspiring us in all time!
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