Baselworld, the watch fair held annually in Switzerland, will be open to consumers and collectors next year, giving them a unique opportunity to see the inventions of independent watchmakers. Limited ...

Every year, the watch industry anticipates and plans extensively around the two major trade shows, Watches & Wonders (formerly SIHH) and Baselworld. Major and minor brands alike use these events to ...

Attendance dropped by 22% at last week's Baselworld watch fair, which has been held in Basel, Switzerland, every spring since 1917. The number of exhibitors at the 2019 show also dropped – down to 520 ...

In this age of 24/7 connectivity and instant news reports via Twitter and press releases, it’s relatively easy to cover events even from half a world away. For the past couple of years, that’s how we ...

“At Baselworld, we see beauty and innovation at the service of time,” said François Thiébaud, president of the Swiss Exhibitors Committee for the world’s preeminent horology fair, which takes place ...

“You might call me the Van Gogh of horology,” said Christophe Claret, manning his eponymous booth at Basel World 2016. Like Van Gogh, the Lyon-born watchmaker is known for the rebellious spirit that ...

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Baselworld 2017 was huge for smartwatches, with luxury watchmakers announcing quite a number of smart wearables at the annual watch and jewelry show in Basel, Switzerland. More smartwatches from ...

Browsing the 141,000 square meters of stalls in Baselworld this year it’s hard to make out whether the industry is one step ahead or behind. Barely a week before the event kicked off, Apple captured ...

FORGET THE COMING of spring, the start of the F1 season, or even the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. It’s March, this is a piece about watches and jewelry, and there is only one event in the diary: ...