This article will explain a series of cause-and-effect events which led to a particular situation in the world of the timepiece industry today. The modern luxury watch industry finds itself in a few extremely difficult positions from a marketing, distribution, pricing, and sales perspective – and to a large degree, they aren’t sure what to do about it yet.
No matter where you are in the world, there’s no way that the election for President of the United States has evaded your attention. However, I couldn’t avoid looking at what watches candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump wear, and interestingly enough, the brands chosen by each reveal a lot about them.
A principle fear of watch lovers is that the advent of smartwatches and their eventual dominance might finally render traditional mechanical watches, once and for all, extinct. With that said, I suggest to you that smartwatches will create a fertile market for increased watch demand that will invariably be beneficial for the luxury mechanical watch industry.
Recently, we took a close look at The History & Present Of High Jewelry & Fine Watchmaking For Ladies By Bulgari, where we discovered some of the most important creations of the brand, both in the fields of jewelry and ladies’ watches. Today, the subject of our focus will be an unmistakably Bulgari creation, the timeless and ever-vicious snake, as represented by the Bulgari Serpenti.
In May of 2016, aBlogtoWatch giveaway winner Todd M. joined me in traveling to Indianapolis to experience something truly American, the 100th running of the Indianapolis 500 with race event sponsor and watch maker TAG Heuer. We made a cool read more…
The smartwatch has been a thing for quite a few years now, long enough for many to take for granted the remarkable engineering that has gone into the creation of these sci-fi-inspired devices. The A-Team of disassembling and repairing smart-everything, the guys at iFixit have taken apart the Apple Watch Series 2, and it sure is worth it to take the opportunity and have a closer look at how it’s constructed.
It is quite common for women to wear or even prefer watches traditionally considered to be for men over those specifically designed for women. I find this mentality intriguing and have noticed a few interesting things that can happen when women wear a men’s watch. These things not only effect how the woman looks, but also the appeal of those watches toward men.
Two years after debuting the original Apple Watch, Apple has just released the Apple Watch Series 2 as one part of what I would faithfully describe as an “epic” keynote event in San Francisco. Tim Cook and other Apple employees spent about two hours on stage more or less focusing on the Apple Watch Series 2 and the iPhone 7, along with related software and accessories.
Sponsored Post written by co-founder of Bremont Watches, Nick English. When you get up close to a Martin-Baker (MB) ejection seat, the first thing that strikes you is quite how incredibly beautifully they are engineered – the knurled aluminum, the read more…
No less than a giant in the watch world, and with more than a few fans in the aBlogtoWatch community, our Cost of Entry series would be incomplete without Omega Watches and a look at the brand’s most affordable automatic timepiece available today.