After selling all 60,000 TAG Heuer Connected smartwatches it produced this year, TAG Heuer is continuing its push into wearables with a new office in Silicon Valley, reports Bloomberg. Led by the irrepressible Jean-Claude Biver, TAG Heuer has been the most enthusiastic amongst its Swiss peers in embracing the smartwatch. Introduced in November last year, […]
“The Swiss watch industry is in trouble.”…
“The Swiss watch industry is in trouble.”…
Smartwatches Let’s admit it. There is no escape from the smartwatch, everywhere you look there’s someone with an Apple Watch. Even the recently announced Apple Watch Series 2 is a hot topic. Not among watch enthusiasts per se, but a lot of people who watches the Apple novelties (iPhone 7 and Apple Watch Series 2) […]
Best known for its GPS devices, Garmin’s latest “multisport” smartwatch aims to look more like a conventional timepiece. The Fenix Chronos does way with the usual rubber and plastic of smartwatches, and is instead cased in steel or titanium, with matching bracelets. While traditional watchmakers are trying, somewhat clumsily, to hop on the wearables bandwagon, electronics firms […]
Traditional watchmakers have responded differently to the rise of the smartwatch. TAG Heuer has made its own smart watch, the TAG Heuer Connected, while Montblanc and IWC have taken the route of a smart strap attachment to a traditional watch. The Sinn Duales Bandsystem takes the brute force approach, combining a wristwatch with an Apple Watch on […]