Today, La Chaux-de-Fonds remains the administrative, and in many ways the spiritual, heart of the Swiss watch industry.
The Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry reports exports to China fell almost 26% in Q1.
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Though he is only crazy given the context of the conservative and risk-adverse Swiss watch industry.
In the watch industry, the internet is synonymous with the crude act of discounting.
For 18 years, the watch industry rejected and ridiculed the coaxial and its inventor.
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He will forever be credited with engineering the rebirth of the Swiss watch industry.
According to his 2010 Forbes obituary, he had successfully revolutionized the watch industry.
When he died, it was sad news for England, the watch industry and those who knew him.
There was some caution among the brand officials, but overall, life remains good in the Swiss watch industry.
The problem was simply that America already had a watch industry, and one that threatened to bury the Swiss.
Michael Clerizo is a veteran watch industry reporter and author, as well as a Wall Street Journal contributing editor.
By learning from the watch industry, Apple can create an iWatch that is extremely durable, and also much more visually appealing.
Yvan is first and foremost and artist, whose has a noticeable disdain for the politics and business complexities of the watch industry.
The auction featured a collection of 40 timepieces created specifically for the auction from the top brands in the Swiss watch industry.
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Nearly all the main markets of the Swiss watch industry showed double-digit increases in 2011, absorbing more than 20 percent of Swiss watch exports by value.
Biver along with the late Nicolas Hayek, CEO and board chairman of Swatch, are credited with saving the Swiss watch industry from the quartz movement.
There are probably few people in the Swiss watch industry who understand this perspective more than Margolis, who is an outsider in a largely inbred industry.
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In 2005, Margolis was approached by Jean-Claude Biver, a very successful figure in the Swiss watch industry, who at the time was working for the Swatch Group.
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Part of goal with this blog and my Jewelry News Network blog is to provide, whenever possible, a behind the scenes glimpse at the luxury jewelry and watch industry.
It really looked as though the game was up and time had run out for the Swiss watch industry as the old mechanical, analogue timepieces were being undercut in price and availability.
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The decision to launch a smart watch under the Tissot brand is particularly revealing, says Pierre Maillard, a veteran observer of the Swiss watch industry and editor of Europa Star, a trade magazine.
Ariel Adams (also a Forbes.com contributor) wrote a month ago on A Blog To Watch about what an iWatch will be like, from the point of view of the high-end watch industry.
In the early 1980s, the Swiss watch industry faced looming catastrophe as it failed to realize the importance of quartz watches, even though the quartz watch had been invented in Switzerland in 1967.
He has an admirable track record of combining the traditional watch industry with the modern world, and most recently is the CEO behind the innovative and very successful new high-end watch brand HYT.
Another formidable competitor is Swatch Group, better known for the cheap plastic watches that helped save Switzerland when the quartz revolution looked as if it would relocate the entire watch industry to the Far East.
Margolis is using his high-tech background, his communications and sales skills, his understanding of the passionate watch customer, and his newly acquired Swiss watch industry experience, to create ways to appeal to watch lovers in the modern world.
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Also there was Jean-Claude Biver, chief executive of Hublot and the man credited by many with rescuing the Swiss watch industry, who said that, if asked, he would leave Hublot and run the bid without asking for a salary.
So unlike the rest of the luxury watch industry that can make all kinds of custom lines for people with different tastes and different sized wrists, Apple will need to make a fairly neutral canvas upon which customizations can be applied with software.
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The 12-year-old watch brand is an infant when it comes to the venerable world of the Swiss watch industry, but it has grown up at lightning speed with technical innovations and partnerships with athletes in sports ranging from track and field to soccer to auto racing.
Reporters covering a specific industry watch executives float between companies like bishops on a chessboard.
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