Is the Sales Decline Slowing?
The Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry FH reports that November recorded the highest monthly value of the year for Swiss watch exports, and also the most moderate decline at -10.6% compared with November, 2008. The report notes that while the November figures are negative, they represent a marked improvement over prior months. For 2009 overall, levels remain low however, with exports down 23.7% for the first 11 months. For November, steel watches performed well, declining only 3.8%, and bimetallic timepieces registered a gain of 8.4%. Gold watches were down 17.1% and platinum were off 53.5%. Looking at leading markets, exports to the USA were down 21.4% while Germany was down 23.3%. Exports to China increased of 36.1%. The largest market, Hong Kong, was off 14.2%.In terms of price points (export values), watches priced at 200-500 francs increased 20% both in value and unit volume. The most expensive category – watches priced at 3000 francs and up – showed the largest de

LG GD910 Watch 3G HSPDA Phone; Tells Time, Makes Calls, Not That Dorky
You might be thinking that this is just some gimmicky concept, or another of those skepticism filled no-name Chinese watch phones, but you'd be wrong (it is Korean, not Chinese). And it is from large manufacturer LG nonetheless, which signifies a new era for Dick Tracy wannabes. With an official announcement due at CES (the consumer electronics show) soon, the LG GD910 is a fully functional 3g (and 7.2mps HSPDA) watch phone with most of the bells and whistles in its non-wrist worn counterparts. LG calls is a "wrist phone." It even supports voice-to-text commands as well two way video conferencing. Talking on the phone is done in one of three ways. You either hold the watch phone up to your ear likewell, an idiot, use the speaker phone function, or more logically Bluetooth. All in all, the people using this wrist phone at CES have been loving it.In what is likely to be a device with abyssal battery (well maybe not that bad), the LG GD910 features a touch screen and microphone, as well a

The Road To Basel Episode 1: Seeing The Unseen With Vacheron Constantin
You've followed us on Instagram and Twitter, you've seen the teaser, and now it's time to show you what we were up to all along the #roadtobasel. This will be a multi-part video series documenting Ben and Will's voyage from Paris, through Burgundy to Geneva, to the Vallée de Joux, back to Geneva, through the Mont Blanc tunnel to Lake Como and Milan, up to Lucerne, and finally on to Basel itself. In episode one, we visit the historic maison of one of the world's greatest watchmakers – Vacheron Constantin. When we told them we were coming, they asked us what we wanted to see. We said, "show us the three watches you are most proud of." And that's exactly what we saw that day in Geneva, and what you'll see here today – three previously unseen, incredibly important, and massively rare complicated watches from Vacheron's own internal historical department. 1 OF 3 The first watch dates to 1884 and is a two-faced perp

Water proof leather strap
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