The results are in! Classicism was the overall winner at the 2014 Grand Prix de l'Horlogerie, celebrated last night in Geneva...

Nayla Hayek revealed the luxury conglomerate's plans for Harry Winston at the Swatch Group's annual meeting in Switzerland...

The luxury conglomerate's multi-brand concept boutique is coming to New York and Las Vegas...

Details on the new Tourbillon boutiques opening in Seattle, Dallas and Las Vegas...

Hour Passion, a retail boutique owned by the Swatch Group, has opened a new location in the heart of London's luxury shopping...

Nayla Hayek, the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Swatch Group, recently addressed the 2013 General Assembly of the group’s hareholders in Biel, Switzerland. During the address, Hayek spoke about the rebound of the Swiss watch industry. Last year, the Swatch Group posted gross sales of CHF$8,143,000,000 (approximately US$8,538,326,364), a billion francs more […]

Luxury conglomerate Swatch Group have announced the appointment of Nayla Hayek to the post of CEO at Harry Winston. Hayek, who is the Chairwoman of The Swatch Group Ltd, took responsibility of Harry Winston as of May 9. The Harry Winston Diamond Corporation announced the sale of their luxury brand segment to the Bienne, Switzerland-based […]

Luxury watchmakers are fighting for market shares of the lucrative Swiss watch industry, which the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry FH pegs at a worth of US$23 billion. With growing demand in Asian, European and American markets, luxury watchmakers are scrambling to secure production means in order to maintain growth, but Reuters reports that there […]

This month luxury conglomerate Swatch Group released financial figures from 2012 showing that earnings are up a billion dollars over the previous year. The Bienne, Switzerland-based company, which is the world’s largest holder of watch manufactures, earned $8.79 billion (CHF 8,143 million), an increase of 14% over 2011. Although the company owns various holdings, the Watches & […]

Swatch, the Swiss company that owns Omega, Blancpain, Breguet, and a total of 19 brands, will be the new owner of Harry Winston. The company will pay $1 billion for the watch and jewelry business, based in New York, with 25 retail spaces around the world. The sale also includes a factory in Geneva and […]

Luxury conglomerate Swatch Group have released financial figures from 2012 showing that earnings are up a billion dollars over the previous year. The Swiss company, which is the world’s largest holder of watch manufactures, earned $8.79 billion (CHF 8,143 million), an increase of 14% over 2011. Although the company owns various holdings, the Watches & Jewelry segment […]

Tiffany & Co plans to build it back up once its settles its disagreements with Swatch Group SA. “We are working very diligently to imagine what our watch business might look like once our disagreements with the Swatch Group are behind us,” Kowalski said at a Goldman Sachs retail conference in New York, reported Reuters. […]

Daniel Craig is set to reprise the role of James Bond this November in “Skyfall” and, once again, the debonaire British secret agent will be sporting an Omega Seamaster to stay on schedule. To commemorate this, the seventh time an Omega Seamaster will be playing a supporting role in a Bond film, the Swatch Group […]

Swatch Group CEO Nick Hyek and the group United Against a Nuclear Iran (UANI) are at odds over Swatch’s continuing presence in Iran as conditions continue to worsen in the region. UANI’s position is that the only people in Iran who can afford an Omega or other Swatch Group watch are members of the oppressive […]

Omega’s Olympic timekeeping operations have ventured into uncharted territory with the scale and complexity of its engineering at the London games. One of Omega’s most substantial improvement over traditional timekeeping methods was the introduction of the so-called “silent pistol”. For years it was known that the use of an actual starting gun favored the sprinters […]

Swatch’s CEO Nick Hayak continued to make the rounds of the haute horology literati this week, touting the company’s increased sales even as the European Union pursued an antitrust probe into the Swiss watchmaking giant. Gross sales for the conglomerate were $3.87 billion in the first half of 2012, up 14.4 percent from the same […]