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Hong Kong Watch & Clock Fair 2018 Sees More Local Flavor & Design
best watches had multiple team members at the 2018?Hong Kong Watch & Clock fair. The large event connects watch brands, suppliers, buyers, and a host of other entities who to a large degree make the wristwatch world go around. Many of these entities are directly responsible for producing parts and accessories (such as boxes and printed materials) for the luxury European watch industry (even if they don’t get vocal credit for it). We’ve been attending the Hong Kong Watch & Clock Fair now for several years and it has been interesting to see not only what happens at the show each year, but also how this Hong Kong-run show contrasts with the European shows such as SIHH and Baselworld. I can say one thing for sure – there is certainly not nearly as much drama in Hong Kong. The Swiss shows have their hosts of political challenges and continue to be an uphill battle for utility in an increasingly digital age. The show in Hong Kong is anything but immune, but their ta
Eterna Granges 1856 Watch
It's been 160 years since Eterna first opened its doors for business, and to celebrate, the venerable Swiss brand is introducing the Granges 1856 watch-a svelte 3-hander fitted with a unique in-house-produced movement that builds on Eterna's revolutionary modular Caliber 39. The Eterna Granges 1856 could punctuate a return to form for the brand’s long and somewhat tumultuous history which began in the Swiss municipality of Grenchen (or “Granges,” in French), as an ebauche manufactory. It features the current world’s thinnest movement with a large date indicator (pretty specific, but there you have it).The Eterna story is one of the oldest in the book of watchmaking, and?a look back on its last 160 years reveals a winding history with ups and downs. Here, we have one of horology's earliest adopters of mass production techniques at scale, and the inventors of the ball bearing-mounted automatic rotor (hence the five spheres in the brand's logo)-both major watchmaki