This white paper looks at three liabilities that are now crippling the watch retail industry and at what could be changed to address them.
Read MoreRise Of The Watch Micro Brands, Incentives And Challenges For Entrepreneurs
The director of Woodshores draws experience from his interaction with watchmaking micro-brands to outline seven incentives that are attracting entrepreneurs to the watchmaking business, and seven challenges that they are likely to face in the process.
Read MoreTiffany By Swatch Group, The Making Of A Failed Joint-Venture
The 2007 joint-venture between Tiffany and the Swatch Group died in the bud and led to litigation between the two companies. This research document looks into the mismatched expectations between a candid Tiffany board and a Swatch Group board that overestimated the elasticity of a brand.
Read MoreThe Speedmaster Standard: How The Watch Industry Has Quietly Been Inflating Prices For The Last Thirty Years
This research takes the example of one of the rare watches that is still produced today as it was 48 years ago, and uses historic accounts of its price to outline why and how a market inflation has quietly been orchestrated over the past half-century.
Read MoreShowdown In Little Switzerland
In this research document we look at the historic webbing of the Swiss industry and how the influence of world crisis, banking and key influencers gave birth to the Swatch Group. Finding itself competing against its own clients in the twenty-first century, this industry giant has been taking controversial stances, and we speculate on how it could potentially backfire.
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