2010, the Swiss watch industry will usher in the recovery

Independent Swiss watch manufacturer Girard-Perregaux (Girard-Perregaux) and Parmigiani (Parmigiani Fleurier) Tuesday told Reuters that the rich are likely to again this year, spending a huge sum to buy an expensive watch, thus promoting high-end watches in Switzerland sales.

Mark Lu, CEO of Girard Perregaux Faso (Luigi Macaluso), said in an interview expected to Girard-Perregaux watch this year’s sales will grow by 5%, the company’s 2009 sales declined slightly. Girard-Perregaux watches sell for up to 65 million Swiss francs (62.98 million).

Mark Lu Faso in Geneva, attending the International Watch Salon (SIHH), said: “China and Asia are driving demand for watches.” He said that many Chinese people go to Japan, Europe and the United States will travel to buy watches.

Watch industry seems to be from 20 years of the most serious decline in the gradual recovery due to the buyer after several months of spending restraint after the re-luxury one.

Earlier this week, the Swiss luxury goods group Richemont (Richemont) published results revealed that the Group’s sales during the Christmas performance of better than expected.

Wall Street executives have high dividends may also return to the Swiss watchmaking industry in the coming months to provide additional help, because they watch industry was on hand again, plenty of traditional customers.

Parmigiani christian Barbier, sales director, said in an interview: “I think we have already touched the lowest point. Clients are gradually accustomed to a more difficult environment to work … … it was time to start living again.”

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The independent watchmaker Vianney Halter watches on display will be works in Oxford

Vianney halter is currently the world-renowned Swiss watch young designers, many of his products of modern revivalism, on behalf of family is the “futur anterieur”, this mechanical watch 100 years of error-free accuracy, concentrated Designer 900 hours of effort. His other designs also show a lot of retro colors, is the steam punk steampunk style of representatives in the field of watchmaking.

vianney halter born in 1963, his father was a railway station staff, often brought home a number of precision machinery components, these mechanical evoked vianney halter on the initial interest in mechanical engineering. In 1981, vianney halter from Paris to watch the school ecole horlogère de paris got watchmaker diploma. Through 10 years of maintenance of a large clock, watch and watches, as well as many well-known brands of watches and clocks of different R & D structure, vianney halter has accumulated a wealth of experience in watchmaking and eventually launched its own watch works. His first only the table antiqua: a pure hand-made, platinum and gold surfaces, 4 dial, looked strange enough. The table’s back label is Zero “no.00″, had intended to do himself wearing, so there is no number. Later, in order to obtain more funds to develop business, this table in 1998 to 850,000 yuan sold to Singapore Zhong Weiguo famous watch collector. Zhongwei Guo and then more and more to appreciate vianney halter work, and in 2000 to 475 thousand yuan to buy a goldpfeil vianney halter-hopping table.

the year is also unknown vianney halter, now is an independent field of watchmaking division celebrities. October 13, 2009 to February 21, 2010 vianney halter will be in the Oxford Museum of History, Science and Technology on behalf of family futur anterieur watch works.

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