It was just last month that TrueFacet.com, leading luxury on marketplace for acquiring and consigning fine jewelry and timepieces, launched its Brand-Certified Pre-Owned division. It marked the first time that an e-commerce site could offer Brand-Certified Pre-Owned watches and jewelry. The announcement quickly garnered attention of such publications as Forbes.com, Robb Report and even TechCrunch. Why?…
Meet the People: A Dozen of the Wealthiest Swiss Watch “Families” Today, and How I Know Them
Sure, Forbes has its billionaire lists and its highest-paid athletes/CEOS/celebs lists, but they don’t have the list that is currently out and circulating of the richest people in the Swiss watch industry. The wealthiest Swiss watch families include names we are all too familiar with, including Rupert, Hayek, Stern and Scheufele. Here we bring…
Raymond Weil’s Maestro Frank Sinatra Limited Edition Pays Homage To One Of The Greats
Music is often a driving source of inspiration. How many times do we hear a song and be whirled away to a different moment or a different memory? Music has a way of capturing time itself. That may well be why Raymond Weil has teamed up with Frank Sinatra Enterprise to create a timepiece reminiscent of the musical…
Recalling Times with Watch Industry’s Raymond Weil who Passed Away
When people ask me how I got into the watch business, I tell them it is a long story, and it is – one day I’ll tell it here. Now, however, I want to talk about the reason I stayed in the industry for the past 30 years. It wasn’t just great product, amazing technology…
Affordable Watches:88 Rue Du Rhone – Another New Kid on the Block
Continuing with our affordable Swiss-made watch portion of the week, we bring you the recently launched 88 Rue Du Rhone brand. This affordable Swiss-made collection is created by the Raymond Weil family (the grandsons of Raymond Weil). The name is derived from the most famous street in Geneva that runs along the river that is…