
Editorial The Sun Continues to Shine on Geneva Watch Days
It is official, Geneva Watch Days will be back from August 29th to September 1st
All of us at WorldTempus are thrilled to discover that Geneva Watch Days is back on. This summer event has quickly become one of our favourite moments on the horological calendar. Watch fairs are always exciting for us in the watch media as not only can we see a ton of new watches, but we also get the opportunity to catch up with all our industry friends.
Leading up to the summer, there was some question about which brands would be participating this year as many were able to join the Watches and Wonders fair that took place earlier in the spring, even begging the question of whether Geneva needed a second fair. But the popularity of this event prevails with a long list of participating brands, some of whom were also at Watches and Wonders, attesting their love to this summer format.
The lineup so far is as follows: Bulgari, Breitling, De Bethune, H. Moser & Cie, MB&F, Ulysse Nardin, Urwerk, Arnold & Son, DOXA, Frederique Constant Group, Greubel Forsey, Maurice Lacroix, Oris, Phillips in association with Bacs & Russo, Reuge, Corum, Bianchet, Czapek, Louis Erard, Beauregard, Byrne, Hautlence, HYT, Krayon, Claude Meylan, Singer, and Trilobe.
For this 2022 edition, there will be the usual stands and exhibition, along with panel discussions, exhibitions, and watchmaking presentations for both industry professionals and the general public. At night, registered guests will also have a chance to celebrate together with brands under the Pavilion that offers a stunning view on the famous Jet d’Eau Fountain.
At WorldTempus, it is full steam ahead in terms of planning, with our whole team booking appointments to see the 25+ brands. We will be bringing you all the watch news on our various platforms during the week, as usual. But we have something new to share with you too. During this 2022 edition of the fair, we will be creating a daily Geneva Watch Days TV Show, with all our journalists reporting from the various hotels and boutiques, so you can literally join us on our adventures as we travel around the event. In addition to WorldTempus, our publishing house GMT Publishing (including GMT magazines and our enthusiasts' club the Fine Watch Club), will also be present, bringing the number of people covering the show to 12, all working together for your enjoyment!
It is funny when you think that just a couple of years ago many people were announcing the death of the watch fair as something that had run its course. Luckily, the doomsayers were wrong and the watch fair is alive and kicking.
Stay tuned for some entertaining new coverage of Geneva Watch Days on WorldTempus.com. We can’t wait to have you along for the ride.
Brands
Beauregard is a singular and independent brand with one foot in Montreal and the other in Geneva. It creates horological objects d’art that are immediately recognisable and undeniably precious.
Find out more >Bianchet, a young, 100% independent watch brand, designs and develops its own meticulously modern watches that place the tourbillon at the centre of an openworked architecture with lines inspired...
Find out more >From humble family beginnings Breitling grew into a major player in the world of chronographs and aviation instruments. At the dawn of a new era, the brand is poised for a legendary future.
Find out more >Bulgari has its own clear definition of excellence, which involves the perfect balance between design, added-value, quality of its products and its worldwide service. In the case of Bulgari...
Find out more >Using well-known and highly reliable mechanical movements as its base, Claude Meylan opens up the watch, allowing the wearer to plunge into its microcosm and navigate through it.
Find out more >Corum takes aesthetic daring to the heights of technical perfection. Through a number of collections, drawing on the fundamentals of traditional watchmaking, the manufacture continues to pursue its...
Find out more >Czapek & Cie. harks back to the origins of one of the watch industry’s most prestigious names, which was born from the watchmaking skills of two Polish émigrés who sought refuge in Switzerland...
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De Bethune embraces the wealth of the watchmaking knowhow of the past in order to design the watches of the future. This combination results in timepieces with all the attributes and technical...
Find out more >DOXA was founded in 1889 by an independent Swiss entrepreneur, Georges Ducommun. Based in Biel/Bienne, in the heart of the birthplace of Swiss watchmaking, the brand has always offered technical...
Find out more >Frederique Constant has made a successful business out of offering affordable luxury, experiencing growth rates well above the industry average. The owners have a clear mission to make fine...
Find out more >H. Moser & Cie. was created by Heinrich Moser in 1828. Based in Neuhausen am Rheinfall, it currently employs around 60 people, has developed 14 in-house calibres to date, and produces more than...
Find out more >The pioneers of “fluidic time” have become specialists in something that had long been thought impossible: combining mechanics and fluids in a wristwatch.
Find out more >Based in the Jura region of Switzerland, Maurice Lacroix has been producing fine Swiss timepieces for over 40 years and has developed 14 in-house movements over the past ten years.
Find out more >The early years of the third millennium brought the world a new paradigm of watchmaking, which came to be known as horological kinetic art.
Find out more >Reuge combines the art of the manufacture with innovation to create bespoke items.
Find out more >A horological iconoclast, intent on breaking free of traditional watchmaking. A new way of telling the time, poetry on the wrist, an emotional connection. Trilobe is all that, and much more.
Find out more >Combining cutting-edge technology with a unique heritage from marine chronometry is what sets Ulysse Nardin apart from other brands.
Find out more >Few brands are as closely associated with the rise of avant-garde independent horology in the new millennium than URWERK, the Geneva-based brand with Swiss-German mechanical foundations.
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