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Asia rebound sends Swatch profits ticking higher

Swatch has handily outrun the global watch crisis, it said Tuesday, with revived sales in Asia pushing 2017 profits more than 27 percent higher from the previous year. The world's largest watchmaker saw its net profit swell to 755 million Swiss francs ($812 million, 651 million euros), more than a quarter higher than in 2016. Swatch, which is...

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Omega hops on e-commerce bandwagon

While most Swiss watchmakers have been reluctant to go into e-commerce, Omega may have just started the domino effect. The company has officially started selling their watches online, thereby disrupting the way expensive watches are bought. Watch aficionados have been buying and selling online for quite some time, but it was through the grey...

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Sufficiently Swiss: at least 60 percent for watches

Switzerland adopted on Friday regulations requiring that locally-made parts account for at least 60 percent by value in order for watches to bear the coveted and lucrative "Swiss Made" label. The government said in a statement that the change, to go into effect on January 1, expands the criteria for judging whether a watch is sufficiently Swiss...