Tag: Corder’s Column
CORDER’S COLUMN: Audemars Piguet’s direct to consumer and Rolex’s wholesale model...
Audemars Piguet's CEO François-Henry Bennahmias may be convinced that its direct to consumer model is the only sustainable choice, but there is plenty of evidence to the contrary.
CORDER’S COLUMN: Diary dates
It is two years and three months since March 2019, the last time the global watch industry gathered for a major trade fair in Switzerland. We need to plan for a face to face future.
CORDER’S COLUMN: Thank you Jean-Christophe and Bulgari
Bulgari CEO Jean-Christophe Babin is the sort of optimist and business leader the world needs right now.
CORDER’S COLUMN: Secondary thoughts
The second hand watch business is developing so much faster than the primary market, and its leading players are getting seriously rich.
CORDER’S COLUMN: Why grey market is the friend we have to...
Where would the industry be today without the transparency and self-leveling effect of our shadow economy?
CORDER’S COLUMN: C. D. Peacock is living through every Rolex dealer’s...
Rolex dealers live in constant fear that one of their salespeople will go rogue and sell watches to the grey market.
CORDER’S COLUMN: I do wonder about Watches and Wonders
Web-based exhibitions like April's Watches and Wonders will only work for a tiny number of brands.
CORDER’S COLUMN: Luxury must excite
Another season of webinars from wooden CEOs presentations fills me with dread.
CORDER’S COLUMN: My word of the year for 2020: Clienteling
Clienteling is a recognition that, at the top end of the watch and jewellery market, there are comparatively few customers whose repeat business is critical to commercial success.
CORDER’S COLUMN: Post-covid continuity
Many of the lessons we have been forced to learn in 2020 can, I hope, be quickly forgotten once life returns to a new kind of normal, hopefully by Easter next year.
