So far, so good.
More than good, even, so much the watch industry has not only, it seems, erased the trough of 2020, but also achieved in 2021 sales higher than those of 2019. After being suspended, the art of time which passes is well and truly started again.
After all, hasn't he survived it all until then?
To religious conflicts, which once brought so many watchmaking talents to seek refuge in Switzerland.
Closer to home, to the wave of quartz and Japanese watches, which almost buried mechanical watchmaking forever.
It took the courage and vision of a few, such as Nick Hayek, founder of the Swatch Group, to prevent this and rebuild a Swiss made watch industry, with the success we know.
It was also sometimes necessary that the price of watches survived the temptation of money laundering through exaggerated auctions interposed.
A danger that has not entirely disappeared, if we are to believe certain results
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