Hong Kong Watch & Clock Fair
Special Highlight: Salon de TE
6-10 September 2016
Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre
Dazzling Timepieces On Show
Come Join Salon de TE’s Public Day on Sept 10
Now at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, the world’s biggest timepiece event, the HKTDC Hong Kong Watch & Clock Fair has two more days to go. Over 800 exhibitors from 27 countries and regions has everything to offer for the watch industry, from branded watches and clocks, to parts and components, machinery and equipment, packaging to trade services. Don’t miss this splendid watch extravaganza and be sure to be part of the leading industry event!
BOEGLI Musical Watches – Grand Opera
Boegli watches are swiss-made musical watches. The Grand Opera collection equips with a round module with mechanical musical movement with keyboard and drum for 17 notes. The pusher is set at 5 o’clock on the dial to “stop and go” the melody while the total melody time is 90 sec. In this collection, each watch model is set with one specific melody, i.e. Chopin (Tristesse), Mozart (n.4), Beethoven (Letre pour Elise), Vivaldi (The Four Seasons) or Verdi (Aida). The crown on 3 o’clock is to wind the musical movement while the crown on 9 o’clock is to set the time. The dial is made with three levels and Côtes de Genève decoration. The case back is a see-through back with 6 screws. Limited edition: 99 pieces only
FIYTA
Booth No: 3E-E37
FIYTA 3D Time Watch
In the FIYTA 3D Time Watch, the skeleton movement shows the time in the traditional way, and in addition, a unique disk allows the wearer to discreetly view the time indicated by a marker near the 6 o’clock position, which strongly reveals the 3D art. Being awarded the Red Dot Academy Awards in industrial design in 2014, this second generation is further enhanced. As the glass design is in a unique 3D dome shape, the edge of dome glass would cause a light refraction causing time-reading problem. To minimize the light refraction, FITYA utilizes the non-uniform thickness design of the glass and ascertains the best-curved angle to obtain the best layout in the final presentation. To make the 3D Time Watch durable, a special anti-scratch coating is put on the glass to avoid easy scratches on the normal polycarbonate glass.
INVICTA
Booth No: 3D-C22
INVICTA Bolt Men 14193
The overall worn out polishing technique is applied to the INVICTA Bolt to create the feel of Chinese ink-wash painting. The watch dial is crafted with a pond and three swimming koi fishes while the hidden indexes (pond plants) on the inner ring surrounding shows the time. The case back is also specially designed like looking up to the water surface from pond bed.
Perfectly synchronized movements, complex casing engineering and signature rope jewellery design fastened around the bezel make a lasting impression. Variations in materials and finishes provide a range of options to suit any taste.
Event highlight: Fashion x Watch Roundtable Forum
Like fashion, a watch is no longer a necessity, it is an item that reflects one’s individuality. So it’s not surprising that crossover between fashion brands and watch brands becomes increasingly evident. With the arrival of the inaugural edition of CENTRESTAGE, the Fashion X Watch Forum was held on Sept 8, gathering industry players from the fashion and watch industries to share their crossover experience and discuss how such collaboration brings about synergy and business results.
From left: Enders Lam, Managing Director, Time Industrial Manufactory Limited, Jeams Ho, Brand Director, Galtiscopio, Johnny Wan, Director, Exhibitions Market Development, HKTDC, Esther Wong, Chairman, The Federation of Hong Kong Watch Trades & Industries Limited, Dorian Ho, CEO & Creative Director, Doriano International Limited and Elise Tsui, President, Guy Laroche.
Mountain Yam, Founder, 112 mountainyam discusses the forms of collaboration commonly adopted and foreseen in the future.
William Shum, Founder and CEO,
Memorigin Watch Company Limited collaborated with fashion designers launch watch collections. He also plans to deepen the crossover with fashion in the future in order to add variety to the watches.
Gary Lau, Executive Director,
Free Town Watch Products Limited launched crystal watches to match with fashion items and sold in outlets.
Kenneth Wong, Director,
Universe Watch Trading Co. Ltd shares company’s crossover cases and the success factors and challenges.
Dedicated solely to branded watches, Salon de TE at Halls 3C-E presents the ultimate experience for watch lovers: some 150 luxurious brands gathered under one roof showcasing their latest and exquisite designs. Buyers on the lookout for exquisite products for high-end market should not miss this glamorous event!
World Brand Piazza highlights the superior craftsmanship of leading global brands. Jointly presented by Prince Jewellery and Watch, participating brands include Blancpain, BOVET, Breguet, BVLGARI, Chopard, CORUM, DeWitt, FRANCK MULLER, Glashütte Original, H. Moser & Cie, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Piaget and Zenith.
Renaissance Moment brings attention to classic and elegant watches originated from Europe. Swiss Eminence brings together six brands including Balco, Buler, Doxa, Enicar, Juvet and Sultana. SIWP (Swiss Independent Watchmaking Pavilion) also features seven brands including Adriatica, Greco Geneve, L. Kendall, Mathey-Tissot, Pilo & Co, Saint Honore and WATCHe.
“Maurice Lacroix is a luxury brand of Swiss watches which specialises in elegant quartz watches. I have come here for the first time to look for watch components. As smart watches are becoming trendy, demand for these watches is increasing. We are keen to develop smart watches within the next two years, but we still keep the elegant look in this new line. At the fair, I have found a potential supplier of smart watch movements and I have also made 10 new contacts for the supply of various components. I’ll send drawings to these suppliers for making samples and see whether their quality, craftsmanship and price have met our requirements. If everything is good, our initial order will be in the range of 1,000-5,000 pieces per item. I have also seen beautiful packaging boxes and watch displays at the fair and will pass these useful contacts to my colleague. I am happy to have found more component suppliers here in Hong Kong than at the Basel Fair. I’ll come again next year.” Laurent De Blasio, Industrial Director, Maurice Lacroix, Switzerland
“Bulbul is a designer watch brand, with Europe, Korea and the US as our main markets. Designed for men, Bulbul analogue watches come with minimalist design. This is our second-time visit to the Hong Kong fair to look for OEM manufacturers. We have found five new suppliers here and will ask them to make samples. We are going to place an order for analogue watches worth US$200,000 with one of our existing suppliers in Hong Kong. We notice that smart watches are attracting a lot of interest, but current designs are not creative enough. As we have a strong design team, we are planning to add smart features to our designer watches. We believe that smart watches will help us to open up new markets and attract new customers. At the fair, we have talked to five smart watch suppliers and will explore the possibility of co-operating with them.” Jacob Juul, CEO, Bulbul ApS, Denmark
Hear What Exhibitors Say
“Coffer has more than 28 years of experience in producing high-quality wall clocks, table clocks and alarm clocks. We have been exhibiting at the Hong Kong Watch & Clock Fair for more than 20 years because it is the most influential fair of its kind in the world which draws international buyers and provides the perfect showcase for our products. Up till now, we have received onsite orders worth more than US$500,000 from international buyers including those from Iran, the UAE and the UK. Apart from high quality, good design also helps to attract more customers. Customers now prefer personalised and fashionable clock designs. Plastics, wood and metals are still the major materials for making clocks. As smart watches are popular, we predict that smart clocks will become trendy. We plan to launch smart clocks at the end of this year.” Carrie Liu, Vice General Manager, Coffer Industrial (HK) Ltd, Hong Kong (booth: 1A-B02, Clocks zone)
“Celebrating its 70th anniversary this year, Brasport is a Swiss company which produces calf leather straps. Brasport is a well-known brand in Europe. To develop the Asian market, we set up an office in Hong Kong in 2004. In view of strong demand for smart watches and wearables, we opened our second factory on the Chinese mainland in 2015 to focus on producing components for smart watches and wearables. Our sales of these components doubled as compared to two years ago and kept growing fast. This is our second year at the Hong Kong fair because it is an international fair which is attended by buyers from all over the world. It is important for us to be here to raise brand awareness and to showcase our products. This year we have met more new buyers than last year. About 60-70 per cent of our visitors are new, and we’ll have further discussions with them after the fair.” Matthieu Boileve, General Sales Manager, Brasport HK Limited, Hong Kong (booth: 1A-D20, Parts & Components zone)
“Established three years ago, our company focuses on the R&D of battery watch straps to support the development of smart watches. This is our first-time participation in the Hong Kong Watch & Clock Fair. We are taking this opportunity to announce the official launch of our GPS and battery smart straps and flexible battery technology and to introduce them to buyers and manufacturers. The demand for smart watches is emerging. Our smart watch straps and flexible battery technology help to extend the battery life of smart watches, allowing manufacturers to add more functions to smart watches. At the fair, we have met with potential buyers from Australia and Europe. We’ll continue our participation in the Hong Kong fair because it is the right platform for us to promote our new products.” David Yeung, CEO, Chuang’s Innovation Industries Limited, Hong Kong (booth: 3G-C43, OEM Smart Watches zone)
Events Snapshots on Sep 8
Watch Parade
Product Launch by Slazenger
Asian-made as an Alternative to Swiss-made
(Design, Branding, Communication)
Diego Böttger, General Manager, studiodivine (Asia) Ltd.
The Latest Development of E-commerce
Clement So, Vice-President, Hong Kong Cross-border E-commerce Association
Persephonie Zhu, Tmall Apparel Business Development Director
Pierre Du, JD-watch Global Operation Manager
Souvenir to Trade Buyers
Please present this email, your buyer badge and name card at the Visitor Promotion Counter (Booth: 3G-C47) to redeem a Keychain Shopping Bag. One souvenir per buyer while stock lasts.
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Open House for the Watch Lovers on the Last Day (Sept 10)
Salon de TE welcomes public visitors aged 12 or above on the fair’s last day on 10 September with free admission. Popular activities include tourbillon craftsmanship demonstration, watch parades, watch sharing, lucky draws and retail sales. Visitors can enjoy the prestige of getting first-release information and previews of new products. Selected products are for sale on the spot.
A newly landed concurrent fashion event with the Watch & Clock Fair 7-10 Sep 2016, HKCEC
CENTRESTAGE – a living showcase of trend-setting fashion icons, stellar international brands, breakout design talent and a world of blossoming glamour that will define the ever-evolving fashion scene to come. We’ll lift the red velvet rope and take you on a four-day journey of creativity, hot new labels, next-gen designers, timeless elegance and a peek into the future through a magical fashion spectacle.
The inaugural CENTRESTAGE will feature some 200 fashion brands in four thematic zones, including 112 mountainyam, anagram, ANTEPRIMA, Aquascutum, ARTHUR LAM, ATSURO TAYAMA, Charmante, DORIAN HO, Galtiscopio, HARRISON WONG, i.t, JNBY, KENAXLEUNG, KOYO, LOOM LOOP, LULUCHEUNG, MOISELLE, NOSTRUM, Sudo Kids and many more.
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Harbour City
Harbour City is a one-stop shopping paradise with over 450 shops, 60 food & beverage outlets, two cinemas and three hotels all under one roof. Harbour City is made up of five sections and offers eight categories of retail outlets. Each offers a huge range of products and services including: Jewellery and Watches, Beauty, AV/Electrical Appliances, International Labels for Fashion & Leather Goods, Lifestyle, Casual Wear/Sport, Kid’s Paradise and Food & Beverages Outlets.
Hong Kong Time Square
Situated at Causeway Bay, the most vibrant district in Hong Kong, Times Square is one of the most popular tourist spots, favourite shopping and dining places of the region. Every year, over a hundred of exhibitions and events are held at Times Square. It is also the most vibrant mega-mall in town. It houses more than two hundred and thirty world-renowned brands on sixteen floors and provides over 30 up-marketed nationwide eateries.
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“Maurice Lacroix is a luxury brand of Swiss watches which specialises in elegant quartz watches. I have come here for the first time to look for watch components. As smart watches are becoming trendy, demand for these watches is increasing. We are keen to develop smart watches within the next two years, but we still keep the elegant look in this new line. At the fair, I have found a potential supplier of smart watch movements and I have also made 10 new contacts for the supply of various components. I’ll send drawings to these suppliers for making samples and see whether their quality, craftsmanship and price have met our requirements. If everything is good, our initial order will be in the range of 1,000-5,000 pieces per item. I have also seen beautiful packaging boxes and watch displays at the fair and will pass these useful contacts to my colleague. I am happy to have found more component suppliers here in Hong Kong than at the Basel Fair. I’ll come again next year.”
“Bulbul is a designer watch brand, with Europe, Korea and the US as our main markets. Designed for men, Bulbul analogue watches come with minimalist design. This is our second-time visit to the Hong Kong fair to look for OEM manufacturers. We have found five new suppliers here and will ask them to make samples. We are going to place an order for analogue watches worth US$200,000 with one of our existing suppliers in Hong Kong. We notice that smart watches are attracting a lot of interest, but current designs are not creative enough. As we have a strong design team, we are planning to add smart features to our designer watches. We believe that smart watches will help us to open up new markets and attract new customers. At the fair, we have talked to five smart watch suppliers and will explore the possibility of co-operating with them.”
“Coffer has more than 28 years of experience in producing high-quality wall clocks, table clocks and alarm clocks. We have been exhibiting at the Hong Kong Watch & Clock Fair for more than 20 years because it is the most influential fair of its kind in the world which draws international buyers and provides the perfect showcase for our products. Up till now, we have received onsite orders worth more than US$500,000 from international buyers including those from Iran, the UAE and the UK. Apart from high quality, good design also helps to attract more customers. Customers now prefer personalised and fashionable clock designs. Plastics, wood and metals are still the major materials for making clocks. As smart watches are popular, we predict that smart clocks will become trendy. We plan to launch smart clocks at the end of this year.”
“Celebrating its 70th anniversary this year, Brasport is a Swiss company which produces calf leather straps. Brasport is a well-known brand in Europe. To develop the Asian market, we set up an office in Hong Kong in 2004. In view of strong demand for smart watches and wearables, we opened our second factory on the Chinese mainland in 2015 to focus on producing components for smart watches and wearables. Our sales of these components doubled as compared to two years ago and kept growing fast. This is our second year at the Hong Kong fair because it is an international fair which is attended by buyers from all over the world. It is important for us to be here to raise brand awareness and to showcase our products. This year we have met more new buyers than last year. About 60-70 per cent of our visitors are new, and we’ll have further discussions with them after the fair.”
“Established three years ago, our company focuses on the R&D of battery watch straps to support the development of smart watches. This is our first-time participation in the Hong Kong Watch & Clock Fair. We are taking this opportunity to announce the official launch of our GPS and battery smart straps and flexible battery technology and to introduce them to buyers and manufacturers. The demand for smart watches is emerging. Our smart watch straps and flexible battery technology help to extend the battery life of smart watches, allowing manufacturers to add more functions to smart watches. At the fair, we have met with potential buyers from Australia and Europe. We’ll continue our participation in the Hong Kong fair because it is the right platform for us to promote our new products.”
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