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- Stephane Michel who since 2007, with his brother Lander, has given a new lease of life to Federico Iguzzini Watches. He wears the OM watch from the Spiritual line.
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- The Lunar Explorer Chronograph from Iguzzini Watches retails for US$ 4,200 and is limited to 50 pieces.
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- The Old Shanghai caseback. The watch retails for US$ 3,500 and is limited to 50 pieces.
China is now the world’s third largest market for the consumption of luxury goods, behind the US and Japan. And according to some studies, by 2015, it will have become the largest! Today the luxury goods come mainly from foreign brands, but things are changing with the steady emergence of home-grown brands. Iguzzini Watches is one of these. Originally created in 1903 in Shanghai by Italian Federico Iguzzini, the company closed its doors around the middle of the 20th century. Fast forward to early 21st century when two Franco-Mexican brothers, Stephane and Lander Michel, on hearing about Mr Iguzzini’s story, decided to buy the name and give the company a new lease of life. Read the rest of this entry »
