NOMOS Glashütte says it makes 95% of its own movements and employs about 300 people, mostly across three buildings in Saxony. Components are manufactured in Schlottwitz, while movements are assembled and tested in Glashütte’s Chronometrie building. The company outsources exterior components, including cases, dials, hands, straps and buckles.
Trade fairs remain an important commercial channel for watches and fashion. Hong Kong provides the setting for a look at how these events develop distinct identities shaped by their local business environments.
Geneva Watch Days’ seventh edition hosted 71 brands, nearly 400 new releases and more than 2,500 collectors, private clients and enthusiasts across five days in early September. That visitor figure more than doubled versus 2025. Association president and Bulgari CEO Jean-Christophe Babin discussed the fair’s origins in 2020 and its decentralised exhibition model.