Wrist Taker Magazine 2017 Issue
The 2017 issue of Wrist Taker lets you explore timepieces from lesser-known brands to luxury watches. Dive into the minds of independent watchmakers and find out what makes them tick. Or take a journey through 100 years of Baselworld and find out where, when and how it all began. Most important of all, feed your curiosity about timepieces whatever they may be!
The 2017 issue of Wrist Taker lets you explore timepieces from lesser-known brands to luxury watches. Dive into the minds of independent watchmakers and find out what makes them tick. Or take a journey through 100 years of Baselworld and find out where, when and how it all began. Most important of all, feed your curiosity about timepieces whatever they may be!
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Baselworld, <strong>2017</strong><br />
This anniversary edition was inaugurated on<br />
Thursday, 23 March in the presence of Federal<br />
Councillor Alain Berset, who stressed the<br />
prestige enjoyed by our country’s watch<br />
industry all over the world. Few sectors of the<br />
economy are so closely bound up with<br />
Switzerland and its way of life.<br />
Baselworld attracted this year some<br />
106,000 buyers from more than 100<br />
countries. 4,400 representatives of the print,<br />
television and electronic world press<br />
attended the Exhibition. Approximately<br />
11,000 journalists followed live the opening<br />
press conference via Internet.<br />
Among the innovations, two new concepts<br />
saw the light of day this year. Firstly, Les<br />
Ateliers, a space dedicated to independent<br />
watchmakers who had been housed until<br />
2016 in the Palace marquee. Located on the<br />
second floor of the main hall, this new space<br />
provides individual modules with different<br />
fittings; each exhibitor is able to personalise<br />
his stand as he thinks fit.<br />
This platform included watchmakers such as<br />
MB&F, Pierre DeRoche, Louis Moinet, Favre-<br />
Leuba, Romain Gauthier and Graham… that<br />
list being far from exhaustive. As an original<br />
feature of the venue, containers lined the<br />
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