What About the Hong Kong Watch & Clock Fair Fall 2016

What about this fair? It's the world's best showcase for innovation in clock and watch industry. With 98% of global sales, of course innovation occurs in China, not Switzerland. The latter produces only 2%  of the world's watch sales and oh, buy the way, the Swiss rely heavily on noble metals such as gold and platinum. They recycle old technologies. They haven't innovated since the Swatch Watch in the 1980's. China produces exciting technologies and people from every corner of the earth attend and exhibit the Hong Kong fair..

Each September, the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, Hong Kong Watch Manufacturers Association Ltd., and the Federation of Hong Kong Watch Trades and Industries Ltd sponsor the the Hong Kong Watch & Clock Fair also preceded by the acronym HKTDC.

The fair showcases International labels, and serves as an information exchange of market intelligence. Manufacturer from every corner of the globe attend. It's presented at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center and runs for five-days. In 2016, approximately 800 exhibitors from 27 countries and regions participated.

Special highlights of the fair include Brand Name Gallery, an attractive setting for fashionable timepieces by top brands, and Pageant of Eternity, designed to highlight the beauty and craftsmanship of watches at the high end of the spectrum.

The 2016 fair, had new exhibitors participating for the first-time from countries from Australia, Hungary, Iran, Lithuania, Monaco, Thailand and Turkey.

Below is a short video from one of the exhibitors.

You can see some of the interesting exhibits below:



Also, the fair saw some interesting highlights:


• Piaget's world's slimmest mechanical jewelry wrist watch, the Altiplano, priced at over HK$1.4 million. (around US$181000)
• Jaeger-LeCoultre's Reverso Cordonnet Duetto, featuring a double-dial design with a single movement driving both front and back dials to show time, valued at US$245000
• Boegli's Grand Opera series musical watches are equipped with a musical module and mechanical movement, capable of producing 17 notes to play classical musical pieces. Only 99 pieces are available for this limited edition watch.
• Kronsegler's da Vinci automatic mechanical watch KS 745 combines art with function by featuring a rotating 24-dial of Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man with the figure's head indicating the current time.
• Memorigin's Marco Fu watch series is themed around snooker with three black diamonds set at the 1, 4 and 7 dial markers, representing snooker player Mr Fu's 147-point scoring record. 
• AKTEO's finance-themed watch Wall Street 42, in which the hour hand shows the Wall Street Journal, the minute hand a US bank note, and the second hand a 999.9 gold bar.
• FIYTA's 3D Time, which emphasises 3D art, was awarded the Red Dot Academy Awards in industrial design in 2014. 

You may want to consider attending next September. I hope to attend. See you there!