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Apple is urging owners of the Apple Watch to install the update to watchOS 7.6.1. Why the urgency? A flaw called the IOMobileFrameBuffer may have been actively exploited, according to a report that Apple is aware of. With the flaw, an application may be able…
Industronics Bhd is tapping on the US$17 billion pre-owned luxury watch market through Ecgo International Ltd, its wholly-owned subsidiary in Hong Kong. This follows the launch of Industronics’ luxury watch e-commerce platform, watch-exchanges.com. Executive…
Of all the life-saving features on the Apple Watch, perhaps the most employed one is the heart rate monitor because it is the easiest to use and understand. When your heart rate rises above a certain level or falls below a certain level, it means that you…
Most readers would already be aware that Oriental Watch Holdings’ stock increased significantly by 37% over the past three months. As most would know, fundamentals are what usually guide market price movements over the long term, so we decided to look at the…
Tidal follows in the footsteps of other music streaming services like Deezer and Spotify, which recently announced new offline playback features for the Apple Watch. Beginning today, Tidal subscribers can download the new Apple Watch app and start listening…
Piaget, the luxury watch brand from Switzerland, will be opening more stores in 2021, especially in the Middle East and China, Chief Executive Chabi Nouri has told Reuters. “We’ll open more stores this year. We’ll reopen a flagship store in Beverly Hills and…
Swiss watch giant Swatch Group said Thursday it suffered a net loss of 53 million Swiss frances (49 million euros) last year as the coronavirus ravaged the global economy. Sales were down more than 32 percent at 5.5 billion Swiss francs, short of analyst…
Today is a happy day for Apple fans, as the Cupertino-based company is rolling out new software updates for three of its popular products: iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. If you’re rocking one of the first two, you should be able to download iOS 14.2 today. On…
Despite the pandemic, Swiss watchmakers believe in-store shopping will prevail over digital platforms. The majority of Swiss watchmakers believe that bricks and mortar stores will remain the preferred sales channels for their products and will prevail over…
Luxury fashion house Hermes has opened a new store in Osaka, its fourth store in the city. Located at Parco shopping center, the new Hermes store spans two stories and occupies a 515sqm space. Designed by the Parisian architecture agency RDAI, the store…
Back in 2017, Google Maps no longer worked with the Apple Watch. The reason why Google pulled it from the Apple Watch reportedly had something to do with the app’s limited capabilities on the watch compared to the iPhone app. At the time that Google made this…
Swatch Group has cut about 2400 jobs, its biggest cull in at least three decades, and will trim its store network as the Swiss watchmaker recorded its first-ever loss. The maker of Omega and Longines timepieces said Tuesday it accelerated plans to shut stores…
Listed Hong Kong timepiece retailer Oriental Watch Holdings has weathered the multiple crises of the last financial year to record a decrease in turnover of just 3.5 percent and a profit of US$12.9 million. While turnover was down to $303.6 million, gross…
Slow-moving stock and falling sales due to the Covid-19 pandemic have prompted listed Hong Kong timepiece retailer Oriental Watch to issue a profit warning. The company has advised the stock exchange that net profit for the year to March 31 will fall by about…
Hong Kong’s first Chinese Prestige Time Experience store has launched in Yue Hwa. Opened by Sun International Concepts, the outlet serves as a platform to showcase multiple Chinese watch brands, aiming to promote Chinese watch culture against the backdrop of…
Swiss luxury timepiece maker Tag Heuer has launched a pop-up at Shibuya Parco, Japan. The “Tag Heuer Connected” store delivers a futuristic ambiance in luxurious and stylistic tones featuring the colors of the brand against black. The store showcases Tag…
