Jean-Claude Biver has spent five decades navigating every crisis the Swiss watch industry has produced and his verdict on the current one is consistent with all of them. The high end does not sell watches. It sells dreams, desire and eternity. That, he argues, is precisely why it has nothing to fear.
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