Editor’s Note
The landscape of watch industry events has transformed dramatically since the days of a single dominant trade fair. As autumn 2023 brings a packed calendar of gatherings, we highlight key events to help you navigate the season.
When the mechanical watchmaking renaissance hit its stride in the early 2000s, the Swiss watch industry had just one main event: the Baselworld watch and jewelry show, a trade fair held every spring in the river port city of Basel, Switzerland.
Two decades later, the trade’s event calendar is packed with meet-ups, fairs, auctions, conferences and awards ceremonies. To help make sense of the fall 2023 schedule, we’ve highlighted a handful of goings-on, from a pair of New York City buying fairs to the watch industry’s answer to the Oscars.
This coming weekend as many as 200 members of the RedBar Group, the watch industry’s largest collectors group, with around 90 chapters worldwide, are expected to gather in Edinburgh, Scotland’s hilly capital, to ogle, buy and talk watches.
The schedule includes a buying fair with a dozen exhibitors, including the Britain-based microbrands anOrdain, Christopher Ward, Farer and Fears; visits to local watch boutiques; and two evening parties.
Oct. 1-2