But in China, there is a class of products is widely recognized as a luxury, it is to watch. Those who understand the Chinese culture, whether ancient culture or modern culture, which would not be surprised.
2012 年 01 月 11 日
friend told me the retail industry in Hong Kong, Hong Kong boutique seasoned salesperson will pay special attention to each guest into the store wearing a watch brand, as their spending power of judge The key clue.
So it comes as no surprise that any premium watchmaker in the world today sees China as the big whale of global timepiece markets. Affluent Chinese consumers are adept at pronouncing the names of many super high-end European watch brands, at least the Chinese versions of their brand names (which are shorter and easier to remember).
Time zones are symbolic of great distances and human diversity. They are a very basic starting point for thinking outside of one local context and values. < br /> “tuned watch, to the world”
One category that is included in everyone definition of the luxury product segment in China is wristwatches. This should come as no surprise to anyone who is familiar with Chinese culture, modern or ancient.
In 1979, during the earliest days of the Open Door and Reform policy, the opening of a foreign branded watch shop (Seiko) in Wangfujing made headline news around the world as a clear sign that China was selectively re- opening its market to imported consumer goods after a 30-year hiatus.
luxury define the scope of different methods. For example, most of these reports do not include private jets and yachts, including, placed more emphasis on high fashion, accessories, watches, jewelry, writing instruments and wine and other products.
It is also a little known fact, except to older Chinese people, that watches were one of the few categories of imported Western consumer goods which remained available after 1949 even up to the beginning of the Cultural Revolution in 1966, at shops like Hengdeli in Beijing Wangfujing shopping district.
new blog, as I mentioned in the opening introduction, globalization make the world smaller, but also to the rhythm of life and work faster. Efficiency of global business people not only according to their mode of thinking, but also put themselves in the other end for the life of people in the world sake.
Wearing some of the best watches available on the planet, Chinese people with global ambitions are well equipped to take one small but important step on the road to thinking outside their own time zone.
Beautiful, elaborate timepieces dating from the imperial era can be seen in a dedicated display hall in the Forbidden City in Beijing, showing the historical fascination with timekeeping in Chinese society.
There has been a lot of media coverage during the past year or so about the phenomenal growth of the luxury market in China. Several of the top global management consulting firms (McKinsey, Bain, Boston Consulting Group) have published research reports detailing the meteoric rise in luxury product sales and forecasting various aspects of this important segment future trajectory.
As the introduction to my new blog suggests, globalization has made the world smaller, and the pace of life and work much faster. Effective global business people need to think not only in their own frame of reference, but to be able to put themselves in the shoes of people on the other side of the world.
Beijing Palace Museum (the Forbidden City) have a dedicated showroom, where people can enjoy many monarchy era, handed down from the beautiful clock, China time as old people obsession is evident.
about last year, the media, the Chinese luxury goods market has been substantial growth reported at great length. World major management consulting companies [such as McKinsey (McKinsey), Bain (Bain), Boston Consulting (Boston Consulting Group)] have released a research report, a detailed analysis of the phenomenon of increasing sales of luxury goods, and all of the market level of future trends predicted.
1979 years of reform and opening up, a foreign brand [Seiko (Seiko)] watch shop opened for business in the Wangfujing boarded the news headlines around the world, released 30 years after China started in the shut down have a choice to resume imports of the commodity market signals.
when I arrived in Hong Kong, my Chinese boss good heart, patience, and I did not take long to work gave me a watch. I was not the habit of wearing a watch, but he said it can not, for two reasons. First, do not wear watches may be late for a meeting. Second, the identity of the Chinese people would rather die than to not wear watches, I do not wear it if it laughable.
In China, in addition to other older people, few people know that in 1949 and even 1966, the Cultural Revolution (the Cultural Revolution) before the start of the watch is that people in Beijing Wangfujing Hendry watch, etc. where to buy one of the few imported goods.
Friends in Hong Kong retailing told me how experienced retail sales staff in Hong Kong upmarket shops would pay careful attention to what brand of watch an incoming customer was wearing. This was an important clue as to their spending ability.
Time zone symbol of the distant and different from the race, but also people out of the local environment to think about issues and values ??the fundamental starting point.
So, now the world luxury watch manufacturers to China as a global watch all the big fish market, is not surprising. Now, affluent Chinese consumers have for many high-end watch brands in Europe, at least they (short easily understood remember) the well-known Chinese brands.
wore a paragraph on the planet watches, carries an ideal world the Chinese people are ready, the journey out of time zones has taken a small but important step.
The scope of the luxury goods category can be defined in various different ways. For example, private airplanes and yachts are excluded from most of these reports, which tend to focus more on high-end fashion, accessories, watches, jewelry , writing instruments, fine wine, etc.
When I first arrived in Hong Kong, my Chinese boss, who was a kind and patient mentor, gave me a watch soon after I reported for duty. I was not in the habit of wearing a watch, which he said was not acceptable for two reasons. First, I might be late for meetings. Second, no respectable Chinese executive would be caught dead without a wristwatch, and I would look foolish without one.
“If You e Going Global, Adjust Your Watch”
