Watch News: Bremont opens Hong Kong store

Bremont’s new store in Hong Kong will be similar in design to its London flagship but will make more use of technology to tell the stories behind the brand’s watches, Bremont said.New York--Following the opening of its standalone flagship store in London, English luxury watch brand Bremont now has its first overseas boutique, located in Hong Kong.

The store is on Lyndhurst Terrace in Central Hong Kong and is more than 2,000 square feet in size. The brand, which was co-founded by brothers Nick and Giles English in 2002, said the store will serve as a showcase for the brand in Asia, a growing region for Bremont.

The store will have a design similar to that of the brand’s London space, which won U.K. Retail Store of the Year at the Retail Jeweller awards in July.

“As with our London boutique, Hong Kong will be more than just a traditional watch store. It will be a place for watch collectors to come and meet to talk about watches over a coffee or a Chivas whiskey,” Nick English said. “We will also be expanding our explorers’ club from the U.K. to Hong Kong where we will have monthly events.”

‘Noemia’ grows up
Raymond Weil has overhauled its Noemia collection for women, introducing an all-gold PVD watch and a 24 mm size to the collection, which first was introduced in 2009 and is named after the founder’s granddaughter.

Watches in the Noemia collection have a quartz movement and are available in 32 mm or 24 mm sizes. On the new Noemia watches, the cases are longer, the white mother-of-pearl dial is brighter and there are Roman numerals at 6 and 12 o’clock.

The new stainless steel Noemia retails for $2,750 while the all-gold PVD timepiece is $1,350.

Ebel feeling blue, green
Ebel recently introduced two new 36 mm Onde watches with dials crafted of semi-precious gemstones.

The new Onde models are available with a dial of either lapis lazuli, a stone known of intense blue color sometimes called Moroccan blue, or of malachite, a stone that echoes Pantone’s color of the year for 2013, emerald green.

They are stainless steel quartz watches powered by the ETA 955.102 movement. The crowns are set with VS clarity diamonds totaling 0.039 carats, and the malachite model has green gold on the case and crown.

The malachite watch retails for $4,950 while