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Global slump in luxury watch sales hitting closer to S'pore

Swiss watch exports to the Republic plunges 22.6% in January

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Published Fri, Mar 4, 2016 · 09:50 PM

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    The dip in global sales of Swiss luxury watches last year, the first yearly drop since the 2009 recession, may have finally caught up with Singapore.

    While the shipments of Swiss watches worldwide in 2015 slipped 3.3 per cent from a year ago to 21.5 billion Swiss francs (S$30.7 billion), the shipments to Singapore rose one per cent to 1.13 billion Swiss francs, reversing the 1.4 per cent dip in 2014.

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