The year 2024 draws to a close for all of us with a sense of accomplishment at the end of a year in which the economic situation was not necessarily very easy for all the players in the EPHJ community. The slowdown in the watch market and tensions with the European Union have imposed on everyone the paradoxical need to be cautious yet daring. In particular, this boldness involves the formidable capacity for innovation that pushes back the limits of excellence in most of you. The EPHJ 2024 Innovation Digest is the best proof of this. Boldness also means showing your face, consolidating your links with your professional contacts and opening up to other areas of prospecting. This is one of the raisons d’être of your EPHJ show, which brings together 750 companies and 23,000 trade visitors in one of Europe’s largest exhibition centres.

More than ever, we need to shake off the gloom and attract the attention of a market that will bounce back, as it always has. In the meantime, the entire EPHJ team thanks you for your confidence and wishes you, exhibitors and visitors alike, the warmest of wishes for 2025!