{"id":8830,"date":"2015-03-26T13:12:59","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T13:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchpro.wpengine.com\/2015\/03\/26\/watchpro-editor-comments-on-smartwatches-on-cnn\/"},"modified":"2015-03-26T13:12:59","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T13:12:59","slug":"watchpro-editor-comments-on-smartwatches-on-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/watchpro-editor-comments-on-smartwatches-on-cnn\/","title":{"rendered":"WatchPro editor comments on smartwatches on CNN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>When it came to making sense of the potential impact of smart watches on the traditional Swiss watch industry, CNN International spoke to Breitling boss Jean-Paul Girardin, LVMH watch president Jean-Claude Biver and WatchPro editor James Buttery.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2015\/03\/24\/tech\/apple-watch-baselworld-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">segment filmed on the first day of Baselworld 2015, CNN International&rsquo;s Nina Dos Santos<\/a> grilled Buttery on how the newly emerging segment &ndash; and the Apple Watch &#8211; might affect the traditional watch industry and what the response was likely to be.<\/p>\n<p>Dos Santos later asked Breitling vice president Jean-Paul Girardin and Tag Heuer chief executive officer Jean-Claude Biver, whose companies were both making the Baselworld headlines for connected watches, for their views on the potential impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it came to making sense of the potential impact of smart watches on the traditional Swiss watch industry, CNN International spoke to Breitling boss Jean-Paul Girardin, LVMH watch president Jean-Claude Biver and WatchPro editor James Buttery. In a segment filmed on the first day of Baselworld 2015, CNN International&rsquo;s Nina Dos Santos grilled Buttery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false},"categories":[4,2,1],"tags":[5095,99,5891,3580,452,5827,56,47,5890],"newspack_lstngs_evt":[],"newspack_lstngs_gen":[],"newspack_lstngs_mkt":[],"newspack_lstngs_plc":[],"acf":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"WATCHPRO","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8830"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_evt","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_evt?post=8830"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_gen","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_gen?post=8830"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_mkt","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_mkt?post=8830"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_plc","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_plc?post=8830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}