Quinn Lai says the movement in his Eoniq mechanical timepiece is the first made entirely in the city.
HONG KONG — In early 2019, about six months after Quinn Lai opened his Eoniq watch store and watchmaking workshop, he started noticing some unusual customers: 50s-something men with barbershop haircuts who stood out among the fashionista crowds at the Mills, a 1950s Hong Kong textile factory that had been repurposed as a design-forward mall.
“Some chin bui — old Hong Kong guys who made watches before us, the last generation of Hong Kong’s watch industry — had come to check us out,” the 34-year-old Mr. Lai said, using the Cantonese words for
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