Apple said it will hold a "special event" for March 9 that is likely to be a coming-out party for Apple Watch. Apple has said the watch will go on sale in April. The event will start at 10 a.m. at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco.
Start-up Vector Watch, founded last year by former Timex Group president Joe Santana, plans to launch a smart watch that delivers 30-day battery life and works with Apple, Android and Windows phones.
If you've been wondering how Switzerland was going to react to the coming of the Apple Watch, ponder no more: two smaller luxury watch companies, Alpina and Frederique Constant, have added electronic components to otherwise staid analog watches, essentially turning a fancy timepiece into a sort of mechanical Fitbit.