In Celebration of Watch Day...

Dial of Demand

Top 30 Swiss watch export markets.

Setting the hands…

Symbol size

Choose the value used to size watch dials Export value Per person GDP intensity

Value-sized dials show the largest markets.

Watch dial size

Rim color: 2025 YoY change

Strong growth

Growth

Stable

Decline

Sharp decline

Hands: 2025 direction

Rank appears on hover and in each popup.

Sources, credits & notes

Dataset created using GIS Dataset Doctor. Dataset provenance file available here.

Export data scope: Swiss watch exports by destination market; export prices, not final retail sales.
Basemap: CARTO Dark Matter tiles with OpenStreetMap contributors.
Libraries: Leaflet for interactive mapping; custom SVG for watch-dial markers.

Made with Web Mapper GPT. Provenance file here.

Created as part of the ICA Commission on Map Design #365DaysOfMaps initiative, 2026. See all the maps here.