How a Vintage Watch Dealer Scaled Momentum Dubai Worldwide
Tariq’s watch career started with a raffle he wasn’t supposed to win, a plastic suitcase full of Swatch watches, and a store in Aachen he and his brother never planned to buy. Fifteen years after co-founding Momentum Dubai, most of his sales happen with people he’s never met in person, and some of them wire six figures before anyone asks for an invoice.
How Opera Gallery Became DIFC’s Home for International Art
Opera Gallery has 14 galleries and two offices around the world. Its Dubai gallery has been in DIFC since 2008, longer than almost any other gallery in the district. Two other Dubai locations came and went along the way. Sylvain Gaillard, who has run the Dubai gallery since 2014, explains how the numbers, the clients, and the business model actually work.
Inside Gattopardo: The Story Behind the View
At Il Gattopardo in Dubai, high up in ICD Brookfield Place, DIFC, with a view of the Burj Khalifa, Restaurant Director Andrea Fincato runs a team of 84 people. On its busiest day so far, the restaurant served 480 guests. His rule: no one on the floor sees the sales numbers. Here is how the restaurant really works, in plain facts.
