When my marriage collapsed after 23 years, I was devastated and overwhelmed. I was in my 50s, with two jobs, two teenage daughters, one dog. I didn’t consider dating. I had no time, no emotional energy. But then a year passed. One daughter was off at college, the ...
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Scars can be covered up or airbrushed away, our critic writes. But what is lost when we erase our experiences from our bodies?I am healthy and active, but my legs have lots of scars, including a seven-inch incision from a recent surgery. I am attending an event that ...
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The watchmakers Dominique Renaud and Julien Tixier introduce the first piece from their new brand.Entering the atelier of the watchmaker Julien Tixier in Switzerland’s Vallée de Joux, one must navigate carefully past high benches filled to the brim with equipment such as decades-old lathes, drilling machines, grinders, cutters ...
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While quartz has long been used in timepieces, new models by Chanel and Van Cleef & Arpels show it having a moment.Decorative gems have adorned watches for centuries. But, beyond diamonds and the classic trinity of rubies, emeralds and sapphires, a colorless variety of quartz called rock crystal ...
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This year Watches and Wonders Geneva added a third public day — and here are some of the new timepieces visitors have been seeing.Until last year, the Watches and Wonders Geneva watch fair was closed to the public.Brands, retailers, media and some V.V.I.P. s were granted entry, but ...
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Five collectors pick the vintage watches they would most love to see reissued.In fashion, the next thing is the best thing. But the backbone of the Swiss watch industry is heritage, which explains why vintage reissues make up the bulk of new releases. What’s tried and true becomes ...
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The Timepiece Museum has about 120 clocks of all shapes and sizes on display, out of a total of about 800, with the oldest dating from the 1400s.There are a lot of reasons to visit Matsumoto, a city at the foot of the Japanese Alps in the central ...
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On a bright morning in early March, about 100 people waited patiently outside a grand Edwardian building near Victoria Station, waiting to be the first to enter British Watchmakers’ Day, a fair dedicated entirely to showcasing a few dozen brands based in Britain.Inside, there were displays of timepieces ...
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Neil Duckworth designs watches that have a distinctly vintage feel at a price “I would spend myself.”Neil Duckworth, a veteran of the British watch industry, started his own brand, Duckworth Prestex, just three years ago. But the company’s roots can be traced to 1869, with the opening of ...
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Commemorative pieces include a steel model similar to a British wartime watch and one with Normandy beach sand in its crown.June 6 will be the 80th anniversary of D-Day, when Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, the beginning of action that ultimately led to the end ...
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Move your wrist, and scent suddenly surrounds you. Vacheron Constantin and a Paris couturier have created a strap embedded with microcapsules of perfume.A hand-embroidered strap embedded with microcapsules of bespoke perfume is the highlight of a new concept watch, Égérie — The Pleats of Time, created by Vacheron ...
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Xavier Cruz and JP Gomez, a married gay couple, knew discrimination against the L.G.B.T.Q. community had become widespread. But as owners of Barba Grooming Boutique, a salon in Manhattan, they thought their industry was largely immune.So in 2016, when they read a story about a trans man suing ...
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Nearly two years after he was stabbed, he was in fine form as he greeted his fellow writers at a party celebrating his candid memoir, “Knife.”Three security guards stood along a leafy street in the West Village of Manhattan on Thursday evening, watching as a procession of writers, ...
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On a family trip to Switzerland, Joseph Barreto fell in love with an Omega Constellation.In 2022, several months after Joseph Barreto retired as a high school guidance counselor in East Harlem, he got a keepsake gift: a 42-millimeter stainless steel Omega Constellation watch with a grayish-taupe dial and ...
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