The Octo Finissimo Ultra Mark II is 1.7 millimeters thick, half a tenth of a millimeter less than the previous record-holder.Bulgari has its world record back. On Monday, the Italian luxury house with the Swiss fine watchmaking division reclaimed the record for the world’s thinnest mechanical wristwatch.The Octo ...
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Joan Collins in February.Amy Harrity for The New York TimesI love writing, I love acting, going onstage and doing my little one-woman show, and I refuse to be defined by a number, by an age. I think that’s terribly old-fashioned and not relevant in today’s world.But you have ...
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The Tellurium includes the sun, earth and moon as three-dimensional orbs floating across the watch’s face.It took Guillaume Laidet and Théo Auffret four weeks to raise a million dollars for what they called their “neo-futuristic horology” watch company. And a split second to lose it.Having funded their project ...
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Organizers say the 2023 Watches and Wonders Geneva had a global reach of 700 million. Many in the industry hope for that kind of interest this year, too.The largest luxury watch fair in Switzerland opens April 9 — just as the Swiss watch industry appears to be entering ...
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Until she took charge at Audemars Piguet last year, Ilaria Resta had spent her career in fragrance and beauty.A little more than a year ago, when Ilaria Resta was interviewing for the role of chief executive at the Swiss watchmaker Audemars Piguet, she and her family spent a ...
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Seven local brands are registered to exhibit in Melbourne at what the organizer says will be the country’s first watch event.Australia doesn’t have much of a homegrown watch industry, and what it does have primarily sells online — facts that spurred Domenic Italiano, founder and designer of Grip ...
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A new collection of watches takes inspiration from the founder’s history as a dressmaker.The trappings of dressmaking — including thimbles, thread, scissors and measuring tapes — feature in a new 20-piece Couture O’Clock watch collection by Chanel, inspired by the house’s couture workshops on Rue Cambon in Paris.Arnaud ...
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Heist-out, a feisty publication that debuted last year, is working with the auction house on an “underground” sale (scheduled in a wine cellar).Frustration is often the impetus for starting a business, and that’s exactly what produced heist-out, a glossy watch magazine introduced in May 2023 — and now ...
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Raúl Pagès won a Louis Vuitton accolade for his innovative Régulateur à détente RP1. Now he’s making his RP2 and planning a wristwatch with its own automaton.“In the beginning it was not the goal to be independent, to create a brand,” the independent watchmaker Raúl Pagès said in ...
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In early December, Nicolò Villa, a jeweler from Milan, was in Manhattan for a trunk show when he spotted a pre-owned Rolex Lady-Datejust with a blue-green opal dial in a shop on West 47th Street. At 26 millimeters in diameter, the watch’s two-tone case was only slightly larger ...
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What do you pack? How many watches do you bring? Everyone from first-time invitees to veterans agree that this trade show requires planning.Some refer to it simply as “the Geneva show.” Others default to an older iteration of the watch fair, calling it S.I.H.H. (Salon International de la ...
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A social media controversy over the financial transparency of the Monaco association that organizes the event had prompted its cancellation last fall.Only Watch, the charity watch auction that was canceled last fall after a social media storm over financial and research transparency, has been rescheduled for May 10.“Independent ...
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After hours, employees of some of the best-known brands in the Vallée de Joux gather at local bars and restaurants, where everyone feels like family.Many of the world’s most inventive, expensive and best-known watches are made in factories in Switzerland, where the view that watchmakers see when they ...
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Life lessons from a 97-year-old lawyer of the old school.My wife and I unexpectedly lost our Brooklyn lease in the summer of 2022. With preposterous rents all around us, we decided to save money and postpone our real estate predicament by moving, for one year, into her grandfather’s ...
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