When Jirair Ratevosian, a Congressional candidate, and Micheal Ighodaro, an activist and filmmaker, first met, both were so busy with work that sometimes a date meant meeting in an airport lounge.Jirair Ratevosian and Micheal Osa Ighodaro orbited around one another for six years through their work in global ...
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Why was my boyfriend asking Google how to break up with someone?If the eyes are the window to the soul, what is Google search history a window to? Our bunions and boils? One glimpse at my boyfriend’s recent searches caused our already precarious relationship to topple. This is ...
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On a temperate fall afternoon, Vito Vacirca sported a black Borsalino fedora lined with dried turkey-tail mushrooms and violet-tinted sunglasses, a second pair of shades dangling from the neck of his “Fungus Among Us” sweatshirt. He surveyed the display table before him, where there were dozens of recently ...
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Geoffrey Hess invited what he described as ‘the crème de la crème of the collectors’ community’ to a weekend in Manhattan.On a rainy Saturday evening in late September, 175 guests gathered at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, focused on something other than the ...
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Yohanna Arvaud and her team maintain hundreds of timepieces in locations like the Élysée Palace and the Louvre.Horlogerie Arvaud has been a fixture along the Rue du Cherche-Midi, in the Sixth Arrondissement of Paris, since Yohanna Arvaud’s grandfather opened the clock and watch repair shop in 1962. And ...
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The centuries-old art of finissage commands attention from brands and collectors alike.In the world of high watchmaking, beauty is more than surface deep.Some of the most exquisitely decorated parts of a watch are right there on the dial, but many can’t be seen unless you flip the watch ...
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The Tentagraph by Grand Seiko and the 1941 Grönograaf by Grönefeld are the same kind of timepiece, but as different as they could be.When it comes to watch complications, few are more ubiquitous than the chronograph. The feature, which incorporates a start and stop function to measure elapsed ...
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Rainer Bernard, the house’s director of research and development of watches, says a sense of exploration drives its horological efforts.As the director of research and development of watches for Van Cleef & Arpels, Rainer Bernard oversees production of the brand’s timepieces. But when he is working on a ...
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Organizers of the December event in the Czech capital want to attract local visitors as well as some of the city’s many holiday tourists.As the Christmas markets in central Prague come alive with shoppers, the ballroom at a historic hotel there is to be the venue for a ...
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Educational programs are the focus of the agreement between the brand and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but watches might come along, too.Vacheron Constantin, which has been collaborating with the Louvre in Paris since 2019, has a new affiliation with the Metropolitan Museum of Art.The three-year agreement includes ...
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Stéphanie Sivrière, who joined the Swiss watchmaker in 2002, now is its creative director of jewelry and watches.From 1972 to 1977, the Swiss watchmaker Piaget produced a limited series of white and yellow gold wristwatches that epitomized the brand’s reputation as an emblem of the jet set.Iterations of ...
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Apple Podcasts | Spotify‘We both knew I would never choose a man for money. How could I walk away from him for my lack of it?’Brian ReaDeanna Fei did not need a ...
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It’s more than a Dodgers hat and jeans.In the mythology of the West, Los Angeles is equal parts grit and glamour. The reality isn’t far-off: Impossibly pink bougainvillea blooms feet away from gray highways choked with round-the-clock traffic. Look to your left at a stoplight and you may ...
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Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.Caboodle the Extraordinary CatCaboodle was a sweet but average cat. Not especially beautiful, intelligent, affectionate or agile, she lived a long, happy, uneventful life. When she died in September 1999, my husband and I buried her ...
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