RACHEL GARRAHAN

December 10, 2024

Choosing a Watch for a Young Man Isn’t Easy

These parents decided a watch would be a good 18th birthday gift. Then their search began. This fall our elder son turned 18, a milestone for […]
December 4, 2023

Creating Colorful Pieces With an Artist’s Eye

Elizabeth Gage rejected finishing school for art school, turning her love of gold, gems and history into a decades-long career. While many of her peers are […]
September 13, 2023

‘Pieces of Art on the Wrist’

The collector Roni Madhvani is as fascinated by vintage timepieces by lesser-known watchmakers as he is by those from famed designers. “The belle epoque of watch […]
January 16, 2018

Watchmaking’s New Favorite? Ceramic

Advertisement Step aside gold, and make way titanium and steel. Ceramic, the high-tech material first introduced to watchmaking by IWC Schaffhausen and Rado in the ’80s, […]
December 6, 2017

British Competition Celebrates the Role of Crafts

Advertisement LONDON — A detailed fountain that recalls the rococo abundance of 17th century Dutch flower paintings is on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum […]
December 1, 2017

Sotheby’s to Auction Jewelry Created for McQueen Catwalks

Advertisement LONDON — Shaun Leane recently recalled how, in 2015, he stood alone in the “Cabinet of Curiosities,” the darkly dramatic, double-height gallery containing work that […]
November 30, 2017

Carmen Busquets Says: Gifts for the Holidays

Advertisement Carmen Busquets was an early believer in fashion e-commerce. A founding investor in Net-a-Porter, the Venezuelan entrepreneur, 52, has amassed a fortune from start-ups like […]
November 22, 2017

Jewelry: Lalaounis Continues to Create ‘Jewelry With a Soul’

Advertisement ATHENS — Family lore has it that when the hospital discharged each of Ilias Lalaounis’s four daughters after their births, the first place their father […]
November 21, 2017

Design, Jewelry and Cora Sheibani

Advertisement LONDON — Cora Sheibani was raised with an appreciation for exquisite design. The daughter of the Zurich art dealer Bruno Bischofberger and his wife Christina […]
November 2, 2017

Watches: The Strategy at Girard-Perregaux is on Time

According to Antonio Calce, the chief executive of Kering’s fine watch group, which includes Girard-Perregaux, growing up in Switzerland presents a simple question to children thinking […]