Uncategorized

September 5, 2016

Tourbillon Watches, Made in Hong Kong

HONG KONG — On the eighth floor of an industrial building here, along a concrete hallway lined with metal security gates, is a lovely wooden door […]
September 5, 2016

A Ulysse Nardin Watch Fan

Abel Hwong knows a thing or two about luxury. His success as a banker during the Asian boom of the 1990s positioned him to create AM […]
September 5, 2016

‘A Mechanical Bestiary’, With Time

PARIS — “Who is ticking?” Alexis Kugel playfully asked a group of ornate animal figures in his palatial antiques gallery at the historic Hôtel Collot. The […]
September 5, 2016

A Monster Watch Mashup

This year the Swiss watchmaker HYT is saluting the 200th birthday of another well-known creation of Swiss provenance: Frankenstein’s famous monster, which Mary Shelley dreamed up […]
September 5, 2016

Rites of Passage: I Was a Hotline Psychic for Miss Cleo

Rites of Passage By BENNETT MADISON The summer I became a phone psychic, you could still wear shoes through airport security, Britney Spears had not yet […]
September 3, 2016

Cher’s Latest Road Show? The Campaign Trail

Cher’s first brush with politics was an act of teenage civil disobedience. It was right before the election of 1960. And she came home one day […]
September 3, 2016

Renovation Restores the Luster to Cartier Flagship

Enlightened urbanism is not the first thing that comes to mind when a prestigious jeweler owned by a multinational luxury goods conglomerate throws open its doors. […]
September 3, 2016

Up Next: The Man and Spirit Behind GucciGhost, Gucci’s Renegade Line

Up Next By ANN BINLOT NAME Trevor Andrew AGE 37 HOMETOWN Falmouth, Nova Scotia NOW LIVES In a brownstone in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, with his wife, the […]
September 2, 2016

Summer Places: A Popular Vacation Stop? This New Hampshire Liquor Store Beckons

HAMPTON, N.H. — Over Independence Day weekend, a million vehicles cruised the Maine Turnpike, as Interstate 95 is known north of the Piscataqua River. It is […]
September 2, 2016

Vows: For the Rock Star, Love Has Finally Landed

Vows By MATTHEW SCHNEIER The rock star and the music lover met at a record store, fell in love and got married. There were only 16 […]