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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The house’s creative director says the case’s sculpted form has “a kind of complexity in its simplicity.”It was shape that drove the development of the Cut, the women’s wristwatch recently introduced by Hermès.“The transformation and the creation of the shape was really the starting point for me,” said ...
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A London exhibition by Van Cleef & Arpels will showcase heritage pieces alongside novelties introduced at the Watches and Wonders fair.More than 75 timepieces and jewels by Van Cleef & Arpels will be on display at Cromwell Place, a gallery space in the South Kensington neighborhood of London, ...
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Swiss brands and retailers now have a few options to determine what’s happening with the industry. Just a couple of years ago, they had almost none.Two decades after Fred Levin, one of the Swiss watch industry’s market research pioneers, introduced many watch businesses to the benefits of data, ...
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Julia Botero, Christina Djossa, Reva Goldberg and Jen Poyant and Pat McCusker, Marion Lozano, Carole Sabouraud, Rowan Niemisto, Diane Wong and Listen and follow Modern Love
Apple Podcasts | Spotify‘At the heart of affairs, you find duplicity and cheating and betrayal, but you also find longing and loss for ...
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Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.An Orderly Fresh StartIn the yellow house on San Marco Drive, my father did my taxes. “Do you have your receipts from the move?” he asked. That was a fake question. The real questions were stacked ...
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Brands hope the new models unveiled at Watches and Wonders Geneva will attract buyers despite the tough retail climate.Just what sort of shape is the luxury watch industry in?Globally, the sector has been stuttering as political and economic uncertainty persists (hasn’t it always?), while reports from the front ...
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After the brand’s roller-coaster decade, Vincent Perriard is now running the show — and trying to calm the waters.There will be all manner of watchmaking stories at the Watches and Wonders trade show this week — from heritage and throwback narratives to female-led ones — but HYT is ...
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A Vacheron Constantin pocket watch has 63 complications, including what the brand said is another world first: a Chinese perpetual calendar.Beating its own record for the world’s most complicated watch, Vacheron Constantin has unveiled the Berkley Grand Complication, a pocket watch that includes what the house described as ...
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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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