The Timepiece Museum has about 120 clocks of all shapes and sizes on display, out of a total of about 800, with the oldest dating from the 1400s.There are a lot of reasons to visit Matsumoto, a city at the foot of the Japanese Alps in the central ...
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On a bright morning in early March, about 100 people waited patiently outside a grand Edwardian building near Victoria Station, waiting to be the first to enter British Watchmakers’ Day, a fair dedicated entirely to showcasing a few dozen brands based in Britain.Inside, there were displays of timepieces ...
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Neil Duckworth designs watches that have a distinctly vintage feel at a price “I would spend myself.”Neil Duckworth, a veteran of the British watch industry, started his own brand, Duckworth Prestex, just three years ago. But the company’s roots can be traced to 1869, with the opening of ...
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Commemorative pieces include a steel model similar to a British wartime watch and one with Normandy beach sand in its crown.June 6 will be the 80th anniversary of D-Day, when Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, the beginning of action that ultimately led to the end ...
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Move your wrist, and scent suddenly surrounds you. Vacheron Constantin and a Paris couturier have created a strap embedded with microcapsules of perfume.A hand-embroidered strap embedded with microcapsules of bespoke perfume is the highlight of a new concept watch, Égérie — The Pleats of Time, created by Vacheron ...
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Xavier Cruz and JP Gomez, a married gay couple, knew discrimination against the L.G.B.T.Q. community had become widespread. But as owners of Barba Grooming Boutique, a salon in Manhattan, they thought their industry was largely immune.So in 2016, when they read a story about a trans man suing ...
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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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