How do you celebrate a 40th birthday? Get dressed head-to-toe in solid 18-karat gold, that’s how. Or at least that’s what Casio has done for the anniversary of its fan-favorite G-Shock: Created a one-of-a-kind timepiece called the Dream Project #2, Model G-D001. “This is the only piece in the world,” said Kikuo Ibe, the Casio…
For the debut of his own watch company, Stéphane von Gunten, a veteran Swiss watchmaker whose career has included a litany of jobs at elite brands and more than 30 patents, created a model that emphasizes what he called the “first pillar” of his new Haute-Rive brand: “to respect tradition.” He didn’t need to look…
It has been more than 30 years since white metal and rose gold watches pushed yellow gold timepieces out of the industry spotlight, but a look at recent introductions of new watch models from TAG Heuer to Vacheron Constantin shows that fashion has changed once again. And yellow gold is back. “We were born making…
The Fifty Fathoms 70th Anniversary Act 2, a 47-millimeter titanium Tech Gombessa dive watch issued in February. What were the challenges involved in making the 70th anniversary watch? The first — and the one that took the longest — was finding the material; that took years. I wanted to bring bronze out for Blancpain, but…
The seaweed-wrapped leek fondant circle, sitting on a generous pour of pea-green wild herb sabayon sauce and topped with yellow and red flower petals, made for a colorful (and tasty) contrast to the gray November skies visible through the arched windows at F.P. Journe Le Restaurant. One of Geneva’s newest gastronomic additions, the restaurant opened…
She is a prodigious and skeptical reader, posing the queen of Sheba in contrast to Joseph Campbell’s “The Hero With a Thousand Faces,” for example, or noting the marginalized characters in the colonialist-tinged detective novels of Agatha Christie and wondering about their stories. She analyzes guidebooks, from Baedeker to Lonely Planet. “Every time I pick…
When Holly Waddington, the costume designer for “Poor Things,” Yorgos Lanthimos’s much heralded phantasmagorical film about a young women’s psychological and sexual awakening that opened on Friday, began thinking about what her heroine would wear, she said she was thinking “skinny arms and these kind of straight skirts with the big bustle.” The film, which…
Now he is working to bolster the name recognition of his brand outside Belgium because “ideally I’d like to make it my main job” within the next five years, he said. He introduced a new collection of dive watches at the WatchPro Salon in London last month, revamping his debut Bonaire collection of 2018. Again…
What is a watch worth? The ever-expanding nature of the global marketplace — where a growing number of brands, dealers, auctioneers and resellers trade new and vintage watches across platforms and continents — can make it difficult to know where to buy and how much to pay. A new platform called EveryWatch aims to offer…
Dr. John A. Talbott, a psychiatrist who championed the care of vulnerable populations of the mentally ill, especially the homeless — many of whom were left to fend for themselves in the nation’s streets, libraries, bus terminals and jails after mass closures of state mental hospitals — died on Nov. 29 at his home in…