A little more than a year ago, when Ilaria Resta was interviewing for the role of chief executive at the Swiss watchmaker Audemars Piguet, she and her family spent a few days in the Vallée de Joux, the area in the Jura Mountains known as the cradle of Swiss watchmaking. “It was a way for…
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Australia doesn’t have much of a homegrown watch industry, and what it does have primarily sells online — facts that spurred Domenic Italiano, founder and designer of Grip Auto Timepieces, to organize what he called the country’s first watch fair. After all, Mr. Italiano, 37, said, watchmakers there “don’t get an opportunity to have our…
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The trappings of dressmaking — including thimbles, thread, scissors and measuring tapes — feature in a new 20-piece Couture O’Clock watch collection by Chanel, inspired by the house’s couture workshops on Rue Cambon in Paris. Arnaud Chastaingt, director of Chanel’s Watchmaking Creation Studio, wrote in an email that he had chosen to focus on the…
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Frustration is often the impetus for starting a business, and that’s exactly what produced heist-out, a glossy watch magazine introduced in May 2023 — and now it is teaming with Sotheby’s Geneva for what is described as a subversive kind of auction. Lorenzo Maillard and Maxime Couturier had been working for several years at the…
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“In the beginning it was not the goal to be independent, to create a brand,” the independent watchmaker Raúl Pagès said in his two-room hillside atelier in the Swiss hamlet Les Brenets, overlooking the Jura Mountains. “It was just to design a movement, to create something from scratch.” It is here, in a house that…
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In early December, Nicolò Villa, a jeweler from Milan, was in Manhattan for a trunk show when he spotted a pre-owned Rolex Lady-Datejust with a blue-green opal dial in a shop on West 47th Street. At 26 millimeters in diameter, the watch’s two-tone case was only slightly larger than a 25-cent piece. Mr. Villa bought…
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A brutish granite ridge soared above us in the moonlight. The snow that should not have been there in July seemed to go on forever. We were already short of breath, and weirdly, there were almost no other hikers. Even though I had trained for this, I felt stupidly out of my depth. We were…
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Insurance companies have long blamed private-equity-owned hospitals and physician groups for exorbitant billing that drives up health care costs. But a tool backed by private equity is helping insurers make billions of dollars and shift costs to patients. The tool, Data iSight, is the premier offering of a cost-containment firm called MultiPlan that has attracted…
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Good morning. It’s skinned-knuckle season, the time of the year that’s all about stuck bolts and crushed washers and hydraulic fluid and bottom paint, sacrificial zincs and ceramic wax — old boats coaxed back to health so they can run us to the fishing grounds, so we can cast flies to bass. I skinned my…
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