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 prominent date display. But getting the timepiece wasn’t as straightforward as, say, walking into Omega’s Fifth Avenue boutique. Instead, the Hackensack,…
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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 Philippe Delhotal, director of creation at Hermès Horloger. “We didn’t want to go back to an icon of the maison — the…
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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, from May 26 to June 9. It will be the brand’s first watch-focused exhibition in Britain, according to Rainer Bernard, director of watchmaking research and development. “Poetry…
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Two decades after Fred Levin, one of the Swiss watch industry’s market research pioneers, introduced many watch businesses to the benefits of data, he is back with a new performance measurement service, Luxury Watch Barometer. The business tracks point-of-sale data provided by more than 400 retail companies, with 2,100 store locations, across the United States,…
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Planning an accessible road trip is getting a little easier for people with disabilities. There are more resources created by and for the disability community, and the tourism industry is starting to recognize the value of accessible travel. As a disabled, chronically ill, neurodivergent person, I take road trips every year and have learned some…
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There was no mention of O.J. Simpson on Kim Kardashian’s Instagram page on Thursday. Early that morning, she posted a video promoting a hoodie and bike shorts from Skims, the clothing company she co-founded. Later in the day, after the Simpson family announced that Mr. Simpson had died of cancer at age 76, Ms. Kardashian…
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Elena Isabel Bauer and Joshua Daniel Fagel’s relationship started as what they both refer to as a “D.F.M.O.,” or a “dance floor make out.” They met April 15, 2016, on the “gross, grimy dance floor” at Mr. Fagel’s fraternity house, Sigma Nu, on Stanford’s campus. “Our feet were sticking to the floor,” Mr. Fagel said.…
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Roland John Passaro looks back at his time growing up in the 1950s with a sort of wistful tenderness, especially when it comes to the time he spent with his first crush, Elaine Hall. The two met in the ninth grade in 1950 at what was then called Harrison-Morton Junior High School in Allentown, Pa.…
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In August 2018, Svetlana Dotsenko and Fabián Alejandro Poliak were visiting the Peterhof palace complex in St. Petersburg, Russia, when Mr. Poliak decided to make a move. “I’m not leaving these grounds without trying for a kiss,” Mr. Poliak recalled thinking to himself. A short while later, they were running through the palace gardens in…
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What tore us apart was displayed on a table in the courtroom — a phone. As the judge stated for the record, I was appearing for my divorce “telephonically.” This was 17 years ago, pre-Zoom. From my home in Oakland, Calif., 2,000 miles from the Midwestern courtroom where my husband sat, I pressed the receiver…
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