In 2022, when Mark Ronson, the Grammy- and Oscar-winning D.J., songwriter and super-producer, became a brand ambassador for the Swiss watchmaker Audemars Piguet (A.P.), there was an element of kismet to the partnership. “I know about A.P. through music,” Mr. Ronson recalled last month on a phone call from his home in New York City.…
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“At times I get up in the middle of the night and stop all the clocks. All of them,” an aging princess sings in “Der Rosenkavalier,” Richard Strauss’s sprawling opera of love, devotion and loss. And time is fleeting, the character explains to her young lover: It “courses between you and me — silent, as…
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The men behind Jurmo Watches say their clients often fall into one of two categories: those who know exactly what they want, and those who have little or no idea and need some direction. That is because the Finnish brand, founded in 2017 by Martin Kalland and Kim von Gerich, produces mechanical timepieces that can…
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There are watch pendants and watch brooches and watch rings, but Rihanna apparently had a different idea: a watch choker. So the Barbadian singer, actress and businesswoman turned to Jacob Arabo of Jacob & Co., the New York City jeweler and watchmaker who has created other pieces for her over the past 10 years. (Remember…
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Greubel Forsey has made inroads into the 10-year plan that Antonio Calce announced in early 2021, shortly after he became chief executive of the independent watch brand founded by Robert Greubel and Stephen Forsey. New models are being introduced, production strategically increased and distribution refocused on a handful of flagship stores. But fans have also…
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The lack of a rotor generally allows manual-wind movements — and, ultimately, their exterior cases — to be smaller, which suits the current trend for small watches. While watch fans are known to call the 40-millimeter size “Goldilocks” because it is neither too big nor too small, several models introduced this year were in the…
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In blistering 100-degree heat one recent afternoon at Valley State Prison in California’s Central Valley, inmates crowded around small windows in a prison yard to pick up their daily doses of buprenorphine, an opioid addiction medication. At one window, Quennie Uy, a nurse, scanned inmate identification cards, then retrieved strips of the medication, slipping them…
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If you want to gauge the effect of a planting design, try letting a 5-year-old loose around it. Then watch his body language. Chances are, the local insects will confirm the child’s findings, gravitating toward abundance and exuberance, as the child did. As these two distinct but discerning live-audience samples concur, more is better: more…
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On a follow-up video call in early July, Ms. Rénier said the collaboration with Mr. Myers — who joined the call from a beach in Greece, where he was vacationing with his family — was the latest in Jaeger-LeCoultre’s year-old Made of Makers program. It is a series of partnerships with creators outside watchmaking, including…
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