On a Tuesday night at a cafe in the lively Shinjuku district, 10 people were gathered around a long table, chattering and sharing appetizers and drinks. Nothing unusual here — except each was wearing a Maurice Lacroix watch and, at the end of the gathering, they formed a circle and extended their arms for a…
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“This is probably the most important launch for Louis Vuitton since the launch of the Tambour 21 years ago,” Jean Arnault, watch director at Louis Vuitton, said a few hours before friends of the brand, collectors, influencers and media representatives from around the world joined Bradley Cooper, Alicia Vikander and Michael Fassbender in the Musée…
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The average price of an Omega watch, he noted, had tripled over the past 20 years, in part because improvements to materials, resistance and accuracy improved values. (He also said Omega’s volumes were on track to pass 600,000 units this year, which would be an increase of about 20 percent year over year.) Swiss watch…
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Singapore is flourishing as a market for Swiss watches, and its homegrown watch brands are blossoming, too. Fifty years ago, according to its profile on the World Bank site, the country suffered from severe unemployment and poor infrastructure, but decades of internal investment have helped develop a high-income economy. And many of its approximately 5.5…
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At the end of 17th century, another invention changed the course of watchmaking: the balance spring, which helps regulate the mechanism and improve timekeeping accuracy. “Watches could keep time within minutes per day,” Mr. Bull said. “Everyone was taken with having a watch that could be used to tell time and set your day by.…
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At his workshop in rural County Mayo, Neville O’Farrell has been working on a display box of walnut with a bog oak veneer for a special timepiece. He operates Neville O’Farrell Designs, a business that he and his wife, Trish, founded in 2010. He creates handmade boxes from native and exotic hardwoods, with prices starting…
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Hace medio año, Micah Fitzerman-Blue, guionista de Los Ángeles, se estaba afeitando la barba cuando llegó a la región entre la nariz y el labio superior y pensó: “¿Y si me detengo?”. “Al principio me sentí cohibido, porque nunca había usado solo bigote”, aseguró. Pero tras comprobar que su mujer no lo odiaba y darse…
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The designer has been the trusted collaborator of — and provocateur for — a pantheon of top directors, including Mike Nichols, Nora Ephron, Steven Spielberg, Anthony Minghella, John Schlesinger, Brian De Palma, George Roy Hill, Hal Ashby, Joe Mantello, Jack O’Brien, M. Night Shyamalan, Stephen Daldry, James Brooks and, early in her career, Dino De…
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About five years ago, executives at Compagnie Financière Richemont, the Swiss luxury group that owns 11 high-end watch brands including Cartier, IWC Schaffhausen, Jaeger-LeCoultre and Vacheron Constantin, began to notice a worrisome trend. “Watch and jewelry theft was increasing quite alarmingly,” Frank Vivier, Richemont’s chief transformation officer, said on a recent video call. “People in…
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Susy Dyson, the British-Peruvian model who was a fixture of 1970s jet-set social circles, is a firm believer in letting things go. “When you put things for sale, things start to happen, you see,” she said during a recent phone call from Peru, where she now lives. “Energy moves.” Which is why she was not…
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