The art of seduction in a pandemic: Why watchmakers are tipping a record year for prestige brands
Watch brands are shaking off the COVID-19 crunch with increasingly decadent designs and colourful gemstones.
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Watch brands are shaking off the COVID-19 crunch with increasingly decadent designs and colourful gemstones.
In the realm of timepieces, January 2022 was dominated by LVMH Watch Week. But what new watches were launched in February 2022?
The brand new magazine, The Kurator, will uncover the masterworks of this world English cover : Abdulla is wearing a tie and dye linen trousers, a linen shirt with macramé collar and embossed linen coat. Farshad is wearing a shaded flowers organza coat and embossed baguette. All, Fendi. Polo Skeleton watch, sapphire crystal caseback and leather, Piaget; Arabic cover: Abdulla is wearing a tie and dye linen shirt and trousers. All, Fendi. Polo Skeleton watch, sapphire crystal caseback and leather, Piaget. Image Credit: Louis Décamps In ancient Rome, ‘curat...
The 16 best men's timepieces from Watches and Wonders 2021 Switzerland is gearing up for a prolific 2021 with a clutch of extremely high value timepieces that will make collectors swoon 8 April 2021 • 5:00am When the pandemic hit last year, the Swiss watch industry’s annual round of glossy, high-budget trade fairs was already in crisis, with Baselworld, the star event, teetering on the brink. Covid-19 brought about a stuttering pivot to digital, while many launches were put on ice. By comparison, 2021 has seen the world’s luxury watchmakers come out swinging. Watches & Wonders, entailin...
Courtesy Welcome to Dialed In, Esquire's weekly column bringing you horological happenings and the most essential news from the watch world since March 2020. One of the more taxing exercises in making dress watches, but one that a few high-end brands eagerly specialize in, is dreaming up impossibly thin movements and putting them to work in extremely elegant watches. For Piaget, it’s is something of an ongoing obsession. In 1957, Valentin Piaget, grandson of company founder Georges-Edouard Piaget, introduced the Piaget 9P, a record-breaking hand-wound movement that was just 2mm thick. Cre...