About 25 years ago, the jewelry designer Sylvie Corbelin was at the Musée Guimet, France’s national museum of Asian arts, when she overheard a woman talking to a group of children. “She was in front of a sculpture of Buddha with two Naga snakes and she said, ‘The snake is like a human: To grow,…
Universally associated with love, passion, warmth and desire, the color red also is the most dominant hue. “Because it has the longest wavelength in the visible spectrum,” said Karen Haller, a color psychology expert in the English county of Kent, “we see red before other colors; it’s what we notice first.” So presenting someone with…
It was a question begging to be asked after President Trump announced on Sunday that he had ordered the Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, to stop minting pennies: What would become of the penny loafer? Though it is unclear whether Mr. Trump’s presidential powers permit him to stop the production of pennies — according to the…
For more than 500 years, people have marveled at the Torre dell’Orologio, the magnificent clock tower on Piazza San Marco in Venice. But only two visitors were so inspired by it that they created a watch company called Venezianico, or, in English, Venetian. Alessandro and Alberto Morelli, the brothers who founded the brand in 2017,…
New York Fashion Week offers little by way of men’s fashion — the spotlight shines brightest on women’s wear here in America’s fashion capital. Still, the men’s roster was particularly emaciated this season, which wrapped on Tuesday night with Thom Browne. To twist an “Annie Hall” quip: The men’s clothes were forgettable. … Yeah, and…
At the century-old Souk Waqif here, dozens of watch repairmen spend their days maintaining luxury timepieces and doing more mundane jobs like replacing the batteries in digital watches. Most of these workers and others like them — who tailor traditional Arab clothing, craft cultural accessories and do thousands of service jobs — are immigrants from…
When the redesigned Louis Vuitton Tambour was introduced in mid-2023, it marked a change in direction for the Parisian luxury company’s watch division. The time-only steel sports watch started at $18,900, about three times the cost of the collection’s previous entry point. At the time Jean Arnault, the company’s director of watches, acknowledged that the…
Last fall when Patek Philippe unveiled its square Cubitus watch, based on the beloved Nautilus, there was a lot of chatter in the watch world over its polarizing design. But one key feature didn’t draw much comment: Its case, measured diagonally, was 45 millimeters. Despite the social media frenzy around vintage-inspired 30-something-millimeter timepieces, large watches…
As the founder and chief executive of the Swedish brand Soner Watches, Freddie Palmgren says his brand has never produced a round watch — and never will. Now he has turned his preference for square and rectangular timepieces into a book, “Beyond Round Watches,” a 105-page paperback that explores in words and images the evolution…
At the time, Frédéric Grangié, the president of Chanel Watches & Jewelry, said in an interview with the French daily newspaper Le Figaro: “This announcement is part of our long-term strategy to continue preserving, developing and investing in specialized skills and expertise, reaffirming our position in high-end watchmaking.” The strategy seems to be bearing fruit….