Tag: #LUXURYTIMEPIECES
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Five of The Top Timepieces For Women That Have Dropped So Far In 2024
If you are disappointed about missing out on the Geneva Watch Days 2024 which has now closed its curtains, there’s good news: some of the top timepieces for women that debuted this year happened outside of it. So, while you may want to look out for all the new pieces that made their grand entrance…
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Chanel Reimagines the Humble Timepiece As A Luxe Modular Fashion Accessory
When talking about great technological innovations and evolutions, it is easy to disregard the ‘humble’ timepiece, or at most, put it at the end of the list. Yet, timepieces have undergone perhaps some of the greatest changes over time and have featured some of the best technological advancements of each period. What started out as…
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Luxury Market Slump: All the Ways Consumers of Luxury Goods are Profiting
It is everywhere you turn: demand for luxury goods has dropped, and, coupled with other macroeconomic challenges like inflation, it seems that consumers’ appetite for luxury has waned considerably. And while luxury brands are working hard to whet that appetite once again, somehow, the biggest winners in all of this are the consumers themselves. More…
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Omega is Counting Down to The Olympics with Some of The Most Exquisite Timepieces
The Olympic games may or may not be the most watched sporting event in the world right now, but at Omega, that is of no importance. For the Swiss horologie brand, it is the event that offers the perfect canvas for the design and launch of collectible timepieces perfect for every activity, from sporting events…
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CEO Says The Rolex is Not A Luxury Investement. The Market says Otherwise
In a recent interview, Rolex CEO, Jean-Frédéric Dufour, declared, after it was pointed out to him that a while back, ‘watches were seen more as an investment than a dream,’ that he does not “like it when people compare watches to stocks. It sends the wrong message and is dangerous. We make products, not investments.”…
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Here’s Why Owning a Luxury Timepiece Now is More Challenging than Ever
These are not great times for luxury timepieces, if the recently released research from luxury pre-owned watch specialists, Watchfinder & Co, is anything to go by. Not only has it reported that counterfeits in circulation in the UK have surpassed one million, but its research has also revealed that theft of luxury watches is on…
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Create a One-of-One Art-Inspired Timepiece with Vacheron Constantin and The Louvre
What do art and horology have in common? A lot, as Swiss watchmaker, Vacheron Constantin and The Louvre, France’s national art museum, will tell you following their newest collaboration. ‘A Masterpiece on the Wrist’: a Vacheron Constantin x The Louvre collaboration years in the making Per Vacheron Constantin, this collaboration with The Louvre is titled…
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This 2023, Rolex has crafted a Timepiece Specially for You
If you’ve ever gone, ‘Nah; a Rolex isn’t for me’, there are definitely reasons for that, some of which may be that the complication of a Cosmograph Daytona is … just too complicated. Or that the ‘tool-siness’ of the Yachtmaster, Submariner and other tool watches in its lineup are … well, too toolsy. Whatever your…
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Rolex Timepieces have Nicknames. Here are Some You should Know
Did you know that Rolex timepieces have rather interesting nicknames? Apparently, just like certain auto models in Nigeria carry the monikers, ‘baby boy’, ‘big daddy’ and ‘muscle’, among the Rolex collector community, names like ‘Pepsi’ or ‘Batman’ mean something completely different from what the rest of the world is used to. Of course, with very…
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7 Turbocharged Auto-Themed Timepieces for the Ultimate Auto Enthusiast
Breitling and Bentley’s partnership may have been the longest between an auto and a timepiece brand, but it is by no least the only creative and wildly successful one out there. Other auto brands like Lamborghini, Ferrari and Bugatti have had successful extended partnerships with other timepiece brands, and every day, new partnerships are born.…