Category: Watches|Jewelry
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Bvlgari Lights a Diya: What a Roman Jeweler Is Doing in Jaipur
The house of the serpent has staged its first-ever global Diwali, and it chose clay over gold to start the conversation. Luxury houses usually celebrate Diwali with a limited-edition box and a discreet greeting card. Bvlgari decided to light the lamp, quite literally, with an art installation and a hero film. Light, Clay and Gold…
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Press Pause: Six Reasons Luxury Has Fallen Back in Love with the Analog
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in Art, Beauty, Cigars & Spirits, Design, Fashion, Gifts, Gourmet, Hi Tech, Holiday, LUST, Pets, SHELTER, Sport & Health, Watches|JewelryIn a world that can generate anything in seconds, the rarest luxury is something that cannot be rushed. In our piece on the Rimowa x Faber-Castell case we said luxury loves the analog. Here is the evidence. By “analog” we mean objects that work through hands, materials and mechanisms rather than screens: turntables, pens, film…
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Vacheron Constantin Just Adopted Three Artisans Who Don’t Make Watches
The oldest watch manufacture in continuous operation just spent 18 months mentoring a furniture maker, a ceramicist, and a jeweler. None of them make watches. That’s the point. Luxury patronage usually looks predictable: a fashion house sponsors an art prize, a watchmaker underwrites a museum wing, everyone gets a plaque. Vacheron Constantin and The Metropolitan…
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Who Owns a Flower? Louis Vuitton’s Monogram Fight Just Got Complicated
LV won its lawsuit. China’s museums just quietly won the argument. Nothing turns a courtroom win into a PR headache faster than a museum exhibit. That’s the position Louis Vuitton finds itself in after a Chinese court sided with the house in a trademark case — only for a state museum to promptly display artifacts…
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Checkmate Has Never Cost This Much
Decoding Chanel’s world-first Haute Horlogerie chessboard — and why the watch industry is suddenly obsessed with games. Somewhere in a Swiss workshop, a team of artisans spent thousands of hours doing something that, on paper, sounds almost absurdly simple: building a chess set. Except this isn’t the chess set gathering dust in your parents’ living…
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Why a Paris courtroom just told the upcycling industry to put down the scissors
Your Grandmother’s Chanel Buttons Just Got a Restraining Order There’s a particular kind of person who spends a Sunday afternoon prying vintage CC buttons off a thrifted tweed jacket, gluing them onto a chain, and calling it “reworked couture.” As of this season, that person has a legal problem. On May 21, 2026, the Paris…