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Roger Dubuis’ contemporary take on the legend of the Round Table

May 14, 2015 by Editorial Team

Roger Dubuis Excalibur Knights of the Round Table II. In 2013, the legend of King Arthur was the inspiration for a one-of-a-kind Roger Dubuis watch evocatively named Excalibur Knights of the Round Table. This May, Roger Dubuis introduced a new interpretation of the ageless and universal legend of Arthur and his knights. In a stunning … Read more

Three new Métiers d’Art Florilège jewellery watches

May 13, 2015 by Editorial Team

Vacheron Constantin Métiers d’Art Florilège collection is merging the watch dial and botanical arts Two years after its first presentation, luxury Swiss manufacturer of prestige watches Vacheron Constantin unveiled three new models from its Métiers d’Art Florilège collection. In the 2015 chapter of Vacheron Constantin’s Métiers d’Art Florilège collection, some of the most attractive plants from … Read more

The new Piaget woman

February 10, 2016May 12, 2015 by Editorial Team

Turn and the world is yours. “Beautiful, elegant, charismatic, and full of joy,” 37-year-old actress Jessica Chastain was named the brand ambassador of Swiss jewelry house Piaget. We will see Jessica Chastain wearing Piaget on the red carpet as well as appearing at the brand’s events around the globe. “We are thrilled to introduce Jessica … Read more

Fasten your wrist belt, lean back and watch the sneak peek on ‪‎IWC Connect‬ tool

May 7, 2015May 7, 2015 by Editorial Team

IWC Connect controls the connected environment directly from the wrist.

Intelligent horological tools are the new concern of the Swiss luxury watch manufacturers. IWC Schaffhausen‘s new device called IWC Connect gives wearers control over certain devices connected to the Internet of Things (IoT) and provide fully fledged activity tracking.

Engineered to be integrated into the straps of IWC sports watches, beginning with the Big Pilot’s Watches, the IWC Connect not only tracks the wearer’s activities, but also allows them to interact with connected devices in their environment (IoT).

The idea behind this new innovation is to enable owners of IWC timepieces to control their connected environment directly from the wrist while also maintaining the integrity of a handcrafted mechanical timepiece.

“Seeing that many of our customers and brand ambassadors are wearing connected devices alongside their IWC watches, we chose to work with a like-minded digital technology company to develop an elegant, aesthetically complementary solution that eliminates the need to have additional devices on the opposing wrist to your IWC,” explained Georges Kern, CEO of IWC Schaffhausen. “But, and this is essential, we do not touch our beautiful watches – an ‘IWC’ stays a mechanical handcrafted timepiece. We’ve engineered an intelligent design solution which perfectly integrates and underlines our product worlds.”

Further information and the launch date will be available in the coming months, announced the Swiss luxury watch manufacturer.

The inaugural Hublot Design Prize to be awarded during 2015 Tokyo Design Week

May 4, 2015May 1, 2015 by Editorial Team

Hublot celebrates the 10th anniversary of the iconic Big Bang watch by looking to the future and giving the talented designers of tomorrow an opportunity to gain recognition. The Hublot Design Prize was created to enable young designers to assert themselves through their creations and to gain public recognition; as such, the prize will be … Read more

Dior Rose des Vents jewelry line

May 1, 2015 by Editorial Team

Dior launches Rose des Vents fine jewellery: The New Lucky Star Jewelry.

French luxury house DIOR celebrates its new Rose des Vents jewelry line with four short animated videos concieved by Dior’s Joaillerie creative director Victoire de Castellane.

French jewelry designer imagines encounters with the house’s founder, Christian Dior. The whimsical animation of these drawings resulted in four short cartoons where the famous Dior rose is an old maritime navigational tool and a new Lucky Star Jewelry. Rose des vents” translates to “wind rose,” an 8-point star meteorological graphic that can be found in mosaic form in the garden of Christian Dior’s former family home in Granville, France.

“I wanted to start from the idea of a little motif pendant. And what is more metaphorical than a medallion?” explained Joaillerie creative director Victoire de Castellane, who designed a mini-collection that you can wear whenever you like without unwanted attention.

“A symbol of travel, in it you find echoes of Christian Dior’s star and the idea of the good-luck charm, but also the rose, his favorite flower. The whole history of the house is there, implicitly.”

“Rose des Vents is also a metaphor for creation,” de Castellane added. “Creating is about searching, turning things over, and then finding one’s cardinal point and setting off on a journey. Creation is the product of a stationary voyage.”