The dreamy brilliantly blue gem lapis lazuli has intrigued mankind since Antiquity. It has been known for at least 6,000 years and draws its name from the Persian word lazhward meaning blue […]
Champagne Time With…
Pertois-Lebrun The champagne house of Pertois-Lebrun delightfully brings out only Blanc de Blancs Grand Crus champagnes from its home base in the town of Cramant in the aptly named Côte des Blancs […]
A Moment in Time: Air Time
This is a clock that lives on air. It is a simple mechanism invented by the engineer Jean-Léon Reutter in 1928 and brought out by the Swiss watchmaker Jaeger-LeCoultre in the 1930s. […]
Zenith: Reaching for Stars in the Sky
The Defy Midnight Timepiece from the House of Zenith Photo Courtesy Zenith The Swiss watchmaking house of Zenith is placing women’s watches in the forefront and with its elegant new Defy Midnight […]
Brief Bites: The Caviar Sandwich
Paris, France – Leave it to a Parisian institution to come up with a caviar sandwich, and that on traditional French baguette bread. Prunier is offering a nice French change of pace […]
Another Zenith for Zenith
To dare, to challenge, to throw down the gauntlet, to boldly go beyond, that is what it means to defy and the Defy Inventor from the house of Zenith does just that. […]
A Bauhaus Birthday
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the inception of the Bauhaus, the German art school that was operational from 1919 to 1933, the German watch maker Junghans has brought out its Junghans […]
Watch Matters: Mother-of-Pearl
Mollusks produce one of the most beautiful of materials: mother-of-pearl, also called nacre which is both an organic and inorganic material. In jewelry and watch making it is the thin nacre coating […]
The Sumptuous Saga of Suze
Suze, that quintessential French liquor that was put on the market 130 years ago in 1889, remains on the cocktail and apéritif menus of France still today. It is an intriguing drink […]
Travel Time: Muted Elegance and Style
Watchmaker Richard Mille has once again fulfilled its philosophy of taking functionality and performance to new limits and this in a very limited edition timepiece for travelers. Richard Mille has effectively launched […]
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