25 Watch Brands Donate Special Pieces to a Charity Auction
Biver and Chopard are among the houses participating in TimeForArt, a Dec. 7 benefit for the Swiss Institute, an art institution in New York.
Biver and Chopard are among the houses participating in TimeForArt, a Dec. 7 benefit for the Swiss Institute, an art institution in New York.
The Cubitus collection begins with three iterations, but additional versions are promised.
After all, as one said, ‘It’s not just about knowing what the time is.’
Some observers say that, as the deadline for European Union reporting nears, brands have lowered the volume on their environmental communications.
It was the development of the chronograph, essentially a stopwatch, that laid the groundwork for automobile speed limits.
Patek Philippe’s first new collection in 25 years came as a particular shock to a British watchmaker who already had a (far less expensive) doppelgänger on the market.
The Type 1D model, created by the team of Mark Cho, Naoya Hida and Joshua Nathan Shapiro, won’t even be ready until early next year.
The lead stylist for Rihanna and Dua Lipa wears a watch not for its practicality, but for what it represents in his career.
‘We’re just friends having fun, doing something that we would like for ourselves,’ one Kollokium founder said.
The French-made timepiece, on display for the art event, was one of many ordered by Rama V in 1873 as gifts for some Buddhist monks.