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Testing the Nomos Autobahn Neomatik

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Propelled by the Nomos Autobahn's strange name, we drove along its namesake, the German expressway, to the city of Glashütte, where we tried the watch preceding its Baselworld 2018 introduction. For Nomos Glashütte, "expressway" signifies the best German-made quality. It likewise alludes to the elating sentiment of opportunity you get when you journey at fast along the six-path German expressway superhighway in the driver's seat of a very much designed roadster. We made a trip on the superhighway to meet with Nomos Glashütte's CEO Uwe Ahrendt, who by and by demonstrated to us the brand's freshest model, the Nomos Autobahn Neomatik 41 Date, at Nomos' central station ahead of time of its dispatch at Baselworld 2018. With a distance across of 41 mm, the Autobahn is nearly expansive for a Nomos watch. And keeping in mind that it has an energetic manly appearance, it's regardless unpretentious and exquisite, similar to a streamlined speedster, and e

Moussaieff in Expansion Mode

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LONDON — Known as one of the business' most attentive adornments houses, Moussaieff is all of a sudden venturing into the spotlight. In July, the house demonstrated its uncommon and extravagant gems amid couture in Paris. Presently Alisa Moussaieff, 88, will take her manifestations all important focal point at La Biennale Paris, the collectibles, craftsmanship and collectibles reasonable for be held Sept. 11 to 17 at the Grand Palais. "We're attempting to extend the business and assemble a name for ourselves for the up and coming age of my family," Mrs. Moussaieff said amid a meeting in the organization's leader boutique on New Bond Street. "So we are seeking the overall population out of the blue to expand volume of business and the volume of customers." She was sitting in a room generally utilized for private customers, a space lavishly improved with old fashioned furnishings and a Fabergé vase and displaying a portion of the house's b

F.P. Journe Octa Automatiques Sport New Havana Dials

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F.P. Journe takes into account the stogie devotee set with two new models in its Octa Automatique Réserve and Octa Automatique Lune accumulations, each with a brand-select "Havana"- shaded dial and caramel-hued calfskin tie. The dial shading on both new watches is novel to F.P Journe, created by the free organization's own dial producers, Les Cadraniers de Genève, utilizing a procedure that keeps going a while. The material is a blend of gold and ruthenium, completed in a particular dark colored shade that required various acclimations to the shading equation. The two watches are furnished with Journe's programmed Caliber 1300.3, with a distance across of 30.8 mm, a recurrence of 21,600 vph, and a power save of over five days (120 hours) because of the development's meter-long heart and quick, productive winding framework. The development has a 15-tooth escapement and a topsy turvy winding rotor. Its scaffolds have a roundabout côtes de Genève example an

His, Hers and Theirs: Jewelry Crosses the Gender Barrier

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Adornments on the catwalks has been as genderless as the form as of late — and similarly as strong. Consider the tremendous Gucci emblems and bulls' head pieces of jewelry that Alessandro Michele styled over everything from unisex sweatshirts to floaty white dresses in his spring 2018 accumulation this fall, and in addition the orange and pink globules that male models wore with coats and with shorts (and, once in a while, with both together). At the season's men's wear appears, Dior Homme's sharp suits were cooperated with strip armlets, skull and shakers ornaments and the sky is the limit from there. "Ladies are wearing increasingly manly things and men are progressively agreeable in wearing gems," said Lorenz Bäumer, the Parisian gem dealer who riffed on the surfing way of life to make a precious stone surfboard pendant in an impartial pearl dark. Jelena Behrend, the Serbian-conceived originator who pounds her unisex pieces by submit her atelier

The Rolex Deepsea Sea-Dweller Gets an Upgrade

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According to custom, Rolex created a great part of the watch-media buzz at Baselworld 2018, fundamentally for the arrival of its new GMT-Master II in a steel case. Be that as it may, that was not by any means the only huge news leaving Rolex this year; fanatics of the brand's outrageous profundity jumpers' watch, the Oyster Perpetual Deepsea Sea-Dweller, were blessed to receive a patched up model with new drags and wrist trinket and another "Superlative Chronometer" development. The latest variant of the Rolex Deepsea appeared in 2014. Water-impervious to a dumbfounding 3,900 meters and wearing Rolex's first "D-Blue" inclination dial, it was a littler, shopper cordial rendition of the extraordinarily manufactured Deepsea show that broadly turned into the primary watch to plunge to a profundity of in excess of 10,000 meters in the Mariana Trench, on a 2012 campaign supported by Rolex and the National Geographic Society and kept an eye on by movie

For Wood, It's Time to Shine

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It's an unassuming material found all through our homes and workplaces and in addition in the woods and gardens outside. In a few customs, it has been the makings of a blessing to stamp the early long periods of a marriage. Be that as it may, as of late, wood additionally has been assuming pride of position among the best jewels and watches. Both Boucheron and Annoushka have made wood-themed gems accumulations around the material, while Van Cleef and Arpels and Glenn Spiro have implanted contacts of it into their high adornments lines. Concerning watches, Piaget and Patek Philippe have presented exceptional watches with dials made in wood marquetry. An affection for recherché materials is somewhat the temptation of wood, joined with a feeling of, maybe, coming back to roots. "It's intriguing what you find in nature," said Yasmin Hemmerle, of the Munich-based diamond setters Hemmerle. "You don't need to make such a great amount around it o

How Far Below Can They Go? 4 Deep-Sea Dive Watches

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From the WatchTime files: These four outrageous jumpers' watches — recorded in rising request of their water-opposition level — are solid allies for globe-trotters who investigate the haziness under the ocean. 1. Mühle-Glashütte Rasmus 2000 (2,000 Meters)                   The Glashütte-based brand built up this watch as a team with research researchers from the University of Rostock, Germany. The 44-mm tempered steel case has a simple to-get a handle on rotatable bezel and an inward instance of delicate iron to ensure the development against attractive fields. It is water-impervious to 2,000 meters. Mühle's altered variant of the Sellita self-winding Caliber SW 200 ticks behind a dark, blue, or orange dial. Cost: $4,099*. 2. Breitling Avenger II Seawolf (3,000 Meters) The Avenger II Seawolf is water-impervious to 3,000 meters and has an enticing shading plan that brings to mind the uncommon animals that abide at such profundities. Self-winding Breitling Cal

Alhambra Design by Van Cleef and Arpels Turns 50

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Each adornments house needs a mark structure: a champion that uniquely inspires the house's style codes and proceeds to be a business smash hit. For Van Cleef and Arpels, that unquestionably would be Alhambra. The four-leaf-cloverlike configuration went onto the scene in 1968 as the accents on a yellow-gold sautoir, the detail's amuletlike shape summoning a cutting edge exoticism. Elegance Kelly and Romy Schneider were early fans; all the more as of late, Blake Lively and Sharon Stone have worn the style. Furthermore, the structure has been reached out to studs, between-the-finger rings and bejeweled watches made with malachite, tiger's-eye, onyx and turquoise, among different stones. To observe Alhambra's 50th commemoration, Van Cleef and Arpels has made four restricted release plans (from $6,350 to $63,500) that are to be presented Thursday at select leader stores the world over. A dark tone of mother-of-pearl, the most prominent material for Alhambra plans,

The Auction Season's Real Gems

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Some place on a Gulf of Panama shoreline in the mid sixteenth century, somebody found a flawlessly framed, pear-molded 50 or more carat pearl. Another person named it la Peregrina (the Wanderer), and Mary Tudor of England got it as a commitment blessing in 1554. (She was 38 and kicked the bucket four years after the fact.)  Rulers of Spain, beginning with her significant other, Philip II, clutched it for quite a while. At that point, in 1969, at Sotheby's in London, the Welsh on-screen character Richard Burton got it for his significant other at the time, the Oscar-winning performing artist Elizabeth Taylor. She cherished it, requested that Cartier plan something to hang it from (a ruby and precious stone neckband) and wore it gladly. In 2011, months after her demise, Christie's New York sold it for $11.8 million. "I believe that will be the closeout of my profession — and such a respect," Daphne Lingon, senior VP for gems in New York, said in a meet