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3 weeks ago | 
robbreportmonaco.com | Elizabeth Doerr
Van Cleef & Arpels had another stellar showing led by timepieces from its Poetic Complications range. These include four new Pont des Amoureux automaton models with new bracelets and cases fully set with dazzling snow-set gemstones. These watches tell the story of two lovers who move toward each other at noon and midnight for a kiss on a Parisian bridge that lasts for three minutes (or on demand for 12 seconds).
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1 month ago | 
bobswatches.com | Elizabeth Doerr
Ladies watches often seem like an afterthought in the luxury watch market. But top watch brands like Rolex and Patek Philippe never forget the feminine wrist: this year at Watches and Wonders in Geneva, these blue-chip marques introduced a combined total of five new timepieces perfect for women.
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2 months ago | 
bobswatches.com | Elizabeth Doerr
At Watches and Wonders 2025 in Geneva, Patek Philippe introduced 15 new watches (and one clock) plus a bevy of beautiful one-off timepieces decorated with métiers d’art, a comprehensive annual set of new timepieces that Patek Philippe collectively calls “Rare Handcrafts.” Here, however, I’d like to focus on three of the top complicated timepieces that this Genevan brand announced.
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Mar 5, 2025 | 
bobswatches.com | Elizabeth Doerr |Paul Altieri
If you regularly look at what celebrities are wearing on their wrists, you’ll probably already know that not only is Hollywood’s freshest face, Timothée Chalamet, a Cartier watch ambassador, but that he also makes his watch and jewelry choices for events in surprising and modern ways.
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Feb 19, 2025 | 
bobswatches.com | Elizabeth Doerr |Paul Altieri
The so-called pandemic era might just as well have been dubbed the “hype era” as far as watches were concerned. And one of the biggest hypes to come out of it was so-called Tiffany Blue dials. “Tiffany Blue” is not an official name for this color direction. In fact, “Tiffany Blue” is a custom Pantone hue that New York jeweler Tiffany registered as a color trademark in 1998; it even bears the PMS number 1837 in homage to Tiffany’s year of founding; only Tiffany can officially use this color.
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Feb 7, 2025 | 
thegoldenhour.substack.com | Anya Kamenetz |Elizabeth Doerr |Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
Katharine’s web siteThe All We Can Save projectI'm offering an online workshop, Feb. 27, on Writing for Change with ’s group, Scribente Maternum. Would love to see some friendly faces!Hello friends. I have to tell you, I spent a lot of this week mega stressed.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
robbreportmonaco.com | Elizabeth Doerr
As a general rule, products by independent watchmakers and mainstream luxury brands aren’t necessarily sold in the same shops: their clienteles tend to be very different. But in March 2019, that changed when Chopard opened its Art in Time boutique at One Monte- Carlo, Place du Casino. This space, ideally located between the famed Hermitage hotel and Café de Paris, features the beautiful products of a handful of creative watchmakers, clockmakers and creators of adjacent objets d’art.
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
quillandpad.com | Elizabeth Doerr
Why is it that watch brands celebrate watch anniversaries so enthusiastically? That is actually a question I’ll answer below because first, I’d like to highlight five classic timepieces that celebrated anniversaries back in 2017. It’s more than fitting that Patek Philippe decided to use Caliber 240 – which celebrates 40 years of existence in 2017 – in its 85-year-old Calatrava model.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
quillandpad.com | Daniel Roth |Elizabeth Doerr
by Elizabeth Doerr and Dr. Magnus BossePaul Gerber is a soft-spoken master of miniaturization, who has been constructing complications in his Zurich basement workshop since 1976. But Gerber did not become well known to watch aficionados until the legendary Caliber 92 super complication landed in Gerber’s atelier with instructions from the new owner to add a few more.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
robbreportmonaco.com | Elizabeth Doerr
Despite having passed away in 2011, Gérald Genta remains the most famous designer in the watch industry thanks to the prolific work revealed during his lifetime. Lesser known is that Gerald Charles was the final brand established by Genta: the Swiss-Italian goldsmith and designer founded the brand, combining his first and middle names, in 2000 right after selling his other eponymous firm, Gérald Genta, which now belongs to LVMH.
