Bring a Loupe: An 18k Chaumet Jump Hour, A Blancpain 3H Bund, A Juvenia Arithmo, And More

Editor’s pick — Accessory quick take: key highlight (movement/specs for watches, materials/finish, limited run, pricing tier) in 1–2 lines. Pull up a chair, Ballers. You’re at another week’s finish line, and we’ve got some watches to tide you over through Watches and Wonders. Happy Angine de Poitrine week to all who recently found themselves shaking…

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Introducing: Furlan Marri's Awesome Mechaquartz Chronograph Returns With A Meteorite Twist

Editor’s pick — Accessory quick take: key highlight (movement/specs for watches, materials/finish, limited run, pricing tier) in 1–2 lines. What We Know A few months ago, I got a message from my friend Andrea Furlan, one of the two co-founders of the brand Furlan Marri, that basically said: “I bought a meteorite.” That’s a wild…

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The rise of Rico Ace in 5 tracks

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Proclamations of rap’s death have been circulating for a while now. And while this discourse overlooks the gargantuan influence rap and hip-hop artists have had on mainstream music as a whole, it’s true that many of…

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5 photo books by women interrogating ideas of beauty

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Beauty is complicated. At times it can seem amorphous, yet at other times it can feel too rigidly defined. It’s alluring yet exclusionary; elevating and subjugating. Its codes, conventions and, above all, its contradictions, make beauty…

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