Category: Luxury Accessories

Editor’s pick — Accessory quick take: key highlight (movement/specs for watches, materials/finish, limited run, pricing tier) in 1–2 lines. Pitti Uomo, the Florence-based bi-annual Mecca of menswear, strode into its 109th edition with confidence and record attendance. Many a watch enthusiast was among the 19,000+ designers, fashion-buyers, journalists, and influencers. While vintage watches have long…

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 Launched at this spring’s Retromobile classic car show in Paris, Chopard and Zagato are teaming up for the lightest titanium watch the watchmaking maison has ever launched. The new Chopard Zagato Lab One…

Editor’s pick — Accessory quick take: key highlight (movement/specs for watches, materials/finish, limited run, pricing tier) in 1–2 lines. From the ancient Egyptians to the Incas — and seemingly every culture in between — gold has been valued above all else. Whether from its rarity, its resistance to corrosion, or simply its incomparable lustre and…

Editor’s pick — Accessory quick take: key highlight (movement/specs for watches, materials/finish, limited run, pricing tier) in 1–2 lines. The folks at Louis Erard are not known for sporty watches. Quite the opposite; the brand is best known for its endless string of collabs and its regulators. To be sure, so dominant are those pillars in…

Editor’s pick — Accessory quick take: key highlight (movement/specs for watches, materials/finish, limited run, pricing tier) in 1–2 lines. Over the past several years, the watch industry has seen a remarkable democratization of complications. Layouts and features that were once reserved for the wealthiest of collectors are increasingly available even at the entry level, and…

Editor’s pick — Accessory quick take: key highlight (movement/specs for watches, materials/finish, limited run, pricing tier) in 1–2 lines. Since 2007, LÜM-TEC has taken a very specific approach to watchmaking: The brand builds tough, legible, mechanically honest watches, then keeps refining them year after year. No constant reinvention for its own sake — just steady…

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 This week, French-Chinese brand Atelier Wen introduces its Millésime 2025 special edition. Ironically, releasing in 2026, due to a few manufacturing delays, the Millésime 2025 edition is the brand’s second entry in its…

Editor’s pick — Accessory quick take: key highlight (movement/specs for watches, materials/finish, limited run, pricing tier) in 1–2 lines. The idea of reviving original designs is by no means new in watchmaking. In the 1990s, TAG Heuer released a darling reissue with its ‘Heuer-only’ branded 1964 Re-Edition line, Patek’s 3796 Calatrava drew a direct line…

Editor’s pick — Accessory quick take: key highlight (movement/specs for watches, materials/finish, limited run, pricing tier) in 1–2 lines. Swiss watch exports to the U.S. surged in December as the rollback of tariffs drove a wave of shipments to retailers. The spike wasn’t enough, however, to lift total annual exports into positive territory, as wholesale…

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 Long gone is the golden age of aviation—instead of lobster served with silver cutlery and flowing champagne, we’re left with a bag of pretzels and a cup of water. But with this latest…