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In the search of legitimate horology: Chanel, Hermès and Louis Vuitton

In the search of legitimate horology: Chanel, Hermès and Louis Vuitton

Chanel, Hermès, and Louis Vuitton. What do these three brands have in common? None of them is originally from the domain of (...)

An investigation into platinum

An investigation into platinum

One kilometre under the ground in the darkness and the heat of a South African mine lies one of the watch industry’s most luxurious materials: (...)

Strategic auctions

Strategic auctions

We won’t go into detail, in this column, about the dramatic shockwaves travelling through the world of watch auctions. We are not looking to weigh (...)

LAKIN@LARGE - Swords at dawn in mid-Atlantic and other incidents

LAKIN@LARGE - Swords at dawn in mid-Atlantic and other incidents

As far as the eye can see, there’s a monotonous unbroken seascape of a glittering silver-blue.

The glitz and glamour of the Festival de Cannes

The glitz and glamour of the Festival de Cannes

This year Chopard celebrated its tenth anniversary as a partner of Cannes and the maker of the famous Palme D’Or (the Golden Palm). Ten years ago, Chopard (...)

Parmigiani and Montreux

Parmigiani and Montreux

Parmigiani has taken an innovative approach by associating the brand not with movies, but with music. And, this means not just any music, but the best in (...)

Monaco's glam and glitter

Monaco’s glam and glitter

To immerse oneself in glamorous surroundings alongside the jet setters, the beautiful people, French television anchormen and leggy models, just pop down (...)

Harry Winston at Taormina

Harry Winston at Taormina

Taking place for the last 53 years in the ultra-romantic setting of the city of Taormina in Sicily, the Taormina Film Festival is an intimate and exclusive (...)

Jaeger-LeCoultre and the Mostra of Venice

Jaeger-LeCoultre and the Mostra of Venice

While it may perhaps be a little less glamorous than Cannes, the Mostra of Venice, the doyenne of the world’s film festivals (it celebrated its 75th (...)

Watchmaking and the cinema, united by art and glamour

Watchmaking and the cinema, united by art and glamour

You cannot help but notice a striking paradox when you attend the grand film festivals. It doesn’t matter whether you are in Cannes, Venice, Berlin or (...)

Ahmed Seddiqi and Sons

Ahmed Seddiqi and Sons

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Opened in the early 1950s, Ahmed Seddiqi and Sons started buying watches from watch distributors in other Persian Gulf countries, because Dubai (...)

Extreme Watches Push Luminox Forward

Extreme Watches Push Luminox Forward

Luminox, famous for its use of self-powered illumination, which needs no ‘charging’ from an external light source, is lighting up the extreme and (...)

Faces for our 80th anniversary

Faces for our 80th anniversary

The watch industry is, above all, a vast community of men and women who work, day-in day-out, at imagining, elaborating, producing, decorating, (...)

Giving back - watches and charity

Giving back - watches and charity

Charity is a good thing and, in the watch industry, charity is becoming an ever more popular thing.

Market Focus: Spain o'clock

Market Focus: Spain o’clock

It seems like it was only yesterday that Spain joined the European Economic Community, but it was in fact, in 1986, 20 years (...)

A new generation of luxury websites

A new generation of luxury websites

The luxury industry today must deal with new issues tied to the advances of the Internet. This type of media touches all socio-cultural levels. The (...)

Seiko's Spring Drive – a human, industrial, technological, and artisanal adventure

Seiko’s Spring Drive – a human, industrial, technological, and artisanal adventure

With its revolutionary Spring Drive, Seiko has accomplished two things: pushing the standards of ‘mechanical’ precision even farther, and competing (...)

History never ends

History never ends

We remember that, a few years ago, an American essayist, Francis Fukuyama, predicted the ‘end of history’. In his opinion, the fall of (...)

Green with envy

Green with envy

Everyone knows what glamour is, but it is one of those difficult things to define.

LAKIN@LARGE - The Prince and the strippers

LAKIN@LARGE - The Prince and the strippers

It’s been an odd few weeks. I seem to have been in a dozen places at the same time and in none of them really long enough to discover the journalists’ Holy (...)