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In the early 1990s, when Caroline Scheufele was still a young designer at her family’s watchmaking business, she realised Chopard did not make the kind of sportier women’s watch she wanted to wear. So, she took matters into her own hands. “I used to do a lot of sports, like skiing and swimming and tennis,” the artistic director and co-president of Chopard told Euronews Culture. “I realised we didn’t have anything cool like a sports ladies’ watch. Everything was sort of delicate with white gold or yellow gold, not even rose gold. So I designed the Happy Sport.” The Happy Sport - first released ...
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Watchmakers are once again showcasing their most luxurious creations in Geneva this week at the Watches and Wonders fair. But times are tough – and with a general squeeze on consumer spending, can people really afford luxury Swiss watches? The CEO of one company says it's about finding the right price point. "The price range which we consider very important in the market right now is between €1,000 and €3,000, where the end consumer are looking for a nice, elegant and refined timepieces," says Elie Bernheim, CEO of Raymond Weil. "And there is a high demand for this price segment." Watches and ...
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Raised in the Netherlands, jeweller Clio Saskia has always loved the natural world. “My dad is a sort of biomedical researcher. So I think a lot of my curiosity and process comes from that,” says Saskia. “So anything that's unusual or weird, or an animal that I've never seen … it’s these really unique characteristics they have that I try and translate into a piece of fine jewellery that people will really treasure for a very long time.” To create her pieces Saskia uses ancient techniques that have been around for more than 6,000 years. “Steel tools, hot wax pens or candles, and then it's reall...
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Motorsport is a huge business, with F1 alone being worth in excess of €2 billion a year. However, it’s often criticised for being environmentally unfriendly, with even the glamour surrounding it not compensating for that fact. Come 2024, though, there is an alternative taking the world of luxury sports by storm. Enter the E1 Series - the world’s first ever all-electric race boat championship. After a huge launch last month amid much fanfare in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, it’s generated enormous interest worldwide and now it's set to add excitement on Europe's waterways, too, as the season continues....
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Nearly a century ago, Baron Philippe de Rothschild, who inherited the Château Mouton Rothschild in 1922, conceived the idea of transforming the prestigious estate's wine labels into miniature works of art. In 1924, French graphic designer Jean Carlu became the first artist to be commissioned to create an original artwork to illustrate a vintage label. The concept took full flight in 1945 after the war, with each subsequent year featuring labels created by the likes of Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Salvador Dalì, Francis Bacon, and Anish Kapoor. The list of art world titans goes on....
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