Appointments
Sep 01, 2003
Luigi Girotto has joined Bel Oro International, New York, as head of Aurea International Design Group division. Girotto most recently was employed with Italian jewelry designer Zoccai. The Gemological Institute of America (GIA) has appointed Gerard J. Buckley as director of development. Buckley has more than 25 years experience in development,....

Richemont Closes a Cartier Watch Factory
Sep 01, 2003
The Richemont Group, the world's second-largest luxury goods company, is restructuring some of its watchmaking operations. The group's luxury watch brands include A. Lange & Söhne, Baume & Mercier, Cartier, Dunhill, IWC, Montblanc, Officine Panerai, Piaget, Vacheron Constantin, and Van Cleef & Arpels. The changes follow what group executive....

Perrin to Retire as Richemont CEO
Aug 01, 2003
Alain Dominique Perrin, chief executive officer of Richemont, the Swiss luxury goods group, will retire in October on his 61st birthday. Perrin joined Briquet Cartier as a sales representative in 1969 and became general manager in 1970. He was named CEO of Cartier Musts in 1976. Following its merger with Cartier Joailliers, in 1981, Perrin became chairman....

Tourbillons Headline $2.1 Million Auction
Aug 01, 2003
Tourbillon watches headlined Antiquorum's live and online auction of pocket watches, wristwatches, and clocks, held in May in New York City. In all, 281 clients from around the world registered for online bidding, and more than 5,000 collectors logged onto Antiquorum's Web site (www.antiquorum.com) to follow the live-auction broadcast. The two-day event rang....

Best Things First: Rare Vintage
Jun 04, 2003
When you think of James Robinson (212.752.6166, www.jrobinson.com )—a 91-year-old New York antiques shop specializing in 18th-, 19th-, and early-20th-century silver, porcelain, and glassware—the term haberdasher does not immediately leap to mind. Yet, stationed in a corner of this organized, family-owned jewel are mahogany and glass cases filled....

The Best of the Best 2003: Jewelry - Cartier Haute Joaillerie
Jun 02, 2003
Louis Cartier was undoubtedly one of the world’s greatest arbiters of jewelry style. During his heyday in the early 1900s, he explored exotic Egyptian, Islamic, and Asian art for inspiration and forged modern, yet feminine, jewelry that distinctly reflected the fashion and culture of his generation. Today, Louis Cartier’s principles of....

It happens on Europastar.com
May 01, 2003
It happens on Europastar.com Watch names that made the news on www.euroapstar.com since the beginning of this year 2003 are: Audemars Piguet | Breitling | Alfex | Chopard | Piaget | Omega Longines | Jaeger-LeCoultre | Oris | Kolber | Aquanautic | o.d.m. Limes Uhren | Seiko | Ikepod | Century | Movado | Guy Ellia Fossil | Hublot | Candino | Burberry |....

Features: The Real Deal
Apr 01, 2003
Vacheron Constantin's Le Grande Classique. (Click image to enlarge) The silver lining of this controversial topic is that as collectors’ watchmaking knowledge grows, so does their passion for complicated watches. And if much ado is made of the most tangled complexity and tiniest detail . . . well, these are watches we’re talking about after all. A. Lange....

Features: The Real Deal
Apr 01, 2003
Chopard’s L.U.C. movement, like many of the new proprietary calibers, is a versatile, high-torque workhorse that can be adapted to a variety of future complications. By contrast, two newly developed Cartier calibers, the first 100 percent Cartier-made movements, are much more specialized. Both the dual– time zone and the jumping date movements....

Features: The Real Deal
Apr 01, 2003
The investments made to achieve manufacture status over the last few years have been astonishing. Since the late 1990s, Chopard, Vacheron Constantin, Piaget, Cartier, and Parmigiani Fleurier have either launched their own manufacture movements or opened manufacture factories with all operations under one roof. A partial explanation for all this activity is....