Chopard hosts luncheon to honor NYCB
Feb 07, 2007
This year's luncheon was held in honor of NYCB principal dancer Kyra Nichols. Known for the purity of her dancing and her classicism, musicality and warmth, Nichols has become a favorite of audiences and critics alike. At the luncheon, current and former NYCB dancers reminisced and performed excerpts from a selection of Nichols' most emblematic roles, all....

Classic diamond styles rule red carpet at SAGs
Jan 29, 2007
Helen Mirren accepts one of her two SAG Awards in a diamond-jewelry ensemble by Chopard. Hollywood, Calif.—The 13th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards featured a parade of A-listers in spectacular diamonds, as celebrities turned out to honor their best in film and television last night. Helen Mirren, who won the award for outstanding....

Harry Winston Top Luxury Brand Among 'Ultra-Wealthy' Consumers
Jan 18, 2007
Ultra-wealthy consumers rate Harry Winston as the leading brand by a wide margin, according to a recent survey. Buccellati ranks second, slightly above third-place Cartier, among the 20 luxury jewelry brands surveyed. Brands rated by the Luxury Institute's 2007 Luxury Brand Status Index survey of Luxury Jewelry, in alphabetical order, are: * Asprey, *....

IWC, Vacheron, and Patek Rated as Most Prestigious Luxury Watch Brands
Jan 17, 2007
Ultra-wealthy American consumers rate IWC is the number one watch brand, followed closely by Vacheron Constantin, and Patek Philippe, according to a Luxury's Institute watch survey. "The timepieces made by IWC are secrets shared by only a very few in the world; their workmanship and quality is unquestioned, their craftsmen are artisans of time....

England: Glamour wouldn’t be glamour without a touch of royalty
Dec 21, 2006
Sir Elton John is England’s King of Bling. Whatever he does, wherever he goes, whoever he is with, our home-grown singer and composer is way over the top. The fact that his real name is Reg Dwight has never held him back. The glamour that attaches to him means that he is constantly in the news, and is the major reason why Chopard approached him some....

Watches: Personal Matters
Dec 01, 2006
Karl-Friedrich Scheufele, copresident of Chopard, agrees that the manufacture he established to produce the company’s connoisseur-class L.U.C. watches is hardly a commercial necessity. A decade after their debut, L.U.C. watches (so named for company founder Louis-Ulysse Chopard) still account for only 3,000 of the nearly 75,000 watches the company produces....

Dissecting glamour with Chopard's Caroline Gruosi-Scheufele
Nov 01, 2006
To find out what glamour is, I went right to the source - Chopard's Caroline Gruosi-Scheufele. In the face of bling and excess, Chopard perennially designs and introduces watches that become trendsetters and fashion icons, while staying true to what they feel to be true glamour. What is glamour? "Glamour, for me, is connected immediately with sparkle and....

Summary - WorldWatchReport 2005
Oct 31, 2006
IC-Agency explores and analyses the two faces of the Internet for the watch industry. On one side, it provides a precise evaluation of the threats and dangers presented by the Internet, notably through one of the first studies on ‘Luxury watchmaking and the Internet.’ The current 2005 study looks at five key export markets for the Swiss watch....

Magazine contents August - September 2006 issue
Aug 22, 2006
Editorial Bubbles Cover Story The Master Tourbillon by Jaeger-LeCoultre, a ‘regulator’ that sets the record straight Special Mechanical Innovations Mechanical watchmaking: everything is yet to be done The new escapement by Audemars Piguet, a turning point in precision watchmaking The quite remarkable....

FrontRunners: Jewel of the Dial
Dec 01, 2005
Swiss watchmaker and jeweler Chopard (800.246.7273, www.chopard.com ) has joined with New York diamond house William Goldberg to create a collection of one-of-a-kind watches set with Ashoka diamonds. Introduced by Goldberg in 2000, Ashokas are elongated, cushion-cut stones with slightly rounded corners. The partners will integrate the diamonds into....