Watches
The case for quartz.
Grand Seiko’s SBGX261 puts a quietly unusual idea on the wrist: serious watchmaking need not mean a mechanical movement.
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Jewellery & Decorative Arts
A palace inside an egg.
A gold palace, down to its cannons and trees, inside an egg just 12.7 centimetres high. What makes this Fabergé more than its precious materials?
Jewellery & Art
When a jewel becomes a creature.
René Lalique’s dragonfly-woman makes a jewel feel closer to a small, unsettling work of theatre than a display of precious stones.
Fragrance
A perfume remembered by nose.
L’Iris de Fath revisits a vanished composition through smelling and interpretation, not access to a secret original formula.
Bags & Style
A bag with a history.
From a Kelly Pochette to monogrammed travel trunks: a September sale invites a closer reading of the individual piece.
Watches
A season for looking closer.
Paris brings vintage and contemporary watchmaking into the same conversation. The interest is in the details.
Jewellery
The particular blue.
Two blue diamonds at a June sale show why size alone is an incomplete way to read a jewel.