Jewelry & Watches

Wrist EnthusiastThe Royal family has a staggering net worth of around $28 billion, with the Queen once estimated to be worth $500 million. The Crown jewels alone are valued between $3 billion and $5 billion, although they’re technically priceless because they hold so much historical value. With an unlimited budget at their disposal, the Royals have a notoriously impressive watch collection, with the newly minted Prince of Wales, William, often donning an Omega Seamaster Pro on his wrist and his wife favoring her elegant Cartier Ballon Bleu, which looks stunning next to her blue sapphire engagement ring. Harry seems to gravitate more…

From JustLuxe content partner iW Magazine Bell & Ross adds a fourth dial color, copper brown, to the BR 05 collection, the watchmaker’s series of round-corner square-case watches with round dials and integrated bracelets. The new Bell & Ross BR 05 Copper Brown.The new BR 05 Copper Brown watch joins existing models in the collection with black, silver grey, and navy blue dials.  “You have to breathe life into a range”, explains Bruno Belamich, creative director and co-founder of Bell & Ross. “It can be achieved through technique (movement), materials, or details. For the BR 05 Copper Brown, we chose the color,”…

From JustLuxe Content Partner MensGear Many consider our natural satellite as the next frontier for human colonization. Hence, NASA’s next lunar mission is on everyone’s radar. Meanwhile, there are others who consider Mars as the next big frontier. Hence, after the Moonwatch, OMEGA adds another unique model to its Speedmaster line. This is the X-33 Marstimer – a novelty yet classy timepiece. The watchmaker notes that this Speedmaster’s development is with input from the European Space Agency (ESA). This collaboration ensures every element regarding the Red Planet is accurate. It features a grade 2 titanium case that measures 45 mm…

From JustLuxe content partner iW Magazine Zurich-based auction house Ineichen Auctioneers will offer an enticing series of auctions featuring complicated watches during the final quarter of 2022.  First up is an auction on October 29 that features more than thirty watches and will showcase tourbillons and open-worked (skeletonized) watches. Part two of the series, slated for December 3, will focus on watches with chronograph and date functions.  Notable lots for the October auction include a Vacheron Constantin Les Complications Tourbillon Ref. 30050, an MB&F LM Perpetual, a Girard-Perregaux Laureato Flying Tourbillon Skeleton, a Daniel Roth Tourbillon Perpetual Calendar, several stunning Jaeger-LeCoultre complicated pieces, an IWC minute repeater and…

From JustLuxe content partner iW Magazine Watch and jewelry retailer Wempe celebrates the 35th anniversary of its U.S. President Ruediger “Rudy” Albers with a special exhibition of watches from Wempe’s museum collection in Hamburg.  On exhibit during October at Wempe in New York, the celebratory selection includes vintage Wempe timepieces, watches from the 1980s, and co-branded limited editions. Wempe collaborations with Audemars Piguet, Vacheron Constantin and Chopard.Albers started his tenure with the German-based retailer in 1987 as a master watchmaker at the Wempe store in Hamburg and transferred to its New York location a year later. Ruediger ‘Rudy’ Albers, President of Wempe…

From JustLuxe content partner iW Magazine Ulysse Nardin adds three new models to its Marine Torpilleur collection, a series of nautically themed watches designed to echo nineteenth-century marine chronometers. Ulysse Nardin has a long history of making Marine Chronometers for ships.The new models retain the collection’s fluted bezel, long hands, and Roman numeral hour markers, but each also highlights one particular aspect of Ulysse Nardin’s artistic or technical expertise.  The new Ulysse Nardin Marine Torpilleur Dual Time.The Marine Torpilleur Dual Time The first model of the new trio adds Ulysse Nardin’s innovative dual-time display to the Marine Torpilleur collection. Fit with in-house…

From JustLuxe content partner iW Magazine Alpinarelaunches it's Extreme Regulator, first seen in 2005, with a new dial and a smaller cushion-shaped case. The new model, which debuts this week at Geneva Watch Days, is called the Alpiner Extreme Regulator and is now set in a more widely appealing 41mm steel case, considerably smaller than the 48mm case of the initial model and the 45mm size of more recent examples. The Regulator was considered a flagship model when Alpina launched it as the Avalanche Extreme Regulator seventeen years ago. But even with a new size, the latest model evokes a similar assertive,…

From JustLuxe content partner iW Magazine Frederique Constant unveils a new look for its Classics Heart Beat Manufacture collection, revealing a new dial, new indexes, and a retro 39mm case. The Frederique Constant Classics Heart Beat Manufacture in a 39mm steel case. The new design is also offered with a pink gold case.Perhaps the most notable change in the new design, which debuts this week during Geneva Watch Days,  is how the Geneva-based watchmaker is exposing the watch’s escapement or ‘Heart Beat.’ Rather than the ‘comma-shaped’ aperture at the 12 o’clock position that characterized the dial of the Heart Beat collection since…

From JustLuxe content partner iW Magazine Ulysse Nardin adorns its 39mm Lady Diver and 45mm black DLC titanium Blast Tourbillon X with purple, green, blue, or pink gemstones to create a rainbow effect that echoes the iridescent rainbow colors of silicon. The new Ulysse Nardin Blast Rainbow Tourbillon X.The newly sparkling bezels and dials, which debuted during Geneva Watch Days, are meant to celebrate Ulysse Nardin’s pioneering use of silicon components.  You may recall that in 2001 the Le Locle-based watchmaker was the first to debut a watch (the Freak) with silicon escapement components, jump-starting a technical revolution in the use…

APM celebrating the 40th Anniversary with Collection Yummy. Written In Partnership With Dmitri Sharov It is pretty common for a girl to steal and wear her boyfriend’s clothes, so what prevents men from doing the same? Many people in the fashion industry have been asking lately whether there should remain a divide between men’s and women’s fashion as the genderless and unisex trend has been gaining traction. The trend is particularly pronounced among the younger generations, especially Gen Z, who are rewriting established gender norms. Genderless fashion gives them the freedom to wear whatever they want. As for brands, by creating genderless products they…