Category: Timepieces

Editor’s Top Picks of The Year: Part I of III

FOR THE HOME

MarchStore.CA
Highly curated items for the kitchen, pantry, table, as well as kitchen design services from the San Francisco-based store MARCH.
Axor / Alexander Schneider
The Axor 240 2-Jet Showerhead and Axor 1-Jet Handshower by Front were inspired by the hidden aesthetics of technology, turning the typical hardware, such as pipes, joints, valves and funnels, into charming design objects. Axor’s designs with Front are currently part of the critically acclaimed Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft and Design, Midcentury and Today exhibit, which just opened at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) in Washington, D.C. “Pathmakers,” which explores and celebrates the contributions of women in design and art, comes to D.C. after a successful six-month run at the Museum of Arts and Design in NYC (MAD museum).

THE WATCH HOUNDS

“_To mark its 85th birthday, we wished to offer a new vision of the Reverso, so that each individual can immediately recognise the collection that matches their own character and the model destined to become theirs.” Daniel Riedo, CEO Jaeger-LeCoultre.

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REVERSO Tribute Duo, Front Dial from Jaeger-LeCoultre. Since 1931, the year the Reverso watch was created, its emotional impact has remained as powerful as ever. This undisputed style icon elicits the same wonderment decade after decade. The strength of its pure, almost discreet lines makes the Reverso timepiece the epitome of elegance.
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An Important Gold Split Seconds Stop Watch sold at Sotheby’s from Abraham Louis Breguet/Photo credit Sotheby’s

THE ART LOVERS

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The African-American Art Sale at Swann Galleries: RICHMOND BARTHÉ (1901 – 1989) Head of a Dancer. Cast bronze, with a brown patina, mounted on a white stone base.
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Frank Horvat, Givenchy Hat , 1958, Winter Antiques Show 2016 (Peter Fetterman Gallery)

The Weekender: Madison Avenue Watch Week 2012



Editor’s Top Picks
From the Malte Collection which is celebrating their 100th Anniversary Edition. 
This jaw dropping, elegant timepiece is a mechanical hand-wound movement calibre 4400 developed and crafted by the veteran watch watchmaker, Vacheron Constantin.
Grasshopper Clock from Asprey
The Asprey Grasshopper clock is an English 8 day fusee timepiece with Grasshopper escapement and swinging bar balances. The clock retails for $18,400 and can be found at their Madison Avenue Location.
Asprey: 853 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10021
Happy Diamonds from Chopard
Many years ago, the talented Chopard designer became fascinated with the sparkle of unset diamonds. The incomparable radiance and color of these inimitable gems was such that an inspired dream was born: that of creating watches and jewels where diamonds could enjoy total freedom of movement, unfettered by any metal whatsoever. What a tribute!
Chopard is located at 709 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10065
The Privilege of Style and Beauty
From the Malte Collection which is celebrating their 100th Anniversary Edition. 
This jaw dropping, elegant timepiece is a mechanical hand-wound movement calibre 4400 developed and crafted by the veteran watch watchmaker, Vacheron Constantin. The timepiece is approved in accordance with the new Hallmark of Geneva criteria Sandblasted silver-toned dial hours, minutes. It is a limited Edition of 100 pieces for the 100th Anniversary of the barrel shape by Vacheron Constantin.
VC: 729 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10065

La Vie En Rose





B V L G A R I’s  S T Y L E

Sophisticated and Elegant.  Rose Gold Watches are in Vogue again.

Julian Moore wearing one of Bulgari’s signature watches.

SERPENTI
18kt pink gold case set 
with round brilliant-cut diamonds, black opaline dial with a guilloche soleil treatment, 
two twirls 18kt pink gold bracelet.
Daniel Roth, Il Giocatore Veneziano
Features minutes repeater and an automation mechanism operating on damand.
Inspired by “The Cardsharps”, a masterpiece by the Italian painter Caravaggio.
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High Fashion

Marchesa gowns are timeless and seriously elegant
www.marchesa.com

Breeze and Freeze
Smeg 50’s style refrigerators with ice compartment
Art for Life
We love the crisp and intelligent photography of Dale Ann Clancy
Table Manners
White gold Trocadero table by Armani/Casa  
Available in brushed brown oak, brushed light oak, brown mahogany and sukupira wooden finishing
In The Deco Style
Classic Deco Rugs from Barbara Barran of Classic Rug Collection
Sitting Pretty
Expressing the force and beauty of simplicity, this light-scale chair lounge draws inspiration from 
the classic works of Mies van der ohe and Le Corbusier
The Right Bite
Richard Mille 
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TimeCrafters at The New York Times Center


Looking back: The TimeCrafters in New York

 It pays to bear in mind that this was the very first luxury watchmaking fair, and how successful it turned out to be.  Worldwide, watch lovers will soon be making The TimeCrafters a yearly destination.

 The Bulgari’s booth was admired for its simplicity, which is just as well since their watches certainly are not!  I loved how they got the New Zealand’s ALL BLACKS to star in their short film, and introduced their newer masterpiece (with the team’s namesake).
 Baume & Mercier continues to promote, hardily, their Hamptons lifestyle by the beach with their new creation.  Their space was truly cozy.  Surely this picture does not convey enough how charming it was.
 Great displays of antique watches in the first floor level.

Opening Party

Dan D’Errico Photography
New York Times Center

Out On The Town





P E O P L E   &   P L A C E S

The Kota Ancestors Opening Reception
by Bernard Dulon at Friedman & Vallois

Mr Bernard Dulon is pausing in front of an extremely rare double-sided ancestor reliquary figure.  It stands adjacent to two astonishing and very old male and female effigies that are completely covered in hammered metal of Bakota origin.


Photo courtesy Remy Amezcua for Friedman & Vallois

 
Mr. Dulon has published an exhibition catalog in which he speaks of collecting and exhibiting Kota Art over the years, and he specializes in Tribal Art in Paris.  The Kota Ancestors exhibition held at Friedman & Vallois will be shown in Galerie Bernard Dulon in Paris during Parcours des Mondes Gallery walk from the 6th to the 11th of September 2011 in Saint Germain des Près.
Photo courtesy Remy Amezcua for Friedman & Vallois
Photo courtesy Remy Amezcua for Friedman & Vallois
Kota Ndasa reliquary figure – Congo, 19th Century.
Photo courtesy Remy Amezcua for Friedman & Vallois
Photo courtesy Remy Amezcua for Friedman & Vallois
Photo courtesy Remy Amezcua for Friedman & Vallois
 Mrs. Jacqueline Trouillot Amezcua, and VSP
 Mrs. Jacqueline Trouillot Amezura, Mr. Michael McConkey, 
Mr. Franck Hall, and and Mr. Remy Amezcua

Mr. Bernard Dulon dedicates this exhibition to the memory of the anonymous artists who invented a flamboyant architectural style which still attracts and fascinates beyond geographical and cultural boundaries.

The Kota Ancestors on view now until June 11, 2011
Friedman & Vallois
27 East 67 Street
New York, NY 10065
Tel:  212.517.3820
www.vallois.com
Georgetti’s party at The Plaza Hotel Penthouse
 Breathtaking views from the $35 million penthouse’s master bedroom
Ms. Adele Nino, and Mr. and Mrs. Arlati

Artemide’s party at the Andaz Hotel
 Mr. Karim Rashid
Sous Chef, Mr. Gerard Spezio

Wanted Design at La Venue
photos by High End Weekly™

Poetry of Time at Van Cleef & Arpels

 Mr. Larry Schaffer
 Mr. Bartolomeo Bellati
Master watchmaker, Mr. Jean-Marc Wiederrech