THE CURATED EDITION.
THE DEPARTMENTS
Watchmaking, high jewellery and the houses that define both: releases, archives and craft.
Reportage
Edited by Melanie Grant for Phaidon, The Jewelry Book gathers 300 entries across two hundred years, from the great maisons to studio jewellers, and asks a better question than what a jewel is worth: what it changed.
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Watches & Jewellery / Reportage
In November 2025 Phillips closed its first decade in Geneva with a white-glove sale of CHF 66.8 million, led by a 1943 steel Patek Philippe ref. 1518 at CHF 14.2 million. Six months later, the same room went higher still.
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Maurice Lacroix, Frederique Constant, TAG Heuer and Tissot are returning to solar quartz, with a decade between battery changes and photovoltaic cells hidden beneath translucent dials or the crystal itself.
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On the promotional round for The Odyssey, Christopher Nolan wore a Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso made in ten pieces for The Dark Knight Rises, the bat symbol hidden on its reverse.
Watches & Jewellery / Reportage
Founded in 2017 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Vanguart makes two watches, in tiny numbers, for a client list that runs from Michael Jordan to Sam Altman. Now the Orb comes in pink and blue ceramic.
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In Glendale, Omega has staged its first exhibition to set James Bond and Spectre face to face: more than twenty original props, six watches from the Omega Museum and a new Seamaster Diver 300M collection that lets the wearer choose a side.
Style / Reportage
For the London house of Asprey, Silvia Furmanovich has made ten unique jewels in jadeite of pink, lavender, red, white, orange and green, set among wood marquetry, hand-carved bamboo, braided horsehair and Shibayama inlay.
Style / Reportage
Jacob Elordi returns to Cartier, photographed this time by his sister Isabella, for the next chapter of LOVE Unlimited: an all-gold necklace, diamond-set bangles and a patented invisible clasp.
Watches & Jewellery / Reportage
A jewel reaches the display case as a finished object, but its making depends on several professions whose work is rarely visible together. Van Cleef & Arpels's De Mains en mains programme reverses that perspective. It begins with the people, tools and stages behind a piece, asking how those skills can be understood by students, career changers and the wider public.
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Hidden chronographs, slimmer proportions and luminous materials show how the major houses are finding surprise inside familiar forms.
Watches & Jewellery / Reportage
A 10 Hz tourbillon and magnetic constant-force escapement bring the manufacture’s research programme into a 75-piece edition.
Watches & Jewellery / Reportage
Girard-Perregaux, MING, Vacheron Constantin and Parmigiani Fleurier approach the dial, the movement and the sound of time from different directions.