The Rake Recommends: Rotonde De Cartier Minute Repeater Flying Tourbillon
Very rare, one of the very few Geneva Seal minute repeaters out there. Most high complication workshops are in Neuchatel or the Vallee de Joux. Not so many of them in Geneva. “Remember,” John Ruskin...
View ArticleOne Berluti Briefcase. Four Different Looks.
The right leather briefcase — such as this brown leather Venezia from Berluti — is as versatile as it is supple and fragrant. Here are four guises, in ascending order of formality, that’ll keep style...
View ArticleSeal of Approval: Cartier SIHH 2013 timepieces
The Poincon de Geneve is recognised a seal of designating watches (or at least watch movements) made in the canton of Geneva. And while the Geneva Seal traditionally applied only to decorations of the...
View ArticleCartier Tank: The choice of actual and cinematic royalty
The young journalist stood up, smoothed over his clothes and dried his clammy palms against his flannel trousers. He had every right to be jittery, of course — it isn’t every day that you get to...
View ArticleCartier: Jeweller to Kings
Cartier doesn’t do things by halves. It should be no surprise, therefore, that the jeweller’s current exhibition in Paris is a grand exposition at the Grand Palais. Go see it before February 16, and...
View ArticleCartier launches Diver watch
Among all the treats on display at this year’s SIHH was the Calibre de Cartier Diver watch, which brings together classic Cartier styling with the international criteria for a diving watch for the...
View ArticleCartier campaign: Shape Your Time
Cartier’s new campaign combines watch mechanisms, leopards, spaceships and a father-son relationship in an extravagantly luxurious representation of the brand’s vision. The ‘Shape Your Time’ film,...
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