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...Except when it isn’t. And the best example of when it isn’t is the conversation pit....
...You don’t have to confirm your booking with a credit card, make an upfront payment or be subject to a cancellation policy....
...Le Prieuré des Papes will also absorb the produce of Les Girard du Boucou. This second Châteauneuf estate, situated in a rather warmer part of the appellation, was bought at the end of last year....
...“Laureato has been a tremendous success and we can’t get enough of it,” says Brian Duffy, chief executive of the Watches of Switzerland group....
...Girard-Perregaux Casquette 2.0, £3,600, girard-perregaux.com Home service In an era when Bluetooth speakers are shoehorned into everything from baby seats to picnic blankets, it’s rather unusual to be...
...As the French owner, Olivier Girard, put it to me: “When you have a glass of wine you don’t want to smoke watermelon.” He added: “We don’t want to attract kids....
...And at Girard-Perregaux, dialled-back delivery is also hitting the right notes....
...Wishes yet to be fulfilled include a Girard-Perregaux Tourbillon with Three Gold Bridges. 4....
...Brett Girard was in his lakeside caravan when freakishly heavy rain began falling on the Australian town of Lismore....
...The classic styling of this high-jewellery timepiece doesn’t age....
...Just don’t accord him a spurious depth, or his rival a cynicism that was all too lacking. At work here is the power of appearances, or more precisely what Max Weber called “ideal types”....
...The new winemaker at Domaine Comte Georges de Vogüé in Chambolle-Musigny couldn’t wait to get started on his debut vintage there....
...One of its fine watch making brands, Ulysse Nardin, is taking part in W&W, the other, Girard-Perregaux, is not....
...Meanwhile, old legacy technology companies can’t seem to get any love. France’s Atos is a case in point....
...They don’t bake in the idea of gender.”...
...He will replace Elie Girard....
...“When the concept of Extreme E was initially put to me, I wasn’t really interested because traditional motor racing doesn’t fit with the green thinking Zenith is now working to,” he says....
...“That doesn’t apply to Tissot,” says Sylvain Dolla, who became Tissot’s chief executive in July....
...“You haven’t seen growth and inflation move markedly higher in Europe and Japan,” noted Mr Rieder. “The Fed needs to be really careful, going that far.”...
...“I can’t really understand it,” Mr Hayek told Switzerland’s NZZ newspaper....
...Jack Bick isn’t having a great time. He’s a lacklustre journalist in the dying glossy monthly sector, a London renter and an alcoholic pursued by thoughts of Stella....
...That doesn’t make for a fun couple of weeks in the office....
...And he really took out any look which didn’t have his signature,” he says. “It was fantastic....
...“We don’t want to open up, we want to keep it exclusive,” she says. “We won’t have more than 20 watchmakers. We have to keep it to la crème de la crème.”...
...“I didn’t know the brand well enough, even though I highly respected it. I saw it as a brand for people in the know.”...
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