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...Sharon Chan, the firm’s director of watches, Asia, expects bidding to be brisk as collectors get back into the swing of “live” sales after the unusually long Covid lockdowns imposed in some parts of the...
...“Instead of playing with Barbie dolls, I played with tweezers and raw diamonds,” says Sharon Chan, recalling the background to a career that last year led to her appointment as director of the Asian watch...
...A spokesman for the group, whose brands also include Burton, Miss Selfridge and Wallis, said a process had begun to find a new chairman....
...“Power means nothing without the support of the other women around you,” said Burton backstage. I’m with you, sister....
...But its watch department was left in limbo earlier this year with the unexpected departure of longstanding head specialist Sharon Chan — followed shortly afterwards by the rest of the team....
...In early 2016, the head of Sotheby’s Asian watch department, Sharon Chan, announced her resignation along with other members of her team, making the department rudderless at a time of significant difficulty...
...“It’s not often we can do that, but when we’re offering an important watch such as this to the Asian market, it really is necessary,” says Sharon Chan, head of watches for Sotheby’s Asia....
...According to Sharon Chan, Sotheby’s Hong Kong watch specialist, China and Southeast Asia are hotbeds of Swatch collecting....
...Sharon Chan recently rediscovered the humble Tag Heuer Link watch she was given as a child, while packing for a move. It is not the type of timepiece one would expect to see at a high-end auction....
...The results gave Sharon Chan, the recently appointed head of the Asian watch department at Sotheby’s, good reason to be quietly optimistic for her sale on April 8....
...Sharon Chan, Sotheby’s Hong Kong: “The growing number of participants in our sales suggests the Asian market will continue to grow, partly because the brands have been increasing their marketing budgets...
...“Richard Burton had great talent,” counters Welles. “He’s ruined his great gifts …Now he just works for money, does the worst shit.”...
...Sharon was an incredible girl – she lit up a room when she walked in....
...Harry Winston’s diamonds are so enrapturing that Sharon Stone sued the jeweller in 1993 for misrepresentation, after insisting that a diamond necklace that was loaned to her for the Oscars was a gift....
...John Burton, director, Westfield, the shopping centre operator. Kate Caithness, president, World Curling Federation. Mike Denness, president, Kent County Cricket Club....
...Sharon Bowles, a British MEP who chairs the Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee, has been a critic of silos....
...Film Festival begins next week, and it doesn’t have to do with an all-leopard-tattooed woman on the boardwalk, or an inexplicable and arty Lars von Trier competition entry, or whether jury president Tim Burton...
...Composer Burton Lane and lyricist Yip Harburg concocted this 1947 musical while exiled to Hollywood....
...Designed by actress Sharon Stone in 2000, just three of the cases were made: one for Stone, one for the Louis Vuitton museum and a third for auction at that year’s Venice film festival where it made $16,000...
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