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...One of the main architects of Marks and Spencer’s turnaround has credited its efforts to break the “vicious circle” of sticking with ageing customers for helping to revive the UK high street stalwart’s fortunes...
...However you choose to mark the moment, from a steel Swatch to a one-of-a-kind Vacheron Constantin inlaid with 146 baguette-cut diamonds, here is our selection of dragon-themed watches....
...Four decades ago car collector Jim Jaeger paid £500,000 for a 1962 Ferrari that raced at Le Mans....
...Back in venal St Mark’s at Espace Louis Vuitton, in Je est un autre, 82-year-old French street artist/existentialist provocateur Ernest Pignon-Ernest, precursor of Banksy, displays exquisitely drawn torn...
...“Shoppers make their choice of apples quickly, and getting them to think more thoroughly is quite hard,” says Sara Jaeger of Vescor Research in Denmark....
...The thing we couldn’t do without is Mark T Wendell’s Hu-Kwa tea. It’s Lapsang Souchong in style, but instead of China it’s actually from Taiwan....
...The piece is launched at this week’s Watches and Wonders fair in Geneva to mark the 25th anniversary of Chopard’s LUC fine watchmaking division....
...“It is quite nice to be making some money again,” says Marks and Spencer chair Archie Norman. Spare a moment then for Boohoo and Asos....
...Ralph Lauren Automotive Tourbillon, 2014 Ralph Lauren launched its luxury watch line in 2009, combining top-quality movements from Piaget and Jaeger-LeCoultre with a new twist on classic designs....
...After two decades of restructuring, six chief executives, relegation from the FTSE 100 and billions of costs, investors are daring to ask: is Marks and Spencer finally fixed?...
...Marks and Spencer is set to acquire upmarket womenswear brand Jaeger out of administration in what would be its first fashion acquisition in almost two decades....
...A glass of wine became something to mark the end of the working day. We’d made it, another day done. But in the summer, I took stock and switched tack, so that exercise became a more sensible option....
...third-party brands online — with the Jaeger brands....
...“Perhaps unconsciously, following the lockdown, we need to get closer to nature, which green can evoke,” says Lionel Favre, product design director at Jaeger-LeCoultre, who is responsible for the deep-green...
...Perhaps what marks out Lagerfeld’s taste most clearly is the sort of appreciation of an exquisite line that you might expect from someone who was himself a great illustrator....
...Since humans mark time by the orbits of the Earth around the sun and the moon around the Earth, it is inevitable that horologists are fascinated by astronomy....
...Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Quadriptyque In 2006, Jaeger-LeCoultre celebrated the 75th anniversary of its signature Reverso with a haute-horlogerie version called the Triptyque that wowed watch fans by having...
...Marks and Spencer reported a sharp fall in third-quarter sales as earlier store closures hit and warned it was planning for the latest national lockdown to last “potentially until Easter”....
...Jaeger on Monday became the first of Mr Day’s former businesses to secure a new owner, as Marks and Spencer announced it was set to acquire the upmarket womenswear brand for an undisclosed amount....
...At this level we mark time the same way as did our ancestors who first learned to walk upright, and with our whole bodies. Is it dark or light? Is it cold or hot?...
...Upmarket fashion label Jaeger on Friday said 13 of its stores would close, with the loss of 100 jobs. An insolvency would prompt more scrutiny of Arcadia’s pension arrangements....
...In my opinion, Jaeger-LeCoultre hit a bullseye when it offered the classic chrono-calendar-moonphase combo in steel....
...If ending lockdown marks the climb back up to a V-shaped recovery, watchmakers will be among the first to know....
...No redundancies have yet been made but the move puts a question mark over 2,700 store staff and 200 employees at its Wakefield head office....
...This watch is significant because it marks a new chapter in my working relationship with Jean-Marc Pontroué, after the period we spent together at Roger Dubuis, and it expresses my dual origins: Italian...
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