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...Last week’s auction, organised by Phillips in association with Bacs & Russo at the annual Geneva Watch Days fair, offered 15 lots donated by brands to fund a scholarship at the Ecole d’Horlogerie de Genève...
...But, instead of being awarded to the winner, the watch was sold by auction house Phillips, raising more than €1mn for the Prince’s Trust charity....
...Chopard’s co-president Karl-Friedrich Scheufele was particularly drawn to the aim of bridging art and watchmaking and the maker’s LUC Quattro Spirit 25 jumping hour watch features a white gold dial hand-engraved...
...Berthoud is, in fact, an 18th-century marine chronometer maker, relaunched as an elite watch brand with limited production by Karl-Friedrich Scheufele, co-president of Chopard....
...Sendak’s debt to 19th-century Romanticism extended to Phillip Otto Runge, who endowed children and vegetation with mystic vitality....
...Friedrich Joussen of Tui, the travel company....
...Prince Phillip painted the portrait of the Queen in 1965 30. The Bombay-born Anish Kapoor 31....
...RBS’s new chairman, Sir Phillip Hampton, has taken a very dramatic the axe to Fred the Shred’s boardroom....
...Lark and Termite By Jayne Anne Phillips Jonathan Cape £15.99, 272 pages Known for her tales of blue-collar life in small-town America, Phillips’ books include Black Tickets and Machine Dreams....
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