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...Rolex has managed its growth so smoothly that it now holds 30 per cent of Swiss watch retail sales....
...But in terms of extreme diving, there is little that matches Rolex’s Deepsea, which makes its debut in 18-carat gold this year....
...Too many deliveries from Switzerland have been steel rather than rose gold so average selling prices have taken a hit....
...Watches of Switzerland, which derives more than half its revenue from Rolex, said in January it had received a greater number of steel watches rather than the more expensive steel and gold variety, hitting...
...“You wouldn’t put £200,000 of cash on your wrist. Well, you’re kind of doing that with some of these watches,” he said....
...Bought as something to remind him of a late friend, Bloore’s gold watch is one of a limited edition of five....
...With a leopard-print dial and strap, diamond-set lugs, and orange sapphire bezel, this is a watch of rare flamboyance from Rolex that sharply polarises opinion....
...There are bundles of green Rolex boxes in white sleeves down here, all with their original documentation....
...Soon after Richard Mille founded his eponymous watch brand in 1999 he adopted the slogan “A racing machine on the wrist”....
...“But the watch is a Rolex 18k gold, with a Lady Dior bag.” The particular signals of wealth change, but patterns repeat within that variety....
...More recently, Bongiasca has begun introducing her fine jewellery range in 18k with diamonds and precious stones. She is partial to a fancy cut, favouring brown, yellow and salt-and-pepper diamonds....
...The reopening of the Bond Street boutique in 2019 provided the perfect excuse to make a very small number of yellow-gold Crashes for London....
...Mappin & Webb dress watch (early 1980s) The piece that means the most to Marlow is his gold dress watch from Mappin & Webb, an English jeweller that is now part of the Watches of Switzerland Group....
...Also making headlines on planet Rolex and beyond are a pair of strikingly playful dials on new Oyster Perpetual models: one is lacquered with bubbles in pink, turquoise, yellow, red and green; while the...
...Louis Vuitton’s best-selling fine jewellery bangle is its gold Empreinte, which features a clasp in the LV initials; last month, it introduced a high jewellery diamond bangle in white and yellow gold that...
...China is therefore worth watching because among big watch markets it’s where the Rolex distortion is at its weakest....
...I unclasped the Casio F-91W on my wrist. It was the type of watch I should have given Patrick to begin with — plastic strap, basic LCD screen, battery that’ll last seven years....
...The watch weighed heavily on my wrist and, as a security guard held open the door, he said: “Welcome to the club.” I felt about 8ft tall....
...That period saw the introduction of two more house icons: the Dalí-esque Crash watch, released in 1967, and the simple gold Love bangle, which can only be opened with a small screwdriver....
...Cartier metal Signature C de Cartier sunglasses, £815, rose-gold, steel and leather Santos-Dumont watch, £7,600, white-, yellow- and rose-gold Trinity bracelet, £640, white-gold Clash de Cartier bracelet...
...Siam gold exudes a hue that is typical of Thai gold jewellery, which Bodiratnangkura describes as “a little bit more shiny, more yellow than Italian gold”....
...The pieces are up for sale in Sotheby’s Important Watches auction in New York on December 9, along with a yellow gold Rolex GMT Reference 1675 that August Busch, chief executive of brewer Anheuser-Busch...
...and pale pink aragonite, while another in yellow gold had a malachite dial....
...Watch collector Davide Dukcevich loves that his vintage Rolex is a mix of “high culture” and “low”. The Air-King 5500 model in question has the red-and-blue logo of Domino’s Pizza on the dial....
...Like almost all the watches in his collection, the watch is white metal, in this case white gold. 3....
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