
Inside Prada’s Paragon Reopening: The Stars in Attendance
Prada’s expanded two-storey Paragon boutique reopened in August with a regional guest list led by Karina and Hwang In-youp.
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Objects of precision, expression and enduring design.

Prada’s expanded two-storey Paragon boutique reopened in August with a regional guest list led by Karina and Hwang In-youp.

From the Love bracelet to the Panthère, why Cartier keeps topping every 'best jewellery brand' list.

Hand-engraved goldsmithing meets avant-garde minimalism as newer-generation houses carve out their own lane.

Van Cleef & Arpels' education arm brings gemstone literacy to the region.

FutureGrail's partnership with Royal Salute signals a shift from showroom to hospitality.

The Place Vendôme house brings its 'free and audacious' Quatre Classique line to Singapore.

The Azure Blue, a 31.62-carat pear-shaped stone, headlined Christie's June Magnificent Jewels sale in New York.

From watchmaker to jeweller: how Piaget's rotating band became a modern talisman.

The 1780-founded house that crowned Napoleon's empresses opens its story to Singapore collectors.
Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, Tiffany & Co. and Bulgari now anchor the secondary jewellery market.

Malachite and tiger's eye Alhambra pieces have become the house's most fought-over rarities.

Watchbook Singapore's second Far East Plaza boutique reflects a secondary market projected to triple by 2033.

As lab-grown prices keep falling, natural stones are repositioning themselves as an asset class, not a discount alternative.

The centennial collection ranges from a $6,750 Oyster Perpetual 36 to a $98,100 diamond-paved Day-Date.

The 5249R-001 is the brand's first modern automaton wristwatch, inspired by a 1958 museum piece.

The Overseas titanium GMT comes in four dial colors, each named for a cardinal direction.

Rolex, Patek Philippe and Audemars Piguet all presented at Watches and Wonders Geneva 2026 - a first in the fair's history.

The early-2000s racing-inspired watch returns sharper, more ergonomic, and considerably more collectible.

The square-cased complication pairs a newly developed movement with Patek's Calatrava cross emblem.

As Tudor and Omega's prices climb toward grail territory, Longines stepped into the entry-level luxury gap.

Eight decades after its debut, the serpent motif returns as the Serpenti Aeterna.

From moon phase complications to watches built to actually leave the atmosphere, celestial themes dominated this year's releases.

The century-old Ludo bracelet shows how jewellery watchmaking resolves two crafts into one object.

After years of oversized, hype-driven releases, collectors are asking for pieces they'll actually wear every day.

The Le Sentier manufacture reminded Geneva why it's still watchmaking's watchmaker.

The new Master Control Chronometre gives JLC its first genuine integrated-bracelet watch - fittingly, since its own movement powered the originals.

No anniversary marketing, just Spring Drive precision and a growing following outside Japan.

The moon watch's newest case size follows the same downsizing instinct reshaping the rest of the category.

A full ceramic case, METAS certification and a Swiss franc price tag under 6,300 make Tudor's newest release hard to ignore.

The thinnest Overseas yet arrives alongside a formidable Les Cabinotiers minute repeater.

Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, Chopard and Bulgari made the strongest case yet for wearing your stones on your wrist.

A genuinely unusual case material choice made IWC one of the fair's talking points.

The Lange 1 Tourbillon Perpetual Calendar Lumen combines three complications in a single luminous dial.

The new Monaco Evergraph runs on a carbon-spring oscillator built for magnetic resistance.

Three anniversary references and a very limited desk clock mark half a century of Gerald Genta's design.

A new Oyster Perpetual 41 in Rolesor gold headlines the brand's centennial celebrations.

Ressence's minimalist 'organic' watchmaking approach reached a genuine engineering milestone this year.

The Royal Oak house made its comeback to Watches and Wonders the headline news of the fair.

A show obsessed with its own history delivered anniversary pieces, skeleton dials and a handful of genuine surprises.

The centenary celebrations came alongside a continued push for METAS-certified precision across the catalogue.

Half a century after Gerald Genta's five-minute napkin sketch, the anniversary pieces return to essentials.

The Neo Frame Jumping Hour perfects a complication Cartier revisited just last year.
From the engagement ring to South Sea black pearls, Tiffany's codes remain unmistakably its own.

Van Cleef & Arpels, Cartier and Tiffany trade drama for a whimsical, sorbet-toned mood board this year.

The 28.88-carat Jwaneng diamond is the latest reminder that colourless is no longer the only story.

IWC's new ION Orchard concept store joins a wave of luxury retail openings across the island.

Tiffany’s renovated ION Orchard flagship introduces a three-floor format and Southeast Asia’s first Blue Box Cafe.