On April 14, Audemars Piguet will walk into Palexpo for the first time as an exhibitor at Watches and Wonders Geneva. For a manufacture that sat out the original SIHH for years before joining, then operated independently after the salon's dissolution, and now enters the reconstituted event on its own terms during its 150th anniversary year, the significance of the moment is hard to overstate.
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There is a sentence in Bremont's latest press release that deserves to be read twice: the brand is celebrating its passion for "joyful watchmaking—an approach long embedded within the brand's DNA." I struggle to recall precisely when joyful watchmaking became embedded in the DNA of a company founded on the uncompromising rigours of Martin-Baker ejection seat testing and the credibility of British military aviation.
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Vacheron Constantin has just opened a new boutique at The Mall at Short Hills in New Jersey, expanding their retail footprint in the American Northeast. For collectors in the greater New Jersey area, the boutique represents a meaningful development: full access to the complete Vacheron Constantin collection, from the Fiftysix references through grand complications.
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