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Jaeger-LeCoultre celebrates 10-year partnership with Venice International Film Festival

Jaeger-LeCoultre opens a retrospective photographic exhibition on Lido Island to mark its 10-year partnership with the Venice International Film Festival from September 2nd to 12th 2015. The Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Behind the Scenes Exhibition will give visitors an insight into the filmmaking process of diverse artists. Each of them has contributed to creating and bringing life to the art of filmmaking and has been rewarded by the Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker Award, the annual prize established by Jaeger-LeCoultre in association with the Venice International Film Festival.

Richard Mille announces the opening of a seasonal Pop-up Exhibition

Richard Mille announces the opening of a seasonal Pop-up Exhibition in Harrods’ Brompton Road Exhibition Windows for the month of July. Store visitors and passers-by will admire a unique selection of the brand’s timepieces in a sophisticated and elegantly designed space, distinctive to the Richard Mille. The Richard Mille Pop-up is now open with product and displays in place until 31st July.

Christophe Claret opens two new points of sale

Christophe Claret announces the opening of a new point of sale in Switzerland, in Lucerne and and Chronopassion in Paris. Since June 26th 2015, creations from the four collections by the Christophe Claret have been available from Gübelin, on Schwanenplatz. Finally, the brand will take part in an exhibition at King Sign in Taiwan in collaboration with Swiss Prestige, from July 15th to 22nd.

IWC boutique Abu Dhabi welcomes winners of Volvo Ocean Race

The prestigious Volvo Ocean Race, Azzam Skipper Ian Walker and his crew Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing (ADOR) visited to the IWC Schaff¬hausen boutique in The Galleria on Al Maryah Island in Abu Dhabi. The IWC sponsored crew of the racing yacht; Azzam lifted the Volvo Ocean Race 2014–15 trophy as champions in the final stopover in Gothenburg, Sweden. Walker and his team celebrated their vic¬tory during their visit to the city.

Indian Diamond Traders meet to deliberate on the strategy and way forward for the trade

GJEPC, BDB & MDMA, organized a meeting with top 250 diamond exporters on 7th July 2015 to discuss the current market scenario and issues faced by the diamond industry and derive a way forward. The meeting was held at S.G. Jhaveri Trading Hall, BDB, BKC, and Mumbai. The industry leaders of all associations, viz. BDB, GJEPC & MDMA, and members present unanimously agreed that the market has been going through tough times and there is a need to take short term as well as long term measures to address the issues faced by the industry.

Product Launch

Cartier presents Paris Nouvelle Vague collection

Paris Nouvelle Vague presents in Yellow gold, lapis lazuli and diamonds. Cartier and Paris are intertwined by an invisible thread of creativity, a certain French charm, an inimitable spirit that is embodied by the Parisian woman. Paris Nouvelle Vague ring, set with lapis lazuli and diamonds.

Bulgari launches a new High Jewelry collection: Italian Gardens

The Magical Reflections is Sinuous, lively and as scintillating as the water that flows in all Italian gardens, this necklace in white gold and brilliant and pear cut diamonds is much inspired by water chains, the cascading rivulets like the one that still can be admired at Villa Lante. Likewise, the curved and three-dimensional lines of Magical Reflections emphasise the purity of the diamonds in a play of light volumes. Masterfully executed by Bulgari, the arrangement at once recalls the lapping of the water flowing among the stone volutes.

Chopard is exhibiting its Haute Joaillerie Creations at Paris Couture Week

Chopard is exhibiting its most recent Haute Joaillerie Creations at Paris Couture Week for the second time. The Fleurs d’Opales Collection is featuring mysterious floral rings with opal hearts in titanium or zirconium, adorned with coloured precious stones. On the first ring, a black opal presides in the centre of a titanium latticework of petals. The second ring plunges the eye into an enchanting blue magic. The third creation features a black opal featuring the much sought-after flaming red play-of-colour. The petals, made of blackened zirconium, are set with pink spinels. The body of the ring in interlaced rose and white gold is set with black diamonds.

Van cleef & Arpels unveils Charms Bracelet Pavé Watch

Charms Diamond Bracelet Watch is of white gold case with white gold bezel with 3 rows of round diamonds and rotating white gold charm with round diamonds. The dial is with cream lacquer and with Alhambra motif. White gold crown and white gold bracelet with a round diamond with Ardillon buckle.

Richard Mille launches the Ladies RM 07-01 Polo Club Saint-Tropez

Richard Mille announces the Ladies RM 07-01 Polo Club Saint-Tropez timepiece in the Saint Tropez collection is a limited edition of the RM 07-01 white ceramic. The limited edition has a white ceramic case, white crown rubber with lapis lazuli dial and matching blue rehaut, the colours echo the colours of the French Riviera. At the heart of the RM 07-01 is the in-house designed calibre CRMA2, a highly skeletonised automatic movement that provides the perfect synergy between performance and capability giving the RM 07-01 a power reserve of around 50 hours, a significant achievement for a ladies timepiece.

Ulysse Nardin introduces a Classico Collection Timepiece

Ulysse Nardin introduces a Classico Collection timepiece with an in-house movement conceived and developed exclusively by the manufacture. On the watch’s dial, the hour, minutes, small seconds and date are a stronghold of the Classico Collection’s basic design executions. Available in a striking sunray blue finish and a timeless eggshell version, both held in a gold case. The bracelet is leather with a tang buckle.

Chanel presents Les Talismans de Chanel

Chanel presents the new high jewellery collection – Les Talismans de Chanel, inspired by the idea of the mythical and magical protective powers of the talisman. A dazzling lineup of precious stone and diamond encrusted designs. With necklaces, earrings, rings and bracelets, designed in a distinctive quatrefoil pattern, the collection calls on the combination of Japanese cultured pearls, sapphires, multi-coloured lacquer and enamel and the timeless appeal of diamonds, to create an alluring array of distinctive pieces.

IWC Schaffhausen presents the Portugieser Perpetual Calendar with a double moonphase

To celebrate Eid Al Fitr, IWC Schaffhausen introduces Portugieser Perpetual Calendar with a double moonphase. In this timepiece, the moon phase and its mirror image show the state of the moon in both the northern and southern hemispheres. The subdial with the double moon display into a star-studded night sky the same color as the large dial, so that the moon and stars appear to hover in infinite space. The dial appears more balanced because the subdials for the date and week are also the same color.

Laurent Ferrier reveals Galet Square

Galet Square has a blue dial featuring a vertical satin-brushed finish and creates a velvety sheen that is particularly pleasing to the eye. This variation features white gold hour-markers. Alongside the Côtes de Genève motif on the bridges and the circular graining on the mainplate, the wheel spokes are bevelled, the screw hands are chamfered and polished; the interior angles are hand-crafted. The strap is made of dark alligator leather with Alcantara lining. The Buckle is pin or double blade folding clasp in stainless steel.

Exhibitions & Events

Dubai Watch Week event to be start in October

The Dubai Culture & Arts Authority (Dubai Culture) in partnership with Ahmed Seddiqi & Sons and Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG) announces the inauguration of Dubai Watch Week (DWW) this journey of discovery into the world of fine watchmaking, will take place in Dubai from the 18th to the 22nd October 2015. The event is supported by Her Highness Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice Chairman of the Dubai Culture & Arts Authority.

Singapore Jewellery & Gem Fair to return as the region’s largest jewellery marketplace in October 2015

Singapore Jewellery & Gem Fair will return for its third year as the largest fine jewellery event in the region. From 22nd to 25th October at the Sands Expo and Convention Centre, visitors will find themselves stepping into an extraordinary world of glitter and glamour featuring more than 100,000 pieces of fine jewellery and gems covering an extensive price range from hundreds to millions of dollars.

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