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...practical purpose: to track the stages of the moon through its monthly cycle. But for anyone who's not a fisherman or an astrologer, a moon-phase mechanism is a novelty, and it's a top trend this year. Among the new models to get wound up about are Breguet's classically elegant minute repeater, IWC's sporty Grande Complication and Cartier's chic Tortue XL Day and Night...
...Breguet Classique Grande Complication ($284,500) IWC Grande Complication ($195,000) Cartier Tortue XL Day and Night...
...growth and the expectation that it will surpass the U.S. in luxury-goods consumption by 2015. For others, India's youthquake and its established cultural affinity for luxury mean there is enormous potential for growth. Then there's Russia, where newly minted millionaires pay top dollar for everything from Breguet watches to Bell helicopters. In this, the first installment of a four-part series, TIME measures the affluent consumer's appetite for luxury brands in these exciting markets...
...group of hedge-fund managers who recently paid top dollar to be dropped into the middle of the Amazon. Uniqueness is something, along with quality, that luxury consumers desire universally?who doesn't covet that one-of-a-kind object, whether it be an Hermès handbag, a Breguet watch or even a multimillion-dollar Damien Hirst skull? But luxury is also about layering comfort into our turbocharged daily lives. As Coco Chanel once said, "Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it's not luxury." Nobody knows this better than the handful of dynamic women who drive the global luxury-goods...
TIME OF HER LIFE In 1783 a secret admirer commissioned for Marie Antoinette a pocket watch so intricately fabulous that it wasn't finished until 44 years after she died. Swiss watchmaker Breguet is re-creating the piece, which will probably be completed...