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...anniversary, the line is getting an updated look. The freshly made-over Diagonos feature redesigned dials, bezels, hands and lugs. Bulgari is also introducing several new models that take Diagono to the top tiers of watchmaking. One of the most complicated timepieces, the Diagono Tourbillon?limited to 30 platinum pieces???is an exemplar of the company's increasingly vertically integrated production. Its movement (i.e., the watch's inner workings) is made up of 200 minuscule pieces???52 in the tourbillon mechanism alone. (The tourbillon is a fancy device originally designed to counteract the effects of gravity.) Each watch is assembled...
...years ago, Gruosi-Scheufele recognized the need for more fine jewelry?and, frankly, more exceptional, camera-ready pieces???on the red carpet. She signed on as the official sponsor of the Cannes Film Festival and started smothering celebrities like Sharon Stone, Elizabeth Hurley and Charlize Theron in Chopard's "real rocks." One thing led to another, and demand for statement pieces grew along with Chopard's high-jewelry collection. The Madison Avenue store keeps some of these special pieces on the floor. Additionally, Gruosi-Scheufele created a few more accessible pieces to coincide with the New York store's opening...
...dressed the King. As Elvis Presley's costumer in the late '60s and '70s, Bill Belew conceived the trademark belts and jumpsuits in which Elvis made his comeback. With names like Burning Love and the Peacock Suit, the ornate, tall-collared, bell-bottomed pieces???made after Elvis asked for a loose stage garment similar to the one he wore for karate?inspired similar ensembles for such acts as the Jackson Five and the Osmonds. Belew...
...this year, opened. All the high jewelry pieces are still made in Fort Knox--like ateliers above the Place Vendôme shop. Of course, getting into those ateliers is still a rare privilege reserved for clients who are willing and able to pay the price for made-to-order pieces???a trend that, according to president Stanislas de Quercize, has been on the rise in the past year (a necklace sold for $1,830,000, an industry high...
...Taillac?who lives in Jaipur for half the year with her son Edmond, 5?has her atelier in Gem Palace, enjoys access to its craftsmen and buys most of her stones through the company. Her pieces???among them a much copied, chunky cabochon ring and a necklace featuring a "river" of cut stones?have been scooped up by fashionable women ever since stores like Colette in Paris and Barneys New York introduced them...