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...Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Las Vegas Strip Edition ($24,800, audemarspiguet.com...
...knew I could not just walk into one of these shops so I worked the obvious ploy, waiting until a tourist couple entered and tagging along camouflaged as their child," Booth reports. "It worked time and again and I got to study - close up - such marvels as Audemars Piguet, Longines and Vacheron et Constantin gold watches, emeralds as green as still water and as big as peas, and Rolliflex and Leica cameras with a shutter movement so silent you could not hear it. All of these I gazed at with the avidity of a magpie. At times, the palms...
...premium wristwatches that jewelry shops in Milan and Paris will display a 1920s Patek Philippe, made of platinum and curved to conform to the wrist, right next to a new gold model. Antique stores in London will sell, say, a reversible Jaeger- le Coultre or a vintage Audemars Piguet, with only two small windows at the top of the solid gold case, as objets of decorative jewelry, like a piece of Lalique crystal. On the tony reaches of Madison Avenue, Watch Entrepreneur Stewart Unger last fall opened Time Will Tell, a watch boutique that sells everything from period Cartier...
Cambridge Society for Early Music--Michel Piguet conducts music of Mozart. At Sanders Theatre, Harvard, at 8:30 p.m. Admission at $7, $5 and $3. Call 247-1465 for details...
...Dior, 52, pink, plump world-fashion dictator, designer of the New Look (1947) and the Flat Look (1954), supporter pf the Sack Look (1957); of a heart attack while playing cards on vacation in Montecatini, Italy. At 30 he launched his career as assistant to such shapemakers as Robert Piguet and Lucien Lelong. After the war French Textile Mogul Marcel Boussac backed Dior, and a year later the designer had made fashion history, to remain fashion's tireless (13 hours a day) kingpin ever since, the much-publicized cause of the rise and fall of bosoms, the shrink...