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8 September 2026
Biologique Recherche opens its first New York City store, in SoHo
The cult French skincare brand built its reputation on word of mouth alone, and the 2,500 square foot SoHo flagship marks its first deliberate step into public-facing retail.
- Watches & Jewelry
Louis Vuitton adds five Tambour Spin Time watches to its permanent collection
The lineup runs from a 39.5mm white gold model with a green sunray dial to a 42.5mm platinum flying tourbillon needing 50 hours of hand assembly, with every case and movement built in-house in Geneva.
- Watches & Jewelry
Christiaan van der Klaauw skeletonizes its Planetarium for six platinum watches
The Dutch manufacture built the openworked case around the mechanism it first used on the unique Planetarium Julie, and priced the run at EUR 86,000 excluding VAT.
- Watches & Jewelry
Shaun Leane opens a commission-only atelier that will make just 12 pieces a year
The British jeweller's first commission under the new model is a stone headstone for his late father, complete with a bronze cat, and its second is a couture collar for Daphne Guinness.
- Style
Celine and Reebok remake the 1982 Freestyle Lo in eight colorways
Angel Martinez designed the original 1982 shoe for the aerobics boom, and Reebok has kept some version of it in production ever since.
- Watches & Jewelry
Titoni's new Luxe Tourbillon Ceramic brings a hand-wound tourbillon to a ceramic sports case for CHF 11,900
The 41mm case runs on a hand-wound calibre with more than 100 hours of power reserve, built on architecture developed by Olivier Mory.
- Scene
Aardman marks its 50th anniversary by auctioning 220 original Wallace, Gromit and Feathers McGraw puppets
Every lot opens at just £100, roughly $135, and money raised funds bursaries and skills programs at the studio's own academy.
- Garage
The only factory matte black Ferrari Enzo, once ordered for Brunei's royal family, heads to auction
RM Sotheby's is offering the one-of-one 2004 hypercar privately, so whatever it fetches will never become public.
- Watches & Jewelry
Grand Seiko turns three Japanese seasons into 2026 dials, from ice pillars to fresh sakura leaves
The most accurate of the three, the Spring Drive U.F.A. SLGB006, is limited to 80 pieces at $53,800.
- Garage
Audi revives the A2 name for its most efficient electric car yet
The compact hatchback returns as a pure EV built around recycled materials, more than two decades after Audi discontinued the aluminium-bodied original.
- Dining
Bulgari Hotel Milano opens Da Niko, a reworked dining room from chef Niko Romito
The redesign, by the hotel's own architects, seats around 100 guests around a rare 1920s Richard Ginori vase from Gio Ponti's era.
- Watches & Jewelry
Patek Philippe blurs the line between grand complication and sports watch at Watches and Wonders 2026
The manufacture's new sunrise and sunset wristwatch alone needed more than five years of development and six patent applications.
- Dining
Hennessy MyWay crowns two Nordic bartenders for the global cognac final
Proppe's winning serve mixed Hennessy VSOP with wasabi emulsion and strawberry kombucha, one of two Nordic cocktails now bound for October's global final in Cognac and Paris.
- Watches & Jewelry
Panerai's Luminor 31 Giorni runs a full month on one wind, using four barrels and 3.3 meters of mainspring
The new P.2031/S calibre took seven years to develop and stops itself after 31 days even though it holds enough energy to run for 36, in a case limited to 200 pieces.
- Watches & Jewelry
Tiffany & Co. opens its archive to Crystal Bridges for a show tracing 1885 to 1987
The exhibition centers on a 27.21-carat Arkansas diamond that Tiffany bought two decades after it was pulled from the ground.
- Garage
Charles Leclerc on Michael Schumacher's Ferrari decade, ahead of Monza
Leclerc spoke in Milan as Scuderia Ferrari unveiled a one-off Monza livery marking 30 years since Schumacher's first win there.
- Watches & Jewelry
Jaeger-LeCoultre names IU as its newest global brand ambassador
The singer and actress named the Reverso her personal favorite, a watch that Amanda Seyfried fronted in Jaeger-LeCoultre's 2021 campaign.
- Watches & Jewelry
Hublot's CEO rules out a Small Bang and details a 5+5 year warranty
Hublot has quietly moved from a two-year warranty to a 5+5 year framework for 2026, part of what its chief executive calls a push for mechanical credibility.
7 September 2026
- Style
Paul Smith and Barbour's third collaboration heads to the Scottish Highland Games
A fictional pair named Paul and Baz arrive at the Braemar Gathering two months early to front the campaign.
- Watches & Jewelry
Zenith's new Chronomaster Solo Sport costs $4,000 more than Breitling's Chronomat B31 40
Zenith fitted a dive bezel and 200m of water resistance to its version, while Breitling kept its price under €9,000 for every model.
- Style
Supreme and A.PRESSE build a fall 2026 collection on calfskin and hand-applied camo
Prices in the collaboration range from a $78 tee to a $4,498 calfskin leather jacket.
- Garage
Lewis Hamilton buys the Ferrari F40 he has chased for years
Ferrari's own engineers spent weeks recommissioning the car before he drove it into the Italian Grand Prix weekend.
- Travel
Nammos opens its first resort hotel ever, on Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coast
The Mykonos beach club brand is also selling 20 branded residences on site, including a three-bedroom penthouse.
- Watches & Jewelry
How Swatch actually builds the Royal Pop, its collaboration with Audemars Piguet
Two new manually wound calibers, 15 patents and a Bioceramic dial mold that mimics a genuine Royal Oak's engine-turned pattern.
- Watches & Jewelry
Montblanc's new rose gold Nicolas Rieussec chronograph is limited to 100 pieces
The dial's luminescent inscriptions reproduce Nicolas Rieussec's own 1821 patent documents.
- Watches & Jewelry
TAG Heuer shrinks the Carrera Chronograph Sport to 42mm ahead of the Spanish Grand Prix
The case drops from 44mm to 42mm and the thickness falls by more than a millimeter compared with the 2020 model.
- Watches & Jewelry
Rolex marks 100 years of the Oyster case that changed watchmaking
A young British swimmer wore the first waterproof Oyster across the English Channel in 1927, a year after Hans Wilsdorf unveiled it.
- Style
Etro and BEAMS BOY each rework the Birkenstock Boston clog this September
BEAMS BOY prices its patchwork Boston at roughly $230, two days after Etro's version reaches stores.
- Watches & Jewelry
Rolex sets September 28 London date for its four unique charity Cosmograph Daytonas
Each of the four watches is built around a different season, from a platinum and lapis case to an Everose gold model set with turquoise and ruby.
- Watches & Jewelry
Bulgari's Vianney Halter Octo Finissimo tops a strong Geneva Watch Days 2026
Girard-Perregaux marked the Laureato's anniversary with a new tourbillon priced from $95,600.
