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BREGUET MOVES BOUTIQUE
In late November Breguet debuted the reopening of its New York flagship store on Fifth Avenue , which moved to the St . Regis Hotel . Guests discovered an entirely renovated salon , featuring a new architectural concept . Spanning 240 square meters , the new boutique exudes heritage and craftsmanship--even the frosted glass includes guilloche imagery . The event featured a watchmaker demonstrating the art of guilloche on watch dials , as well as two specialty timepieces . The first is the replica of Winston Churchill ’ s “ turnip ,” created for the movie “ Darkest Hour ” starring Gary Oldman as Churchill . The second is a pocket watch from 1817 , one of the original thirty-five tourbillon made by A . -L . Breguet during his lifetime .
CITIZEN SPONSORS FIGURE SKATING
Citizen is celebrating three and a half decades as the longest-running sponsor of the International Skating Union ( ISU ). Following the successful Skate Canada event in October 2017 and the Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final 2017 / 2018 in Nagoya , Japan , Citizen will continue as the official sponsor of six competitions in the 2017 / 2018 season . The series concludes with the ISU World Figure Skating Championships 2018 in Milan on March 19-25 , 2018 .
FHH ADDS THIRTEEN BRANDS
Founded in 2005 by Audemars Piguet , Girard-Perregaux and the Richemont Group , The Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie ( FHH ) considers itself the primary body for the promotion and safeguard of Fine Watchmaking around the world . To support these activities , the Foundation has succeeded in bringing together a majority of the leading names in both traditional and contemporary watchmaking . In October 2017 , this number expanded by thireen brands , bringing the number of partners to 42 in total . The newest members of the FHH are : Armin Strom , Chronométrie Ferdinand Berthoud , DeWitt , Grönefeld , Hautlence , Kari Voutilainen , Laurent Ferrier , Ressence , Romain Gauthier , RJ-Romain Jerome , Speake-Marin , Urwerk and Zenith .
IWC AUCTIONS THE ‘ LITTLE PRINCE ’
Sotheby ’ s on November 12 auctioned an IWC Big Pilot ’ s Watch Annual Calendar Edition “ Le Petit Prince ” for 38,000 Swiss francs , a portion of which benefits the Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Youth Foundation in order to boost its expansion into the USA and reach its goal of offering training and educational projects to even more young people throughout the world . This unique piece has a blued movement and an ornate , hand-painted rotor , adorned with a blue floral pattern , which takes the form of the little prince – from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ’ s story “ Le Petit Prince ” – on an asteroid .
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