Prince Harry showed the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
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02/15/2021 01:19pm EST
But the timing of the announcement is even more special in that it shares a royal connection and proof that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
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Diana Princess of Wales and Prince Charles with newborn Prince Harry on Sept. 16, 1984.
Exactly 37 years ago, Princess Diana and Prince Charles announced they were expecting their second child, a red-haired tot that would grow up to be Prince Harry himself.
And while that official palace announcement came on Feb. 13 1984, it made big news on Valentine’s Day just like Harry and Meghan’s announcement this weekend.
David Bowie’s impact on fashion was undeniable and well-documented; his impact on the world of watches, however, was rather more subtle.
You might argue, with some justification, that the androgyny that he helped popularise can be felt in the appetite among male collectors for dainty and often bejewelled dress watches – especially pieces from the back catalogues of Piaget, Cartier and Vacheron Constantin. After all, what else would you wear with your Husbands Paris suit?
And that androgyny goes two ways. Brands such as IWC purposefully make watches for women with a masculine, rather than “girly”, aesthetic. Indeed, a watch such as the IWC Pilot’s Watch Automatic 36, although meant for female wrists, would also look perfectly good on a man whose style tends towards the slim and non-gendered.
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Cartier has just launched a new Tank Cintrée watch in celebration of the model’s 100th anniversary. The classic Louis Cartier design maintains a lot of the details that fans have loved throughout the decades including its Cintrée (curved) case design with its bold side profile, “stretched” case for wrist comfort, Breguet-style hands, blue cabochon crown, railroad minute tracks, and Roman numeral hour markers.
Sitting at 46mm tall and 23mm wide, the 100th Anniversary Tank Cintrée is a classic dress watch with Art Deco nuances. Constructed out of 18k yellow gold and matched with a light brown calfskin strap, this caliber 9780 MC-powered watch is available in a limited batch of 150 examples and is priced at $29,900 USD.
9 Trends That Have Us Looking Forward to 2021 Even Harder
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As we look forward to fashion in the New Year, much of it will be informed by the memorable (forgive the euphemism) past 10 months. If sweatpants and slippers were your style choices of late, designers are going to turn those ideas into something sleek and worthy of the outdoors going into 2021. Sporting looks from tennis to hiking gear will get the high-fashion treatment. And if we re feeling really optimistic, the silhouette for dancing the night away include something minimal featuring cutouts. See which nine trends we re predicting for 2021 and shop each of them here.
More than any other actor, Brad Pitt purposefully embodies the old-school fantasy elegance of screen legends such as Paul Newman and Steve McQueen. At once rugged and masculine, but also friendly and approachable, he wears a classic Brioni tuxedo with the same sense of nonchalance and ease as he does T-shirt, jeans and aviator sunglasses. When it comes to watches he prefers well-tuned classics that reflect his status and style as an old-school Hollywood icon.Â
But there are also a number of more off-beat classics, which shows that he really does love watches on quite a deep level. Thereâs the gold Cartier Tank a Guichet, powered by the unique âjump-hourâ mechanism in which the hour and minute figures are revealed behind tiny little windows on an otherwise all metal face. The Tank a Guichet was first released in 1928, when Cartier was making all kinds of unique and highly collectible variations of the Tank. You really have to know your stuff to be able to appreciate