Jewelry & Watches

Jeweler Karina Brez at her flagship store in Palm BeachFormer Miss Florida USA, Karina Brez, recently launched her eponymous store, Karina Brez Jewelry, in Palm Beach on November 19 of this year with a grand opening reception. The Ukrainian-American beauty held a festive ribbon cutting ceremony along with the Chamber of Commerce in front of her first brick-and-mortar store located on tony Worth Avenue. Afterwards, family, friends and VIP clients were invited to celebrate with the designer at Karina Brez Jewelry. A portion of the proceeds from each piece sold during the grand opening was donated to West Palm Beach’s…

Bob's WatchesThe holidays are right around the corner and a luxury watch always makes the perfect gift!  This year’s hottest new tech gadgets will already be outdated by the time summer arrives, but a high-quality timepiece is built to last a lifetime. Fantastic luxury watches exist at nearly every possible price point, and regardless of whether your budget is under a grand or tens of thousands of dollars, you will still be able to get a great timepiece for that special person this holiday season. Watches are often viewed as extensions of our personalities and the type of wristwatch that a person…

From JustLuxe content partner iW Magazine Any visitor to Franck Muller’s vast headquarters in Genthod, adjacent to Geneva, will vouch for the technical depth this manufacture exhibits throughout the facility. Case after case of watches set with tourbillons and multiple complications testify to decades of watchmaking with a distinctive style, typically built into the brand’s trademark Cintrée Curvex-shaped case. But there’s much more to Franck Muller than its range of Master Bankers, large tourbillons, and jaw-dropping skeleton models. Few watchmakers can match the wide-ranging fluency the brand also demonstrates year after year with its gem-set collections. Franck Muller has again paired its technical chops with its gem-setting expertise with the…

From JustLuxe content partner iW Magazine Alexander Shorokhoff honors Austrian artist Gustav Klimt with Crazy Eyes, a chronograph dominated by a colorful dial and its two eye-like orbs. While these orbs replace the running seconds and chronograph minute subdials, additional ‘eyes’ seem to bounce around a dial further animated with colorful shapes and colors. The German-based Alexander Shorokhoff is also celebrating its 30th anniversary with Crazy Eyes, which could also describe how the Russian-born independent watchmaker often approaches creating his company’s watch dials. You might recall his Kandy and Levels models, just two of the colorful and Pop Art influenced watches included within the brand’s Avant-Garde…

Attraction is what most people involuntarily or intentionally want to elicit from others; such is human nature. Among other things, gemstones have had the power to infuse charm within their holder that helps attract others for centuries. Natural diamonds, rubies, sapphires, emeralds possess magnetism and emanate power. Those qualities, however, come at a steep price. Over the last two hundred years, the world population has grown almost tenfold; the demand for gemstones has risen exponentially, far outpacing the population growth and stones availability. No matter how attractive they are, gems remain out of reach for most people because of the price, and…

From JustLuxe content partner iW Magazine As Abingdon celebrates fourteen years since it started offering adventure watches specifically targeted to women, the Las Vegas watch company this week adds three models to its Jane tactical watch collection and adds a new model to Nadia, its dive watch collection. Both collections are the brand’s first watches that fit with a bi-directional compass just inside the bezel and a ruler built into the back of the watch. The new models are 35mm steel-cased watches with 200 meters of water resistance, an impressive specification rarely seen watches this size. Jane The new Jane watch, built with…