1. Vacheron Constantin
(Manufacturers/Luxury Timepieces)

... a modern building in Geneva. The brand is established in almost 80 countries around the world, distributed through 15 boutiques that sell no other brand, as well as a network of over 500 carefully selected ...

2. Rolex
(Manufacturers/Luxury Timepieces)

... came from the French phrase horlogerie exquise, meaning "exquisite clockwork". Another story claims that "rolex" was meant to evoke the sound of a watch being wound. The book The Best of Time Rolex Wrist ...

3. Jaeger LeCoultre
(Manufacturers/Luxury Timepieces)

Jaeger-LeCoultre (JLC) is a luxury watch and clock manufacturer based in Le Sentier (in Le Chenit), Vaud, Switzerland. In 1833 Antoine LeCoultre (1803-1881) founded a small workshop, which was to become ...

4. Breguet
(Manufacturers/Luxury Timepieces)

... Louis Breguet. Breguet has recently introduced a line of writing instruments as a tribute to writers who mention or feature Breguet watches in their works. Breguet watches are often easily recognized for ...

5. A. Lange and Sohne
(Manufacturers/Luxury Timepieces)

... mechanism at work.  ...

6. Emeralds
(Gemstones/Colored Gemstones)

... the cause for Cortez's loss of an extremely precious pearl (to which he dedicated a work A beautiful and incomparable pearl) and even for the death of King Charles IX who died soon after. High Priest ...

7. Rubies
(Gemstones/Colored Gemstones)

... rubies have technological uses as well as gemological ones. Rods of synthetic ruby are used to make ruby lasers and masers. The first working laser was made by Theodore H. Maiman in 1960 at Hughes Research ...

8. Sapphires
(Gemstones/Colored Gemstones)

... the purpose of improving colors. Mining Sapphires are mined from alluvial deposits or from primary underground workings. The finest specimens are mined in the disputed territory of Kashmir, Myanmar, ...

9. Diamonds
(Gemstones/Diamonds)

... The diamond crystal lattice is exceptionally strong and only three atoms; Nitrogen, Boron and Hydrogen are small enough to work their way into the tetrahedral arrangement that is the basic unit of the ...

10. Yard
(Manufacturers/American Jewelers)

... course of twenty-five years, he had worked his way up from door-boy to head salesperson. With the encouragement of long-time client John D. Rockefeller, Yard left his position and set a shop of his own. ...

11. David Webb
(Manufacturers/American Jewelers)

American jeweler famous for his sculptural work in the 1960’s. In 1948, David Webb and business partner Nina Silberstein opened David Webb, Inc. on 47th Street in New York City. Throughout the 1950’s, ...

12. Pierre Vever
(Manufacturers/French Jewelers)

... jewels, according to Vivienne Becker, “were original and spectacular, full of the verve, imagination, and dreamy quality of the best Art Nouveau work.” The firm also employed expert enamellist Etienne ...

13. Verdura
(Manufacturers/Italian Jewelers)

Sicilian jeweller designer famous for his work in the 1940’s and 50’s. Fulco Santostefano, Duke of Verdura, was born in Palermo in 1898. He spent most of his youth in Sicily and later Venice. Verdura’s ...

14. Edward C. Moore
(Manufacturers/American Jewelers)

Edward C. Moore was the jewelry design director and head of the silver workshops at Tiffany and Company from 1851 to 1891. Under Moore’s direction, the artists at Tiffany studied jewelry and objects from ...

15. G. Paulding Farnham
(Manufacturers/American Jewelers)

... the first that we have seen, and it would be impossible to surpass them, whether for cleverness of imitation or for perfection of workmanship." French critics shared his view. They were, moreover, impressed ...

16. Tiffany and Company
(Manufacturers/American Jewelers)

... cultures and, most simply, to nature. Their innovative work won acclaim at international expositions (Paris 1878, 1884, 1889, 1900; Chicago 1893). At the 1900 Paris Exposition, the firm won the Grand Prize ...

17. Pierre Sterlé
(Manufacturers/French Jewelers)

Sterle was a French jeweler famous for his 1940’s and 1950’s designs. In 1934, Pierre Sterlé opened a workshop on Rue St-Anne. Some of Paris’s finest jewellers patronized him, including Boucheron, Chaumet, ...

18. Shreve and Company
(Manufacturers/American Jewelers)

... World War I, as its silversmiths were put to work manufacturing airplane parts. It reopened in 1918. Since then, despite several changes in ownership, the store has remained an important source of au courant ...

19. Seaman Shepps
(Manufacturers/American Jewelers)

... latest French fashions, including the work of Verdura at Chanel, Belperron at Bovin, and Toussaint at Cartier, Schepps began designing his own jewelry rather than retailing the work of others. Business ...

20. William Ruser
(Manufacturers/American Jewelers)

... worked for Trabert and Hoeffer-Mauboussin in Atlantic City and Los Angeles, managing the LA branch in the late 1930’s. While keeping traditional diamond and precious gemstone merchandise in stock, ...