In 2019, Fred Mandelbaum, Breitling’s brand historian and a watch collector who lives in Vienna, learned the hard way about the intricacies of crossing national borders with multiple wristwatches. “I was too late in preparing the paperwork for my personal watches for a presentation at Baselworld,” he said, referring to the now-discontinued annual trade fair….
About a year ago, Erdem Moralioglu’s husband, the architect Philip Joseph, 45, told him to stop buying busts. The British Turkish fashion designer, 46, didn’t listen — and has continued to populate their London home with figures purchased from flea markets and small auction houses. These “roommates,” as Moralioglu calls them, are situated among the…
In 1994, when Edouard Meylan turned 18 years old, his parents gave him an Audemars Piguet Royal Oak wristwatch housed in a 33-millimeter case made of tantalum, a rare and hard metal with an unusual blue-grey sheen. To Mr. Meylan, now chief executive of the independent watchmaker H. Moser & Cie, the watch, which came…
As the chopper rose into the sky, my heart raced with excitement and a twinge of fear: This was my first helicopter ride. The man beside me glanced over and asked why I’d choose to visit the Gurez Valley now, when it had so little to offer. “Even the locals avoid it if they can,”…
The league’s preeminent dynasties of the past 60 years have typically been stationed in major metropolitan areas consisting of Dallas, San Francisco, Washington, Miami, Boston, as well as the six states that represent New England. Pittsburgh’s run in the 1970’s was the rare exception. Mahomes or Hurts? Who will win NFL MVP? | Agree to…
An Alaska man died last month of Alaskapox, a rare virus that occurs mostly in small mammals and can cause skin lesions, according to state health officials. Alaskapox was first identified in 2015 in a woman who lived near Fairbanks, Alaska, and there have been a total of seven cases of the virus reported to…
The stadium/arena swindle in pro sports has been going on for a couple decades now, but that kind of history couldn’t save Ted Leonsis’s plan for a new arena in Virginia for the Capitals and Wizards. Even with numerous studies and proof that publicly funded arenas or stadiums have no public benefit and only give…
Bob Moore, the grandfatherly entrepreneur who, with his wife, Charlee, leveraged an image of organic heartiness and wholesome Americana to turn the artisanal grain company Bob’s Red Mill into a $100 million dollar-a-year business, died on Saturday at his home in Milwaukie, Ore. He was 94. His death was announced by the company, which did…
Another month, another try at the moon. A robotic lunar lander is scheduled to launch in the early morning hours of Wednesday. If all goes well, it will become the first American spacecraft to set down softly on the moon’s surface since the Apollo 17 moon landing in 1972. It is also the latest private…
Steph Curry’s high-arcing game-winner to sink the Phoenix Suns on Saturday night only strengthened his runaway case as The Association’s Most Clutch Player of the year. An ensuing win over Utah on Monday positioned the Warriors back above the .500 mantle for the first time since Dec. 23. Rob Riggle, Amin Joseph, Joshua Malina and…
