Press release: JamesList.com officially launches today

Posted on Jan 23 - Filed Under Miscellaneous | View Comments

JamesList.comFredrik Karlberg, Marketing Director of Stockholm, Sweden based JamiesList.com emailed me to announce that JamesList – a global luxury marketplace – officially launched today. JamesList is a classified ads site focusing on high value, luxury items in many categories including cars, motorcycles, watches, yachts, jets and more. I am not sure who James is – vs Craig Newmark of Craigslist.org – but certainly a good, brandable name for their site. I shall ask. According to their press release, they advertise a combined inventory of over 20,000 luxury items from over 350 dealers world-wide. See below a few selected ones, in the million-dollar range plus some:
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Chopard Super Ice Cube

Posted on Jun 19 - Filed Under Jewelry | View Comments

Chopard Super Ice Cube

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The Chopard Super Ice Cube timepiece exhibits 60 carat of diamonds and retails for approximately GBP 639 320 ($1,259,000)

Chopard, a Swiss jewelry and watch maker founded by Louis-Ulysse Chopard in 1860, is now owned by the Scheufele family. Besides their 100+ years of producing high quality and beautiful time pieces and jewelry, Chopard is also known for the current design of the Goldan Palm award of the Cannes film festival and being one of the ongoing sponsor of the event. 

See also our post about the Humblot Big Bang

 

Hublot’s One Million Dollar Big Bang

Posted on May 9 - Filed Under Jewelry | View Comments

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With the Big Bang’s new found popularity amongst the horologically savvy Hublot has unveiled its “One Million Dollar Big Bang” at this year’s Baselword. The One Million Dollar Big Bang watch is completely covered, case, dial and buckle, with more than 493 Top Wesselton “baguette” diamonds. It is the first ever watch or let me be precise, flying tourbillion, realized in “serti mysterieux” or “mysterious setting.” Serti mysterieux is a technique pioneered by Van Cleef & Arpels to hide the stone settings under the stone. Thus you can only see the diamonds or the stones, not the structure which is holding them.

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Hublot has spent more than 2,000 hours making the One Million Dollar Big Bang; from design through to research and development, machine programming, choice of (micro-) precision tools, the cutting of the diamonds, the visual examination of each part, setting, casing and fine-tuning.

This just leaves one question, “Is the One Million Dollar Big Bang considered a Timepiece or Jewelry?”