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Time to Watches returns to Geneva Watch Week

February 10, 2023February 9, 2023By Marina Coelho

Christian Wipfli, Executive Director of Time to Watches, is delighted to announce that following the success of its 2022 edition. The now established Time to Watches event will return to Geneva, during Watch Week, at the HEAD — Genève. The event’s main partner, the Geneva School of Art and Design, will host the event in Le Cube. The flagship space of its campus, a stunning building stemming from Geneva’s industrial heritage.

Time to Watches has evolved into a rich, diversified, and casual event offering a creative, and cool space for independent brands; where creativity reigns. Focused on encounters and exchanges, Time to Watches aims to create synergies between the brands and their guests. Historical watches, newcomers, fashion, CPO (Certified Pre-Owned), connected watches, each visitor will find at Time to Watches its favorite brand and watch. Because of its richness, diversity, creativity and innovation, watchmaking can convey unique emotions, generating real favorites and captivating everyone.

Under this new motto “The Open Side of the Watch World”; Time to Watches will welcome a selection of brands from all spheres.

Details of the event:
Dates: 28 March to 1 April 2023
Location: HEAD — Genève
The event will be open to the public and professionals all 5 days
Tickets for the public go on sale: 15 March 2023

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK:

Watch&Match
The visitor will experience an exceptional encounter with the participating watch brands. Each will be offering some of their finest pieces for purchase. Visitors will be able to exchange with the watchmakers they admire, ask them questions, compare, and test the brand’s timepieces on their wrist. Additionally, artist Estelle Lagarde will perform during a morning art show inviting visitors to actively participate and will create a unique live artwork for a charity association to be sold in the afternoon.
For more information, please visit: https://www.timetowatches.com/watch-and-match/

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Space Gallery x Winter Show

February 7, 2023February 7, 2023By Marina Coelho

Space Gallery is hosting a contemporary art show, showcasing its newest artists, Alighiero Boetti, Christo, Manolo Valdés, Tony Cragg, and Vera Lutter. The Winter Show is live at their New York City location in Soho as well as their flagship gallery in St Barth.

Artists:

Alighiero Boetti
Boetti was a champion of the ballpoint pen. Boetti made a number of vast works in minutely scrawled biro, such as I sei sensi (The Six Senses), which is part of a series of drawings done in code. The overall effect of the ‘Lavori Biro’ works tends to be gorgeously uneven, resulting in rich expanses of deep blues and greens with gradations and patterns within. Often they recall a sea or night sky.

Christo and the Wrapped Reichstag
Christo described the Reichstag wrapping as autobiographical. It became symbolic of unified Germany and marked Berlin’s return as a world city. The Guardian posthumously described the work as the pair’s “most spectacular achievement”.

Manolo Valdés
One of the most internationally established contemporary Spanish painter, sculptor and draughtsman, Manolo Valdés was born in Valencia in 1942. He attended the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos de Valencia. He began his career in the 1960s as one of the founding members of Equipo Cronica. A group of artists who took inspiration from Pop Art to challenge the Spanish dictatorship of Franco and the History of Art itself.

Tony Cragg
Tony Cragg is one of the world’s foremost sculptors. Constantly pushing to find new relations between people and the material world. There is no limit to the materials he might use, as there are no limits to the ideas or forms he might conceive. His early, stacked works present a taxonomical understanding of the world. And he has said that he sees manmade objects as “fossilized keys to a past time which is our present”.

Vera Lutter
Inspired by the city’s presence, light, and architecture, Vera Lutter began experimenting with photography. In order to capture an immediate and direct imprint of her experience; Lutter decided to turn the room in which she lived into a large pinhole camera. Thereby transforming the space that contained her personal experience into the apparatus that would capture an image of it.

ABOUT SPACE GALLERY ST BARTH

Established in 2011, Space Gallery St Barth is a contemporary art gallery. Dedicated to showcasing painting, photography, and sculpture by established and emerging artists. Since its inception, Space Gallery St Barth has built up an impressive roster of artists, curated international exhibitions, and participated in major art fairs including the Venice Biennale. As of today, the gallery has locations in St Barth and New York City and regularly exhibits internationally. The gallery’s location in New York City has been open since November 2018.

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Welcome 2023 x Celebrate our 2022 Projects

January 19, 2023January 19, 2023By Marina Coelho

Welcoming 2023 by celebrating last year’s fantastic projects from our Press Office.

“Thank you to all our clients for their trust, to our press friends who have continuously supported us since the beginning and here’s to many more adventures in 2023!“
Marina Coelho, Founder of Sparkling PR

Find out more about our 2022 mandates here or visit our Instagram.

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S.T. Dupont x Opening of Lisbon Boutique

November 25, 2022January 23, 2023By Marina Coelho

Lisbon, 25 November 2022

S.T. Dupont is pleased to announce the opening of its newest boutique in Lisbon.

To continue the 150th anniversary celebrations, the French brand inaugurated their boutique in Lisbon, choosing the glamorous Avenida da Liberdade, to host this project that marks a step of progress in the development of the brand in Portugal.

Pascal Fondeur, General Director of S.T. Dupont and Alfonso González Brand Manager for the Iberian market see in this project an assertion of strength in order to serve their Portuguese clientele.

Customers in Portugal will be able to find a wide range of products, in addition to the famous lighters, they will find writing instruments, leather goods and accessories.

Lisbon will surely become one of the references for S.T. Dupont.

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The ReLuxury Show x Luxury Pre-Owned Market

November 8, 2022January 23, 2023By Marina Coelho

Geneva, 8 November 2022

As of today, the luxury pre-owned market has its own show with ReLuxury. The first event dedicated to the re-commerce of luxury and collectible pieces, ended on a high note: with over 4’000 visitors over its four-day exhibition.

RELUXURY

Held from 4 to 7 November 2022 at the Hotel President in Geneva; ReLuxury welcomed visitors from all generations. Connoisseurs, jewellery enthusiasts, watch collectors and fashion-lovers alike browsed the four thematic areas of the show: the Showroom, the Clinic, the Lab and the Talks.

ReLuxury hosted the Opening Ceremony on November 4, with over 400 guests from the luxury industry. Among them, Tirath Kamdar, General Manager Luxury at eBay, Patrick Hoffmann, Executive Vice-President of WatchBox, Alexandre Mille, CEO of Richard Mille, Vincent Perriard Co-Founder at Origyn Foundation, formers Presidents of the Geneva State Council, Pierre Maudet and Claude Haegi, and the President of the Grand Council, Jean-Luc Forni, the 17 CEOs of the exhibiting brands, the representative of the 16 artisans, the 6 start-ups and many other key industry leaders.

FABIENNE LUPO

The success of this first edition was made possible by the vision of Fabienne Lupo, founder of ReLuxury. A vision of a show dedicated to the promotion of circular economy; where novice and expert consumers would gather in a safe environment; to buy certified and authenticated items from internationally recognized digital platforms and luxury brands. Fabienne recalls: “The objective was to create a show committed to the re-commerce of luxury and collectible pieces; and I feel this was accomplished with ReLuxury. It was also important to be able to talk about the pre-owned market not as taboo but address it as a timely topic and as a global social responsibility.”

THE SHOW

But more than just an exhibition show, ReLuxury offered a welcoming setting where visitors had the opportunity to meet artisans of various trades; who dedicate their craft to giving luxury items a second life; but also connect with local startups and their latest product collections and/or technological advances in the fields of recycling, upcycling and more. Not to mention, a moment to attend panels tackling different topics on circular economy that huddled over 1800 attendees and online viewers. In total, ReLuxury hosted 29 talks and welcomed 60 speakers from all spheres.

The show ended with the Closing Talks by Fabienne Lupo, whose inspirational speech encouraged attendees to rethink, resell, repair, and join the cultural movement towards a more conscientious and smarter consumption of luxury goods. Fabienne announced: “Following the success of this first edition, ReLuxury is already planning its 2023 initiatives. Details will follow soon.”