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Philanthropist and Carnet Jewellery founder Michelle Ong has been creating wearable art for her discerning clients since 1998. Photo: Handout
High Jewellery

Style Edit: Carnet Jewellery founder Michelle Ong crafts timeless wearable art

Celebrities have graced the silver screen and red carpet in Carnet’s natural diamond pieces, while Ong herself is also a philanthropist and founded the Hong Kong charity First Initiative Foundation.

Gucci

Style Edit: Gucci unveils bold designs and iconic classics in Paris

Timepieces

Style Edit: Swatch’s new No Rules collection brings a fun, rebellious energy

Omega

Style Edit: Discover Omega’s lunar legacy with Nasa and the iconic Speedmaster

Space fans are invited to reach for the stars with the new Speedmaster Moonphase Meteorite, which includes dial design features crafted from genuine pieces of moon meteorite.

Omega is celebrating 60 years of space travel by reissuing the Speedmaster, among other things. Photo: Handout
Henry Jacques

Style Edit: Henry Jacques’ new HJ Voyage perfume travel cases and summer scents

Made in the finest rare leather or elaborate jacquard fabric, these luxurious cases are designed to help you bring 15ml Les Essences and 75ml Les Brumes fragrances along on your voyages.

Rolex

Style Edit: Rolex partners with Hong Kong’s WestK cultural district

Highlights include excerpts from Chinese operas Princess Cheung Ping and The Legend of the Purple Hairpin by librettist Tong Tik-sang, and the martial arts piece Fan Lihua Battles Wang Yinglong.

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High Jewellery

Style Edit: Graff redefines luxury jewellery with the Infinity diamond

The 157.8-carat heart-shaped marvel – cut from a part of the legendary Lesedi la Rona – is destined to be the centrepiece of a dazzling tiara, currently being crafted by the maison’s skilled artisans.

A legend in the making: Graff’s record-breaking 157.8-carat Infinity diamond, alongside a design sketch of the magnificent tiara for which it is destined to become the centrepiece. Photo: Handout
High Jewellery

Style Edit: Chaumet’s Jewels by Nature high jewellery collection

Chaumet inevitably returns to nature for inspiration for its latest high jewellery collection.

Luxury brands

Style Edit: Fred’s sun-kissed 2025 high jewellery collection

The collection’s first chapter, 1936, honours the first boutique’s art deco arches with vibrant gems, while Soleil d’Or Sunrise dazzles with yellow and white diamonds, celebrating the sun’s glow.

Richard Mille

Style Edit: Richard Mille rolls out the RM 30-01 Le Mans Classic

The brand has partnered with Le Mans Classic since 2002, with founders Richard Mille and Dominique Guenat getting behind the wheel and now Maxime Guenat, Dominique’s son, joining them.

Richard Mille rolls out the limited edition RM 30-01 Le Mans Classic to mark the race for vintage cars that it’s named after. Photo: Handout
Boucheron

Style Edit: Boucheron’s Carte Blanche collection focuses on nature’s beauty

The maison, founded in the 19th century by Frédéric Boucheron, is still based in Paris’ Place Vendôme, and still pushing the bounds of creativity in high jewellery.

Composition No 3 from the Boucheron Carte Blanche Impermanence collection. Photo: Handout
Cartier

Style Edit: Cartier’s latest high jewellery collection, En Équilibre

The collection includes necklaces Pavocelle, Shito, Traforato, Hyala, Tsagaan, Panthère Dentelée and Panthère Orbitale – as well as the Summae set of necklace, earrings and ring.

High Jewellery

Style Edit: Boghossian’s vivid Lirya high jewellery collection

Presented first at TEFAF in New York, the collection has captivated visitors to Boghossian’s Geneva and London boutiques.

Timepieces

Style Edit: Chanel’s iconic J12 watch turns a distinctive blue

The J12 Bleu was inspired by Coco Chanel’s love for the colour back in 1932; now in 2025 – a quarter century after the J12 first appeared – the new and unique shade is modern and stylish in dramatic ceramic and sapphire.

The Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong, waterfront all in blue ready for the launch. Photo: Handout
Wellness

Style Edit: Find tranquillity with Pañpuri’s Thai wellness philosophy

Founder Vorravit Siripark explored Thailand’s ancient traditions to create products that are ‘quiet, grounding and deeply sensorial’, including a new fragrance evoking the beauty of the Andaman Sea.

Pañpuri’s Vorravit Siripark explored Thailand’s ancient traditions to create products that are “quiet, grounding and deeply sensorial”, including a fragrance evoking the Andaman Sea. Photo: Handout
Timepieces

Style Edit: H. Moser & Cie x Alpine Motorsports debut 2 new watches

At the last race of a Formula One triple-header, the brands launched a pair of watches, one developed with input from Alpine’s drivers and the other created for the team’s hard-working mechanics.

High Jewellery

Style Edit: De Beers Jewellers’ Forces of Nature haute joaillerie collection

Forces of Nature is De Beers’ largest ever high jewellery collection, comprised of 8 sets, and includes The Protection set, which features 2 fancy intense yellow diamonds totalling over 9.7 carats.

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Cartier

Style Edit: The new Santos de Cartier Petit Modèle timepiece

Over the years, the Santos de Cartier has been worn by everyone from pilots to the character Gordon Gekko in the 1987 film Wall Street: its latest incarnation recognises that small is beautiful.

Today’s Santos de Cartier watches follow in the footsteps of the 1904 original – the first watch designed to be worn on the wrist. Photo: Handout
Timepieces

Style Edit: Longines marks 100 years of Zulu Time

The new Spirit Zulu Time 1925 design pays homage to the copper strip at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich – the historical prime meridian and a symbolic reference point in global timekeeping.

Omega

Style Edit: Omega’s space legacy continues, from Nasa’s Gemini missions to today

In 1965, it became Nasa’s official chronograph for astronauts on manned space missions, thereby launching a legacy now reimagined in a retro-futuristic design that blends heritage and modern mechanics.

Rolex

Style Edit: Rolex at the Venice Biennale – sustainability and timeless design

Distinctive pavilion design, plus documentaries showcasing sustainable achievements around the world, emphasise the watch house’s dedication to cultivating global cultural partnerships.

Architectural virtuoso Mariam Issoufou designed the Rolex pavilion, whose interior features a translucent ceiling made of Murano glass and dazzling terrazzo flooring. Photo: Handout
Fragrances

Style Edit: Henry Jacques’ Il y Avait un Jardin cologne-inspired fragrances

The raw materials for the perfumes are sourced from orchards in Italy, through a partnership with a Calabrian family renowned over generations for cultivating the world’s finest citrus trees.

The new Il y Avait un Jardin collection by Henry Jacques emphasises purity and simplicity, evoking memories from nature. Photo: Handout
Richard Mille

Style Edit: Richard Mille’s RM 75-01 is a water-inspired masterpiece

Each reference in the series evokes a different maritime mood – from the sea green of a tropical bay, to pink ocean sunsets, to the sapphire blue of deeper, darker waters.

Regent Hong Kong

Style Edit: Regent Hong Kong’s Signature Suites are the epitome of luxury living

Perched alongside Victoria Harbour, the stunning hotel offers guests unequalled access to the best the city has to offer and unparalleled views of the Hong Kong Island cityscape.

Chanel

Style Edit: The story behind Chanel N°5 and the haute joaillerie it inspired

Coco Chanel intended for N°5 to be ‘a woman’s perfume, with the scent of a woman’; a century on, Collection N°5 introduced high jewellery pieces including a 55.55-carat diamond necklace.

Marion Cotillard wearing the Chanel Collection N°5 55.55 necklace, showcasing a 55.55-carat diamond. Photo: Handout
Beauty

Style Edit: Grown Alchemist unveils Mother’s Day offers at Hong Kong’s IFC Mall

The brand is offering big savings on ranges including the Face Edit and Awards Edit – whose 3 formulations have all been internationally commended – while new clients get 30% off their first treatment.

The Grown Alchemist flagship store in Hong Kong’s IFC mall. Photo: Handout
Watches and Wonders

Style Edit: H. Moser & Cie’s Pop collection and new Streamliner models

The striking new Pop designs come in 6 colourways – featuring materials such as Burmese jade, lapis lazuli and lemon chrysoprase – in small-seconds, tourbillon and minute repeater models.

Watches and Wonders

Style Edit: Vacheron Constantin’s anniversary Patrimony and Traditionnelle models

Product and innovation director Sandrine Donguy says the maison’s classic collections are ‘elevated by signature complications’, with the celebratory models displaying technical and decorative craft.

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