Luxury news, as it happens.
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18 September 2026
The Metropolitan Museum of Art breaks ground on its $670 million Tang wing
The 126,000-square-foot building designed by Frida Escobedo replaces the museum's old rooftop garden with a larger fourth-floor terrace and opens in 2030.
- Watches & Jewelry
Studio Underd0g and Ahmed Seddiqi limit the Chan3ad Kingfish chronograph to 100 pieces
The reference number is 02KIB-EA, and each watch is assembled at the brand's D0ghouse facility in Great Britain before it ships to Dubai.
- Business
Moët & Chandon becomes title sponsor of the 2027 Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix
The race moves to April 2 to 4, 2027, and adds a sprint format as Moët & Chandon takes the title sponsorship at Albert Park.
17 September 2026
- Watches & Jewelry
Blancpain revives its tiny 1956 Ladybird as the spherical, lugless Lady B
The watch honors Betty Fiechter, the first woman to own and lead a Swiss watch manufacture.
- Watches & Jewelry
De Beers London unveils Vibrations, its first high jewelry collection cut with diamond cabochons
Cabochon-cut diamonds took five years to develop, and the collection arrives as high jewelry sales post double-digit growth for the house.
- Watches & Jewelry
Grand Seiko revives its first manual-winding 9S dial with the 600-piece SBGW325
The limited edition swaps the original's gold numerals for silver against a new indigo-inspired dial, priced at $5,800.
- Garage
McLaren confirms its first-ever SUV, targeting a 2028 arrival
The high-riding model, code-named P47, arrives alongside a 500 million pound investment that funds a new UK factory and 1,000 jobs.
16 September 2026
- Style
Dario Vitale named creative director of Emporio Armani and Giorgio Armani Accessories
The appointment also puts him in charge of Giorgio Armani Accessories, and it comes with immediate effect though no runway date has been set.
- Watches & Jewelry
Hublot and Jeff Koons launch a puffed-up Balloon Dog watch and a $488,000 tourbillon
The MP-14 Origin packs Hublot's first automatic central tourbillon into a sapphire case that takes 534 hours to machine, limited to 30 pieces.
- Watches & Jewelry
Neode debuts with the N01 First Edition, an architect-designed watch limited to 25 pieces
Founder Marius-Daniel Dumitrascu left architecture entirely to build the watch himself, down to its own photography, with deliveries not due until Q2 2027.
- Style
Dior opens a Peter Marino-designed flagship on Milan's Via Montenapoleone
The three-level house doubles the size of Dior's original 2001 store and includes a Michelin-starred restaurant from Enrico Bartolini.
- Watches & Jewelry
Chopard marks 50 years of Happy Diamonds with a full anniversary collection
Chopard says the diamond count on the flagship revival watch more than doubles the 1976 original's, and traces the collection's name to a line its own co-president's mother coined on seeing the first prototype.
- Scene
Sonnabend Collection heads to Christie's with a $50 million estimate
The works come from the estate of Antonio Homem Sonnabend, who died in March, and part of the proceeds will endow the museum he helped open in Italy last year.
- Watches & Jewelry
Serena Williams and Audemars Piguet unveil a $85,600 Royal Oak chronograph limited to 500 pieces
The tennis champion helped design the piece herself, and its Calibre 6401 movement only replaced the storied Calibre 2385 earlier this year.
15 September 2026
- Garage
Rolls-Royce builds a one-off Phantom with abalone shell inlays shaped like a hummingbird
Each hummingbird motif is built from 53 laser-cut pieces of shell, and the rear waterfall panel adds a separate mother-of-pearl botanical pattern.
- Watches & Jewelry
Rolex unveils the Perpetual Padellone, its second-ever annual calendar
The new caliber 7190 builds on the Dynapulse escapement Rolex introduced last year in the Land-Dweller, and prices run to $72,800 on a gold bracelet.
- Dining
Buffalo Trace releases first-ever cask-strength Elmer T. Lee for its 40th anniversary
Bottled uncut and unfiltered, the anniversary release can run as high as 138.6 proof and will be sold only through a new lottery, at a suggested retail price of $100.
- Watches & Jewelry
DUG Glashütte shrinks its Purist collection to a 37mm case
The German maker has widened the range to eight dial and case combinations while cutting the diameter by 3mm.
- Watches & Jewelry
IWC marks 50 years of the Ingenieur SL with two limited-edition revivals
Each of the two new references is capped at 1,150 pieces, for 2,300 watches in total, at prices running up to $15,000.
- Garage
Oyster Yachts unveils the C60, its first sailing catamaran in 53 years
Oyster developed the 64-foot cat with French naval architects Berret-Racoupeau after owners pushed the British builder toward multihulls.
- Watches & Jewelry
Bvlgari wraps New York's 7 Train and the High Line in Serpenti scales
The Roman maison's first Plastique Fantastique installation in the United States debuted at the Standard Hotel during New York Fashion Week.
14 September 2026
- Travel
The Imperial Bloomsbury reopens with 357 rooms and a tenth-floor bar over Russell Square
Trevillion Interiors and Keane Brands reworked all 357 rooms while keeping the hotel's 1905 concrete facade by Charles Fitzroy Doll intact.
- Style
Rimowa and Faber-Castell build an aluminium case for 120 colored pencils
The collaboration draws on Faber-Castell's 265-year history as a family-owned maker of German writing instruments.
- Watches & Jewelry
MB&F sets 255 diamonds into a new white gold SP One Pavée, priced at $104,000
The independent Geneva maker's first dress watch already carries a roughly three-year waitlist in platinum, a queue the new diamond-set model now joins.
- Watches & Jewelry
F.P. Journe unveils his first-ever classic chronograph, headed to a Singapore charity auction
Perazzi says Phillips has already fielded a wave of requests from major collectors since the piece was announced.
- Watches & Jewelry
Louis Moinet's Moon Meteor packs three genuine meteorites into a 12-piece watch
The moon phase mechanism is claimed accurate to one day every 122 years, and the watch changes appearance entirely once the lights go out.
13 September 2026
- Watches & Jewelry
Orient Star drops its 30-year power reserve dial for the 75th anniversary Sakigake Three Hand
Orient Star built the watch around a new in-house caliber and a bracelet with just 16mm between the lugs, despite specifications suggesting 20mm.
- Watches & Jewelry
Christophe Claret returns from insolvency in a joint venture with Singapore's Lotus Group
The independent watchmaker's first watches under the new structure are not expected until late 2027 or early 2028.
12 September 2026
- Garage
Porsche's electric 718 Boxster spied nearly camouflage-free, pointing to a 2027 arrival
The prototype was caught testing at the Nurburgring with only its headlights and taillights still masked, years after the electric roadster's original 2025 target date passed.
- Garage
Toyota patents a car that photographs whatever the driver is looking at
The system can also work off standing orders, like snapping every classic car it spots on a drive.
