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Jewellery and watches
The maisons and watchmakers whose names are the product, and the labels that made fine jewellery something you buy for yourself on a Tuesday.
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The big names · 10
- 1847CartierAn 1847 Paris workshop, now the world's largest jeweller
- 1837MemberTiffany & Co.Charles Lewis Tiffany's fancy goods shop, LVMH's since 2021
- 1905MemberRolexOwned by a charitable trust, and it publishes no figures
- 1884MemberBulgariThe Roman jeweller that spells its U as a V
- 1896MemberVan Cleef & ArpelsRichemont's high jewellery house, known by a clover
- 1848MemberOmegaSwatch Group's biggest watch brand, and the Olympic clock
- 1839MemberPatek PhilippeGeneva's last family-owned watchmaker, run by the fourth Stern
- 1983MemberSwatchThe plastic watch that saved Swiss watchmaking, and named a group
- 1982MemberPandoraThe charm bracelet made into the world's biggest jewellery brand
- 1994MemberTanishqThe Tata jeweller that sold purity when nobody trusted the scales
Small and new, from India · 5
- 2019MemberGivaSilver first, sold online, then 300 shops across India
- 2008MemberCaratLaneOnline diamonds from 2008, now wholly owned by Titan
- 2012MemberOuthouseSculptural fashion jewellery, two sisters, and a muse called KoKo
- 2016MemberMishoSculpture for the body, from a Mumbai studio to Selfridges
- 2011MemberMia by TanishqTitan's light-gold brand, built for women buying for themselves
Small and new, from elsewhere · 5
- 2015MemberMejuriFine jewellery repriced for the woman buying it for herself
- 2008MemberMissomaThe kitchen-table label that made demi-fine jewellery a category
- 2015MemberSophie BuhaiThe LA designer who made modernist silver a young person's habit
- 2008MemberMonica VinaderThe British sisters who named demi-fine, then priced it
- 1990MemberNomos GlashütteThe German watchmaker that competes on taste, not on budget
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