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The end of the gilded age

The end of the gilded age

Whatever happened to the blood stock bonanza, the junkets jollies, the inflated art market, the luxury cars and houses? Gone, gone, along with the age that gilded them. » Read more

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What event do you think signalled the end of the boom in Australia? Tell us.


Watches

A couture approach to dire times

How does it feel to be catapulted into the luxury watch business just as things are anything but luxurious? » More

Germans attend to detail

There has been a remarkable reawakening of interest in high-end Swiss watches over the past few years and this has been matched by an equally impressive resurgence in the German watchmaking industry. » More

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