"Luxury brands, watches and jewellery have seen double-digit sales growth and have pulled up overall department store revenues," Shigeru Kimoto, managing director of corporate planning at Takashimaya told an earnings briefing last month. "But we can't …

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His experience in fashion and luxury goods has been seen as potentially useful in a move into watches, as well as branding. Apple's iWatch recruitment drive has included seeking out acquisitions of early-stage start-ups working on connected devices.

Pens are a commodity item that have been elevated to a collector's item and item of obsession, on par with high-end watches in terms of items that are very expensive, make little sense to outsiders, and can be either garish or beautiful (or, if you're …

SANFORD, Fla. – Jurors declared George Zimmerman not guilty Saturday night after a trial that attracted intense national attention. The six-person all-female jury deliberated for over 16 hours before acquitting Zimmerman of both second-degree murder …

“It would be pretentious to think that this kind of watch would fail to compete with Swiss watches,” said Jean-Claude Biver, the head of the luxury Swiss brand Hublot that belongs to French LVMH. “But they will in any case clearly not be competing with …

Watch the video above for more. According to the Wall Street Journal, 15 percent of all new U.S. marriages in 2010 were between spouses of different races or ethnicities (more than double the rate in 1980), which may explain why more couples are …

A ID one watch by Cartier, part of the Swiss luxury goods group Richemont, is displayed on the opening day of the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH), on January 21, 2013 in Geneva. Swiss watchmakers are warily eyeing Apple's reported …

Andy Murray may be Wimbledon champ – but he could face a ticking-off from his watch sponsor after accidentally revealing he doesn't regularly wear their product. As our pictures taken … But his luxury automatic timepiece had stopped at 10.27. The men …