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This edition: 141 stories from 19 Oct 2026 to 6 Nov 2026, gathered 6 Nov 2026. Houses named here are not OJORI partners, and nothing on this page is an affiliate link. To have your stories left out, write to bot@ojori.com (how we gather).
Sotheby's will offer an unheated Ceylon sapphire with a documented Romanov history, later owned by Ganna Walska and now set by Cartier in a convertible bracelet, at its Royal and Noble Jewels sale on November 11.
Porsche said its research and development board member and deputy chairman Michael Steiner will step down in May 2027, to be followed by Mercedes-Benz powertrain head Jörg Bartels.
The first ISY 150 Explora, a 46-metre steel and aluminium explorer from Brazil's Inace, has been sold through IYC to an American long-range cruiser, with a dive deck and recompression chamber specified.
Ralph Lauren beat forecasts for its fiscal second quarter and lifted its outlook for the year, while turning more careful about Europe; its shares still fell on the day.
RM Sotheby's is offering the last of 75 SLR McLaren Stirling Moss cars in a sealed online sale; it has 32.9 miles on it and sold for 3.22 million euros at Bonhams in 2024.
Antonini Navi has launched a 102-foot custom steel explorer at La Spezia, with an open social main deck and the owner's suite up beside the helm; delivery is due in spring 2027.
Designer Sander Lak, who closed Sies Marjan in the pandemic, explains why his angel-backed label Sanderlak runs on a small team, two collections a year and no runway show so far.
Ralph Lauren beat forecasts for its fiscal second quarter and lifted its outlook for the year, while turning more careful about Europe; its shares still fell on the day.
Rachel Scott, fresh from a second CFDA womenswear award, talks through running her own label Diotima alongside the creative director post at Proenza Schouler she took in September 2025.
Remo Ruffini retraces how he took Moncler from a small ski label to a publicly held group, through designer collaborations, Moncler Genius and its own stores from 2008.
Me+Em founder Clare Hornby sets out the case for her British label as a modern luxury brand, built on practical wardrobe details and what she calls fair pricing.
LVMH used its seventh China International Import Expo in Shanghai to stress culture and craft, with Louis Vuitton announcing a Wang Yuja concert aboard its ship-shaped Shanghai building and a Sanxingdui exhibition for Paris and Shanghai.
Sarah Benady, chief executive of Jacquemus since last year, describes her partnership with its founder as the house stays independent, opens stores and develops a first fragrance with minority shareholder L'Oréal.
Morris Goldfarb, honoured at the WWD summit, recounts how G-III grew from his father's leather business into the group behind labels such as Marc Jacobs, Donna Karan and Karl Lagerfeld.
Equinox has made former Anheuser-Busch chief Brendan Whitworth its chief executive, with Harvey Spevak moving to chairman and president Marc Mastronardi due to leave at year end.
Christopher Bailey, formerly of Burberry, talks about buying the Staffordshire ceramics house Burleigh with a few investors in order to keep its hand-applied tissue transfer printing alive.
Canada Goose grew revenue in its fiscal second quarter but lost more than a year earlier, as Europe, the Middle East and Africa fell on soft demand and a logistics change, while Greater China grew strongly.
Piaget has made an 86-piece watch with the Andy Warhol Foundation after his 1986 Camouflage self-portraits, its dial assembled from sodalite, turquoise and two golds.
The young La Chaux-de-Fonds independent Aubert & Ramel draws wider notice as an Instagram post suggests actor Ryan Reynolds has one of its six platinum Ouréa subscription watches; the maker had not confirmed it.
Pandora returned to growth in Europe and raised the floor of its 2026 guidance after a third quarter in which Japan supplied half the growth and its newer lines, lab-grown designs among them, outpaced the charms business.
Streetwear label Palace has opened a larger multi-storey London flagship on Poland Street in Soho, carrying a store-only ten-piece capsule made with Burberry.
Loro Piana has opened its first Latin American boutique at Shopping Cidade Jardim in São Paulo, behind a facade of handmade Italian terracotta tiles and with a by-appointment client room.
Gucci is reorganising product into category business units under chief product officer Marcello Costa, with separate tracks for runway and core collections, and has brought back two former executives as senior advisers.
Designer Gilles Rosier has opened the first boutique of his leather goods label Éternel Parisien in an 1847 bookshop in the Passage Jouffroy, keeping its old shelves and working outside the seasonal fashion calendar.
Owner Four Marketing has named former Kenzo, Stone Island and Givenchy designer Joshua A. Bullen the first designer in residence at A Cold Wall, with his first collection due in Paris for fall 2027.
An appreciation of Marvin Shanken, who died on October 29 at 83, and of how he turned Wine Spectator from a small California newsletter into the magazine that shaped American wine taste.
Louis Vuitton has added a 37 mm Tambour Convergence in fully mirror-polished hardened steel, driven by the same in-house La Fabrique du Temps automatic movement as the earlier models.
Invictus has shown a bespoke Deep Horizon version of its 55-foot ST550 flagship, with its own materials, marble bathrooms and exterior colours, after debuts at the Cannes and Genoa shows.
Barrett-Jackson chief Craig Jackson explains the house's return to online sales with a curated Digital Select auction, led by a 2019 McLaren Senna in a rare factory colour.
A Savills study finds US luxury retail spreading beyond the gateway cities to places like Short Hills, Scottsdale and Dallas's Knox Street, as brands follow new local wealth.
The Xiamen fashion label Ms Min has moved its Shanghai store into a historic house on Yueyang Road, once a wartime hospital, its third retail project since 2016.
Hugo Boss cut its full-year outlook after third-quarter sales fell 5 percent, days after Frasers Group said it had passed half of the shares; analysts expect the new majority owner to press on margins.
Waldorf Astoria has opened its first hotel in Malaysia, an all-suite property in Kuala Lumpur's Golden Triangle with restaurants by Jean-Georges Vongerichten and a spa offering La Prairie treatments.
The three artists in the Metropolitan Museum and Vacheron Constantin craft residency, begun in May 2025, have unveiled the works they made after time at the Met and the Geneva manufacture.
A pocket watch made around 1613 by royal clockmaker David Ramsay for James VI and I goes to Bonhams London on December 3, after decades on loan to the British Museum and the V&A.
German tuner ABT has unveiled the RS5-R, a Europe-only upgrade of the new Audi RS5 as sedan or Avant, taking it from 630 to 709 horsepower; a stronger version is expected next year.
Audemars Piguet introduced five new Royal Oak and Code 11.59 references, among them chiming watches and models with natural stone dials in precious metal cases.
Kimi Antonelli clinched the 2026 Formula 1 title in Mexico City at 20, the youngest champion yet, wearing the IWC Mercedes team Pilot's Watch on the podium.
Sotheby's will offer an unheated Ceylon sapphire with a documented Romanov history, later owned by Ganna Walska and now set by Cartier in a convertible bracelet, at its Royal and Noble Jewels sale on November 11.
The Gallardo's original designer reworked the car through GFG Style as the Hommage 26, built by CAVËN Atelier with a carbon body and a manual V10, and shown at the Concours at Wynn.
A Yangwang U9 Xtreme hit a barrier on a closed track in China days before a planned attempt in the UAE to pass 500 km/h; the driver reportedly got out unhurt.
The first ISY 150 Explora, a 46-metre steel and aluminium explorer from Brazil's Inace, has been sold through IYC to an American long-range cruiser, with a dive deck and recompression chamber specified.
Brazilian yard Inace Superyachts has unveiled the 130 Aventura, a 39.6-metre model drawn by Hydro Tec for self-sufficient cruising far from port, extending its Aventura line.
Boat International rounds up the five days of the 2026 Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show, from new models by Inace, Pearl and Westport to brokerage moves and price cuts on listed yachts.
Boat International's Q3 brokerage report says cumulative superyacht sales value is ahead of last year's record third quarter, with a rebound between 40 and 50 metres and three confidential deals above 70 metres.
General Dynamics said its aerospace unit, home to Gulfstream and Jet Aviation, grew revenue and earnings in the third quarter, with 40 Gulfstream deliveries.
Robb Report picks ten new boats shown at the 2026 Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show, with Brabus and Prestige among the builders named in the feed teaser.
Ahead of Dhanteras on November 6, Dubai jewellery designers say families buy gold jewellery for meaning that exchange-traded funds cannot offer, even as investment flows into gold funds hit records.
United has a new menu for its international Polaris suites, made with the Chef's Table producers, with dishes from chefs including Nancy Silverton and David Barzelay tied to its hubs.
Independent vintage dealers tell Robb Report they see little threat from the brands' growing certified pre-owned programmes, arguing serious collectors look elsewhere.
Porsche said its research and development board member and deputy chairman Michael Steiner will step down in May 2027, to be followed by Mercedes-Benz powertrain head Jörg Bartels.
The American Gem Trade Association named the winners of its coloured gemstone design and cutting competition, judged in Dallas in late October; many winning pieces will be shown at Tucson in February.
Aston Martin's nine-month results showed higher sales and prices, a smaller quarterly loss and rising net debt; its first production EV is now not expected before 2033.
Balk Shipyard in Urk rebuilt a small Acico vessel into the 30-metre explorer Ursus, adding a new bow and stern, diesel-electric drive and Mulder Design interiors, and she has since cruised the Mediterranean.
Brokerage IYC will represent Turkish explorer builder Bering Yachts exclusively from Canada to South America, covering its full range up to explorer superyachts above 500GT; the deal was announced at Fort Lauderdale.
Chow Tai Fook's quarterly update shows continued net store closures on the mainland and falling mainland retail sales, while Hong Kong and Macau grew and online sales rose.
US builder Westport Yachts has unveiled the 172 Endeavour at Fort Lauderdale, a 52-metre model for long-range cruising with space for a 12-metre tender, styled by MW Yacht Design and Verge Yacht Design.
Genoa yard Tankoa has released interior images of Spirit, a custom 52-metre yacht with Vitruvius exterior and FM Architettura interiors, launched in July and shown at Monaco in September.
A 1956 Jaguar D-Type raced hard by its Florida owner since 2003 comes to auction for the first time in its 70 years, headlining the first Gooding Christie's Retromobile New York sale on November 21.
Sotheby's Geneva sale on November 11 is led by an unmounted fancy intense pink diamond, with coloured diamonds, a pigeon blood ruby, an unheated Ceylon sapphire by Harry Winston and historic pieces attributed to Boucheron and Bulgari.
Grand Seiko has a limited Elegance SBGY045 for GS9 Club members, a 38.5 mm watch with the hand-wound Spring Drive 9R31 and a blue-green-grey dial, sold by application lottery.
Ferretti Group's third-quarter figures show order intake and revenue up on a year earlier, while the yacht builder trimmed its profit outlook for a second time.
Solomon Brothers, with three Georgia stores, has bought the independent jeweller Mervis Diamond Importers, which keeps its name, showrooms and family leadership; the price was not disclosed.
Aston Martin unveiled a roofless Valhalla at the Concours at Wynn in Las Vegas, with the coupe's hybrid V8 and deliveries from the third quarter of 2027.
The story of a 1979 Rolex Submariner Date ref. 1680 bought in Hong Kong by Academy Award-winning sound engineer Elliot Tyson, now with a private collector and still complete with box and papers.
Brokerage house Camper & Nicholsons has promoted its chief commercial officer Benjamin Bensahel to chief executive, succeeding Paolo Casani after nearly ten years.
Sotheby’s will hold a fine art sale on Saadiyat Island on 10 December, its first in Abu Dhabi, with works by Monet and Warhol alongside pioneering Emirati artists.
Audemars Piguet has opened its own certified pre-owned programme, letting collectors buy and sell secondhand AP watches online through a service called the Watch Keepers.
Brunello Cucinelli opened a Casa Cucinelli at the China Resources Centre in Jing’an on 21 October, set in a historic house from 1927, with a gala around a film on its founder.
Antwerp's Diamond Trading NV showed a very large fancy black natural diamond, named Infinity, for the first time at the Dubai diamond conference; the article gives no valuation and no sale plan.
Dutch yard Mulder Shipyard has sold hull one of its 37-metre Mulder 122, built on a Van Oossanen fast displacement hull with FM Architettura interiors, through BR Marine Group.
Ferretti Group will spend close to 3 million euros to lift the build limit at its Ancona superyacht yard from 90 to 100 metres, with works approved on 21 October and due to take about six months.
Van Cleef & Arpels marks 20 years of its Poetic Complications, which began with the 2006 Lady Arpels Centenaire; the piece visits its watchmaking workshop in Meyrin near Geneva.
Atelier Mephalie, a Shanghai name from 1876 revived by Lin Xiaolin, has returned with three minute repeaters on its own movement, one with a cloisonné dial.
A. Lange & Söhne has a 41 mm platinum Datograph Perpetual, reference 410.136E, on a new five-row platinum bracelet designed in-house, limited to 50 pieces.
The Hour Glass has opened a boutique at 108 King Street, Sydney, in a 1978 Harry Seidler building, carrying independents such as MB&F, Urwerk and Ressence alongside Rolex and Cartier.
Kering's jewellery brands, among them Boucheron, Pomellato, DoDo and Qeelin, grew in the third quarter while the group as a whole was flat and Gucci declined.
The fifth edition of Art Basel Paris at the Grand Palais will close on Friday evening instead of running through the weekend, after protests in France turned violent.
The pre-holiday buying show, held 16 to 19 October at the Miami Beach Convention Center, drew retailers and manufacturers from the US, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Studio Nuvolari Lenard and Moran Yacht & Ship have released White Arrow, a 116-metre diesel-electric design with a full specification that an owner can take to a shipyard of choice.
Audemars Piguet made a one-off gem-set Royal Oak with an openworked movement for DJ Khaled; Robb Report says the piece took close to ten months of work.
Gemfields reported the result of its mixed-quality rough ruby auction, held online from Bangkok, for stones from its Montepuez mine in Mozambique; fewer carats were offered than before, but the average price per carat was high.
De Beers' third-quarter production report shows Venetia's last output before its planned two-year shutdown, while the group raised its full-year production guidance after taking full ownership of Gahcho Kue in Canada.
The Dubai Multi Commodities Centre's biennial diamond conference, held 25 to 27 October during Dubai Diamond Week, was built around rebuilding trust and desire for natural diamonds, including a session on lessons from the revival of Swiss mechanical watches.
Tesla is taking UAE reservations for two versions of its next-generation Roadster; the flight-capable version is not offered there and production starts in 2028.
McLaren is selling five historic race cars from its own collection so new owners can run them again; values are expected in the seven to eight figures.
An eight-episode series, The Secret Gems, pairs eight Thai jewellery brands with teams of students and emerging craftspeople, with challenges in rough selection, cutting, polishing and setting; it airs on Channel 7.