Gastronomy 

Simone Crestani Glassoctopus A transparent creature suspended between glass and time In Glassoctopus, Simone Crestani transforms transparent glass into a miniature underwater vision. Rising just 3.5 millimetres above a hand-guilloché gold dial coated in deep blue, the octopus appears to float within an imaginary nocturnal ocean. The sculpture required an entirely new technique. Tiny glass rods were melted and shaped piece by piece with tungsten tools, while every tentacle and

Vacheron Constantin: Gold, Paper and Wood Reimagined on the Watch Dial Laura Baverstock Tigerbroidery Gold embroidery captures the movement of a tiger A tiger in honey and tangerine hues prowls through a richly embroidered jungle in Tigerbroidery, Laura Baverstock’s interpretation of gold embroidery at miniature scale. The animal is created from 9-karat yellow and white gold embroidery wires, while specially developed ceramic-coated black wires form its stripes. The surroundi

Marianne Guély Papercroc Paper becomes sculpture in a monochromatic vision In Papercroc, Marianne Guély transforms white cotton paper into a miniature sculptural landscape. An all-white crocodile moves through apparently snow-covered vegetation, its three-dimensional form created from sheets of 250- and 300-gram paper through embossing, laser cutting and hand assembly. The composition measures only three millimetres in height. Specially developed brass matrices, heated to bet

Anya Midori Oraygami When origami learns to move like a manta ray For Oraygami, Anya Midori brings a school of miniature manta rays into an imagined underwater universe. Each creature measures between five and ten millimetres and is folded from hand-coloured Japanese paper before being mounted on fine brass stems. The deep-blue hand-guilloché dial and a moiré effect on the crystal reinforce the sensation of shifting light beneath the ocean. The project required a completely n

Julien Vermeulen Feathersnake Featherwork reduced to the rhythm of a heartbeat The serpent at the centre of Feathersnake is constructed from more than 200 tiny pieces derived from seven rare Lophophore feathers. Rising only three millimetres from the dial, its blue-green plumage creates the illusion of living scales, while goose feathers form the surrounding vegetation. The extreme scale required the development of a custom micro-scalpel and a modified sewing needle for apply

Anna Le Corno Woodenwings The natural grain of wood takes flight In Woodenwings, Anna Le Corno transforms twelve different wood species into a fierce falcon poised above the dial. Smoked eucalyptus and dark blue-dyed birch are among the materials used to create the bird, whose plumage is rendered through a combination of circular marquetry, sculpted layered marquetry and a feather-by-feather assembly technique developed specifically for the wing. At only three millimetres in

Worn by Naomi Campbell for Fashion for Relief, the extraordinary ensemble from Alexander McQueen’s final collection has just become a landmark of fashion collecting. New York, September 17, 2026. The room did not merely witness the sale of a fashion ensemble. It witnessed the moment when an extraordinary piece of Alexander McQueen’s history crossed decisively into the territory of the collectible. At Fair Warning’s The Impossible Couture Collection, a custom version of Look 1

A pivotal 2013 painting brings George Condo’s fractured figures, multiple states of consciousness and “psychological cubism” to Sotheby’s Hong Kong this September. There are paintings that depict a scene, and there are paintings that seem to contain several scenes at once. George Condo’s Figures in Motion, painted in 2013, belongs unmistakably to the second category. The large-scale work is coming to Sotheby’s Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction in Hong Kong on September 28