GMT Magazine paper Version - Lady 2023

Are you interested in Haute Horlogerie? Are you a watches aficionado? Since 2000, GMT  Magazine tells you more about the inside of watchland.

GMT No 84- Lady 2023

Watches, jewelry (and Cyndi Lauper)

Can you hear the heady chorus constantly played on the radio in the early 80s? The voice is that of Cyndi Lauper. The lyrics are by Robert Hazard. The title of the worldwide hit? Girls just want to have fun. Got it now? Then you’re ready to start reading this magazine, as this is exactly the right music to escort you through these pages. At a time when the daily news reminds us of the world’s darker side, we’ve chosen to talk about watchmaking and jewelry for what they are: objects of admirable beauty, accessories testifying to a formidable creative drive and undeniable technical mastery, as well as objects equally full of frivolity and lightness. It will thus come as no surprise in browsing these pages to find your gaze wandering through a world of extravagance and fantasy, bathed in a cocktail of supercharged colors, where the intense hues of precious stones flirt with a joyful palette of dials and straps. A frivolous interlude? More like an enchanted parenthesis, which we open with artist and explorer Zaria Forman, the new face of Vacheron Constantin’s Overseas collection. We also examine fashion’s influence on watchmaking and how watchmakers are taking account of our pleasure in being able to rely on the mechanics in our watches. Key current trends in the perpetually reinvented world of Haute Joaillerie are also in the spotlight, while this joyful parenthesis closes with the latest new watch and jewelry models featured in a photoshoot just a stone’s throw from our Geneva editorial office in the retro setting of the Catalpa bar. This maximalist staging is an anthem to beauty and fantasy, bathed in color and flamboyance and as light as the approaching festive season whose spirit infuses the pages of this Lady by GMT annual edition.

Happy reading!

MARIE DE PIMODAN I Editor-in-chief