High-Tech Watches

These highly engineered timepieces make perfect gifts–if you’ve got serious cash.

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In Pictures: Cool High-Tech Watches

Times may be tough and jobs scarce, but consumers around the globe are increasingly willing to spend to get the very best.  Just look at the world’s largest purveyor of fine goods, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton: The company reported a 19% increase in revenue last quarter, with double-digit growth in all business groups. LVMH’s watch and jewelry lines reported growth of 24% for the first half of 2010, more than any other component (including fashion, wines and fragrances) of the French powerhouse.

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Custom Shoes in ‘My Week with Marilyn’

When it comes to historical accuracy, the shoes worn by Kenneth Branagh to play Laurence Olivier in My Week with Marilyn couldn’t get any more spot on. In the film, which focuses on the making of the 1957 movie The Prince and the Showgirl starring Olivier and Marilyn Monroe, Branagh wears the same brand of shoes — English bespoke maker George Cleverley — originally loved by the legendary actor. And they are Branagh’s own pair of shoes which coincidentally he’d had made years earlier and never worn, waiting until the right moment.

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