A French clock dating back to 1835 sold for a record $6.8 million on Tuesday, the highest price ever paid for a clock at auction. As Haute Time previously reported, the extremely rare Duc d’Orléans Breguet Sympathique was the piece to follow during Sotheby’s yearly December auction of fine timepieces. Standing at nearly two feet […]

Go home for the holidays with Tiffany & Co! This year’s storefront windows showcase life inside a whimsical Upper East Side brownstone, featuring an elaborately decorated Christmas tree surrounded by a spiral staircase and snowflakes visible through a floor-to-ceiling apartment window. “Each window reveals a glimpse into the precious moments families celebrate during the holiday […]

New York designers Carly Cushnie and Michelle Ochs are partnering with Playboy in an effort to improve the flesh-filled magazine’s image. Though this may seem like an unlikely pairing, (the duo recently dressed Michelle Obama, Reese Witherspoon and Rihanna), the designers say the collaboration came about organically. “Sexy met sexy!” “Partnering with Playboy presented an […]

After months of waiting, the super secret location of Comme des Garçons’ Dover Street Market New York has finally been revealed! Founder and designer Rei Kawakubo is setting up shop at 160 Lexington Avenue near 30th Street. The new digs: A seven-story, 20,000 square-foot superstructure built in the early 1900s thanks to funding from John […]

Fashion designer John Varvatos showed off the limited-edition bottle topper he created for Patrón Añejo tequila at his store in Soho on Dec. 6. Known for his rugged and edgy style, Varvatos is the first ever artist to design an element of the Patrón bottle and drew inspiration from his love of music. Made of […]

Donald Trump has gone to war with one of the world’s largest whiskey distilleries after it sponsored an award given to one of his rivals, Scottish resident Michael Forbes. The small-town farmer and fisherman previously refused to sell his family’s 23-acre property to Trump so that he could build a massive golf resort along the […]

The Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center has become a holiday season hotspot for tourists and New Yorkers alike, drawing nearly 750,000 visitors every day. This year’s 80-year-old Norway spruce weighs nearly 10 tons and stands 80 feet tall. It is wrapped in about five miles of LED lights with 45,000 bulbs and topped with a […]

Annie Leibovitz is moving on up… well, uptown that is. The 63-year-old celebrity photographer recently listed her West Village compound for a cool $33 million. The 10,200-square-foot home, located on the streets of Greenwich and West 11th, consists of three separate townhouses that Leibovitz began assembling nearly a decade ago. “It’s very rare to have […]

Instead of hiring a private car service, Jay-Z opted to ride the subway to one of his recent concerts at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. During his commute on the R train, the hip-hop mogul sat down next to an older woman named Ellen Grossman who had no idea who he was and struck up a conversation. […]