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Most of you know us through Wrist Check Pod. This was our starting point. One shared language that opened up a whole world of design, food, art, music, and travel.
Super Niche crystallizes that, curates it, puts it on wax and and on your For You Page.
In this episode of Super Niche Diaries, Perri Dash meets artist and jewelry designer @rachelgoatley . She’s the creative partner to jeweler Greg Yuna, designing dynamic pieces for anyone who views jewelry as much of an outlet as she does.
Developing a fresh, imaginative language through objects. From an audacious Virgin Mary pendant for Nigel Sylvester to a collaboration with SZA for 1 of 1 custom Vans, Goatley is an unstoppable force in fine jewelry. We sit down with her at the Nolita @gregyuna flagship store to take a detailed look at her craftsmanship in person.
Link in bio for the full sit-down.
You know taste when you spot it. Tom Ford does. Or rather, he built a life around it.
The man who gave fashion its modern sense of sexiness, a legacy you still feel today (just look at Demna’s Gucci), has always had a knack for design, business, and knowing exactly what looks right. No surprise there.
This is someone who curates everything, from scent to silhouette. Beautifully tailored suits, a uniform that feels considered without trying too hard. So of course his ranch follows the same logic.
Completed in 2012 and set across roughly 24,000 acres outside Santa Fe, the estate stretches wide, but nothing about it feels excessive. It was designed by Tadao Ando, the mind behind the Church of the Light and Japan’s Chichu Art Museum, someone who has a way of making concrete, light, and silence feel almost spiritual. This was in collaboration with Marlon Radziner Construction overseeing the ranch.
At the center is a villa that feels like it exists in its own world. Around it, an equestrian facility, guesthouses, staff homes, a private airstrip, and even a full Western movie town used in films like 3:10 to Yuma and Thor. It’s the kind of place that wouldn’t feel out of place in a Denis Villeneuve frame.
The ranch sold toward the end of 2025 for $48 million, but it still carries Ford’s imprint. That ability to turn taste into something physical, something lasting.
Manifesting spaces like this moving forward.
#architecture #design #NewMexico #Santafe
Credit: Guido Mocafico, Corrie Photography, & Marlon Radziner via Kevin Bobolsky Group
297 diamonds in a design we haven’t really seen before is a solid way to celebrate 37 years of marriage, no?
The Billionaire Double Tourbillon Angel Cut reads like pure excess. And yes, nearly 79 carats across 297 white diamonds, set in a 54mm white gold case, will do that. But that’s not the whole picture.
The Angel Cut is the point. A proprietary diamond cut developed in-house over two years, introduced for the brand’s 40th anniversary and named after Jacob Arabo’s wife, Angela. Each stone has 37 facets, marking 37 years of marriage. Personal, but also very on-brand.
Jacob has always operated at the intersection of jewelry, culture, and spectacle. The jeweler for hip-hop royalty, yes, but also someone who’s spent the last few years pushing deeper into watchmaking. Not quietly either. These watches don’t separate high jewelry from high horology, they stack them.
And under all of that, there’s still real watchmaking. Dual flying tourbillons at 12 and 6, a 72-hour power reserve, and 30 meters of water resistance, if you have a habit of getting your fully pavé watches wet.
The Billionaire Double Tourbillon Angel Cut is limited to 18 pieces, with price upon request.
Hate it, love it, or simply admire the ambition, the Billionaire Double Tourbillon Angel Cut is Jacob & Co. continuing to push its own boundaries without dialing anything back.
What do you think of this piece for Jacob & Co.?
#watches #jacobandco
Blancpain’s Villeret isn’t new. It’s the brand’s foundation. What we’re seeing here is a refinement, not a reinvention. That matters, especially right now.
Blancpain built its identity during the quartz crisis by going against the grain and doubling down on mechanical watchmaking. The Villeret Complete Calendar, introduced in the early ’80s, became one of the clearest expressions of that. A watch that doesn’t just track time, but sits with it a little. The moonphase has always been part of that language. Less about function, more about perspective.
This version keeps that intact but sharpens the details. Inside is the in-house calibre 6654.4 with a 72-hour power reserve, a silicon hairspring, and a complete calendar that can be adjusted at any time without damaging the movement. That last part sounds small, but it isn’t.
The moonphase is still the center of gravity. A gold “smiling” moon set against a deep blue sky, pulling your attention without forcing it. The dial is built through multiple galvanic treatments, including gold, so it shifts subtly under light. The case is slightly slimmer, the crown easier to use, and the correctors are tucked under the lugs to keep everything clean.
Pricing starts around $20,000 in steel and moves closer to $35,000 in gold.
Most watches right now are built to get your attention fast. This one isn’t. It moves slower, feels more considered, and sits outside the current cycle.
And that shift, from being seen to actually knowing what you’re wearing, is exactly where things are going.
#Blancpain #watches #newwatchalert
Michael B. Jordan won his first Oscar at the 98th Academy Awards wearing a vintage Piaget. Not a random flex. Since the 1970s, Piaget’s ultra-thin gold watches and diamond-set designs have thrived under red-carpet lights, built less for racetracks and more for tuxedos and flashbulbs. In many ways, Piaget has always been Hollywood’s quiet victory watch.
Are you going to do a Sinners watch tonight? 👀
Read the full story at Super Niche.
#Oscars #Piaget #watches
A watch that looks like it belongs in 2001: A Space Odyssey but is actually made using centuries-old Japanese craft is exactly the kind of contradiction Ressence thrives on. Yes, that sounds like an Action Bronson lyric, but the Belgian’s latest watch is an another impressive feat.
The new Type 9 IKE, created with Japanese lacquer artist Terumasa Ikeda, turns the brand’s rotating dial into a cosmic composition of urushi lacquer and raden mother-of-pearl. The compact 39mm titanium case gets a stealthy black DLC finish, while Ikeda’s colorful lines ripple outward from the dial’s center as the entire display slowly orbits to tell time.
Limited to just eight pieces and priced around $35,000, it’s another reminder that Ressence’s simple design language makes an unusually good canvas for artists.
Read the full article on Super Niche.
#Ressence #watches #watchmaking
Ahead of his New York Fashion Week debut, Super Niche spent time with fashion designer Menyelek Rose for episode two of Super Niche Diaries, whose collections often feel less like seasonal fashion and more like chapters in an ongoing narrative.
In our conversation on the day of the show, Rose reflects on the idea that clothing is only one layer of the work. The deeper medium is the story itself, shaped by family, upbringing, and the world he continues to build through each collection.
Watch the conversation above.
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#SuperNicheDiaries #menyelek #NYFW #fashion
