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Harry Winston, Inc. is an American luxury jeweler and producer of Swiss timepieces. [2] [3] The company was founded in 1932 as Harry H. Winston Jewels, Inc. and changed its name to Harry Winston Inc. in January 1936. [4] [5] The company is named after its founder, Harry Winston, who was called by many as the "King of Diamonds". [2] [6] [7] [8] [9]
HW Holding Inc., owner of Harry Winston, Inc., an American jewellery and luxury watch company, was acquired on 26 March 2013 for 711 million Swiss francs. [13] Nayla Hayek became the CEO. The company bought the world's biggest flawless blue diamond, The Winston Blue, on 15 May 2014. [14]
Harry Winston (March 1, 1896 – December 8, 1978) [1] was an American jeweler. He donated the Hope Diamond to the Smithsonian Institution in 1958 after owning it for a decade. [ 2 ] He also traded the Portuguese Diamond to the Smithsonian in 1963 in exchange for 3,800 carats of small diamonds.
Hayek became the CEO of Harry Winston, Inc. in May 2013, a few months after The Swatch Group acquired the company. [3] The company bought the world's largest flawless blue diamond The Winston Blue in May 2014. [4]
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At the time, the firm was still controlled by the Winston family. [7] In his seven years at Harry Winston Rare Timepieces Büsser (bought by The Swatch Group in 2013) increased revenue from $8 million to $80 million [8] and created the ground-breaking Opus series of ultra-complicated mechanical watches in collaboration with independent ...
Harry Nilsson's melodic pop music endeared him to the Beatles and won him the admiration of everyone from Monty Python's Terry Gilliam to Carly Rae Jepsen. But ask someone on the street if they ...
In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of The Wizard of Oz, the Harry Winston jewelry company created a size-four pair of slippers using "about 25 carats of diamonds and 1,500 carats of rubies". [37] Valued at $3 million, they are reportedly the most expensive pair of shoes in the world.