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Louisville Becomes Ground Zero in the War on Fake Luxury Watches A single parcel traveling from Hong Kong to Illinois carried what appeared to be a routine international shipment. It wasn't. Inside were 200 watches bearing one of the most prestigious names in Swiss horology — Audemars Piguet — and

The $27 Cohiba and What It Really Means: Inside the Exploding Cost of Premium Cigars Walk into a newly opened cigar shop with a liquor license — the kind of place with leather chairs, Spanish cedar humidor walls, and soft lighting that makes every smoke feel like an occasion — and you may find you

The Premium Cigar Association Is Going Global — and It's Just Getting Started For most of its nearly century-long existence, the Premium Cigar Association operated with a fundamentally domestic mindset. Founded in 1933 as the Retail Tobacco Dealers of America, the organization spent decades focuse

Swiss Watch Exports Surge 11.2% in June 2026 — The Industry's First Real Breath of Fresh Air in Two Years For the better part of two years, the Swiss watch industry has been grinding through a prolonged correction — one defined by softening Chinese demand, a punishing strong franc, tariff uncertai

America's Obsession with Luxury Watches Is Rewriting the Books at Watches of Switzerland There has never been a better time to sell a Rolex in America, and no one is cashing in on that reality harder than Watches of Switzerland. The British-headquartered luxury retailer released its fiscal year 20

The World's Strongest Cigar Is Back — And This Time, You'd Better Be Ready Some cigars make a quiet debut and earn their reputation slowly, box by box, review by review, over years of humidor rotation. The World's Strongest Cigar did none of that. When it made its debut at the 2024 New England Cig

The Watch That Breaks Luminox's Most Sacred Rule There is an unwritten covenant that Luminox has honored for more than three decades: keep it light, keep it black, keep it in polycarbonate, and wrap it in rubber. That formula didn't emerge from a marketing department. It came out of the field — te

Micallef Expands Its Exclusive Gordo Lineup at Two Guys Cigars with Blue, Green, and White Additions There are partnerships in the premium cigar world that make intuitive sense from the moment they're announced, and the growing collaboration between Micallef Cigars and Two Guys Cigars is shaping u

The Man Who Built a Billion-Dollar Empire Is Starting Over — and He's Calling It N3W5 There are very few figures in the global watch industry who can claim to have personally transformed a legacy manufacture into a cultural phenomenon. François-Henri Bennahmias is one of them. The man who spent a

PROCIGAR and the Monument to the Heroes of the Restoration Launch a Permanent Immersive Experience Celebrating Santiago's Tobacco Heritage There is a building at the center of Santiago de los Caballeros that cigar smokers know by instinct. The Monumento a los Héroes de la Restauración — a towering