Letter from the Publisher

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Letter from the President
6 Grand Complications, Vol. VII
All in the timing
In today’s harried world, time is a luxury. Nowhere is this more
evident than in the world of high-end timepieces, which have gained in
popularity even as other time-telling devices have become ubiquitous.
It is an absolute pleasure to be afforded the opportunity to join an
editorial conversation that stimulates, provokes, and engages a readership—one
that Modern Luxury Media and its portfolio of upmarket city
magazines covering the nation’s top luxury markets so brilliantly
facilitates. And it is a downright thrill to announce Dickey Publishing’s
acquisition of the country’s largest city magazine publisher.
Dickey Publishing looks forward to working closely with the dedicated and talented team at
Modern Luxury Media to build upon the success this great company has worked tirelessly and
creatively to achieve in its first decade. While no one can predict what the future will bequeath,
I can tell you without hesitation that Dickey Publishing shares Modern Luxury’s commitment
to producing best-in-class publications and to partnering closely with our valued clients to
maximize their return on investment and brand activation.
I am especially pleased to be able to help introduce the latest edition of Grand Complications,
with its focus on the most elite echelon of complicated mechanical timepieces. Grand Complications
will be available for the first time this year online as a digital edition, and we will also be producing
a version especially for the iPad. This multimedia approach is fitting for these elite timepieces, as
one element of their immense appeal is their portability. One element—but there are many more.
The immense care and skill brought to bear on these investment pieces reflects both the proud,
searching history of technological leaps and a future full of equally impressive developments.
I join connoisseurs in marveling at the perfection of these pieces: brilliantly conceived, aesthetically
striking, technologically astute, and precisely engineered.
The sheer number of functions—and the inventive ways they can be displayed—described
in these pages can boggle the mind, if you let it. The mechanical wonders herein are all the
more admirable for fitting in the palm of one’s hand—or rather, on one’s wrist.
In the spirit of distinction, enjoy the issue.
Michael Dickey