Maison 30 of 100 · Fine Jewelry
Harry Winston
The reading
The New York stone house. Winston bought and broke up the Hope Diamond’s public life and still lends stones to the Oscars. Inside Swatch Group it is the high-jewellery counterweight to volume watch brands. Cluster settings remain the house handwriting.
The house
- Origin
- United States
- Founded
- 1932
- Atelier
- Fine Jewelry
- Ownership
- Swatch Group
- Signature
- Cluster / Winston Emerald
- Register note
- King of Diamonds This line is the register’s own characterisation, not a sourced figure; see Méthode.
Where it sits in this register
This is one of the nine maisons the register files to the United States — the same number it files to the United Kingdom, and the fourth-largest national group in it. It is the 55th-oldest house in the register. Its stablemates here are Omega, Blancpain and Breguet — four Swatch Group houses in all. Counted inside its own room it stands 5th of the fifteen houses this register files under Fine Jewelry. By rank it falls in the register's second quarter. Fine Jewelry holds fifteen of the hundred places, the fourth-largest room in the register.