I LOVE NICE THINGS.

where do we go from here? That is the title of the group show opening tonight and representing the first American appearance of Eugenio Lopez’s Jumex Collection from Mexico City. The art-obsessed fruit-juice scion came late to the V.I.P. reception, where early-bird dealers like the New Yorker Jose Freire, the Parisian Thaddeus Ropac and Zurich’s Eva Presenhuber mixed with Latin American and European collectors to view five decades’ worth of art by 53 artists, including Jeff Koons, Paul McCarthy, Andy Warhol, Damien Ortega, Sherrie Levine and Ugo Rondinone. “No one’s riding the bicycles,” remarked the co-curator Victor Zamudio-Taylor, observing a pair of two-wheelers by Maurizio Cattelan that, as he demonstrated, turn on an overhead light bulb when pedaled. Eureka. “It’s important for museums to be intriguing and serious, yet fun and engaging.

After a flurry of men’s fashion in Florence and Milan, it was nice to head up to Geneva to look at the latest advancements in the luxury watch world at the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie fair. At a show where newness and innovation are almost always seen in the development of increasingly intricate complications of the timekeeping variety (sweeping seconds, power reserves, the omnipresent tourbillon), it was a welcome relief to have a shift in focus to aesthetics and appearance to the (gasp!) decorative. I even heard the dirty words of the timekeeping biz, “dress watch,” uttered without shame. Other manufacturers chose to focus on proven classics to help create contemporary heirlooms in the making. After all, a watch can simply be handsome to look at, complicated or not.

After a flurry of men’s fashion in Florence and Milan, it was nice to head up to Geneva to look at the latest advancements in the luxury watch world at the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie fair. At a show where newness and innovation are almost always seen in the development of increasingly intricate complications of the timekeeping variety (sweeping seconds, power reserves, the omnipresent tourbillon), it was a welcome relief to have a shift in focus to aesthetics and appearance to the (gasp!) decorative. I even heard the dirty words of the timekeeping biz, “dress watch,” uttered without shame. Other manufacturers chose to focus on proven classics to help create contemporary heirlooms in the making. After all, a watch can simply be handsome to look at, complicated or not.