He successfully rode out a stretch of government-imposed tight controls on real estate lending in China with a double-digit increase in its Hong Kong shares in the past year.
This fall Graff will open stores in Hong Kong, Tokyo and Geneva, double the size of his flagship store in London and undertake construction on a new 4, 200-square-foot Manhattan boutique on Madison Avenue.
What makes the picture work is its unflagging devotion to the play of gleam and shadow: to a vision of Hong Kong as a natural hotbed of treason and double cross.
Starting in Hong Kong on March 30, the distinctly shaped jewel with what experts call a modified pear double rose cut will go on a whirlwind preauction tour of Sotheby's exhibition galleries around the world.