To celebrate the opening, Vacheron is hosting a month-long American Heritage event at its new store, on Madison Avenue and 64th Street. (The store is the latest entry in what is becoming a veritable row-house of watchmaker shops along the avenue.) The Heritage event will put on public display notable historical watches and acquisition narratives from their owners.

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But they went instead to a similar looking red brick, end-of-row house just around the corner in Ninian Road in the leafy suburb of Roath.

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But they went instead to a similar looking redbrick, end-of-row house just around the corner in Ninian Road in the leafy suburb of Roath Park.

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They are determined to get back on track after the row about House of Lords reform de-railed co-operation between their two parties.

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It was not really a comment on new skyscraper office buildings vs. old row house neighborhoods, or about young, poor innovators vs. older, more well-to-do, supposedly non-innovators, as the above dissuasion seems to imply.

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The oddity is that the row comes at a time when French films, many of them more accessible than the art-house product that English-speakers tend to imagine are the French studios' only output, are standing their ground against the perceived invasion from Hollywood.

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