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"   Earlier this week New York City&amp;#039;s style set gathered at Gotham Hall for the reveal of Promesse (French for &amp;quot;promise&amp;quot;), the beautiful new watch collection from Baume &amp;amp;amp; Mercier. The room was lined with glass cases of inspiration boards and watches from different decades, from a pocket-sized timepiece to an elegant, thin gold watch with beautiful details. The lovely Jessica Par\u00E9 of Mad Men presented the collection (launching in September) wearing the Promesse 10160, a mother of pearl and steel bracelet watch with 30 finely set diamonds. This is the first time Baume &amp;amp;amp; Mercier has offered new women&amp;#039;s watches in nearly a decade, and they were certainly worth the wait. I had the chance to sit down and speak with Par\u00E9 about the similarities between a watch and a handsome man, her favorite use for honey, and of course, the sad truth of Mad Men coming to an end. Why did you choose to be the face of the Baume &amp;amp;amp; Mercier Promesse collection? Time can move so quickly in today&amp;#039;s world, so a watch is a way to remind ourselves to pause and enjoy the moments that are unique and worthy of celebration. The watch that was the inspiration piece for this collection is from the 1970s, so it feels like such a connection to work for me. I have to tell you [wearing this watch] feels really good. I haven&amp;#039;t worn a watch in a long time. It feels like somebody&amp;#039;s holding me. I feel like somebody super-handsome is holding me.  With Mad Men ending, you are about to embark in a very new time in your life\u2026 I do feel like the end of Mad Men is a sort of a coming of age. There was before Mad Men, and there&amp;#039;s after, and that&amp;#039;s what we&amp;#039;re talking about here tonight in terms of the milestone moments in a woman&amp;#039;s life\u2026we&amp;#039;re moving on and we&amp;#039;re growing. It&amp;#039;s such a great way of keeping these memories close to us, and keeping them close to our hearts.  How do you feel about the end of Mad Men? It&amp;#039;s really bittersweet. Mostly bitter. Not bitter as in angry. Just, I love those people so much, and it&amp;#039;s just been such a privilege to work on the show in general and to work with such an incredibly talented group of writers. They&amp;#039;re amazing, and they astound me at every turn. I&amp;#039;m really bowled over by their sheer genius on a daily basis. Every time I drive to work, I have this heart full of joy. Oh my god, I just realized what the inscription on my watch is going to be\u2026  What are you going to miss most? The cast and the crew alike\u2026and the writers. I&amp;#039;m going to miss all of those people because they are my dear friends. They are such a creative group of people\u2014they&amp;#039;re so confident, so playful, so giving to one another. I hope that I&amp;#039;ve gleaned the slightest amount from them because I was so fortunate to be working with them. You know, at first, I just felt like I sort of slipped in there, like I tricked somebody into giving me the job, and I was just like, &amp;quot;Don&amp;#039;t fuck this up.&amp;quot; Now after four years, I feel a degree of proprietary feelings. We will always be friends, but they won&amp;#039;t be forced to hang out with me the way they are now. It&amp;#039;s going to be a new era. The other side of it, the sweet part, is if it hadn&amp;#039;t been so good, it wouldn&amp;#039;t be so difficult. So, you take the good with the bad, I guess. Has Mad Men influenced your fashion sense? Yes, absolutely. It was such a great era for men and women.  What is one beauty product you can&amp;#039;t live without? Sunscreen. I know that it&amp;#039;s a bit of a classic. Maybe it falls less under beauty and more under health, but I really try to take fairly good care of my skin, especially staying in L.A., I feel like it&amp;#039;s a priority. Do you have any beauty tricks you swear by? Honey masks. Honey is hydrating and antiseptic. It really clears your skin and it&amp;#039;s moisturizing. You can use it every day if you want. It&amp;#039;s so gentle. What about your everyday beauty routine compared to the one you have on set? My own beauty routine is influenced pretty heavily from my Mad Men routine. If I&amp;#039;m in the series of work, it&amp;#039;s hard to see myself without eyelashes every day. You know? I think, &amp;quot;I can&amp;#039;t even see my eyes at all. They&amp;#039;re tiny.&amp;quot; As I&amp;#039;m getting older and I&amp;#039;m maturing, I feel like there&amp;#039;s more of an emphasis on having that elegance and having that ladylike quality. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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