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There's a version of the Caribbean that sells you a sunbed, a watered-down rum punch, and a bill that makes your eyes water. Cabarete is not that version. Twenty-one minutes from Puerto Plata Airport sits one of the most quietly sophisticated coastal ecosystems in the entire region — a town where European expats, North American digital nomads, and professional water sports athletes have built something genuinely unusual: a high functioning, high energy lifestyle hub that does

Courtesy of Swatch; Getty Images The queues started before dawn. Hundreds of people outside Swatch stores in London, Paris, Tokyo — lining up for a bioceramic chronograph that retailed at £220 and looked, unmistakably, like an Omega Speedmaster. Watch purists were appalled. Sneaker kids were confused but intrigued. And somewhere in the Swatch Group's Biel headquarters, Nick Hayek Jr. was probably quite pleased with himself. Because this was never a hype drop. It was a corpora