Reading Time: 3 minutesFor the January chapter of Time Well Spent, we visit Ed Ruscha at his studio in Los Angeles, California. One of the most important living painters, Ed Ruscha has spent his career building a distinct and groundbreaking visual language. Drawing from the streets of Los Angeles, the charged nature ofContinue Reading
Reading Time: 8 minutesI find myself compelled to address a paradox that sits at the heart of the gérald genta Geneva Minute Repeater. Here is a watch so refined, so deliberately conceived, that it demands contemplation rather than commentary. Yet it is precisely this quality, this refusal to shout that makes it worthyContinue Reading
Reading Time: 8 minutesThe return of a legend invariably invites scrutiny. When DOXA announced the resurrection of the SUB 750T, one might reasonably harbour reservations about the outcome. It is a watch absent from the regular collection for two decades. The original 2002 interpretation stood as an imposing proposition: a 44.7 millimetre cushion-shapedContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesSt. Moritz in winter has a particular way of sorting priorities. The air is thin, the light is sharp, and suddenly the idea of doing anything that does not involve ice, engines and beautiful objects feels like a compromise. For Hedley Studios, the British creator of scaled, driveable automotive sculptures,Continue Reading
Reading Time: 6 minutesAurel Bacs and Livia Russo, Senior Consultants of Phillips in Association with Bacs & Russo, said: “This year marks a historic milestone for Phillips Watches. With over US $290 million in total auction sales – the highest annual total ever achieved in the history of watch auctions – we are proud to reaffirm ourContinue Reading
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe DC7 Blue Hawk arrived as a statement of singular purpose. David Candaux has constructed a watch that refuses the conventional grammar of fine watchmaking, opting instead for a design language rooted in asymmetry, spatial depth, and the unflinching pursuit of horological balance. Limited to eight pieces, this titanium-cased creationContinue Reading
Reading Time: 8 minutesEmmanuel Bouchet stands apart in contemporary watchmaking for a singular reason: he genuinely believes that watches should alter how you perceive time itself. Not through flashy complications designed to impress, but through carefully considered mechanisms that challenge the very foundations of how we measure and experience the temporal world. ThisContinue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Bentley Flying Spur Speed has again demonstrated its exceptional performance in all conditions by setting a new ‘winter lap record’ at the world’s most northerly active race circuit.Continue Reading
Reading Time: 6 minutesDominique Renaud stands as one of contemporary watchmaking’s most significant innovators, a figure whose intellectual lineage traces directly to the golden age of mechanical complications. His work at Renaud & Papi and later Christophe Claret established him as a designer of movements that challenged established thinking rather than merely refiningContinue Reading
Reading Time: 6 minutesThere exists within the Cartier archive a particular lineage of objects that transcend their mechanical function to become pure expression of design philosophy. The Panthère represents one such lineage. When Louis Cartier commissioned George Barbier to create the “Dame à la Panthère” in 1914, he established a symbolic language thatContinue Reading
Reading Time: 10 minutesThe contemporary watchmaking landscape contains precious few timepieces that genuinely merit the descriptor “architecture.” Most watches, however refined in their execution, remain exercises in variation on established themes. The Constant Force Tourbillon 11 from Arnold & Son stands apart. This yellow gold chronometer represents a deliberate articulation of mechanical philosophy,Continue Reading