Reading Time: 4 minutes Tight bends, steep slopes and narrow street canyons. No race in the Grand Prix circus arouses as much passion among drivers and motorsport fans as a race in Monaco. Since 1929, racing drivers have been speeding through the tight streets of this approximately 3.3-kilometer-long circuit and steering their cars throughContinue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutes Bentley has launched a major new sustainability initiative, with the announcement of a renewable fuels research and development programme spearheaded by the most extreme road-car-based Bentley in its 101 year history. The Continental GT3 Pikes Peak, designed and built to compete for the Time Attack 1 record at this year’sContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes A fleet of Vantage GT3s and GT4s will charge into action across Europe this weekend, as Aston Martin Racing partner teams begin their 2021 campaigns in the Fanatec GT World Challenge (GTWC) Europe and GT4 European series at Monza (Italy), and the European Le Mans Series (ELMS) at the CircuitContinue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutes After five successful seasons together, Red Bull Racing Honda and TAG Heuer are pleased to announce a partnership extension until 2024, with the legendary Swiss watch manufacturer continuing as the Team’s Official Timekeeper.Continue Reading
Reading Time: 6 minutes One hundred and eighty years ago, on 12 April 1841, the Dresden Semper Opera House was ceremoniously inaugurated. As befits the occasion, A. Lange & Söhne recalls what was then already a technical marvel: the five-minute clock. It is highly significant for the brand for two reasons. First, its creatorContinue Reading
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Canadian actor Eli Goree, nominated for his role portraying Cassius Clay in ‘One Night in Miami’, wears the Girard-Perregaux Vintage 1945 XXL Date and Moon Phases in steel on the occasion of the 2021 Screen Actors Guild Awards. The sober lines of the Vintage 1945 evoke the aesthetic heritageContinue Reading
Reading Time: < 1 minute Tom Brady, best quarterback in NFL history, and Sir Lewis Hamilton, greatest Formula 1 champion of all time, meet in the brilliant and inspiring new video conversation “TALKING BIG“, initiated by the Swiss watch manufacturer IWC Schaffhausen.Continue Reading
Reading Time: 5 minutes 2021 marks the dawn of a new era and the start of a collaboration between Swiss Haute Horlogerie manufacturer Audemars Piguet and Marvel, one of the most prominent character-based entertainment companies. Inspired by historical character watches, including some of Gérald Genta’s timepieces from the 1980s, Audemars Piguet wanted to payContinue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutes Blancpain announces the release of a full-length documentary film Fifty Fathoms – The history as told by the pioneers who created it. Narrated by American Emmy Award-winning actor and author Peter Coyote, the film recounts the most important events in the creation and seven-decade evolution of the watch. First-hand interviewsContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes For the past 133 years, inspiring women have been shaping Carl F. Bucherer in all aspects of business, becoming an integral part of the brand’s rich heritage and lively traditions. These women have been pacesetters for the development of the brand ever since 1888. From Wilhelmina Bucherer-Heeb, who remarkably contributedContinue Reading
Reading Time: < 1 minute In the early hours of Sunday morning under a full moon, Alexia sailed into the waters off the coast of Brittany and crossed the finish line at the Sables d’Olonne to complete the 9th edition of the Vendée Globe race. After 11 days, 17 hours and 3 minutes at sea, sheContinue Reading