Reading Time: 3 minutesLes Voiles de St Barth Richard Mille: Sorcha was the overall winner in this 10th edition. Pierre Casiraghi, the patron of Les Voiles, served as helmsman aboard Sorcha. The winner’s RM 60-01 Regatta will be sold for charities through the Paris boutique. 1,200 sailors, 63 racing yachts, Les Voiles deContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesIWC Schaffhausen premieres its new IWC Spitfire collection campaign movie, starring brand ambassador Lewis Hamilton. The five-time Formula OneTM World Champion, Lewis Hamilton, appears alongside a Mercedes-Benz Silver Arrow race car and a Silver Spitfire aircraft. Text and images IWC Schaffhausen.Continue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutesChristophe Claret is pleased to announce its collaboration with Vasyl Lomachenko – winner of one Europe championship title, two Olympic gold medals and three World Championship titles – and the forthcoming creation of a new watch. Text and images Christophe Claret.Continue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutesBritish actor and Jaeger-LeCoultre brand ambassador Benedict Cumberbatch recently enjoyed a private watchmaking masterclass at London’s Jaeger-LeCoultre flagship store. Benedict Cumberbatch began by observing one of Jaeger-LeCoultre’s longest-serving watchmakers Richard Phipps-Carter as he dismantled a Jaeger-LeCoultre 925 movement. Phipps-Carter, who originally joined the company 31 years ago, then guided BenedictContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesWatchBox, the leading global platform for pre-owned luxury timepieces, today announced a partnership with Swiss watch retailer Les Ambassadeurs. The partnership brings expertise in the secondary watch market to one of the industry’s most esteemed luxury watch sellers. Les Ambassadeurs represents the first retail institution in Switzerland to formalize aContinue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutesSince 2004, the Swiss watchmaker has served as the Official Timekeeper of the Indianapolis 500 automobile race. To honour this year’s event, TAG Heuer has created dedicated Carrera and Formula 1 timepieces that are available around the world. La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland: To mark the legendary Indy 500 automobile race onContinue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutesA new creation in the Grand Seiko sport collection pays homage to an emblematic Japanese classic, the NISSAN GT-R which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year with a very special edition. This Grand Seiko watch is at the leading edge of sports technology, with its Spring Drive chronograph caliber andContinue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutesSchaffhausen, 7th April 2019 – IWC Schaffhausen’s motorsport team competed at the Goodwood Members’ Meeting for the second time this weekend. At the wheel of the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL “Gullwing”, former Formula One™ star and brand ambassador David Coulthard competed in the Tony Gaze Trophy and finished in 1st place. FollowingContinue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutesSchaffhausen, 4 March 2019 – IWC Schaffhausen auctioned a Big Pilot’s Watch Single Piece with a one-of-a-kind engraving. The online auction was organized by Sotheby’s and the special timepiece garnered an outstanding winning bid of USD 60,000. The Swiss luxury watch manufacturer will donate its full proceeds from the auction toContinue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe violinist Joshua Bell is one of the great performers of our times; since his Carnegie Hall debut in 1985, he has been able to look back on performances with almost all the major orchestras and conductors in the world. His concept of music as a means of transcultural understandingContinue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor the fifth year in a row, a watch from Glashütte Original wins first place in the prestigious competition for the Golden Balance awards. At the official awards ceremony in Munich on 21 February 2019, the Senator Cosmopolite was honoured for its decisive victory in the category for watches pricedContinue Reading