Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen the going gets tough – the tough get going. And nothing in world motorsport is tougher than rallycross, where man and machine must work as one, against the clock, against their rivals and against the elements. Only the best, and most focused, drivers will triumph. That unconquerable spirit alsoContinue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Maurice Lacroix Masterpiece Embrace is a fusion of artistic expression and technical creativity, courtesy of its retrograde calendar and unusual small seconds display. Two hearts rotate, a metaphor for the highs and the lows besetting all relationships, however, they always remain together, locked in a perpetual embrace.Continue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutesFrederique Constant is today unveiling five new round models in its Classics Art Déco collection. A return to the basics, both contemporary and classic, for a collection created 13 years ago and whose success is attested on the wrist of the modern woman.Continue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutesRolls-Royce “King of the Night” Exhibition: Rolls-Royce’s Black Badge motor cars respond to a subset of clients who connect with the marque with wilfully disruptive intentions. They seek to subvert expected codes of luxury and create highly Bespoke and unapologetic symbols of their lifestyles. Cullinan Black Badge was created forContinue Reading
Reading Time: 5 minutesAlpina Watches is delighted to announce its partnership with the Freeride World Tour has been renewed for the third year running, with three new ambassadors joining its Mountain Team: Juliette Willmann, Victor De le Rue and Hugo Hoff and a new version of its Alpiner, the Alpina AlpinerX Freeride WorldContinue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe 19Thirty collection was inspired by the last pocket watches crafted by the Maison BOVET, before the advent of the wristwatch era. Its balance is inherited from the stylistic details of the “easel” chronometer which was patented in 1930 and symbolizes the shift towards wristwatches. At the beginning of 2020,Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesLamborghini kicked off its 2020 racing season by making yet more history at the traditional curtain raising 24 Hours of Daytona. Winning the GTD class with the #48 Paul Miller Racing partnership of Andrea Caldarelli, Corey Lewis, Bryan Sellers and Madison Snow, this is the third consecutive year Lamborghini hasContinue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutesDiscussions about the making of highly refined mechanical watches usually begin with a description of the sometimes extraordinary complications and sophisticated decorative finishing of the movement. Equally important, however, and no less elaborate, is the manufacture of exquisite dials – since they represent, after all, the face of a watch.Continue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutesJean-Marie Schaller – Horological Creativity Contribution Prize The amazing Salon Exceptional Watches (SEW) in Prague brought together 44 leading watchmaking brands. A single prestigious distinction, the HOROLOGICAL CREATIVITY CONTRIBUTION PRIZE, was awarded for the very first time – and Jean-Marie Schaller was proud to be its very first recipient. AsContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes29 February 2020 marks the date again: once every four years, we have one extra day in our calendar. Since 2001, A. Lange & Söhne has launched eight timepieces that consider this. And there’s more: the Saxon manufactory has developed a fundamentally different technical approach to the perpetual calendar mechanismContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesIWC Schaffhausen has unveiled a reworked version of the Portugieser Chronograph. The iconic design, with its clean, open dial, two recessed totalizers and flange with quarter-second scale, remains unchanged. Inside the case of the much-loved chronograph, however, IWC now uses a high-quality in-house movement from the 69000-calibre family, which canContinue Reading