Time and the Grand Tour
Breitling reunites the Top Time with the Aston Martin DB5 in three limited-edition chronographs inspired by the car’s instruments, materials and grand-touring character. The relationship started 19 years ago with the dashboard clock that Breitling created for the first Continental GT and grew into one of the longest-running alliances between a watchmaker and a motor […]
A Machine from Thra
Martin Smith’s watch winder, the Solar Orbiter looks as if it had travelled from Thra, the three-sunned world of Jim Henson’s The Dark Crystal. More precisely, it may have escaped from Aughra’s observatory: all brass spheres, silver discs and improbable arms revolving around a private cosmology. In the film, Aughra’s enormous orrery predicts the Great […]
The Cup That Holds No Water
The America’s Cup trophy, known as the “Auld Mug” is as unique as the race it represents. The American Cup is also the world’s oldest continually contested international sporting trophy. Curiously, the trophy – crafted by London silversmiths R&S Garrard & Co in 1848, was – and still is – completely open at the bottom (the habit […]
New Mercedes-Maybach S Class
As a committed petrolhead, my natural instinct is always to drive, and the new Mercedes-Maybach S-Class gives you plenty of reasons to take the wheel. Depending on the version, this is a car that can combine mighty V8 power, all-wheel drive and the kind of acceleration that makes a vehicle of this size feel almost […]
Two Wheels, Two Hands
The relationship between luxury watch brands and professional cycling is one of the most authentic crossovers in sport. As the Tissot x Pinarello Special Edition and the Richard Mille RM 64-01 Colnago collaboration demonstrate in 2026, that relationship has evolved from trackside timing into something altogether more intimate: a genuine exchange of craft between the […]
Time & Terroir
Luxury watch and wine pairings are not simply about taste. For collectors, both worlds reward patience, precision, provenance and craft. In haute horlogerie and fine wine, value is often found in what cannot be rushed: a hand-finished movement, a carefully aged vintage, a rare clone of a grape, or a house style refined over generations. […]
Putting on the Ritz
It may be the most formal of evening attire, but these days there’s an iteration – and timepiece – to suit every style and social stratum. Here’s how to master the black-tie dress code now, whether you’re a couple of corporate execs or trendy creatives. In theory, there is no occasion when you’ll look better. […]
Hamilton’s Odyssey in Bronze
Hamilton’s new Khaki Field Auto The Odyssey Limited Edition arrives with a problem most film watches never face: Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is set in a world that predates mechanical timekeeping. Unfazed by the challenge, Hamilton turned the problem on its head and made a watch that behaves like an artefact after the event, a […]
Watches in Movies: A Century of Screen Time
Surprisingly little noise has been made about an anniversary the watch industry should be celebrating: this year marks a century since Rudolph Valentino insisted on wearing his own Cartier Tank in The Son of the Sheik. Released posthumously in 1926, after Valentino died a fortnight before it reached cinemas, the film became the swan song […]
Drive Time
While the first jewellery-inspired timepiece is thought to have been created in 1810, wristwatches only became a true phenomenon in the aftermath of the First World War. In 1914, they were a niche sideline of the watch industry and generally considered faintly effeminate. Little more than a decade later, they were outselling pocket watches. That […]
