Range Rover SV Burford Edition
The Cotswolds is a bucolic picture postcard of fantasy English villages; gilded honey-stone hamlets with verdant greens where the vicar might umpire cricket matches, red telephone boxes, gastro pubs and cutesy cottages Farrow & Balled to within an inch of their life. Which leads us to the long-wheelbase-only top-of-the-Range Rover SV, which is exactly the […]
Louis Vuitton Tambour Sapphire Frank Gehry
Frank Gehry’s work, while unconventional, is considered one – if not the most – recognisable architect of our time. As a child, Gehry occupied much of his time experimenting with different materials in his grandfather’s hardware store, with his grandmother consistently encouraging his artistic leanings. He then spent his formative years putting himself through architecture […]
Stone dial watches
Although one could argue that the use of a block of stone as a base on which to read the time goes back a few millennia (think sun clocks), in terms of horology worn on the wrist, it is not until the 1960s that we find watches with stone dials. The reasons are simple enough, […]
Watches & Wonders 2024
“We always start with the story,” explains Rainer Bernard, director for research and development at Van Cleef & Arpels. “Take our Brise d’Été. We wanted to create a garden in summer morning light with butterflies and delicate flowers moving in the breeze. It’s about poetry. We have to show how the most precious thing we […]
Automata watches and clocks
Automata are one of the most ancient and impressive ways to make a mechanical splash, as 2024’s latest animated wonders show. I-M TIME asked Sam Kessler to tell us more about these marvellous examples of horological creativity. Amongst all the various complications and functions of a fine timepiece, there’s one mechanism that stands apart. Compared […]
Patek Philippe Watches & Wonders 2024
In a sense, it was a quieter year for Patek Philippe, but that does not mean the watches presented were not superlative. Along with a Rare Handcrafts Exhibition at their Geneva boutique and the integration of the crafts into the watches released at Watches & Wonders, this was a year aimed more at the collector […]
Paradis Beachcomber Golf Resort & Spa
Situated at the base of Le Morne mountain in the south-western tip of Mauritius, Paradis Beachcomber Golf Resort & Spa is one of the finest luxury hotels in the island, and perfect for those looking for not just first class golf facilities, but also beachfront luxury and a choice of outstanding dining. Mauritius, with its […]
Minimalistic Excess
The early 1990s was the era of cool girl minimalism. Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and Gwyneth Paltrow were the poster girls of this pared-back style, living by the mantra “Less is more”. Fashion was stripped of its 1980s excess and reduced to a colour palette spanning from black to white but with more texture in the […]
Bovet Récital 28 Prowess 1
Globetrotters have always faced the problem of adjusting their watches when clocks go forward by an hour on the last Saturday of March. The reason is of course, that only 70 countries in the world do it, so if you are someone who travels across time zones as if they were stopovers in a cruise, […]
MERCEDES Electric “G”
Few cars are as immediately recognisable as the Mercedes G-Class. Its tough, retro, boxy appearance – together with its considerable size – give it a road presence that’s difficult to ignore. Inside, the off-roader is as luxurious and comfortable as one would expect of a top-of-the-range Mercedes. All the advances technology provides in terms of […]
