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TAG Heuer’s Final Lap in Orange

A Solar-Powered Farewell to Zandvoort

With the Dutch Grand Prix preparing to take its final bow at Zandvoort later this month, TAG Heuer has chosen exactly the right place to turn up the colour. The new Formula 1 Solargraph 38 mm arrives in two limited editions dressed in the unmistakable orange of the Dutch crowd, a neat piece of timing for a race weekend that runs from 21–23 August and will include the first F1 Sprint ever held in the Netherlands. Zandvoort deserves the homage. Its 4.259 km circuit is narrow, quick and undulating, threading through the North Sea dunes with banked corners that give the lap an old-school sense of speed. The modern Dutch Grand Prix only returned in 2021 after a 36-year absence; 2026 will now close that chapter, at least for the foreseeable future. TAG Heuer hardly needs to borrow credibility from Formula 1. Motorsport has been woven through the company for decades, and it served as Formula 1’s Official Timekeeper from 1992 to 2003 before returning to the role in 2025. The Formula 1 watch itself dates to 1986, and new 38 mm proportions...

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The Sporting Life of Swiss Watches

Five Partnerships that Changed Timing, Branding and Competition

Every summer, sport takes over the calendar, Wimbledon fortnight, the Tour de France, Grand Prix show jumping, an international football tournament somewhere, along with a global diving and ocean conservation push, all landing in the same few months. Ticking away in the background of nearly every one of these events, usually on an athlete’s wrist […]

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Overfinch’s £1 Million Range Rover

A One-of-One Holland & Holland Bespoke Commission Like No Other

It takes a rare breed of British audacity to transform the world’s quintessential “farmyard-to-Fifth-Avenue” SUV into a machine that rivals the price of prime real estate. Overfinch, the Yorkshire-born custodian of Range Rover customisation since 1975, has answered with a car reported to be the world’s first million-pound Range Rover. A one-of-one Holland & Holland […]

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Jaeger-LeCoultre Rendez-Vous

Jewellery Night & Day and Hour-Minute

When Jaeger-LeCoultre introduced the Rendez-Vous in 2012, it made a point that should not have needed making: a watch designed specifically for women could be both beautiful and mechanically serious. It also gave the Maison a round-cased, high-complication counterpart to its iconic rectangular Reverso. The first model used the in-house automatic Calibre 967A, while Night […]

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Ulysse Nardin Blast Moonstruck

An Astrolabe for the Space Age

As romantic as the name Moonstruck sounds, the reality is that the new Ulysse Nardin Blast Moonstruck belongs to the realm of science, close to an astronomical instrument. The watch places a three-dimensional Northern Hemisphere beneath a domed sapphire crystal, then sets the Sun and Moon moving around it. Local time, world time, day and […]

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Project Zero

A New Kind of Luxury to Rule the Waves

Project Zero was conceived from the outset as a genuinely sustainable alternative to traditional luxury yachting, without sacrificing beauty, comfort or performance. The 68.9-metre performance ketch, built by Vitters with design by Vripack and naval architecture by Dykstra Naval Architects, has no combustion engines and is intended to operate entirely on renewable energy. Rather than […]

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Time and the Grand Tour

Breitling Brings the DB5’s Character to the Wrist.

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 […]

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A Machine from Thra

Martin Smith’s Solar Orbiter Enters the MB&F Universe

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 […]

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The Cup That Holds No Water

Panerai’s New Luna Rossa Pair Heads for Naples

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 […]

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New Mercedes-Maybach S Class

The Best Seat in the House

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 […]

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Two Wheels, Two Hands

Luxury Watchmakers Are Chasing Cycling’s Marginal Gains

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 […]

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Time & Terroir

Luxury Watch and Wine Pairings for Collectors

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. […]