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MoonSwatch Mission To Earthphase

Celebrating our blue-green bauble home on Christmas Eve

On Christmas Eve, we feel it is appropriate to bring you the recently released MoonSwatch Mission to Earthphase, a first in terms of our planet’s appearance from space featuring as a complication in a wristwatch. It celebrates the first time that human eyes saw our planet rising on the horizon, a photograph taken by Bill Anders aboard the Apollo 8 on Christmas Eve 1968.

Without a doubt, the Swatch x Omega MoonSwatch collaboration has been one of the noted new watch series in the 2020s. It cleverly uses the design codes of Omega’s iconic Speedmaster, the first watch on the Moon, with an innovative bioceramic material in an array of colours that incorporate space mission themes. It started with a collection including our satellite, all planets – including Earth – and the Sun in March 2022. They were an immediate success.

Similar in design and colouring to the Speedmasters worn by astronauts, the Swatch x Omega MoonSwatch Mission to Earthphase on its Velcro strap.

New iterations were released in 2023 and 2024, but this year, when it came to our planet, the creatives at the Swatch…

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Lamborghini Temerario

Raging against the dying V10 light

The new Lamborghini Temerario – named after a Spanish bull that fought in the arena of Madrid in 1875 – is a crucial model for Lamborghini, designed to take over the super sports car baton from the Huracán. The Huracán is nearing the end of production with a full order book. Nearly 30,000 units of the […]

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Jaguar Type 00

A new dawn

In the last four weeks, between the multimedia campaign, the new logo and the partial reveal of the Type 00, Jaguar has probably been in the news more often than in the last four years put together. The dramatic change of direction taken by the brand has divided opinion not just in the UK, but […]

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Breguet Reine de Naples

Love takes flight

In 1812, Abraham-Louis Breguet created the very first wristwatch for Napoleon’s sister, Caroline Murat, Queen of Naples. This historic piece, freely interpreted, is the inspiration for a feminine collection which has become legendary. Unfortunately, the original vanished at some point, lost forever… which somehow adds to the mystery and romanticism around many of Breguet’s timepieces. […]

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Suzuki’s New GSX-S1000

Born of race-winning, engineered for excitement

Streamlined and stunning in shape and form, Suzuki has launched its new GSX-S1000 naked street bike. Jeremy Webb has been one of the first journalists to get a ride on one. When he returned from their HQ, the smile on his face said it all. There is nothing better than jumping on a brand-new bike […]

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GENESIS GV80

Luxury, performance, serenity

The Genesis GV80 is a new luxury SUV competitively matched against established rivals such as the BMW X5 and Volvo XC90. Can it steal an edge for the family buyer in need of the practical elements of an SUV but, still wanting a comfortable and stylish interior? Genesis is a fairly new brand to the […]

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Marek Reichman

Chief Creative Officer, Aston Martin Lagonda

Marek grew up in a family of car fanatics. Their passion sparked his interest on industrial design, which he developed in his university studies, specialising in Vehicle Design at the Royal College of Art in London. As Chief Creative Officer of Aston Martin Lagonda, he’s been producing one amazing machine after another for the iconic […]

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New Range Rover SV

Breath-taking modernity

It is not often that my jaw drops at the unveiling of a new car – these days changes from one iteration to the next are normally quite marginal – but that is exactly what happened when Prof Gerry McGovern OBE, Chief Creative Officer at Jaguar Land Rover pulled the cover of the new Range […]

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Fiat 500 Elettrica

Too much fun!

I must confess I’ve always been a big fan of the Fiat 500, a car that seems as at home whizzing around the streets as it would do in the pages of a fashion magazine, that’s how pretty it is. From the humble original Nuova 500 in 1957 till this very latest electric version, only […]

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Bugatti Baby

Big little dreams of racing glory

Like your first kiss just behind the schoolyard bicycle sheds, you always remember your first car. At the risk of showing my age, I still remember mine. It was a Junior Forty J40 Roadster – a 1950s pedal car made of some hefty metal components that helped build leg muscles the size and strength of […]

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Salon Privé 2021

By Julia Pasarón

Salon Privé has become a must-attend event for car enthusiasts throughout the length and breadth of the country and this year, it has been no different. The industry’s latest and greatest designs meet with classic legends, from pre-war Bentleys to two of the most famous Jaguar E-Types ever, prototype 9600 HP and 77 RW, their […]

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Ferrari Portofino M

This Summer’s hottest affair

If last summer I could say I had a beautiful romance with a Ferrari Portofino driving it top-down around the gentle English south coast, what I experienced a few weekends ago with the Portofino M can definitely be called a torrid affair! M (for “Modificata”) is the more athletic version of the Portofino, loaded with […]