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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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Alpine A110 Légende

All of the Chic, None of the Freak

The Alpine marque was founded in 1955 by Jean Rédélé, who achieved quite some success in motorsport with one of the few French cars produced just after WWII, the Renault 4CV. Rédélé gained class wins in a number of major events, including the Mille Miglia and Coupe des Alpes. As his experience with the little 4CV built up, he […]

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Clock-Tale hour

by James Gurney

Time looked likely to have passed clocks by almost entirely. What were Clock & Watch departments at the auction houses, dropped the clock from the title years ago as antiquarian interest in the likes of Frodsham or Dent gave way to super-heated frenzies over the latest rare Daytona to be winkled out by the likes […]

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On James Bond’s horological service

The trials and tribulations of the watches worn by 007

With the latest outing for the evergreen British secret agent just a few months away in No Time to Die, it seems a suitable moment to look at his wrist wear during the past decades. Over the course of 25 films there are three basic items that Bond always seems to collect from the Quartermaster […]

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Rolls-Royce New Ghost

Inspiring Greatness, Yet Again

There is a reason why the best things in life are called “The Rolls-Royce of …” Self-declared “the world’s most customer-centric company,” when asked about the second edition of Ghost, the feedback from customers was quite clear: “We want more, but we want less.” This is a company that sells around 5,000 cars per year, […]

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Princess X95 Superfly

A Life Less Ordinary

I’ve always been fond of being at sea. This year more than ever I have remembered with nostalgia long lunches on deck followed by lazy afternoons sunbathing on the bow while sipping ice-cold champagne and listening to the sound of the hull piercing through the waves. This summer, Princess Yachts launched its X95, a new […]

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Triumph 660 Trident

Triumph tackle the middleweight bike sector with the launch of their long-awaited Trident 660 Triple, with the aim of enticing bikers to the brand at a more competitive entry point. Its unique triple engine provides all the character and performance of a triple to the middle-weight category for the first time. It combines the low-down […]

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Aston Martin DB5 Continuation

The spirit of James Bond’s favourite car lives on

Anyone who, like myself, hails from a childhood where James Bond WAS Sean Connery (RIP) – the suave, stylish, Martini-swilling secret agent with a license to kill – would know that the Aston Martin DB5 was the Q Branch tricked-out car by definition. It was every boy’s dream: the ultimate sports car with a host […]

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The Vertex Bronze 75

Celebrating 75 years of peace

Founded in 1916 by British watchmaker Claude Lyons, Vertex watches were one of “the dirty dozen” commissioned by the Ministry of Defence for military use together with brands like Longines, Omega, Jaeger-LeCoultre and IWC. Vertex continued producing military approved watches until 1972, when the company closed the doors of its Hatton Gardens headquarters. Nearly half a century later, Lyons’s great- grandson, Don Cochrane, brought the brand back to life […]

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Mercedes-AMG G63

Sometimes bigger IS better.

You’ve probably heard the expression “respect”, which has become ever so popular in modern lexicon among those born in this millennium. It has to do with street-kudos and a little bit of “in-your-face boasting”. Well, that is exactly what you get when you drive the new Mercedes-AMG G63 Wagon, respect and a lot of disapproving […]