Yes, it’s a Chanel watch – but don’t panic, you haven’t mistakenly picked up a copy of Vogue. This is the latest horological collaboration between the celebrated couture house and…
The career of the great Jacky Ickx will be familiar to many, not least for encompassing six Le Mans wins – a record that stood until 2005, when Dane Tom…
Jack Heuer (great-grandson of Heuer founder Edouard) was one the most innovative watch marketeers of the 20th century – not least in his ability to choose evocative names for new…
One man who has a unique perspective on the events of that weekend in May 1994 is Mike Vogt, who experienced the tragedy of Ayrton Senna’s death first-hand as both…
It was in sleeping mode, and now we are waking it up.” That old chestnut might be a favourite way of describing a defunct watch brand’s revival, but it sounded…
Back in 2008 during Aston Martin’s partnership with historic watch house Jaeger-LeCoultre, the pair came up with an ingenious timepiece called the Amvox Transponder that could unlock your DBS, DB9…
Just as the car industry has its fair share of ‘rock star’ designers, so does the world of watches – and one of the most admired is the effortlessly stylish…
We’ve featured the watches of UK-based Omologato several times since the business was set up eight years ago by Shami Kalra, a car- and motor sport-loving graduate of the London…
ROLEX To mark the 60th birthday of its celebrated Cosmograph Daytona driver’s chronograph, Rolex has given the latest versions (Oystersteel, above) a redesigned case, a metal edge around the Cerachrom…
RICHARD MILLE A few years ago I was lucky enough to visit Richard Mille at his home in Brittany where, in a series of elegantly converted stables, he keeps one…
It has been 12 months since we brought news of TAG Heuer’s 50th birthday gift to the Porsche 2.7 RS in the form of a brace of special Carrera chronographs –…
Reviving defunct marque names and applying them to modern vehicles is quite popular in the automotive world (for example, the now Chinese-owned MG and the French-owned Brough-Superior). But it’s nowhere…
Since leaving his job as head designer for Morgan in 2012, 40-year-old Matthew Humphries has juggled his life between freelance work, lecturing, finding time to drive the beloved MGB he…
Think driver’s watches and the name of Patek Philippe might not spring instantly to mind, but the revered high-end Genevan maker has a certain amount of form when it comes…
Plenty of watch brands involve themselves with motor sport, but few can claim the loyalty to a single event that Chopard has shown to the celebrated Mille Miglia. This year’s…
Germany’s largest watchmaker? That’ll be Junghans, which churns out 60,000 watches per year from its facility in the Black Forest. Junghans actually began as a wall-clock maker in 1861 and…
