When it comes to luxury watches, the 1990s are back, baby! Life&Style It’s an observation likely to provoke a torrent of below-the-line abuse in watch nerd circles. But here we go: luxury watches as we know and love them owe their existence to a surprisingly modern confluence of circumstances. While the mechanics inside still tick to the tune of 200-year-old technology something happened in the decade that’s [...]
The latest watch news from Swatch, Saint Laurent and more Life&Style The latest goings-on in the world of haute horlogerie, from a back-to-the-future 1970s LED digital to Swatch’s new Mission on Earth range and an actually-futuristic LED analogue DIODE TO JOY In the early 1970s, Girard-Perregaux took it upon itself to develop (at huge cost) its own battery-powered movement, the Calibre 350. Appropriately, the 350 launched [...]
The reinvention of watch firm Hublot, from sci-fi artistry timepieces to sapphire and titanium Life&Style Introducing brave new disciplines to Hublot’s universe is the sci-fi artistry of Daniel Arsham, reports Alex Doak This issue’s ‘Watching the Watchmen’ feature charts the 1990s multi-pronged reinvention of the ’luxury timepiece’ as we know it, and Hublot is a key player. Admittedly, its porthole case and rubber strap was a tough sell on launch [...]
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Watches & Wonders: All the latest from Rolex, Patek and the rest April 25, 2024 From the new Rolex and Patek models to the most bonkers haute horology, here's the best of this year's Watches & Wonders
Rolex sibling Tudor gets the Barbie makeover with pink Black Bay April 25, 2024 The Tudor Black Bay Chrono ‘Pink’ might not be for everyone, and that’s OK because few of them will ever be made
Bell & Ross co-founder Carlos Rosillo on 30 years of the brand April 19, 2024 Three decades after lift-off, Bell & Ross’s horological brutes in flightsuits have never felt fitter for action
Beyond Watches and Wonders: The latest in the world of watches April 18, 2024 From Japanese anime to Elton John, here are all the latest happenings in the world of watches in the wake of the year's Watches and Wonders showcase.
