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Bulgari recently unveiled Ref. 103534 (top left) and it’s a collaboration with Japanese architect Tadao Ando that has truly captivated us. The base of the watch is clearly the 40mm, three-hand automatic Octo Finissimo but Ando has changed the regular case and bracelet to a textured, sandblasted, matte black ceramic.…
The artistic force behind Bulgari, Lucia Silvestri, wears two distinct hats. She happens to be both the Jewellery Creative Director and the Gems Buying Executive Director of the esteemed Rome-based jewellery house. “This gives me a very peculiar and unique advantage in how I operate as the head of jewellery…
In an ideal world, every potential Rolls-Royce customer looking for a four-door saloon would simply go and buy a Phantom, as it’s a phenomenal car. The only downside (for some) is it comes with the emotional baggage of telling the world: “I’m worth a tonne of money and to hell…
CAN YOU TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT THE RETHINK PROJECT AND HOW LONG IT TOOK TO COME TO FRUITION? [Giuseppe Santoni] We believe in creating beautiful products in an ethical and responsible way. For us, beauty is not just the result, but also the method. Consequently, it has been over…
THE ORIGINAL CHRONOMAT CARRIED AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE AT THAT TIME, WHAT IS THE MESSAGE OF THIS NEW SUPER CHRONOMAT [George Kern, CEO Breitling] You’re right, when the Chronomat was launched in 1983 it was an ice breaker for the industry because it emerged at a critical point during the quartz…
Did you know that the Geländewagen – better known as G-wagon – was first introduced in 1979? Incredibly, it took Mercedes-Benz 39 years to replace the icon, finally doing so in 2018 with an all-new model that, even though it looks very similar, boasts a range of improvements including an…
Louis Vuitton has only been making luxury watches for around twenty years. In Swiss watchmaking terms, that makes them total newbies but thanks to a shrewd strategy that included acquiring ‘La Fabrique du Temps’ (a highly respected watchmaking workshop located in Geneva that specialises in the conception and fabrication of…
Let’s be honest, this year had initially looked like a barren one for us Rolex lovers, didn’t it? What with the pandemic and then Rolex’s withdrawal from (and subsequent collapse of) the Baselworld watch fair, rumours reached a fever pitch by the end of April with news that the world’s…
They say a home isn’t just where you are, it is who you are. In the case of The Lost House in London, possessing the title deeds to such a pad will, ipso facto, make you a chef-d’oeuvre. Designed by the Ghanaian-British architect Sir David Adjaye, it is such a…
Some yachts are bought to look pretty on the Med. Others are born to sail the Caribbean trade winds. And then there’s Ragnar; half yacht, half commercial vessel. A beautiful mongrel designed for exploration and built to last. In her former life, she was a 68-metre icebreaking support vessel named…
