Philippe Dufour is setting salerooms alight; WatchBox has invested in De Bethune; Chrono24 has secured LVMH-backed funding; Watchfinder is presenting all the James Bond watches in its Paris showroom; Richard Mille has launched a certified network for its pre-owned watches… for watch fans, the moving and shaking is on the pre-owned market.
Buying a watch, taking care of it, understanding what goes on beneath the dial... Louis Nardin is your guide in his handy primer, The Magic of Watches.
Land Rover and Zenith are announcing a partnership to launch the Zenith Land Rover watch collection, commemorating their shared legacy as makers of high-performance luxury products.
Watchmaking, which counts time, is jealous of art, which has broken free of time. And is prey to doubts: is watchmaking also an art? Sometimes, yes. But is reproducing an existing pictorial work on a dial really the best way to achieve this coveted status? In which case the classics are a temptation that is hard to resist.
As recently stated in the Economist, we are entering a new ‘golden age of discovery’, and while Apple may tell us that there’s an app for pretty much everything, the classic mechanical watch is still in many ways the more iconic tool for extreme travelling.
He spends most of his screen time handing out slices of knuckle pie to anyone fool enough to diss him. King of atemi, virtuoso of the high-speed chase, master of the broadside skid in Transporter or Fast and Furious, Jason Statham isn't a 30 mph kind of guy, as he once again demonstrates in Mechanic: Resurrection.