The story is one of the true legends of the watch world; how Charles Vermot, watchmaker at Zenith, got in the 1970’s the orders to destroy everything connected to the El Primero movement but instead ...
Like most major events around the world the organizers of Geneva’s ritzy Watches & Wonders luxury fair (formerly Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie), had to rethink their strategy, choosing to hold a virtual event ...
In 2006, the Richemont Group acquired the historically important independent Swiss watchmaking marque Minerva, founded in 1868, and folded it into Montblanc, then known primarily for its writing instruments. Based in Villeret, in the Bernese Jura, ...
In watch enthusiast circles, it’s a story you learn pretty early on, and it’s one that has an easily identifiable villain, or hero, however you want to look at it. In 1969, there were a ...
Ford Motor Co (F.N.) said on Monday reservations are full for the first edition of its electric sport utility vehicle, Mustang Mach-E. The No. 2 U.S. automaker unveiled the electric Mustang crossover on Nov. 17, ...
Hot on the heels of the Chuck Berry 1955 ES-350T, Gibson has announced another rather impressive artist model, the limited edition Alvin Lee ES-335 ’69 Festival’ electric guitar. The new guitar is a replica of ...
The Grand Prix d’Horlogerie, the annual awards celebrating the finest and most innovative watchmaking in the world, took place on November 9 in Geneva. As always, some of the most famous names in horlogery were ...
Planes just don’t seem to get the same love as cars (other than from those strange dudes who stand just outside airport fences with their telescopic lenses… no doubt that’s what they would say about ...
With all the advances in the sports science, I can safely assume very few footballers now warm-up for a Champions League encounter with a whisky. They used to, of course. Leaf through the ancient autobiographies ...