Timepieces for the motoring mad
If anyone had told me a week ago that I’d return from a trip to Daventry feeling dazed and amazed, I would never have believed them. But that was before…
There’s a debate about who created the first wristwatch, with opinions varying between Breguet’s effort for the Queen of Naples (1810) to the one Cartier made for pioneer Brazilian aviator…
In seven years of the Precision page, never before have we highlighted a watch that isn’t linked to cars or driving – so bringing news of this latest launch from…
Steve McQueen, Hollywood’s so-called ‘King of Cool’, will forever hold a place in the horological history books as the man who gave fame to the Heuer Monaco chronograph. As anyone…
The Omega Speedmaster chronograph is well known as the ‘moon watch’ on account of its multiple outings beyond the Earth’s atmosphere as part of the equipment list of numerous astronauts.…
With a history in motor sport that dates back more than a century, TAG Heuer has enjoyed associations with some of the greatest drivers of all time – but the…
If you’ve ever been into a Porsche Design store you’ll know that the legendary German marque is involved in a lot more than making cars. Porsche Design can sell you…
Baresi & Caine Honda has licensed UK motorcycle engineer/historian George Beale to make 60 watches commemorating the 60th anniversary of the RC164 motorcycle of 1964 that set the marque on…
When Marloe Watch Company was launched in 2006, its co-founders Oliver Goffe and Gordon Fraser were operating from locations so far apart they weren’t even in the same country. Marketing…
If you’re a yacht-racing fan you’ll have avidly followed this year’s America’s Cup in the Mediterranean between the defender Emirates Team New Zealand and the challenger INEOS Britannia – the…
This year marks a decade since Britain’s Tudor revival – not in the sense that we all went back to wearing neck ruffs, beheading our wives and dancing to Greensleeves,…
The Covid years led to most new Rolex watches becoming difficult to obtain, largely due to a swell in demand that saw many of its ‘special customers’ – those who…
We’ve championed the efforts of the Brooklands Watch Company in previous issues but it remains a niche, low-volume maker among the many micro brands to have sprung up in the…
Ever since the launch of the radical Speedtail back in 2018, McLaren fans have been looking forward to the follow-up in the marque’s fabled Ultimate Series of supercars – and…
Next time you stagger off a long-haul flight and squint into the midday sun as your body clock tells you that you should really be tucked up in bed, think…
Chopard’s perma-busy co-president Karl-Friedrich Scheufele is one of those people who has so much on the go that bystanders are often left wondering: “How does he do it all?” As…
If you’ve ever been into a Porsche Design store you’ll know that the legendary German marque is involved in a lot more than making cars. Porsche Design can sell you…