The Bamford name has been inextricably linked with classic cars since the 1960s, which is when JCB chairman Lord (Anthony) Bamford set out on a collecting path that has since…
There are driver’s watches, there are car watches, there are motoring watches – and then there’s the Heuer Carrera. True, it wasn’t the first chronograph made specifically for automobilists, or…
Patek Philippe If you’re serious about recording lap times, you’ll want to use a split-seconds stopwatch that can record multiple vehicles in succession. And if you’re serious about watches,…
Serial entrepreneur and Aera Instruments co-founder Jas Minhas can trace his horological roots back to the 1960s when his father set up a watch distribution business in Birmingham. Minhas, now…
Chronographs are inextricably linked with motor sport these days, but five years after Louis Moinet invented the function in 1816, Louis XVIII’s watchmaker Nicolas Rieussec developed a contraption that enabled…
At the start of 2025 we previewed the Mecum’s sale of the celebrated Essex Wire Shelby Cobra that the auction house described as “arguably the winningest Cobra of them all”.…
If you’re a Porsche owner or just one of the world’s millions of fans of the Zuffenhausen marque, you probably know all about Porsche Exclusive Manufaktur, the in-house customisation service…
Although Bulova has been owned by the Japanese watch giant Citizen since 2008, it has its roots in the US where Czech-born Joseph Bulova opened a small jewellery store in…
In last year’s Precision special we told the story of how the Tudor trademark was created after Rolex founder Hans Wilsdorf saw an opening for a collection of high-quality watches…
Rolex evoked the wonders of the galaxy with its Space-Dweller watch of 1963, followed it up four years later with the Sea-Dweller extreme dive watch and then set about catering…
Plenty of luxury watch brands have sought to attract wealthy riders from the two-wheeled world by making motorcycle-inspired timepieces. During the early 2000s the now dormant JeanRichard collaborated with MV…
I’m just back from a motorcycle ride: eight days, 2000 miles from Copenhagen to Norway’s North Cape, the place they call ‘the end of the world’, inset, below. The Arctic…
This time last year it was announced at the annual Geneva Watch Days that the world’s second-oldest dial name would return – despite not having made a single timepiece in…
Think big name watch brands with links to motor sport and the two obvious ones that spring to mind are Rolex and TAG Heuer, which has been inextricably linked since…
“On May 1st, motor racing history was made, for Stirling Moss won the 1000-mile Mille Miglia, the first time this has been achieved by a British driver, and I had…
Twenty twenty-five is a renaissance year for TAG Heuer. With parent company LVMH becoming the main sponsor of Formula 1, the driver-orientated watchmaker reprises the role of official timekeeper it…
