Regular readers of Precision may be all too familiar with the TAG Heuer Monaco – there have been so many versions of it that it crops up here with almost…
If you’ve ever been into a Porsche Design store you’ll know that the legendary German marque is involved in more than just making cars. It can sell you anything from…
We’ve previously mentioned on this page that Chopard co-president Karl-Friedrich Scheufele has an obsession with classic cars, so it was no surprise to find him unveiling a watch at January’s…
Fans of the modern-day Aston Martin will know that watch partnerships have played a significant role in its development during the past two decades, starting with a deal with Jaeger-LeCoultre…
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…
