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Fitness, Technology, Espionage – How To Win Sport’s Oldest Trophy

The America’s Cup is as tough as it gets. “It’s the highest level of sailing,” says Mr Massimiliano “Max” Sirena. “For sure higher than the Olympic Games.” Mr Sirena should know. He is about to compete in his seventh America’s Cup, having previously been part of two winning campaigns. The first in 2010 with BMW Oracle Racing, for the USA. His second in 2017 with Emirates Team New Zealand. Now he’s back with Italy’s Luna Rossa Challenge as team director and skipper, a role he previously held in 2013. In January, Mr Sirena will lead his 11-man crew in the Prada Cup in Auckland, a set of match races that will determine which club will meet defenders Emirates New Zealand in the 36th America’s Cup in March. Taking the title from the reigning Kiwis would be particularly sweet: after all, he helped them win it. “I will give a thousand per cent to try to win the Cup for Luna Rossa and for Italy”, he says.

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3 MINUTE READ

Watch Of The Week: Girard-Perregaux X Bamford Watch Department Laureato Ghost

We’ve spent a lot of time this year talking about colour on watches – and if you follow watches closely, you’ll know that this is a conversation that has been going on for at least five years now. So well-rehearsed are the tropes – blue’s the new black; green is the new blue; anything that the late 1970s ever produced is being mined down to the last nugget – that we are long past talking about a trend: this is the new normal. Now that everyone’s at it, it’s hard to remember that this kind of experimentation began a long way from Switzerland’s design studios.

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5 MINUTE READ

Laurent Ferrier – The Perfectionist Watch Brand Founded By A Former Le Mans Racer

In the space of 13 years, Laurent Ferrier has built up a reputation as one of the world’s very best independent watchmakers. That’s an easy sentence to write, but what does it really mean? Since the turn of the millennium, Switzerland – not to mention Germany, Japan, Britain and several others – has seen an explosion of new watchmaking brands. Low-volume producers focused on making extremely high-quality watches, all with a significant dependence on traditional handcraft (although often merged with modern technology). Ranging from companies making a few thousand watches a year – see H Moser & Cie – to a mere few individual watches, such as Roger W Smith or Philippe Dufour, they represent a watchmaking renaissance that has provided collectors with an enormous variety of alternatives to the big luxury brands. Typically, such brands position themselves somewhere on a spectrum from ultra-modern (Richard Mille, HYT, Urwerk) to ultra-traditional, and Laurent Ferrier is one of the most traditional, echoing an aesthetic that’s reminiscent of classic Patek Philippe in particular and mid-century watchmaking design traits in general.

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3 MINUTE READ

Five Of The Best Swiss Watches For Sports And Fitness

The world of luxury sports watches can be a confusing one, and contains many a watch that you’d never imagine wearing for anything physical. But there are Swiss watches that are still made to take a bit of punishment, and moreover will actually aid your quest to get out and do some exercise while that New Year motivation is still coursing through your veins. From smartwatches with comprehensive fitness tracking abilities to traditional timepieces built for use in all conditions, here are our five favourite watches for sport and fitness.

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3 MINUTE READ

Watch Of The Week: Ressence Type 1² X

Ressence’s 10th anniversary has been so successful that it has actually spilled over into 2021 – when the Belgian brand was founded in 2010, I’m not sure Mr Benoît Mintiens, the product designer and genial genius behind the brand saw that coming. You can watch our interview with him from summer 2020 here, where we discussed how, among other things, the early years of Ressence nearly killed him. That’s not an exaggeration: he worked so hard to perfect the award-winning Type 3 that one night he fell asleep at the wheel. Now, 11 years after he began, his watches have made us think twice about how we approach telling the time.

Continue Reading

5 MINUTE READ

Fitness, Technology, Espionage – How To Win Sport’s Oldest Trophy

The America’s Cup is as tough as it gets. “It’s the highest level of sailing,” says Mr Massimiliano “Max” Sirena. “For sure higher than the Olympic Games.” Mr Sirena should know. He is about to compete in his seventh America’s Cup, having previously been part of two winning campaigns. The first in 2010 with BMW Oracle Racing, for the USA. His second in 2017 with Emirates Team New Zealand. Now he’s back with Italy’s Luna Rossa Challenge as team director and skipper, a role he previously held in 2013. In January, Mr Sirena will lead his 11-man crew in the Prada Cup in Auckland, a set of match races that will determine which club will meet defenders Emirates New Zealand in the 36th America’s Cup in March. Taking the title from the reigning Kiwis would be particularly sweet: after all, he helped them win it. “I will give a thousand per cent to try to win the Cup for Luna Rossa and for Italy”, he says.

Continue Reading

3 MINUTE READ

Watch Of The Week: Girard-Perregaux X Bamford Watch Department Laureato Ghost

We’ve spent a lot of time this year talking about colour on watches – and if you follow watches closely, you’ll know that this is a conversation that has been going on for at least five years now. So well-rehearsed are the tropes – blue’s the new black; green is the new blue; anything that the late 1970s ever produced is being mined down to the last nugget – that we are long past talking about a trend: this is the new normal. Now that everyone’s at it, it’s hard to remember that this kind of experimentation began a long way from Switzerland’s design studios.

Continue Reading

5 MINUTE READ

Laurent Ferrier – The Perfectionist Watch Brand Founded By A Former Le Mans Racer

In the space of 13 years, Laurent Ferrier has built up a reputation as one of the world’s very best independent watchmakers. That’s an easy sentence to write, but what does it really mean? Since the turn of the millennium, Switzerland – not to mention Germany, Japan, Britain and several others – has seen an explosion of new watchmaking brands. Low-volume producers focused on making extremely high-quality watches, all with a significant dependence on traditional handcraft (although often merged with modern technology). Ranging from companies making a few thousand watches a year – see H Moser & Cie – to a mere few individual watches, such as Roger W Smith or Philippe Dufour, they represent a watchmaking renaissance that has provided collectors with an enormous variety of alternatives to the big luxury brands. Typically, such brands position themselves somewhere on a spectrum from ultra-modern (Richard Mille, HYT, Urwerk) to ultra-traditional, and Laurent Ferrier is one of the most traditional, echoing an aesthetic that’s reminiscent of classic Patek Philippe in particular and mid-century watchmaking design traits in general.

Continue Reading

3 MINUTE READ

Five Of The Best Swiss Watches For Sports And Fitness

The world of luxury sports watches can be a confusing one, and contains many a watch that you’d never imagine wearing for anything physical. But there are Swiss watches that are still made to take a bit of punishment, and moreover will actually aid your quest to get out and do some exercise while that New Year motivation is still coursing through your veins. From smartwatches with comprehensive fitness tracking abilities to traditional timepieces built for use in all conditions, here are our five favourite watches for sport and fitness.

Continue Reading

3 MINUTE READ

Watch Of The Week: Ressence Type 1² X

Ressence’s 10th anniversary has been so successful that it has actually spilled over into 2021 – when the Belgian brand was founded in 2010, I’m not sure Mr Benoît Mintiens, the product designer and genial genius behind the brand saw that coming. You can watch our interview with him from summer 2020 here, where we discussed how, among other things, the early years of Ressence nearly killed him. That’s not an exaggeration: he worked so hard to perfect the award-winning Type 3 that one night he fell asleep at the wheel. Now, 11 years after he began, his watches have made us think twice about how we approach telling the time.

Continue Reading

5 MINUTE READ

Fitness, Technology, Espionage – How To Win Sport’s Oldest Trophy

The America’s Cup is as tough as it gets. “It’s the highest level of sailing,” says Mr Massimiliano “Max” Sirena. “For sure higher than the Olympic Games.” Mr Sirena should know. He is about to compete in his seventh America’s Cup, having previously been part of two winning campaigns. The first in 2010 with BMW Oracle Racing, for the USA. His second in 2017 with Emirates Team New Zealand. Now he’s back with Italy’s Luna Rossa Challenge as team director and skipper, a role he previously held in 2013. In January, Mr Sirena will lead his 11-man crew in the Prada Cup in Auckland, a set of match races that will determine which club will meet defenders Emirates New Zealand in the 36th America’s Cup in March. Taking the title from the reigning Kiwis would be particularly sweet: after all, he helped them win it. “I will give a thousand per cent to try to win the Cup for Luna Rossa and for Italy”, he says.

Continue Reading

3 MINUTE READ

Watch Of The Week: Girard-Perregaux X Bamford Watch Department Laureato Ghost

We’ve spent a lot of time this year talking about colour on watches – and if you follow watches closely, you’ll know that this is a conversation that has been going on for at least five years now. So well-rehearsed are the tropes – blue’s the new black; green is the new blue; anything that the late 1970s ever produced is being mined down to the last nugget – that we are long past talking about a trend: this is the new normal. Now that everyone’s at it, it’s hard to remember that this kind of experimentation began a long way from Switzerland’s design studios.

Continue Reading

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