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Mechanically impressive and appealingly ‘olde worlde’, the best new jumping-hour watches have complications worth unpicking

IN THE OLD DAYS, BLACK WAS NOT a cool colour. But no trend lasts forever, right? Surely we passed peak blackness with the Vantablack BMW a few years back. Because once you’ve hit the level of invisibi

WELL-WORN, FADED AND IMPERFECT. GO BACK IN TIME TO FURNISH YOUR HOME WITH PIECES THAT TELL A STORY, SAYS TALLULAH RUSHAYA

THERE’S A POWERFUL symmetry between car engines and watch movements. Zenith’s El Primero with its 36,000 vibrations per hour (5Hz) beat rate is the Watchworld equivalent of the Type 26 Elan’s 1558cc t

Producing a large-format and premium-priced book about a single car is never an easy task, however meritorious the subject. Porter Press has plenty of experience with this genre, however, and the team

AS HE MARKS A MAJOR ANNIVERSARY, GIORGIO ARMANI OPENS UP ABOUT HIS REMARKABLE LIFE IN FASHION