Back to basics

WATCHES ARE QUITE simple in principle. They need an oscillator, a display and a power source. Horophiles get very excited indeed about oscillators such as free-sprung balances, tuning forks and quartz

Either someone just collapsed a wormhole in the spacetime continuum and bunched up the past 20 years, or Bugatti is messing with our tiny little minds. Turns out it’s the latter, because if you though

Last week a couple of separate but related events unfolded in the world of Monopoly-money cars. Bugatti revealed an impressive Chiron-based Veyron 2.0, while across the Atlantic, in Florida, somebody

That’s marque historian Clare Hay’s verdict regarding the boat-tail body on 1927 Bentley 3 Litre chassis TN1564, and it’s no idle hyperbole. This ultimate development of the ‘skiff ’ body style (origi

Bugatti’s official story is that the seed of the Veyron was planted in 1997. VW Group boss Ferdinand Piëch and his powertrain chief Karl-Heinz Neumann were on a Japanese train brewing up engine ideas.

THE YEAR OF THE HORSE HAS INSPIRED SOME OF THE WORLD’S FINEST WATCHMAKERS, WITH EXQUISITE EQUESTRIAN DESIGNS, ENGRAVINGS AND MINIATURE PAINTINGS, FINDS KATE YOUDE