Water Babies July 18, 2013 THREE OF THE BEST NEW DIVING WATCHES Muhle Glashutte Rasmus 2000 Good to 2,000 metres, this voluptuously retro piece from one of Germany’s oldest makers was developed with research divers from the University of Rostock £2,145 jurawatches.com Blancpain Fifty Fathoms Bathyscape Celebrating 60 years of Blancpain’s waterbreaking diving watch, this year’s reboot takes its cues [...]
Emergency service July 18, 2013 Robin Swithinbank reports on a new version of a satellite-linked watch that could save your life IN 2003 a pair of British explorers, Steve Brooks and Quentin Smith, were forced to ditch in the Antarctic after a failed attempt to become the first pilots to fly a helicopter to the North and South Poles. After [...]
Horology on the high seas July 18, 2013 Regatta watches – which come with special yacht racing functions – will be on show in San Francisco Bay for the America’s Cup, reports Tracey Llewellyn OF all the various genres of sports watch – diving watches, motor sports watches, polo watches, straight chronographs and more – perhaps the most esoteric is the regatta watch, [...]
Yacht time is it July 18, 2013 Five watches for regattas Rolex Yachtmaster II As good with a suit as when skippering a yacht, Rolex’s nautical watch features a programmable countdown timer for between one and 10 minutes. £12,500 Rolex.com Alpina Sailing Yachttimer Countdown The small-but-affordable Swiss brand has an interesting range aimed at yachtsmen. This new piece is one of the [...]
Review: The World’s End July 18, 2013 FILM THE WORLD’S END Cert 12a | By Alex Dymoke Three Stars MORRISON’S car parks, Kit Kats, national rail services from Leicester to Coventry – it’s easy to hate the banal rubbishness of small-town Britain. But as a spate of offbeat British comedies have shown, it’s easy to love it too. Hot Fuzz, [...]
Review: A Season In The Congo July 18, 2013 THEATRE A SEASON IN THE CONGO Young Vic | By Xenobe Purvis Four Stars THE Young Vic stage is transformed into a busy Congolese bar at the opening of A Season in the Congo, Aimé Césaire’s play about the African country’s first Prime Minister, Patrice Lumumba. Out of the muddle emerges a beer salesman – [...]
Review: Breathe in July 18, 2013 FILM BREATHE IN Cert 15 | By Steve Dinneen Four Stars BREATHE In is an almost unbearably tense drama about first, lost and forbidden love that will drag memories of every bad thing you’ve done in a relationship from the pit of your stomach. Guy Pierce plays Keith, a high school teacher in [...]
Review: Timber! July 18, 2013 THEATRE TIMBER! Southbank Centre | By Alex Dymoke Three Stars CIRQUE Alfonse isn’t afraid to eschew the conventions of family entertainment. Its new show Timber! features Michael Jackson-style baby dangling, worryingly inept axe juggling and lots and lots of drinking. The bottles may not contain real booze, but the show is as much [...]
Review: Richard Rogers Inside Out July 18, 2013 ART RICHARD ROGERS INSIDE OUT Royal Academy | By Alex Dymoke Four Stars THE new Richard Rogers exhibition at the Royal Academy includes his 1958 report from the Architectural Association School. It reads: “Rogers has a genuine interest in and a feeling for architecture, but sorely lacks the intellectual equipment to translate these [...]
La Casa Negra Shoreditch restaurant review: achingly hip Mexican food with added attitude July 17, 2013 Street food. That’s a thing. Street food! Isn’t it great? It reminds me of that time I was travelling in Guatemala, and some indigenous people were just, you know, making food in the street, and it was all, like, totally authentic. Except that never happened. I’ve forced down slimy noodles in Tokyo; binned inedible grey [...]
