Forget retail stores – watch collectors now hang at the clubhouse Life&Style Just past De Beers on London’s Old Bond Street lies an anonymous-looking door. Look through to the lobby beyond it and you’d be forgiven for thinking it was an office block where boring admin-y things happen. In fact, if you take the lift up, the doors open to reveal a calm, cream space. To your [...]
Who watches the Watches? Opinion As a newly minted Picture Editor and thus part of the management team of a then-popular left-wing national newspaper, I sat in on a discussion about why the poor ate so badly. Having only recently landed the job and as keen as mustard – and oh so naive – my feet were still planted firmly [...]
All the latest watch news, from Tudor to Vacheron Constantin Life&Style Tudor x Red Bull F1 While Rolex bows out of Formula One, vacating its seat for TAG Heuer as F1’s overall timekeeper, the sister brand to ‘The Crown’ of Geneva continues to ride shotgun with Red Bull. And appropriately enough for Tudor watches, it’s with Red Bull’s own sister team, ‘Visa Cash App RB Formula [...]
Vacheron Constantin launches pre-owned service (finally!) December 5, 2024 The booming secondhand market accounts for a full quarter of luxury-watch sales (as of EveryWatch’s survey in March). So what took venerable Vacheron Constantin, with its 260 years of watchmaking history, so long to launch a Certified Pre-Owned scheme (especially given Rolex launched its equivalent two years ago)? The simple answer may well be because [...]
