Operating the signature feature of the Richard Mille RM 63-02 World Timer (richardmille.com) is a straightforward process. The rotating bezel on the $145,000 timepiece displays the names of major cities in each of the world’s 24 time zones. Once you turn the city corresponding to the local time zone to the 12 o’clock position, you can determine the time in any other zone by noting the appropriate city. While the operation is simple, the ball-bearing system that underlies the feature embodies the type of intric…

For four years, Robb Report has asked the most celebrated chefs in the world a single question: Who is the up-and-coming chef you admire most? Their answers become the nominees in our annual Culinary Masters Competition, and you can read about this year’s contest in “Robb Report’s New Culinary Master for 2016” (page 126). But those answers also provide some glimpses into the future. In the short time since their nominations, the groundbreaking chefs chosen by the likes of Daniel Boulud, José Andrés, and Nancy …

Christophe Claret reaches beyond mechanics to refine his acoustic watches.

Though he had two decades of experience making acoustic wristwatches, Christophe Claret decided his efforts to create a minute repeater capable of striking Westminster Quarters needed the help of a professional musician. Displaying an appreciation of the difference between building and playing an exceptional instrument, Claret—considered by some to be a Stradivarius among musical watchmakers—required a Paganini “to obtain the best ha…

Originally published in the December issue of Robb Report Collection as “Jaguar’s Modern Middleweight: The F-Type Project 7”

To honor seven Le Mans wins and to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the D-Type in 2014, Jaguar created the Project 7, which debuted at the 2014 Goodwood Festival of Speed in England and went on sale in the United States this past spring. With worldwide production limited to 250 examples and only 50 North American variants slated for Stateside customers, the raucous roadster gives a h…

The U.K.–based aircraft-charter provider PrivateFly (privatefly.com) is offering a customized weeklong Caribbean itinerary for aviation enthusiasts, or “avgeeks.” Travelers can fly to St. Martin from New York (starting at $32,000 per person) or their location of choice in a Gulfstream G650, which will nearly graze the sand of Maho Beach as it approaches the island’s airport. Day trips from St. Martin can include flights in smaller aircraft to St. Barts and Saba. Landing at the St. Barts airport requires an ext…

A trip to Las Vegas can now include participation in the EXR Racing Series (exrseries.com) of arrive-and-drive auto races. Competitions will take place at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway and other venues. Each driver pilots an identical EXR LV02—a lightweight (1,653 pounds) car powered by a 230 hp 4-cylinder engine—in 20-minute sprints or in endurance races that can last as long as six hours.

Prices range from just under $5,000 per person for a single sprint race to nearly $140,000 per team for a VIP packa…

Franck Muller leans on its in-house talent to push the limits of its tourbillon watches.

For Pierre-Michel Golay, master watchmaker at Franck Muller Watchland, making a new wristwatch means setting a new benchmark. Asked to create a timepiece “with a lot of hands,” he spent half a decade developing the massive, 36-complication Aeternitas Mega 4. “I had always wanted to make a very complicated watch,” he says, recalling the genesis of his 2009 magnum opus. “I suppose I got carried away.”

So when CEO …

Originally published in the December issue of Robb Report Collection as “Get Ready for the Blitz”

Super Bowl fans will bet on just about anything connected to the game, from the result of the coin toss to how long it will take to sing the national anthem to the color of the head coach’s shirt. The more rarefied Super Bowl collector’s world has a similarly obsessive bent—just about anything connected to the game is coveted memorabilia.  

Breakfast of . . . 

Collector Glen Christensen has just…

From emerging hot spots to old haunts seen in new ways, Robb Report presents the world’s most exciting cities, countries, appellations, and archipelagos to explore in the year ahead.

Originally published in the December issue of Robb Report Collection as “No Crumbling, No Grumbling”

If corks aged as well as the wine they protect, Mark Taylor never would have invented the Durand corkscrew (thedurand.com, $125). The Atlanta wine collector and retired real-estate developer ingeniously combined the traditional wormed corkscrew and the pronged Ah-So design to create a hybrid that cleanly extracts fragile corks from old bottles. Though Taylor calls the idea “pretty obvious,” it actually took …