Launched at the Monaco Yacht Show, the Ulysse Nardin Dual Time Manufacture—Monaco watch is a tribute to the 25th anniversary of the maritime exhibition and the watchmaker’s seventh year as a principal sponsor. A redesign of the renowned Ulysse Nardin Dual Time watch, the limited-edition Monaco features a stainless-steel case encompassing an ocean-blue face. On the dial is a dual time-zone display at 9 o’clock, a seconds counter set above the 6 o’clock position, and a date display at 2 o’clock. The multipurpose…

In 2013, amateur cavers Steven Tucker and Rick Hunter made a once-in-a-lifetime discovery in South Africa: fragments of bones, including a fossilized human-like jawbone. Now, two years after the fossil was brought to him and he had the cave excavated, Lee Berger, a professor at Johannesburg’s University of the Witwatersrand, believes the area where the jawbone was unearthed is the burial site of a newly discovered species of human ancestor: Homo naledi. These discoveries are so new that the fossils have not ye…

Originally published in the October 2015 issue of Robb Report Collection as “Moon Rise”

For his latest creation, Yann Debelle de Montby, creative director at Debelle de Montby Associates, looked to the moon—and to NASA. Working with designers Tiziano Vudafieri and Claudio Saverino, he studied the space agency’s 3-D lunar photographs to help create Shanghai Moons, a set of four watches that is among the highlights at Chinese and Asian Contemporary Design—a Christie’s Shanghai sale to be held in the city on O…

Utah’s rugged beauty serves as the backdrop for Amangiri, a 600-acre resort hidden among rocky red canyons and cream-colored bluffs. The tranquil oasis (one of Robb Report’s Top 100 Resorts) will host its inaugural health-and-wellness getaway, the Frontiers of Movement retreat, from November 12 through 16.

The four-day retreat—led by Budokon Yoga sensei Professor Donato Helbling, FlowIntuit yoga instructor Jodi Carey, and vibration-healing artist Andrew Clark—will include a well-balanced roster of guided me…

The last time Baroness Lambert, an art collector and the wife of a prominent Belgian banker, teamed up with auctioneer Simon de Pury, for a photography sale in 2004, all lots sold for a total well above the high estimate, and nine records were set. One of those was for the artist Barbara Kruger, whose billboard-size Untitled (I Shop Therefore I Am) sold for $601,600, more than five times its presale estimate. This fall, the baroness is once again putting impressive treasures in the hands of de Pury with A Visu…

The Goodwood Revival, held at the eponymous circuit on Lord Charles March’s vast estate in Chichester, England, is perhaps the only place in the world one can see so many significant classic racecars gathered together in one place. Unlike the Goodwood Festival of Speed, which takes place earlier in the year, the Goodwood Revival is strictly retro. Cars from the 1940s to the 1960s—often driven by legendary racers—compete against a backdrop that has been painstakingly decorated to evoke the style…

Originally published in the Fall 2015 issue of Robb Report Health & Wellness as “Health Portfolio Fall 2015”

A Neat Feat

When James Bond chases the bad guys in Spectre, the 24th film in the famed spy franchise, he will be doing so while driving an Aston Martin DB10—the only car ever built just for Bond. While celebrating the 50-year relationship between the British marque and Eon Productions (the company responsible for almost all of the films) last September, work was already underway on a singular set of wheels for the latest installment. The acclaimed automaker worked closely with Spectre’s director Sam Mendes to develop a ve…

Originally published in the October 2015 issue of Robb Report Collection as “Turning Point”

William Eggleston’s vibrant print Memphis (Tricycle) first rolled into public view in 1976 as part of a color photography exhibit at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Like many works that mark an artistic turning point, it was met with a fair amount of derision: Critics declared its subject banal, its saturated color better suited to advertising, and its composition unforgivably simplistic. 

These quibbles, ho…

Already dialed in on the luxury mobile-phone market, Vertu’s New Signature Touch is not just smart, but brilliant—and with a body to boot. Handmade in England, the phone features a 5.2-inch, high-definition LCD screen with a resolution of 428 pixels per inch and a scratch-resistant, sapphire-crystal face to protect it. Inside, a 4 GB Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 octa-core processor maximizes the speed of the Android 5.1 Lollipop operating system. Capturing images is also a thing of beauty thanks to a built-in, 21-m…