Recently, Parmigiani Fleurier teamed up with the Italian luxury brands Pomellato and Luisa Via Roma to create new additions for its Tonda line of men’s and women’s wristwatches. The resulting six timepieces all feature visual cues inspired by the corresponding company’s design vocabulary.
The collaboration between Parmigiani and the Milanese jeweler Pomellato yielded four watches in two different styles. Three of these watches are equipped with a dial inspired by the patterns of Pomellato’s Arabesque collec…
Ulysse Nardin Makes Beautiful Music with Its New Jazz Minute Repeater Watch
The freewheeling, improvisational nature of jazz music may seem at odds with the precisely arranged mechanisms used in watchmaking, but Ulysse Nardin has managed to bring both worlds together with its Jazz Minute Repeater. The new timepiece features a round onyx dial decorated with a scene of four jazz musicians performing on stage in front of a crowd. The musicians—hand carved in relief from 18-karat white gold—are called jacquemarts, a watchmaking term for figures that are animated upon the activation of the…
The British Clothing Brand E. Tautz Opens a Flagship Store in London
The latest British tailored-clothing brand to break out of its traditional uniform with contemporary sportswear and suits is E. Tautz. Established in 1867 in London’s prosperous West End, the historic brand—which in its heyday supplied bespoke sporting and military apparel for luminaries such as Winston Churchill—is opening a London flagship store on Duke Street in the Mayfair neighborhood in September. The brand joins a lineup of time-honored British brands that use Savile Row–grade tailoring skills and luxur…
Buben and Zorweg’s Grande Infinity Clock Stores and Displays Watches
The Grande Infinity is the latest limited-edition design from Buben and Zorweg, a German manufacturer of safes, watches, watch winders, and clocks. A pendulum clock serves as the design’s main focus, flanked by secured displays on its sides that hold winders for 20 watches. A more discreet safe at the base of the clock can hold an additional four watches (or, as upgrade options, an additional six or 10 watches), and pressing on the face of the pendulum clock will activate a “Magic Swing & Hide” mechanism t…
The Inaugural Aston Martin Festival Is Coming to Monterey, Calif., in Late August
Hundreds of racing enthusiasts will gather this month in Monterey, Calif., for the Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca’s inaugural Aston Martin Festival. Over Labor Day weekend, August 29 to 31, the event will showcase the British marque’s current street and track models, including the all-new carbon-clad version of the Vanquish. It will also hold a concours of the brand’s best vintage cars, as well as the third round of the new Aston Martin GT4 Challenge of North America—a six-event series that allows amateur drivers t…
Back on the Farm
Earlier this year, the high-end, eco-conscious home furnishings company Native Trails released the Farmhouse Series of hand-hammered copper kitchen sinks. The collection, ranging in price from $2,300 to $6,000, is a contemporary take on traditional farmhouse basins, offering rustic-chic sinks meticulously crafted from repurposed copper over a course of several days and thousands of hammer strikes.
The San Luis Obispo, Calif.–based company, intent on merging traditional methods with modern designs and sustai…
Pretty Penny
Earlier this year, the high-end, eco-conscious home furnishings company Native Trails released the Farmhouse Series of hand-hammered copper kitchen sinks. The collection, ranging in price from $2,300 to $6,000, is a contemporary take on traditional farmhouse basins, offering rustic-chic sinks meticulously crafted from repurposed copper over a course of several days and thousands of hammer strikes.
The San Luis Obispo, Calif.–based company, intent on merging traditional methods with modern designs and sustai…
Price of Admission
Opening a museum has an irresistible allure. Then comes the public.
When Steve Oliver and his wife, Nancy, commissioned the first of many monumental artworks to grace the landscape of their 100-acre sheep ranch in Sonoma County, Calif., they did not foresee a future where they would admit a bus full of visitors a day, three days a week, to tour the grounds in the spring and fall. “It was never my intent,” Oliver says. “It started rather innocently. Now I think we’re booked on every Satu…
Ares Performance Introduces a New Range of Custom Luxury Automobiles
Modena, Italy—home to supercar makers including Ferrari, Maserati, and Pagani—recently welcomed its latest automotive brand. Last month, Ares Performance, a new tuning house founded by Dany Bahar (a former CEO of Lotus Cars) and a team of automotive industry experts, unveiled its first range of customized vehicles.
For this new venture, Bahar recruited talent from some of the automotive industry’s top marques, including the former Mercedes-Benz AMG COO Wolf Zimmermann and Lotus’s former lead designer, Mihai…
Erik Buell Racing’s EBR 1190SX “Superfighter” Motorcycle Hits the Road
Earlier this summer, the motorcycle racer turned designer Erik Buell debuted the Erik Buell Racing EBR 1190SX, a naked version of his Wisconsin company’s flagship 1190RX race bike, which launched last year and is competing in the World Superbike Championship. Better suited for the road than the racetrack, the new installment in the 1190 series (priced at $16,995) uses the same 72-degree liquid-cooled V-twin engine as the RX variant, delivering 185 hp and 102 ft lbs of torque. The SX “superfighter,” as Buell ca…