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Make a splash with summer’s poolside watch, by Girard-Perregaux and Bamford

1 week ago | wallpaper.com | James Gurney

Girard-Perregaux’s Deep Diver, brought back to life as a collaboration with Bamford Watch Department, is more than just another cute archive find. The original dates from the late 1960s and early 1970s, a period that has been entertaining vintage collectors for years, bringing a pop of colour and sunshine that’s a refreshing change from the carefully inoffensive palettes more generally on offer.
Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar watch solves an age-old problem

1 month ago | wallpaper.com | James Gurney

Audemars Piguet’s new Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar is a very clever piece of engineering, an answer to a problem that’s been annoying watchmakers and collectors for decades, which is this. QPs, as these watches are known (from the French, Quantième Perpetuel), are designed to faithfully track the date over leap-year cycles, with some even accounting for the leap day to be skipped at the end of the century, an ability that is somehow beguiling despite having almost no practical use at all.
Are 'Jump Hour' watches the best trend to emerge from Watches & Wonders?

2 months ago | wallpaper.com | James Gurney

The most enjoyable development at the recent Watches and Wonders 2025 in Geneva, to my eyes at least, has been the mini-boom in ‘jump hour’ watches (where the hours and, sometimes, minutes, are shown as numbers that ‘jump’ into place). Presaged, as it turns out, by Louis Vuitton’s Tambour Convergence shown in January 2025, there are watches from Bremont, Cartier, Gerald Charles, Hautlence, Sven Andersen and others that feature what is a curious watch sub-species.
Louis Vuitton's Tambour Convergence: a sports-luxe watch turned on its head

Feb 23, 2025 | wallpaper.com | James Gurney

Louis Vuitton updated the Tambour watch case in 2023, creating a slimmer, more refined version of the capstan head shape that was the signature of the brand’s watchmaking during its first twenty years.
LVMH watch week 2025: everything we know so far

Jan 18, 2025 | wallpaper.com | James Gurney

LVMH's Watch Week has become something of an institution, with the group’s stable of brands combining to own the airwaves, ahead of shows such as Geneva’s Watches and Wonders (where most of the brands still take part). It’s also an opportunity to get a first sight of the watch trends that will dominate the year ahead (check back to LVMH Watch Week 2024).
The future of British watchmaking is looking brighter than ever, and it's about time

Nov 28, 2024 | wallpaper.com | James Gurney

The renewal of British watchmaking is one of those evergreen stories that keeps promising without ever quite delivering. Until now, that is. What looked to be a curious event earlier in the year, a British Watch Show, had queues around the block for entrance, enticed by a line up that covered everything from kickstarter brands up to Roger Smith’s ultra-purist creations.
Discover the new Patek Philippe Cubitus watch collection

Oct 23, 2024 | wallpaper.com | James Gurney

Watchers of Patek Philippe have been waiting to see what would replace the blue-dialled stainless-steel Nautilus 571 that the Genevan watchmaker so summarily cut from the catalogue, making it the watch with the single widest gap between demand and supply ever known (save, of course, the Tiffany dial version). Three years later, we have the answer - the Cubitus, arriving in three forms: the 5821A in steel, the 5821AR in steel and gold and the 5822P Grand Date platinum.
Negative Painting

Sep 27, 2024 | internationalartist.com | James Gurney

Features and Columns Station Points Tips and Insights James Gurney shares a basic painting technique that will make your artwork sparkle To Continue to Read this Edition, Please Choose the Following: Register Here Donâ€™t have an account or subscription? Not Yet Ready to Subscribe? We Invite You to Click Here and Register to read up to 3 online articles each edition. You are limited to view up to 3 online articles across all devices.
Inside Bulgari and Fender's watch and guitar collaboration

Sep 17, 2024 | wallpaper.com | James Gurney

Bulgari’s partnership with guitar maker Fender, marking the 70th anniversary of the Stratocaster, sticks out for being a little outside the usual – Fender’s rock and roll glamour being in a very different key than the architectural allure of, say, Tadao Ando, whose limited-edition Serpenti Tubogas watch for Bulgari was revealed earlier in 2024. Look a little closer, though, and the partnership with Fender has more to it than sharing a little stardust.
Off to the races: H Moser & C's partnership with Formula One

Aug 15, 2024 | wallpaper.com | James Gurney

H Moser & Cie is the latest and most interesting brand to line up on the F1 grid. The watch brand joins the likes of IWC, Richard Mille, Girard-Perregaux and TAG Heuer, having been asked by Alpine Racing to be its partner, confirming H Moser & C's rapid ascent from plucky upstart (admittedly grafted onto older roots) to serious contender. Led by Edouard Meylan since his family acquired the business in 2012, H Moser & C has been transformed into one of the watch world's hottest properties.