Latest articles by James Gurney
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Omega explores the dark side of the moon with a stellar new watch
Omega unveils the Speedmaster Dark Side Of The Moon Apollo 8 watch
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Hublot and Takashi Murakami push the boundaries of watch design
The Hublot MP-15 Takashi Murakami Tourbillon Sapphire is a conceptual and technical triumph
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Dubai Watch Week gave an exciting preview of watchmaking in 2024
The recent Dubai Watch Week buzzed with creative energy and gave us a hint of what watchmaking in 2024 will bring
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Comic book watches: from Mickey Mouse to Spiderman
Comic book watches, from brands such as Audemars Piguet, Oris, Ulysse Nardin and Reservoir, come with a ‘Pow!’ factor
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Bell & Ross leads the luminescent watches trend
New luminescent watches see us going for the glow, in hues from green to lavender
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Space Age watches born of 1960s futurism are out of this world
The brands and designers whose Space Age watches drew on references from Barbarella to the Lava lamp
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Geneva Watch Days 2023 standouts: from Trilobe to Louis Erard
James Gurney reviews more Geneva Watch Days 2023 standouts, spanning ambitiously avant-garde designs and cool collaborations from brands that share a watch insider’s sensibility
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Geneva Watch Days 2023: up close with five new reveals
James Gurney reports from Geneva Watch Days 2023, the mini fair that spans the design-led, the ultra-traditional and the achingly avant-garde
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Fan base: how a vintage Breitling collector forged the path to the brand’s design future
Breitling, the classic aviation watch brand, is undergoing as thorough a brand reinvention as you’re ever likely to see, shifting its focus, cleaning up and, above all, re-connecting with its past. While the first two require experience and imagination, the last needs knowledge. But when Breitling’s new owners turned up, they discovered only the basics of an archive for a brand that spans 133 years of production. Heritage, of course, is the nucleus around which great brands thrive. So, It was a seriously savvy move by new Breitling CEO Georges Kern to turn to a fan - the esteemed Breitling collector Fred Mandelbaum, the most authoritative source on Breitling’s history around, known to aficionados as @watchfred. It is Mandelbaum and his fabulously tended personal collection, then, that have filled in the sizeable gaps, creating a springboard for a future with its roots in the past.Here's our pick of the best classic watch design..
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Editor's Pick: Rolex at Baselworld 2019
Rolex is all about the detail and small changes make for a surprisingly large impact, as the Swiss watchmaker’s new designs reveal
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Editor's Pick: Patek Philippe at Baselworld 2019
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Clocking in: David Adjaye, Studio Wieki Somers and Daniel Arsham ponder time
Singapore’s The Hour Glass is more than just another watch boutique in a city that’s obsessed by all things horological as its timely exhibition (helmed by Sir David Adjaye) shows
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The creative forces behind Montblanc on getting the horological details just right
Davide Cerrato joins forces with Zaim Kama as they weave the storied manufacture into Montblanc’s horological masterplan
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Royal flush: it’s win-win for Audemars Piguet at SIHH 2018
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Editor’s Pick: Bulgari at Baselworld 2019
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Moonstruck: Hermès takes on space and time at SIHH 2019
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W.W.W: a war-regulation watch for our times
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SIHH 2019: the independent watchmakers at the vanguard of future-tech designs
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Up, up and away: a new timepiece celebrates Concorde’s glory years
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Celebrating a century of Italian jewellery design: the Bulgari Tubogas watch
Made famous by the Bulgari Serpenti watch, the Tubogas is a design icon in its own right
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Time honoured: Braun designer Dietrich Lubs resurrects the classic AW 10 watch
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Editor’s pick: Only Watch 2019
Tudor, Patek Philippe and Bell & Ross have created maverick timepieces for the famed Only Watch auction in Geneva
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Silicon vallée: how digital engineering is changing the face of mechanical watch design
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Louis Vuitton’s new Tambour watch design takes a future-forward beat
A tech-savvy take on its signature watch design, the Louis Vuitton Tambour Curve Flying Tourbillon maps out its own dynamic rhythm
