South America’s capital of glamour July 21, 2013 With its sprawling sandy beaches, iconic landmarks and buzzing atmosphere, Rio de Janeiro is in a league of its own, says Gabriel O’Rorke WITH the World Cup and the Olympics on the horizon, Brazil is preparing to become the focus of the world’s attention. One city that is used to the limelight is Rio de [...]
Rado wins with Murray July 18, 2013 IT isn’t just English tennis that has been emerging from the wilderness thanks to Andy Murray’s winning ways. His watch sponsor Rado – who reportedly pay Murray £9.9m for a three-year deal signed last year – is a brand that has struggled for visibility in recent years. But like many top sportsmen, it’s coming back [...]
Win a £500 Mr Porter Voucher by voting for 2012‘s top watch July 18, 2013 The leading luxury magazine for watch lovers, 00/24 WatchWorld, is inviting Morning Wire readers to vote for their favourite watch of 2012, as part of the European Watch of the Year Awards. The 00/24 WatchWorld European Watch of the Year competition rewards the best watches from the previous year across different price categories, ranging from [...]
Rolling in the deep July 18, 2013 A handsome new diving watch has an ingeniously simple mechanical system to tell you your depth Any serious digital diving watch will be able to tell you your depth as well as the time, and a host of other indications. Doing so in a mechanical watch, however, can be a complicated business. For instance, back [...]
Water Babies July 18, 2013 THREE OF THE BEST NEW DIVING WATCHES Muhle Glashutte Rasmus 2000 Good to 2,000 metres, this voluptuously retro piece from one of Germany’s oldest makers was developed with research divers from the University of Rostock £2,145 jurawatches.com Blancpain Fifty Fathoms Bathyscape Celebrating 60 years of Blancpain’s waterbreaking diving watch, this year’s reboot takes its cues [...]
Emergency service July 18, 2013 Robin Swithinbank reports on a new version of a satellite-linked watch that could save your life IN 2003 a pair of British explorers, Steve Brooks and Quentin Smith, were forced to ditch in the Antarctic after a failed attempt to become the first pilots to fly a helicopter to the North and South Poles. After [...]
Horology on the high seas July 18, 2013 Regatta watches – which come with special yacht racing functions – will be on show in San Francisco Bay for the America’s Cup, reports Tracey Llewellyn OF all the various genres of sports watch – diving watches, motor sports watches, polo watches, straight chronographs and more – perhaps the most esoteric is the regatta watch, [...]
Yacht time is it July 18, 2013 Five watches for regattas Rolex Yachtmaster II As good with a suit as when skippering a yacht, Rolex’s nautical watch features a programmable countdown timer for between one and 10 minutes. £12,500 Rolex.com Alpina Sailing Yachttimer Countdown The small-but-affordable Swiss brand has an interesting range aimed at yachtsmen. This new piece is one of the [...]
Review: The World’s End July 18, 2013 FILM THE WORLD’S END Cert 12a | By Alex Dymoke Three Stars MORRISON’S car parks, Kit Kats, national rail services from Leicester to Coventry – it’s easy to hate the banal rubbishness of small-town Britain. But as a spate of offbeat British comedies have shown, it’s easy to love it too. Hot Fuzz, [...]
Review: A Season In The Congo July 18, 2013 THEATRE A SEASON IN THE CONGO Young Vic | By Xenobe Purvis Four Stars THE Young Vic stage is transformed into a busy Congolese bar at the opening of A Season in the Congo, Aimé Césaire’s play about the African country’s first Prime Minister, Patrice Lumumba. Out of the muddle emerges a beer salesman – [...]