CAR TALK May 8, 2012 Go “live” to win races If you’ve always dreamed of being a racing driver but your race-winning has remained stubbornly virtual, the fourth Nissan PlayStation GT Academy 2012 contest is now “live”. Entrants have eight weeks to complete eight PS3 Gran Turismo virtual driving contests. Shortlisted drivers ultimately get to undertake real-world driver training at [...]
Rein in back pain May 7, 2012 It is second only to stress on the list of reasons for long-term absence from work, according to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). Four out of five of us will suffer from it at some point in our lives, yet few of us take active steps to prevent it until it is [...]
Swimming star shares her tips with City A.M. May 7, 2012 FITNESS & DIET EXPERT With just over two months to go until the Olympics, team GB hopeful Keri-Anne Payne still found time to be an official ambassador for this year’s Swimathon (swimathon.org), an event that a whopping 26,078 swimmers across the UK took part in. I caught up with her to get her take on [...]
The fine philosophy of the world’s third best kitchen May 7, 2012 THEY do things differently in Spain – the football, the recessions and the food. Definitely the food. I’m not talking about the penchant for eating fried calamari in a baguette (carbs? What carbs?) or the way meat trumps vegetables every time or the archetypal beauty of the jamon. No, I’m talking about philosophy: an unironic, [...]
The UK’s leading watch magazine is inviting City A.M. readers to cast their votes May 4, 2012 THE luxury magazine for watch lovers, 00/24 WatchWorld, is offering City A.M. readers the chance to vote in one of the most prestigious competitions in the watch industry. The 00/24 WatchWorld Watch of the Year competition rewards the best watches across four price categories, plus an award for the best women’s watch, as decided by [...]
LONDONTIME May 3, 2012 World Timers: the executive watch Celebrating an icon: the Royal Oak Fast cars, fast watches
Watches for those with a global outlook May 3, 2012 THERE’S a case to be made that in the age of global business the ultimate executive watch is a world timer. For anyone whose work sees them regularly jetting between time zones, or who simply needs to know the hour in different markets around the globe at any given moment, a world timer – in [...]
The ‘70s icon that kept its cool May 3, 2012 WHEN we decided to launch the Royal Oak 40 years ago,” Olivier Audemars explains animatedly, “it was the start of the worst crisis ever to hit the Swiss watchmaking industry. People were throwing themselves from windows… But luckily,” he adds with a glint in his eye, “watch factories tend to be just one storey high, [...]
Bremont to unveil victorious tribute to England’s naval past May 3, 2012 YOU think you have a brand pegged, and then it spins on its heel and does something completely unexpected. In the case of Bremont, a company that has fast become Britain’s leading producer of luxury watches, the proposition has been pretty simple: super-tough, sweetly-designed modern chronographs that reflect the aviation passion of the brand’s founders, [...]
Cameron Diaz brings the glitz to TAG Heuer May 3, 2012 TAG Heuer is a company renowned for its ultra-sporty watches, with a history heavily bound up with the glamour and speed of motor sports (see the feature on page 26). It may not seem the most obviously ladylike brand, therefore, but things have got very ladylike indeed with the arrival of the movie star, Cameron [...]