Rolex made a surprise appearance at the World Cup Life&Style Argentine midfielder Landro Paredes’ brawl with Spanish defender Eric Garcia in Sunday’s World Cup final showed exactly why fine timepieces are kept off the pitch. In horological terms, all eyes were on the stands, with Spanish tennis world number one Carlos Alcaraz sporting his 2012 Rolex Cosmograph Daytona Rainbow. He blagged his way onto the [...]
How to become a (successful) vintage watch collector Life&Style Every watch obsessive has a dream: mine is a 1964 Rolex Daytona 6239. Sadly, even addiction has boundaries and the only way I’ll ever own one is if I sell my house. Thankfully, I can console myself with the knowledge that there are other less-coveted timepieces that, even in these interconnected times, occasionally fly under [...]
How Swatch and Audemars Piguet pulled off the ultimate high-low watch collab Life&Style Audemars Piguet and Swatch have teamed up to create a plastic pocket watch that riffs on the Royal Oak, turning an untouchable status symbol into something playful, divisive and irresistibly collectible. Sam Kessler asks: ‘What’s going on?’ On 16 May every Swatch Store in London closed for the day as hundreds of people queued outside, [...]