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Breitling (BREITLING) and Aston Martin (Aston Martin) just released their first joint watch together, and it’s built aro...
07/23/2026

Breitling (BREITLING) and Aston Martin (Aston Martin) just released their first joint watch together, and it’s built around a 61-year-old Bond scene.

In Thunderball, Sean Connery wore a Breitling Top Time while driving his silver DB5, the first gadget watch Q Branch ever handed 007. It’s a pairing most people associate with Omega, not Breitling.

The new Top Time B01 Chronograph 41 Tribute to Aston Martin DB5 brings the two back together. A wooden inner ring nods to the DB5’s steering wheel, and the hand-colored leather strap is made to look like the car’s upholstery.

Three limited editions: stainless steel, steel with a platinum bezel, and 18k red gold with Breitling’s first-ever onyx dial.
Powered by the in-house Caliber 01, COSC-certified with a 70-hour power reserve.

The collection is available now, starting at £8,650.

Photos Aston Martin BREITLING

Orient Express (ORIENT EXPRESS) has officially taken its most famous travel name from rail tracks to open water.Its firs...
06/22/2026

Orient Express (ORIENT EXPRESS) has officially taken its most famous travel name from rail tracks to open water.

Its first sailing yacht, Orient Express Corinthian, is a 220-metre vessel built in Saint-Nazaire by Chantiers de l’Atlantique.

The facilities go far beyond cabins and dining. Corinthian includes restaurants and bars, a marina for watersports, two swimming pools, a library, a cinema, a recording studio, a games room, wellness areas, and much more.

On board, Corinthian carries only 110 guests across 54 sea-view suites, giving it the scale of a superyacht with the rhythm of a luxury train journey.

The yacht is powered by three 100-metre masts and SolidSail technology, designed to let it sail under wind power in suitable conditions.

Inside, French architect Maxime d’Angeac brings the Orient Express language to sea through Art Deco references, train-inspired details, and spaces designed around slow travel.
Bookings are open, starting at €17,700 per suite.

Photos Orient Express Sailing Yachts

BRABUS (BRABUS) has just unveiled the most personal car it has ever built, and it starts at €1 million.The BODO is named...
06/21/2026

BRABUS (BRABUS) has just unveiled the most personal car it has ever built, and it starts at €1 million.

The BODO is named after Bodo Buschmann, the man who founded BRABUS out of a small workshop in Bottrop, Germany in 1977. He passed away in 2018 with one ambition still unfinished: an original BRABUS supercar, built from scratch, bearing no other manufacturer’s badge.

His son Constantin (Constantin Buschmann), who now runs the company, spent nearly two decades working toward that car. In May 2026, on the shores of Lake Como at FuoriConcorso, it finally arrived.

The BODO is BRABUS’s first ever coachbuilt car, a bespoke carbon-fibre body over an Aston Martin Vanquish chassis, powered by a rebuilt 5.2-litre twin-turbo V12 producing 1,000hp, 0–62 mph in 3.0 seconds and a top speed of 223 mph (359 km/h).

Only 77 will ever be made, a number chosen in honour of 1977, the year Bodo Buschmann first opened the doors of his workshop.

Photos BRABUS Constantin Buschmann

JACOB & CO.’s Gotham City is the brand’s Batman watch, created in partnership Warner Bros. and DC Comics.The rose gold f...
06/21/2026

JACOB & CO.’s Gotham City is the brand’s Batman watch, created in partnership Warner Bros. and DC Comics.

The rose gold features a 45.5mm case, black-and-yellow strap details, and a bat-shaped onyx dial.

The watch is powered by the hand-wound JCFM10 calibre, a 382-component movement with twin flying triple-axis tourbillons visible on the lower half of the dial.

Gotham City was produced in two editions: black DLC titanium for Batman and 18K rose gold for Bruce Wayne.

Originally priced at $240,000, the rose gold Gotham City is limited to 36 pieces.

Most houses are built on the land, but the Yaw House became part of it.Designed by Robert Konieczny of KWK Promes (Rober...
06/20/2026

Most houses are built on the land, but the Yaw House became part of it.
Designed by Robert Konieczny of KWK Promes (Robert Konieczny KWK PROMES) in the Beskid Mountains of southern Poland, the house takes its name from an aviation term: “yaw” rotation around a vertical axis.

That single move, a subtle turn of the structure toward the south, became the entire logic of the building. It unlocked sunlight, organised the rooms, and embedded the house into a steep slope rather than fighting it.

The brief shifted mid-construction when one of the residents needed rehabilitation, and a circular sunken pool was added to the plan.

Konieczny placed it at the centre of the house, half-sunk into the meadow, as though it had always been intended.

From above, the roof dissolves into the hillside. From inside, floor-to-ceiling glass frames a horizon of forested ridges.

Completed in 2025 after a seven-year design and construction process.

Photographer: , courtesy of Robert Konieczny KWK PROMES

Jumeirah (Jumeirah), the Dubai-based hotel group behind the Burj Al Arab, has added one of the world’s most celebrated s...
06/19/2026

Jumeirah (Jumeirah), the Dubai-based hotel group behind the Burj Al Arab, has added one of the world’s most celebrated sailing yachts to its portfolio.

The Maltese Falcon (The Maltese Falcon) is an 88-metre Perini Navi superyacht originally commissioned by Tom Perkins.
Built over 6 years at a cost exceeding $150 million, it was delivered in 2006 and has won 18 industry awards since, including Finest Superyacht Ever from SuperYacht World.

Its defining feature is the DynaRig: three freestanding rotating carbon-fibre masts, each 58 metre tall, capable of deploying 2,400 square metres of sail in under six minutes. The concept dates to the 1960s and was originally conceived for cargo ships, Perkins scaled it up and applied it to a superyacht for the first time.

As part of Jumeirah Privé, the Maltese Falcon (The Maltese Falcon) is now available for week-long charters this summer in the Mediterranean and in the Caribbean this winter.

Bookings are open, starting at $490,000 per week for exclusive hire. 12 guests. Crew of 18.

Photos The Maltese Falcon Jumeirah

Rolex (ROLEX) now has its highest boutique inside TITLIS Tower, a new mountaintop landmark in Engelberg, Switzerland.Vis...
06/18/2026

Rolex (ROLEX) now has its highest boutique inside TITLIS Tower, a new mountaintop landmark in Engelberg, Switzerland.

Visitors reach it through the TITLIS mountain experience above Engelberg, with adult return tickets from Engelberg to TITLIS listed at CHF 102.

The project keeps the original steel structure visible, while adding two horizontal glazed volumes and four vertical circulation towers. The result is a cross-shaped landmark with a public viewing platform, restaurant, lounge and retail space.

The tower sits at 3,020 metres above sea level and is part of the wider redevelopment of Mount Titlis.

Photos TITLIS Bergbahnen Bucherer 1888 ROLEX
Design Herzog & de Meuron

If ‘time is money,’ this watch is both. JACOB & CO. has partnered with GoMining on the Epic X GoMining, a limited-editio...
06/18/2026

If ‘time is money,’ this watch is both. JACOB & CO. has partnered with GoMining on the Epic X GoMining, a limited-edition watch sold together with a 1,000 TH digital Bitcoin miner.

The watch is based on the Epic X Bridges collection, with a 44-mm black DLC titanium case.

The important detail: the watch itself is not mining Bitcoin on the wrist. The mining capacity runs through GoMining’s data centres, while the Jacob & Co. piece becomes the physical object tied to that digital ownership layer.

Epic X GoMining is limited to 100 pieces, offered at $40,000.

A one-of-one Range Rover LSE sits parked outside this hotel and every guest gets the keys.The car was built by Tristan A...
06/17/2026

A one-of-one Range Rover LSE sits parked outside this hotel and every guest gets the keys.

The car was built by Tristan Auer, a designer who runs a separate practice called Car Tailoring where he applies hotel-grade craft to classic vehicle interiors.

The Range Rover LSE was built exclusively for this property, velvet interior, custom detailing, every material chosen to mirror the rooms inside.

It’s not a lobby installation or a press moment. It’s a hotel amenity. Guests have full use of it for the duration of their stay.

The hotel itself is Villa Pétrusse (Villa Pétrusse Luxembourg Relais & Châteaux), a 22-room property inside a 19th-century mansion in Luxembourg City, restored over 5 years at a cost of €40 million.

Bookings are open from €360/night.

Seven Stars in Kyushu (ななつ星in九州 | SEVEN STARS IN KYUSHU | EXCLUSIVE JOURNEY), has been running since October 2013.Operat...
06/12/2026

Seven Stars in Kyushu (ななつ星in九州 | SEVEN STARS IN KYUSHU | EXCLUSIVE JOURNEY), has been running since October 2013.
Operated by JR Kyushu across the southern island of Kyushu, the 7-car train was designed entirely by Eiji Mitooka, Japan’s most prolific train designer.

Demand consistently exceeds capacity, so the spots are allocated by lottery. Guests apply during a set window and a draw decides who travels.

There are 14 suites across the train, with a maximum of 20 guests per journey. Trips run for either 2 or 4 days, looping across Kyushu with stops at shrines, hot spring resorts, active volcanoes, and local artisan studios.

Everything on board is custom-made. The interiors use pearwood and cherry wood panelling, kumiko lattice woodwork and individual ceramic sinks made by hand in Arita, a town in Saga Prefecture that has been producing porcelain for over 400 years.
Journeys start from ¥650,000 (~$4,300) per person.

Photos ななつ星in九州 | SEVEN STARS IN KYUSHU | EXCLUSIVE JOURNEY

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