Parmigiani Fleurier Tonda 1950 Tourbillon Galaxy Rainbow has one of the world’s thinnest tourbillons

      Parmigiani Fleurier Tonda 1950 Tourbillon Galaxy Rainbow is one of the world’s thinnest tourbillons. The ladies’ watch owes its cosmic name to the intrinsic properties of its glass. Taking its name from its founder, watchmaker and restorer Michel Parmigiani, the fine watchmaking brand was founded in 1996 in Fleurier, in the Swiss valley of Val-de-Travers. … Read more

A fun way of reading the time: Louis Vuitton Tambour Spin Time Air Paved dressed in new finery

    Spin Time Air Paved is displaying the time in its own way. These seven unique Louis Vuitton Tambour Spin Time Air models are a creative celebration of an innovative watchmaking concept that has now turned telling the time into a moment of pure pleasure for ten years. Louis Vuitton Tambour Spin Time, the … Read more

Your chance to feel very flush: the 18-carat golden toilet hits Britain

It had New Yorkers queueing to spend a penny. Now it’s been plumbed into the palace where Churchill was born. We meet the artist-prankster behind the throne once offered to Trump

Audi AI: Trail quattro: Emissions-free driving in the great outdoors

      With helicopter-style all-round visibility, Audi AI: Trail Quattro is a comprehensive concept for sustainable mobility off the beaten track. The Audi AI:TRAIL quattro is the fourth entrant in the series of concept cars with electric drive systems, which began with the presentation of the Audi Aicon at the 2017 iteration of the … Read more

Ringing the changes: how Britain’s red phone boxes are being given new life

It’s a design classic, but in these days of ubiquitous mobile phones, only 10,000 of the red kiosks remain on the streets. Can they survive the next decade?

Flight risk: can we take the carbon out of air travel?

Greta Thunberg’s zero-carbon Atlantic crossing is not an option for most. But it might be in years to come, if experiments with hydrogen, solar and batteries pay off