Beneath Alsace Skies: Our Highlights from the 40th Bugatti Festival in Molsheim

40th Anniversary Bugatti Festival: A Celebration of Legacy, Luxury, and Innovation. Each year, on the weekend closest to the birthday of Ettore Bugatti – 15 September 1881 – the town of Molsheim in Alsace is transformed with a three-day celebration of Ettore’s incredible legacy. The Bugatti Festival, organized by the Enthousiastes Bugatti Alsace (EBA), is … Read more

For the ultimate 007 fan: James Bond 60th Anniversary Limited Edition pinball machine

This special one-of-a-kind pinball machine is celebrating 60 years of the iconic, genre-defining James Bond films. The highly collectible James Bond 007 60th Anniversary Limited Edition pinball machine highlights the entire franchise of 25 films, all James Bond actors, villains, and henchmen. Stern Pinball’s James Bond 007 60th Anniversary Limited Edition pinball machines will immerse … Read more

Exclusive Orient-Express Journey: Reims to Venice with Veuve Clicquot champagne train

From 5–7 June 2022, join not one, but two legends for an extraordinary journey through Europe. Celebrate Veuve Clicquot’s 250th anniversary on a Solaire Adventure aboard Belmond-owned Venice Simplon-Orient-Express. Venice Simplon-Orient-Express luxury train is retracing the route of the first  Veuve Clicquot champagne bottles. To mark its 250th anniversary, Veuve Clicquot has conceived an exceptional journey with Belmond on … Read more

How Porsche Design became what it is today

  New special exhibition at the Porsche Museum: 50 Years of Porsche Design. The Porsche Museum in Stuttgart, Germany is honouring the Porsche Design‘s 50th anniversary with a special exhibition. Until July 10th 2022, Porsche Museum. Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, the son of Ferry Porsche, founded Porsche Design together with his brother Hans-Peter in Stuttgart in … Read more

Fast & Furious film saga celebrated with a uniquely complex Jacob & Co timepiece

 

@Jacob & Co. Fast & Furious Twin Turbo anniversary watch; @Universal City Studios

The Jacob & Co. Fast & Furious Twin Turbo celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Fast & Furious film saga.

The Jacob & Co. Fast & Furious Twin Turbo is a uniquely complex timepiece that serves as a proper vehicle to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Fast & Furious film saga.

The Fast & Furious Twin Turbo timepiece is a new product offering between Jacob & Co. and Universal Pictures’ Fast & Furious franchise. Jacob Arabo, founder of Jacob & Co., says he chose to collaborate with the blockbuster film saga
because they both have the same values.

“Fast & Furious uses innovation and new technologies to disrupt the action movie space. We do the same thing with Swiss watchmaking and this sort of disruption through innovation continues to be our goal,” Arabo said.

The Fast & Furious limited-edition watch combines the DNA of both the exceptionally popular action series and the luxury brand that is “Inspired By The Impossible.” It includes iconic imageryassociated with the first film “The Fast and the Furious,” combined with a groundbreaking timepiece designed for speed.

The ~$580,000 watch combines four complications that have never appeared together in a watch: a twin triple-axis
tourbillon, decimal minute repeater, monopusher chronograph, and pit board time difference calculator. This is combined with imagery inspired by the first film “The Fast and the Furious”. Its launch is timed with the theatrical release of “F9, Fast & Furios 9,” the latest chapter in the blockbuster franchise.

The large sapphire crystal face features imagery iconic to the first Fast & Furious film from 2001: a starting girl with checkered flags, behind her are hot rod cars ready to bolt – one American muscle, the other a supercharged import, above both is the Fast & Furious logo. The images capture the feeling of living life one- quarter-mile at a time. This scene is encased with a black textured 57mm by 52mm case is made of forged carbon, comprising of 88 parts.

@Jacob & Co. Fast & Furious Twin Turbo anniversary watch; @Universal City Studios

Classic Car Anniversaries: Lamborghini Countach LP500 and Maserati Bora turn 50

    Exactly 50 years ago at the Geneva Motor Show, the undisputed star of the event was introduced: the Lamborghini Countach LP500 in yellow. At ten o’clock in the morning in the exhibition space of Carrozzeria Bertone, this prototype made its first public appearance. Its unveil was so successful that the company raced against … Read more