Centodieci, as fans of the romance languages can guess, means 110, which honors the company’s 110th anniversary. The day in August when it was announced, the company said that only ten of these cars would be made, that all ten had been sold, and that one buyer had bought two of them.

A major philanthropic event raised in excess of $2 million at the Home of Rolls-Royce in Goodwood, West Sussex, on Saturday 21st September 2019. Rolls-Royce’s ‘Evelina Art for Allergy x Dine on the Line’ was held in support of allergy research at Evelina London Children’s Hospital.

Most mechanical watches emit a sound of some sort. Some tick modestly, yet others quite noticeably. This is not really on purpose, but more the way that they are constructed. There is, however, a category of watches that are designed to make a sound. Some chime the time, others have an audible alarm, but all are without exception fitted with a beautiful and complex movement, such as the following four watches.

Ferrari has unveiled the F8 Spider, the new generation drop-top sports car equipped with the most successful mid-rear-mounted V8 in history.

The Zenith Defy El Primero 21 is already an impressive watch, with its automatic 1/100th-second chronograph movement. However, when Grammy-award winning artists Swizz Beatz adds his style to it, it gets even better. For his creation, Swizz Beatz opted for a vibrant color combination of white and orange. On the Zenith, it works wonders because no corners are cut to bring them to life in nearly every aspect of the watch.

Earlier this year we saw the SUV make a come back with Rolls-Royce dropping the Cullinan and Aston Martin's DBX generating some noise, and now Mercedes is introducing an AMG GLE Coupe to the road.

Nobody in Formula One is as cool as Kimi Räikkönen. This 2007 World Champion is one of the veterans in this very demanding sport and will start this weekend in Singapore for the 307th time in a Formula One race. He earned his nickname 'Iceman' by keeping his cool under even the most challenging circumstances. Räikkönen did so not only in the Formula One but also drove in WRC and NASCAR races. One accolade that he hadn't got yet was his very own Richard Mille, with is now remedied as he joins the family of the famed watch manufacturer, following in the footstep of other Formula One legends such as Jean Todt, Felipe Massa, and Romain Grosjean.

Parmigiani is a brand that to the real watch connoisseurs needs no introduction. It is to them that even other esteemed brands turn when they need a complicated historic piece restored. This is firmly inserted in the DNA of the company. Long before Michel Parmigiani founded the brand that bears his name, he had already obtained the reputation of being able to carry out the most complex, and sometimes even near impossible, restorations with success. On that knowledge, he built a brand of his own. It was in July 2018 that Davide Traxler was appointed CEO of Parmigiani, further strengthening the company’s Executive Committee.

Like a meal that is cooked to perfection, there is something about a watch that is designed, crafted, and finished with passion and eye for detail. Vacheron Constantin did just that with the Traditionnelle Tourbillon, which is in regards to some of their other offerings a relatively simple time-only watch fitted with a tourbillon. But this watch is not about being the most complicated, but more about being one of the most refined offerings in its category.

From camouflage prints to combat boots to leather bomber jackets, military-style has long trickled into the civilian population where standard issued-gear is reinvented into fashionable must-haves. This is particularly true in the watch world as illustrated by the bevy of military-style luxury watches regularly released year after year.

The Blancpain Fifty Fathoms has been an icon among diving watches ever since its conception in 1953. It was a trailblazer whose profile has become one of the most recognized in the industry. While Blancpain is still making the Fifty Fathoms with a modern interpretation of the vintage lines, they are also pushing the envelope and have created a few versions that you might not expect.

The prestigious car brand, Mercedes-Benz recently revealed the VISION EQS— a trailblazer for the entire Mercedes-Benz EQ family. At the International Motor Show in Frankfurt, Mercedes-Benz will address the challenges of the future with a focus on sustainability, in relation to it becoming a central component of the brand philosophy, and a major aspect of our corporate strategy.

A refined mechanical movement, preferably fitted with an exciting complication; for a long time, this was nearly non-existant within a ladies watch. A quartz-powered smaller version of a men's watch, usually with some diamonds added, was how many of them looked. But fortunately, times change, and these days there are more and more interesting ladies watches with beautiful movements, some even purposely made for them. The following four watches most certainly set the pace in this category.

In recent years it has become quite a thing for brands to launch a limited edition for a particular geographical region. In many ways, this is a smart strategy. It allows the brand to cater to local tastes, offer its clients and dealers there something exceptional and limited and therefore enable it to strengthen the brands present there. Both Jaeger-LeCoultre and Greubel Forsey have aimed at North America, each with a limited edition in which the color blue plays an important role.

In 2016 TAG Heuer took the world by surprise with a brand new watch in the Carrera collectsion. Christened Carrera Calibre Heuer 02T, this watch combined a chronograph with a flying tourbillon. The goal of TAG Heuer was to make this watch a gateway for enthusiasts who wanted a more complicated watch, as the brand gave it a very competitive price tag.

Now that summer is coming to an end and fall is just around the corner, now is a good time to swap out those colorful water-ready timepieces for something more restrained. Step into the world of ultra-thin watches, where mastery is measured in how few millimeters a case height reaches. From a simpler time and date version to a complex tourbillon and a few surprises in between, here are four incredible ultra-thin watches to show us how it’s done.