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0Official: Officine Autodromo places the spirit of vintage Italian racing on your wrist 1322056620
Some watchmakers seek out automotive associations – typically in the form of licensing agreements with automakers or racing series. But some just have octane just dripping from their cogs. Like this latest collection from Officine Autodromo. The brainchild of industrial designer Bradley ...
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Official: Hublot named as Ferrari's latest official timekeeper [w/video] 1320929820
Watchmakers pursue partnerships with automakers and racing series like they're made of gold – which is, often enough, the case with the timepieces that ensue. Breitling has Bentley. Jaeger-LeCoultre has Aston Martin. TAG Heuer has McLaren. We'll let you draw your own conclusions about ...
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Official: Jaeger-LeCoultre celebrates Aston Martin Racing with AMVOX5 LMP1 1319025600
There are lots of watchmakers out there leveraging their automotive partnerships with special edition timepieces, but few of them are as convincing as the series Jaeger-LeCoultre produces for Aston Martin. And there are few we'd rather have on our wrists. Most of the AMVOX series are inspired by ...
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Porsche Design reinvents the Dashboard watch 1315058460
There are many elements that go into making a Porsche a Porsche, and one of them is the minimalist dashboard. Ten years ago, Porsche Design, the company's Austrian product design division, took its cues from a 911's instrument cluster and designed a wristwatch after it. And now they've updated ...
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Porsche Design shows you which way to go with retro compass watch 1311769860
Drivers of the Porsche 911 may find it amusingly easy to swing the tail around, though they'll have lost their sense of direction in no time. Fortunately, Ferdinand Alexander Porsche designed a compass watch back in 1978 that combined the functions, as you might have guessed, of a compass and a ...
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Mansory thankfully lets Graham London design their chronograph for them 1310126340
If you're going to provide sportscars to the clientele that can afford them, you'd better be ready to offer them a wristwatch to go with it. Just about every exotic automaker does, and now even the aftermarket firms are lining up to do the same. In the case of Mansory – purveyors of so ...
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Tudor Fastrider for Ducati proves riding well is all in the wrist 1310040000
We come across a seemingly endless array of array of automotive-inspired wristwatches here at Autoblog, but every once in a while we're treated to something a little different. Like this model that's made for motorcycle riders and aficionados. The result of a partnership between Tudor and ...
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Zenvo's North American special edition ST1 50S comes with watch, $1.8 million price tag 1308083280
Denmark may not rank among the countries – like Italy, Germany or England – you'd list as the foremost producer of exotic supercars, but Zenvo is out to change that with the ST1. The Danish sportscar is coming to America courtesy of Red Sea Distribution, and not unlike the new ...
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TAG Heuer celebrates 100th anniversary of the Indy 500 1306411140
Many try, but few capture the racing spirit in watch form as well as TAG Heuer. So it's only fitting that the Swiss watchmaker should be the one to celebrate the 100th anniversary of "The Greatest Spectacle in Racing" – the Indy 500 – as best it knows how: with a special-edition ...
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Girard-Perregaux R&D 01 stands as the quintessential driver's watch 1304420460
Some watchmakers need a merchandizing deal with an carmaker to give their timepieces an automotive theme. Others bank on their sponsorship of racing teams. Girard-Perregaux had Luigi Macaluso. A former racing driver himself, Macaluso served as president of both the Italian Motorsport Federation ...

