Over its 15-year history, MB&F has partnered with some of the most talented watchmakers of our generation: Kari Voutilainen, Eric Coudray, Stephen McDonnell, Jean-Marc Wiederrecht and Stepan Sarpaneva, to name a few. It also appealed to designers and artists, from longtime collaborator Eric Giroud and iconoclast Alain Silberstein to sculptor Xia Hang and picto [...]
Few brands in the world of watchmaking know how to arouse such conflicting emotions and sensations as Richard Mille does. There are those who love it madly and are willing to spend mind-boggling amounts to wear the latest RM 27 Rafa Nadal, and there are those who struggle to even consider them part of the so-called “Haute Horlogerie”. I have asked myself several times why there is such a strong difference of opinion [...]
For some years now, buying a sporty Rolex has become a sort of treasure hunt for many. Passionate or not, they wander in vain around the globe in search of the much desired reference, only to realize that the globalized world has really become very small. From the most coveted and hard to find Cosmograph Daytona, we quickly passed to the limited availability of GMT-MASTER II, p [...]
The dark years of watchmaking seem distant. Many will remember that precise moment in history, when mechanical watches lost their appeal and the watch industry was brought to its knees, with the arrival of much more precise and less expensive quartz movements from Japan. Lovers of timepieces today are experiencing an opposite drama: the growing desire for these fascinating [...]
Like any self-respecting summer, many of us love to venture into the pages of a beautiful thriller steeped in mysteries and intrigues, perhaps identifying with a famous English spy. Over the last few years, we, lovers of watchmaking and everything that revolves around it, have had a further diversion. Thanks to the fantastic world of auctions, an almost flat season of news and events [...]
It is no secret that Cristiano Ronaldo, in addition to being considered one of the strongest footballers ever, is a huge fan and collector of watches and supercars. Given his arrival in Italy, we at Perpetual Passion certainly could not forget to show you some of his precious timepieces… HUBLOT Aerofusion KING GOLD When the Santa Caterina Airport of Funchal and Madeira was rebated [...]
On the evening of May 31, after more than two months from the elections, Italy finally found its new Prime Minister in the lawyer Giuseppe Conte. A new face of politics, in recent weeks he has been one of the protagonists of the long negotiations between the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella and the parties in charge of forming the new executive. The newly appointed Premi [...]
Similar out. Different inside. If you ask a watch salesman, he can certainly confirm it: when it comes to choosing the first real watch, indecision and doubt often fall between one of these two icons: the Rolex Submariner (ref. M 116610LN) and Omega Speedmaster Moonwatch. (ref 311.30.42.30.01.005). Let me be clear, at the end of the article we will not tell you what the choice is [...]