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The Hublot & Ferrari Partnership Five Years In
Some watchmaker-and-carmaker collaborations are a great success; others fail miserably; most, of course, fall somewhere in the middle. Many of the variables, the partners obviously can't control - timing and luck, for example - but others, they can govern and refine. The now five-year-strong Hublot and Ferrari alliance proves a success story to learn from.Perhaps two of the most noteworthy modern car/watch partnerships are Breitling for Bentley and the recently concluded Jaeger-LeCoultre and Aston Martin (one could add the rather unattainable Parmigiani and Bugatti here). The Breitling/Bentley pairing, now a little long in the tooth, is defined by its good timing; the latter's AMVOX is the true embodiment of refinement, a collaboration that just worked. Ferrari watches are an entirely different animal, if for no reason other than the longevity of Ferrari's timepiece program.
Angelus U30 Tourbillon Rattrapante Watch Hands-On
When I said I was looking forward to seeing the?Angelus U30 Tourbillon Rattrapante hands-on, I meant it. I first covered this watch a couple of weeks ago in the typical pre-Basel watch release frenzy-but even at that time, the Angelus U30 Tourbillon Rattrapante stood out as something so complicated, perhaps simply?just?aspirational, that I had to take its promised functionalities and complexities with a grain of salt until I had seen them work in the real world.Speaking for myself, when I get to handle a watch as complicated as a tourbillon split-seconds chronograph wrist watch-not that it happens often-my first?vision and expectation is one of an exploding movement that entertains with hundreds of delicately crafted watch parts rattling inside a case crafted from sapphire and other fancy materials. A drop of sweat might have rolled down my face when I first lifted the Angelus U30 Tourbillon Rattrapante from its tray-as I sneaked by Sebastien and Lisa, some of the?wonderful people behi