REVOLUTION’S EDITOR’S PICKS SECRET SANTA
Last year, Revolution’s editors chose watches they’d like to see under the Christmas tree. This year, in the spirit of altruism and charity, Revolution Switzerland’s editor-in-chief Sophie Furley decided a game of “Secret Santa” was in order, and each editor was assigned to pick three watches for another editor. This is quite similar to what we go through when friends or family ask us, “What watch should I get my father/mother/uncle/aunt/brother/sister for the holidays?”
It’s all a process, analyzing each personality and lifestyle, as well as what watches they already have. Luckily, we are a pretty close-knit team and we read each other’s magazines, so we were able to study what everyone likes and dislikes.
And, at the end, all the editors chose one watch for Wei Koh, our stalwart leader, who already has a huge watch collection. This might have been the hardest task of all, puzzling out how to suggest a watch for the man who has everything he wants?
Tracey Llewellyn for Carlos Matamoros
When I drew our editor for Mexico and Latin America in Revolution’s Secret Santa, I was delighted for two reasons. Firstly, I get a kick out of buying presents for people I love — and I absolutely adore Carlos. Secondly, because fantasy watch shopping for a petrol-head is, to mix my metaphors, like shooting fish in a barrel, as easy as ABC. So, with monopoly money in hand, I sifted through this year’s top car-watch mashups:
When three of the world’s coolest guys joined forces to make a new chronograph this year, the result was the spectacular Singer Reimagined Track 1. Created through the collective design prowess and mechanical wizardry of Singer Vehicle Design’s founder Rob Dickinson, professor, consultant and ex-Head of Panerai’s Design Department Marco Borraccino and master watchmaker Jean-Marc Wiederrecht, the Track 1 is a motor enthusiast’s dream machine.
A retro-futuristic timepiece, the project was born from a mutual love of automotive design of the 1960s and 1970s but, thanks to Wiederrecht’s AgenGraph movement (the same caliber that powers the Fabergé Visionnaire), the chronograph readings become the heart of the watch with elapsed seconds, minutes and hours all read from three hands at the center of the dial. The time itself is indicated at the bottom of the dial at six o’clock. A gorgeous watch that, with just 50 examples of the first edition, is as rare as a Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spider, this is definitely one to go under the tree.
Introduced at this year’s Frankfurt Motor Show,
