Rolls-Royce may be best known in the popular imagination for its coveted four-wheeled vehicles, but it’s far from a slouch when it comes to aviation. To honor one of its inventive planes, Bremont is launching a special aviation watch ready to take to the skies.

Bremont is already Rolls-Royce’s official timing partner so the team-up was a natural one encouraged by the British marque’s newest aeronautical venture. The Spirit of Innovation is a sustainable, all-electric airplane Rolls-Royce hopes will break the speed record in its category (which currently stands at 213mph) by exceeding 300mph sometime early next year. Bremont was intimately involved in its development, designing the cockpit and incorporating its own accurate stopwatch within...

Alva Yachts is doubling down on eco-friendly energy in its latest sailing yacht concept. The German builder has created a sustainable 82-footer that can be powered by either hydrogen or electricity, depending on the buyer’s desires.

Ocean Sail 82 was penned by Henndesign studio and features naval architecture by Bad Pyrmont and iYacht. She features a sleek, carbon-fiber hull and rig inspired by racing yachts, and a state-of-the-art carbon mast and boom for Maxi races and transoceanic voyages.

Her form is improved by her function. Ocean Sail 82 can cover serious nautical miles while offering true off-grid living. Power comes in the form of her sail and two innovative propulsion systems. The electric configuration mates a 135-kW motor to a generator-powered battery pack...

There are few lines more respected in the high-performance auto world than the BMW M series. Be that as it may, the German carmaker isn’t content to just sit around resting on its laurels. For proof of this, look no further than the just unveiled M3 sedan and M4 coupé.

Earlier this week, the luxury marque unveiled the latest iterations of two of its most capable sports cars. And while neither vehicle has received a particularly radical upgrade, what’s new and the proven elements that have been left alone—especially the option of 500 horses or a manual transmission—are more than enough to make both noteworthy.

The 2021 BMW M4 and its gigantic kidney grille  BMW

But as impressive as the specs of both cars may be, it’s hard to start anywhere other than the nose...

There’s a lot of good reasons to make Pisco Sours at home, but one that’s often forgotten is just how impressive you appear to whoever it is you’re making them for.

Proper cocktail sours, ones made with egg white, are gorgeous. They draw the eye. The drink pours cloud-white out of the shaker tin and develops slowly like a Polaroid picture, the liquid’s color becoming again vivid under a paper-smooth band of silky foam. At a bar, there’s a lot of “ooh what is that?” from adjacent seats. The whole ritual of it—the larger glass, the cracking of a shell, the initial “dry shake”—seems to denote a higher order of cocktail making, as if everything just got more serious. Make it for someone at home, and in my experience, they’ll look at you like you’re a wizard.

The funn...

A brand-new supercar from McLaren is a cause for celebration. But that vehicle becomes even more exciting when you find out that it can cover a quarter mile in less than 10 seconds. You read that right, in less than 10 seconds.

The British marque has talked up its latest “longtail” model, the 765 LT, as its most powerful road-going vehicle yet, and the performance stats revealed in a press release suggest they may have undersold the car’s capabilities. That’s because the boutique carmaker has officially revised some of those numbers for the better.

2020 McLaren 765 LT  McLaren

The most impressive of these claims is that the ultra-light vehicle, which is based on the 720S, can travel a quarter-mile in just 9.9 seconds...

Traveling by balloon to the edge of space may sound like something from an H.G. Wells novel, but Spaceship Neptune plans to do just that by the end of 2024. A company called Exclusive Resorts said eight of its members will be on one of the first near-space voyages. Spaceship Neptune will launch before sunrise at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and then soar to an altitude of more than 100,000 feet.

The balloon, which measures the length of a football stadium, is flown by a pilot and carries up to eight passengers inside a pressurized capsule. Instead of cumbersome astronaut suits, the space tourists or “explorers,” will be seated in plush, reclining chairs, with access to a refreshments bar. Unlike other space vehicles, Neptune will have near-zero emissions.

Because the launch will happ...

Want to live in a building designed by a high-profile architect? The options have never been better in New York City—from Zaha Hadid and Álvaro Siza to Bjarke Ingels and Thomas Heatherwick. Not one to be lost in the “starchitect” shuffle, Renzo Piano’s 565 Broome has just unveiled its full-floor residence, priced at $17 million and with furnishings by renowned Italian manufacturer Poltrona Frau.

Completed in 2019, 565 Broome is the first Renzo Piano residential building in New York. It sits on the western edge of SoHo and contains 115 units. The two 30-story glass towers are identical—the Poltrona Frau model unit, N28A, is located in the North Tower and clocks in at a spacious and airy 4,682 square feet.

The apartment can be accessed via a private elevator, which opens up into ...

NFL pro-footballer Tom Brady and James Marsden are starring in IWC’s new short film Born of a Dream, which unlike other marketing films, has a production quality and two separate plot lines that could each be a feature film in their own right. But what’s genuinely striking is the fact that both Brady and Marsden discovered a love for watch collecting long before becoming officially affiliated with the brand. Brady’s first big watch purchase was an IWC GST Alarm from Tourneau back in 2002, when he had made it into the big leagues and Marsden became a true watch aficionado thanks to an IWC Automatic Portuguese his stylist, Ilaria Urbanti, recommended for a red carpet event.

Now the two IWC fans are linking up for Born of a Dream to highlight Brady’s early career in football in a story...

Time with any Aston Martin is an occasion to be relished. The cars from Gaydon are beautiful, rare and always exciting to drive. Certainly, the marque’s historic role as a secret-agent accomplice injects an extra dose of adrenaline for would-be Bonds of every generation, and the latest Vantage Roadster is no exception.

But Sean Connery’s 007 never drove a Yellow Tang Aston Martin. His iconic Silver Birch DB5 would look absurd painted the psychedelic yellow-green color scheme of our Vantage Roadster, the automaker’s most recent model...