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  • Koenigsegg Shaped This 1,600-Horsepower Car for One Job: Going Very, Very Fast

    The Jesko Absolut is Koenigsegg's low-drag answer to extreme top speed, with a quoted drag coefficient of 0.278 and up to 1,600 hp on E85. The company says thousands of hours of aerodynamic analysis went into a body inspired partly by fighter-aircraft thinking. — via koenigsegg.com

  • This Rolls-Royce Took 8,000 Hours Just to Perfect Its Wood

    Arcadia Droptail is a one-off Rolls-Royce coachbuilt commission shaped around calm, minimal luxury. Rolls-Royce says developing and protecting its Santos Straight Grain wood took more than 8,000 hours, while even the dashboard clock became a multi-year project. — via rolls-roycemotorcars.com

  • McLaren’s W1 Can Reach 200 km/h in 5.8 Seconds

    McLaren's W1 combines a new V8 hybrid system producing 1,275 PS with active aerodynamics and a dry-lightest figure of 1,399 kg. Its active rear bodywork extends in Race Mode, helping the car generate as much as 1,000 kg of downforce. — via cars.mclaren.com

  • The Aston Martin Valkyrie Is About as Close as a Road Car Gets to Formula 1

    Aston Martin built the Valkyrie around a carbon structure, extreme ground-effect aerodynamics and a naturally aspirated 6.5-litre V12 that revs beyond 11,000 rpm. It is less a conventional supercar than an attempt to make prototype-racing thinking street legal. — via astonmartin.com

  • Grand Seiko Put a Tourbillon and Constant-Force Mechanism on the Same Axis

    The Kodo is built around Grand Seiko's compact constant-force tourbillon, which integrates two demanding mechanisms concentrically. The visual result is unusually alive: the rotating carriage and one-second impulses create a mechanical rhythm you can see. — via grand-seiko.com

  • This Patek Philippe Has 703 Parts and Can Chime the Time Like a Tiny Clock Tower

    Patek Philippe's 6301P combines grande sonnerie, petite sonnerie and minute-repeater functions in a platinum wristwatch. Its manually wound movement contains 703 parts, turning one of watchmaking's oldest acoustic complications into an extraordinary piece of miniaturised engineering. — via patek.com

  • MB&F Designed a Watch Like a Rotating House for Your Wrist

    Horological Machine N°11 treats architecture as watchmaking: its case rotates, its displays sit in separate 'rooms' and a flying tourbillon occupies the centre. Even temperature becomes part of the object, making the whole thing feel closer to kinetic sculpture than a conventional watch. — via mbandf.com

  • The Rolex Daytona Is the Racing Watch That Became a Cultural Object

    Rolex introduced the Cosmograph Daytona in 1963 as a chronograph for motor racing. Six decades later, its tachymetric bezel, three-counter dial and association with speed have made it one of the most recognisable mechanical watches in the world. — via rolex.com

  • Audemars Piguet Put a Split-Seconds Chronograph, GMT and Big Date in One Openworked Watch

    This 43 mm Royal Oak Concept combines a flyback chronograph with split-seconds timing, GMT and a large date in a titanium case. The openworked architecture turns the calibre itself into most of the visual drama. — via audemarspiguet.com

  • Bulgari Made a Tourbillon Watch Just 1.85 mm Thick

    The Octo Finissimo Ultra Tourbillon compresses a flying tourbillon wristwatch into a case only 1.85 mm thick. It is a striking demonstration of what happens when traditional haute horlogerie is treated as an exercise in extreme industrial miniaturisation. — via horlogerie.bulgari.com