Vanity Fair UK - 10.2019

Louis Vuitton

celebrated the 10th

anniversary of its

Tambour Spin Time

Air with the

“ethereal” calibre

LV88, developed by

La Fabrique du Temps

Louis Vuitton.

This month, A. Lange

& Söhne marks the 25th

anniversary of the Lange 1

with the Little Lange 1

Moon, limited to 25 pieces.

Citizen is celebrating 30

years of the Promaster with

its new automatic Marine

Super Titanium (waterproof

to 200 metres) in line with

its “Go Deeper” campaign.

On the 50th anniversary

of the El Primero, Zenith’s

AMBASSADORS & ANNIVERSARIES

50-piece limited-edition 

trilogy includes a reissue of

the first 1969 El Primero, a

Chronomaster El Primero,

and a new Defy El Primero 21.

Tudor’s “snowflake”

hands have turned 50. First

made in 1969 for reference

7016 and 7021 diving

watches, they were deemed

innovative because their

larger luminescent surface

allowed for greater legibility

under water. This year, the

snowflakes were incorporated

in Tudor’s Black Bay and

Pelagos models.

To mark the 75th

anniversary of Allied troops

disembarking on the

beaches of Normandy,

Reservoir has launched a

three-piece Battlefield

Tom Brady, the New
England Patriots’
quarterback who was seen
sporting a Portugieser
Perpetual Calendar Edition
“150 Years” at this year’s
Met Gala in New York, is
now brand ambassador for
IWC Schaff hausen.
Italian explorer and
Montblanc ambassador,
Alex Bellini, has been
travelling down the world’s
top 10 most polluted rivers
on a makeshift raft built out
of rubbish. His journey to
trace their route downriver
began on the Ganges and
was inspired by a 2018
German study that found
that 80 per cent of all plastic
in oceans arrives from just
10 rivers, accumulating at
an annual rate of eight
million tons, as estimated

by the U.N. Environment

Assembly. By 2021, Bellini

plans to have navigated

the Yangtze, the Niger,

the Mekong and the

remaining six polluted

rivers, before ending on the

Great Pacific Ocean

garbage patch, the world’s

largest accumulation of 

plastics located between

Hawaii and California.

Chopard welcomed the

Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi,

acclaimed for her role in

Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger,

Hidden Dragon, as global

ambassador at a dinner

during the Cannes

International Film Festival.

Panerai has named the

National Geographic

photographer and alpinist

Jimmy Chin, winner of the

2019 Oscar for Best

that stands at seven years.

Wearing his S300 White

diving watch on the mission,

Nims is weighed down by 14

dials he carries on the climbs.

Each will be integrated in a

Bremont watch to be

auctioned this autumn.

Parmigiani Fleurier has

welcomed Amanda Lui, a

Hong Kong-based

businesswoman, as a friend

of the brand. Liu is a

great-granddaughter of the

founder of KMB, Hong

Kong’s public transportation

provider since 1933.

collection. Each model is

named after a famous

Second World War episode.

Popeye, the spinach-

eating, one-eyed sailor, has

turned 90—a milestone

celebrated by Bamford.

“George has always loved

Popeye and we thought the

GMT with the port-hole

type design would suit the

character,” the brand said.

The Bamford Popeye

GMT, limited to 50 pieces,

is priced £1,500.

Mondaine licensed the

design of the Swiss railway

clock in 1986. Marking the

75th anniversary of its

introduction, the Swiss

Railways Classic watch will

be sold in a boxed set with a

history of the railway clock.

Documentary for Free Solo,

as brand ambassador. The

documentary told the

harrowing story of the

mountain climber, Alex

Honnold, and his ropeless

ascent of El Capitan.

Bremont’s n e w

ambassador, mountaineer

Nirmal “Nims” Purja MBE,

the first Gurkha to join the

elite Special Boat Service, is

attempting to scale the

world’s 14 highest peaks in

seven months, measuring

himself against a record

Special Editions

ILLUSTRATIONS BY STUDIO NIPPOLDT; MAURO TALAMONTI (MONTBLANC)

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By Nazanin Lankarani

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