James Gurney
James Gurney has written on watches for over 25 years, founding QP Magazine in 2003, the UK’s first home-grown watch title. In 2009, he initiated SalonQP, one of the first watch fairs to focus on the end-consumer, and is regarded as a leading horological voice contributing to news and magazine titles across the globe.
Latest articles by James Gurney
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Watches and Wonders 2024: the solar eclipse puts the race to unify Moon time in the spotlight
NASA has been tasked to create standard Moon time by 2026, but could SpaceOne's seriously affordable lunar watch eclipse its efforts at this week's global watch fair?
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The Japanese watch brands to know now
Grand Seiko, Citizen and Casio are just some of the Japanese watch brands to keep an eye on
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Schofield unveils its Light watch, typical of its cool, subtle design
British watch brand Schofield unveils the Light watch in two iterations, each with monochrome contrast dials
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Jeff Koons’ art has landed on the moon with Odysseus
‘Jeff Koons: Moon Phases’ is on the Odysseus lunar lander and due to make a giant NFT leap for the artist, having landed on Thursday 22 February 2024
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New Zenith watches see heritage and modernity collide
These new Zenith watches see Julien Tornare pay tribute to the past in his last collection as CEO
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How Debauve et Gallais and Marie Antoinette sparked a chocolate revolution
Paris chocolatier Debauve et Gallais is built on a sweet legacy, involving a chocolate coin designed to cure Marie Antoinette of her distaste for medicine
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Tag Heuer rethinks a classic with teal green Carrera Glassbox watch
Tag Heuer Carrera collection gets an update with a ‘Dato’-style chronograph and a tourbillon, both in teal green
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Omega explores the dark side of the moon with a stellar new watch
Omega unveils the Speedmaster Dark Side Of The Moon Apollo 8 watch
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Hublot and Takashi Murakami push the boundaries of watch design
The Hublot MP-15 Takashi Murakami Tourbillon Sapphire is a conceptual and technical triumph
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Dubai Watch Week gave an exciting preview of watchmaking in 2024
The recent Dubai Watch Week buzzed with creative energy and gave us a hint of what watchmaking in 2024 will bring
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Comic book watches: from Mickey Mouse to Spiderman
Comic book watches, from brands such as Audemars Piguet, Oris, Ulysse Nardin and Reservoir, come with a ‘Pow!’ factor
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Bell & Ross leads the luminescent watches trend
New luminescent watches see us going for the glow, in hues from green to lavender
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Space Age watches born of 1960s futurism are out of this world
The brands and designers whose Space Age watches drew on references from Barbarella to the Lava lamp
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Geneva Watch Days 2023 standouts: from Trilobe to Louis Erard
James Gurney reviews more Geneva Watch Days 2023 standouts, spanning ambitiously avant-garde designs and cool collaborations from brands that share a watch insider’s sensibility
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Geneva Watch Days 2023: up close with five new reveals
James Gurney reports from Geneva Watch Days 2023, the mini fair that spans the design-led, the ultra-traditional and the achingly avant-garde
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Fan base: how a vintage Breitling collector forged the path to the brand’s design future
Breitling, the classic aviation watch brand, is undergoing as thorough a brand reinvention as you’re ever likely to see, shifting its focus, cleaning up and, above all, re-connecting with its past. While the first two require experience and imagination, the last needs knowledge. But when Breitling’s new owners turned up, they discovered only the basics of an archive for a brand that spans 133 years of production. Heritage, of course, is the nucleus around which great brands thrive. So, It was a seriously savvy move by new Breitling CEO Georges Kern to turn to a fan - the esteemed Breitling collector Fred Mandelbaum, the most authoritative source on Breitling’s history around, known to aficionados as @watchfred. It is Mandelbaum and his fabulously tended personal collection, then, that have filled in the sizeable gaps, creating a springboard for a future with its roots in the past.Here's our pick of the best classic watch design..
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Editor's Pick: Rolex at Baselworld 2019
Rolex is all about the detail and small changes make for a surprisingly large impact, as the Swiss watchmaker’s new designs reveal
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Editor's Pick: Patek Philippe at Baselworld 2019
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Clocking in: David Adjaye, Studio Wieki Somers and Daniel Arsham ponder time
Singapore’s The Hour Glass is more than just another watch boutique in a city that’s obsessed by all things horological as its timely exhibition (helmed by Sir David Adjaye) shows
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The creative forces behind Montblanc on getting the horological details just right
Davide Cerrato joins forces with Zaim Kama as they weave the storied manufacture into Montblanc’s horological masterplan
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Royal flush: it’s win-win for Audemars Piguet at SIHH 2018
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Editor’s Pick: Bulgari at Baselworld 2019
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Moonstruck: Hermès takes on space and time at SIHH 2019
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W.W.W: a war-regulation watch for our times
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