FOR Ballon Bleu de Cartier François SchuitenBorn in 1956 in Brussels, Belgium. Now lives and works in Brussels.

FOR Ballon Bleu de Cartier Jirô TaniguchiBorn in 1947 in Tottori, Japan. Now lives and works in in Tokyo.

IWC celebrated the launch of the new Da Vinci, and Leonardo himself, with a very special and exclusive play “The interrogation of Leo and Lisa”, produced by and starring Kevin Spacey. If Leonardo Da Vinci had been only one thing -- a painter, an architect, an engineer, an inventor -- he would have been the greatest painter, architect, engineer, or inventor in history. But the truth is, if he had been only one thing, he wouldn’t have been Da Vinci.What made Leonardo Da Vinci great was that quality of synthesis, of seeing the relations of all things, nothing separate from anything else. He was able to take knowledge and insight from all his fields of interest, and make them work together. And he was interested in everything. He saw all things as connected, and knew that all things used together to make a new, unprecedented whole. It was this quality that made him what we remember today: not an artist, or a builder, or a visionary, but all of them together.

ADVENTURE UNLIMITED'S ATV ExperienceTest Drive: The C! boys in action.Core of the Matter: The Suunto that we pounded during the trek.Together with Kookie Ramirez, AG Puyat and Kim Liu from sister publication C! Magazine, guys who were not hung over after several days of merrymaking, Calibre EIC Carl Cunanan and I buckled up in a Mitsubishi Strada 4x4 and left the metro at the crack of dawn. We were headed up North to rendezvous with the guys from Adventure Unlimited, who wanted to give us a taste of a different kind adrenalin boost than what we have been used to. Making our way through the NLEX was a breeze. The group was chatting away about the comfortable ride afforded by our ride and the smoothness of the Strada’s new turbo-diesel powerplant when we chanced upon a Ford F-150 hauling a custom-made trailer loaded with quad bikes and what looked like a sand rail.

FOR Ballon Bleu de Cartier Glen Baxter Born in 1944 in Leeds, Great Britain. Now lives and works in London.

TISSOT QUADRATO CHRONO Tissot squares off the competition with a square-faced chronograph.Tissot’s Quadrato Chrono comes with a 30-minute, 1/10th of a second and 60-second counters. A 316L stainless steel case protects its ET A G10.211 calibre.Tissot Quadrato ChronoSeries: QuadratoFunctions: Chronograph(30 minutes, 1/10 of a second, 60 seconds), date, hours, minutes, secondsCase: 316L stainless steelCalibre: ETA G10.211Water Resistance: 100mBracelet Strap: Rubber strap with deployant buckle and push-buttonTISSOT'S HERMETIC TIMEPIECE first made its debut in the Roaring ’20s.

Luxury trunk maker and luggage juggernaut, Louis Vuitton has been making fine luggage and suitcases since 1854. Because of the company’s long and proud history, tradition is a valuable word in the house of LV, but that has not stopped them from becoming extremely innovative, modern and creative.Always the trendsetter, Louis Vuitton has been careful to progressively expand with a range of luxury products that are consistent with the brand’s core values. In 1892, for example, the company needed to grow and expanded into the much faster paced handbag market. In 1997, the enigmatic designer Marc Jacobs joined the firm as Artistic Director and with that “acquisition” the company, already steeped in heritage and tradition, opened its doors and began offering a line of leather goods, ties, ready-to-wear lines for men and women, pens, men’s and women’s shoes, jewelry; and in 2002 made the move to haute horlogerie and began offering precious watches.

11:08PM THE AYALA MUSEUM, MANILA Ten Million Euros worth of Andy Warhol Art Car are gingerly unloaded for display.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth… And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning – the first day. The founding magicians at Greubel Forsey have been creating horological wonders since the company’s humble beginnings in 1999, but it was at the unveiling of their signature piece in Baselworld 2004 where true magic was beheld. Despite coming from different backgrounds and nationalities, Englishman Stephen Forsey and Frenchman Robert Greubel shared one common passion: the tireless pursuit of peerless quality. As watchmakers they also shared another obsession, the Tourbillon; they both expressed the need to elevate the escapement to the Horological peaks they felt it should occupy.

CHOPARD The red carpet at the 79th annual academy awards ceremony. Naomi Watts Naomi will glow tonight in Chopard’s triple strand diamond necklace (85 carats), cushion cut diamond earrings on a French wire (12 carats) and an oval blue sapphire and diamond cocktail ring (16 carats). Penelope CruzNomineeNominated as Best Actress for her performance in Volver, Penelope selected to wear Chopard for her first Oscar nomination.