On Tuesday evening, Time Journal attended the exciting launch of Grand Auto, the up and coming London motor show, which will make its highly anticipated debut at the Olympia London next July.

Let’s get the more important details out the way before enticing you with specifics of the show shall we? Grand Auto is one of the many brilliant and exciting motor shows organised by Brand Events, a company that has been putting the craving desire for live action first since 1999. Chris Hughes, the CEO of Brand Events has been successfully setting up and running a variety of shows for the public since the early noughties.

Some of the most popular include MPH Show (what later became known as Top Gear Live!), The London Classic Car Show and Car Fest, the second largest motor show in Britain. Brand Events’ successful past endeavors speak for themselves, and so without even knowing the details of Grand Auto, already we can tell the show is going to be something special.

Since Saturday 12th November the world’s current leading male tennis players have been battling it out at London’s 02 Arena in a bid to win the ATP title, and a substantial cash prize. Throughout the year the top ranking players have competed to gain Emirates ATP Rankings points; those top 8 single players who finished the season with the most points, gained an automatic one-way ticket to the Nitto ATP Finals. This year, those players were:

Rafael Nadal
Roger Federer
Alexander Zverev
Dominic Thiem
Grigor Dimitrov
Marin Cilic
David Goffin
Jack Sock

Credit: Nitto ATP Finals

Geneva was extremely eventful last weekend having accommodated a number of highly prestigious watch auctions. Phillips Auctioneers oversaw the ‘Geneva Watch Auction: SIX’, Sotheby managed the ‘Important Watches’ auction; Antiquorum held their fourth auction of the year, and Christie’s supervised the biannual ‘Only Watch’ charity auction. It is therefore safe to say that over the weekend, there was an abundance of rare and attractive timepieces up for grabs in the world’s watch capital. However, it was Christie’s ‘Only Watch’ auction and its incredibly rare timepieces that attracted the world’s attention.

Only Watch is an extremely unique event to attend, not simply because it occurs only once every two years, but also because there is an array of the incredibly rare and one-of-a-kind timepieces up for sale. All of the participating watchmakers design and create an exceptional, unique wristwatch that is donated to the organisers, Association Monegasque Contre les Myopathies or AMM. The rare and luxury timepieces are then sold on to the highest bidder at auction, with all proceeds going towards funding the research of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.