InsideLux – The Luxury News Authority

The Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport initially revealed at the Pebble Beach Concours D’Elegance at Monterey Beach, California, last year just entered production. This was marked by a special day hosted by Bugatti at Cannes, in northern France where enlisted buyers and the media got to test drive some pre-production versions.

Described as the world’s fastest roadster, the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport will be assembled by hand at the company’s headquarters in Molsheim, Alsace.

With first deliveries scheduled for next month, only 150 units will be made with the first 50 going exclusively to registered Bugatti customers. So far 30 Grand Sports have been ordered.

The Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport is priced at 1.4 million Euros

Legendary Japan fashion house Issey Miyake has teamed up with designer Ross Lovegrove famed for his design of the original Sony Walkman and Apple iMac to unveil their ‘Hu’ watch.

The watch’s characteristics include a design incorporating elements of contour and anatomy to fully integrate with the wearer; the special shape wraps around the wrist with an angled dial for easy visibility.  The ‘Hu’ watch is made of titanium with a rubber strap and comes in gray, white, and black. The dial is very simple, showing just the hours and minutes with only two hour indicator points. The movement is Seiko quartz of course.

According to Lovegrove, the concept behind ‘Hu’s design is that the watch should look like an extension of your body- as though it was growing out of your wrist.

Issey Miyake’s ‘Hu’ was initially unveiled by Seiko Instruments Inc at Basel world 2009 and will be available in September 2009.

Luxury Designer Alexander Amosu has launched a series of luxury phone cases. Starting with BlackBerry phones, the new Amosu luxury phone cases are handmade and stitched using exotic materials like crocodile, python, ostrich and lizard.

The phone cases are available in a range of colors and finishes and can be custom made to the owner’s requirements; for example buyers can have their names embossed in the leather with fine craftsmanship and sophisticated styling.

The Amosu phone cases are now available at www.amosu.co.uk priced at £400 ($650).

TAG Heuer has introduced the latest Monaco Twenty Four Concept Chronograph as a tribute to one of the toughest car races on the planet, 24 hours of Le Mans.

Inspired by the powerful racing cars, Tag Heuer created the first Monaco chronograph with its iconic square dial supported by Tag Heuer’s water-proof system 40 years ago. Previous Monaco chronographs have won prestigious awards, in 2003, the double-sided Monaco Sixty-Nine won the coveted Design Watch of the Year Award at the Grand Prix d’Horloge in Geneva; the following year, the belt-driven Monaco V4 was named Watch of the Year by Wallpaper Magazine and “Best of What’s New” by Popular Science and in 2007, the Monaco 360 LS Concept Chronograph was awarded the IF Design Award suggesting that this latest one will be no different in the awards stakes.

The most notable difference between the current Monaco Twenty Four Concept Chronograph and previous ones is an over-sized “24” at 12; the core of the Monaco 24′s innovation however, concerns the shock resistance engineered into the watch. In a world first, the Monaco 24′s movement “floats” inside its polished black PVD case, suspended within a steel-tube housing very much like a race car’s protective cockpit cage. The components inside the case (based on the MONACO V4 case) are further insulated with a shock-absorbing “composite filter” material used in aerospace and auto racing. The manifold arms collect vibrations and direct them away from the movement and into the composite filter which absorbs and dissipates their energy. The technical beauty of this movement is visible through sapphire crystal dial face; the front sapphire crystal has anti-reflective at both sides for ideal readability. It is also water resistant to 100 meters.  The new Monaco Twenty Four Concept Chronograph is presented on a blue alligator leather strap with orange stitching.