The year might not be over yet but that hasn’t stopped IWC Schaffhausen from jumping the gun ahead of SIHH 2019. The Swiss luxury watchmaker showed off its pre-exhibition timepieces in the form of four striking Pilot’s watches this week.

The quartet comprises of two new Spitfire models, a new TOP GUN model (our pick of the bunch) and a “Le Petit Prince” special edition. Here’s a quick run down of each one.

Pilot’s Watch Double Chronograph TOP GUN Ceratanium

Striking in design and unashamedly masculine, the latest TOP GUN Pilot’s Watch features innovative Ceratanium construction – a unique composition of titanium and ceramic developed in-house by IWC. The patented material achieves the lightness and scratch-resistance of ceramic whilst retaining the inherent strength of titanium. It’s also the first Pilot’s Watch to ever be finished entirely in jet black which is suitable for sensitive skin as well as being highly resistant to corrosion.

Movement: 79230 mechanical chronograph
Functions: Hours, minutes, seconds, split seconds hand, small seconds counters at 6, 9 and 12 o’clock, day/date
Case: 44mm Ceratanium case
Dial: Black dial, black hands
Strap: Black rubber with textile inlay
Water Resistance: 60m
Power reserve: 44 hours

Pilot’s Watch Chronograph Spitfire

Inspired by the fearsome British warplane of a bygone era and the Mark 11 navigation watch, the Pilot’s Watch Chronograph Spitfire is an execution of both function and form. This is especially highlighted with a bronze case paired to an olive green dial and brown leather strap.

Movement: 69380 mechanical chronograph
Functions: Hours, minutes, seconds, small seconds counters at 6, 9 and 12 o’clock, day/date
Case: 41mm bronze case, titanium case back
Dial: Olive green dial
Strap: Brown leather calfskin
Water Resistance: 60m
Power reserve: 46 hours

Pilot’s Watch Timezoner Spitfire Edition The Longest Flight

Another variation of the Spitfire model is the Pilot’s Watch Timezoner ‘The Longest Flight’. As another first for the IWC, the watch features the patented Timezoner mechanism for the first time ever. The silver hue meanwhile is inspired by the “Silver Spitfire – The Longest Flight” project – a Spitfire which was specifically designed to fly around the world. As such, the watch can be easily set to different timezones by simply rotating the bezel. When the bezel is turned the watch will automatically adjust the hour hand, 24-hour display and date at the same time. This particular model is limited to 250 pieces.

Movement: 82760 mechanical movement
Functions: Hours, minutes, seconds, date display, 24-hour display for Worldtimer function
Case: 46mm stainless steel case
Dial: Black dial
Strap: Green textile strap
Water Resistance: 60m
Power reserve: 60 hours

Big Pilot’s Watch Constant-Force Tourbillon Edition Le Petit Prince

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Walk down any Sydney or Melbourne high street and you’ll see that craft beers are all the rage. From fruity pale ale’s to dark hops, the Hipster renewal of the middle ages has spread to Australia’s over 35 crew, to the point where even the soccer mums are questioning their choice of Sauvignon Blanc.

But in Tasmania they’ve taken things a step further, with one museum taking the original samples of a 220 year old beer found inside a shipwreck in the 1990’s, and turning it into a drinkable brew.

As reported by the BBC, “In 1796, the colonial trading firm Campbell and Clark commissioned the ship Sydney Cove to sail from Calcutta in India to Port Jackson, with a cargo of provisions including ales, wines and spirits as well as essential supplies such as grain and timber.”

“The ship never reached its destination.”

“Foundering off Tasmania’s treacherous north coast,” the BBC report continued, “Near the aptly named Preservation Island, the Sydney Cove ground to a halt on a sandbank and sank.”

Fortunately for the beer aficionados of the world, almost 200 years later (in the 1990’s) the remaining beer (and the wreck) was recovered, preserved by the icy seabed, collected by Marine archaeologists from the Australian Historic Shipwrecks Team, and sent to the Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery in Tasmania for conservation.

And the even better news is, this year, the beer is back, renewed and re-brewed thanks to a partnership between the museum and Australian brewing company James Squire.

Cultured in test batches, Museum conservator David Thurrowgood, who holds a double degree in journalism and chemistry, took it upon himself to see if the original samples’ yeast was still viable.

A partnership with the Australian Wine Research Institute ensued from the positive findings, and their national laboratory in Adelaide helped to isolate the yeast for brewing in commercial quantity (via the BBC).

“The project (then) scaled up further when James Squire came on board to brew beer from the yeast in commercial quantities, with the ultimate aim of releasing it for sale.”

The surprise came when head brewer Haydon Morgan found the yeast to have significantly different properties to its modern-day counterparts, rapidly consuming all the available sugar in the ferment, and producing a dry beer.

This meant that even after 200 years on the seabed (and months in laboratory bottles), “It revived quickly and could still be brewed, whereas a contemporary commercial yeast would be dead within weeks,” (BBC).

Following this revelation, the team experimented with recipes based on the types of beer brewed in 1797, the year the ship went down. These included darker ales such as Porter, IPAs and ‘small ales’, which were lower in alcohol by volume.

Of the three, they decided that the Porter style would be most palatable to modern consumers, and created a beer with a “rich, smooth taste” and “hints of blackcurrant and spices” (BBC).

Now named ‘The Wreck Preservation Ale’, the beer is bottled under James Squire, and boasts ‘spicy clove aromas and a touch of chocolate’.

In terms of whetting your gullet, limited editions of the stuff have just been released in James Squires brew houses, while another small supply is available at the Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery in Launceston, Tasmania.

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First worn as a flight jacket in the early 1900s, the leather jacket is now a style essential for men more than 100 years on. But knowing how to wear a leather jacket poses a flight risk for many.

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You imbibed today’s happiness with last night’s pale ale, and have woken up feeling like death. If death was hungover and had run out of Berocca.

But before you can stomach lunch-time’s Pad Thai and Coke, you must survive breakfast. The thought of Bacon makes you queasy though, so you reach for the healthiest thing on the menu: an Acai bowl.

According to your yoga mate, this Amazonian berry cures everything from ‘Beer-itis’ to your sense of impending spiritual doom. It can even make you an influencer on Instagram.

The only problem? Potential diabetes.

 

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Follow – @bodysmartfitness . Happy National Cookie Day Tag your fellow Cookie Monster friend! ————- Now let’s talk – MAKING FRIENDS WITH FOOD! With so many options labeled as ‘clean’, ‘free from’, ‘natural’, ‘raw’ and unprocessed; the health and fitness industry has made relationships with food a little confusing! As a result the ‘healthier’ choice for a lot of people becomes misinformed and can end up being (unintentionally) – a highly calorie dense choice. Take the above option for example; a healthy Acai & Peanut Butter smoothie bowl seems like a dieters go-to, when in actual fact, a choice like this can be quite taxing on a calorie budget! If you’re craving a chocolate chip cookie, it’s not that hard to find the balance in your day and have 1 or 2 with your afternoon tea! It’s all about BALANCE! Our food for thought on this matter: CONSIDER BOTH QUALITY AND QUANTITY: The two part system of good health and results requires attention to BOTH what you eat AND how much. Don’t be consumed with a confusing concept of healthy. WHAT IS HEALTHY? Healthy can be a different weight, a different variety of food, a different mentality towards food and a different goal for everyone. Healthy isn’t just superfoods, salads and vegetables but rather balance and a good relationship with food. Get to know your food and when making choices be numerically aware as well as balanced in your diet. HAVE YOU BEEN FOOLED? ‘Clean’ doesn’t always mean ‘flawless’, your food choices should consider your diet as a whole rather than cleaning up one meal that may be nutrient dense but is also in fact way too high in calories – that it may be detrimental to your intake goals! Be conscious of the add-ons and toppings that could have you in a few hundred calories of debt for the day Get to know the intake needs of your body, understand how to eat with balance and flexibility in order to achieve your goals. Let us help you with custom science based nutrition plans that deliver guaranteed results! . Credit – @equalution

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According to online fitness coach, Calorie Comparing, a fully loaded peanut butter Acai bowl has the same number of calories as 17.3 chocolate chip cookies.

They also claim that this is an industry wide problem; “With so many options labelled as clean, natural raw and unprocessed, the health and fitness industry has made relationships with food… confusing.”

“As a result the healthier choice becomes misinformed and can end up being (unintentionally) a high calorie dense choice.”

Even though an Acai and peanut butter smoothie bowl seems like a dieters go-to, this graphic puts the calorie bomb into stark relief.

Further offenders include protein balls, agave syrup, grapeseed oil, fruit on the bottom yogurt, orange juice and ‘heart healthy’ cereals (see: Snacks You Thought Were Healthy But Actually Damage Your Diet).

As avid Cadbury connoisseurs, partial to the odd sugar crash and chocolatey pit of self loathing, what we don’t quite understand, however, is their next claim.

“If you’re craving a chocolate chip cookie, it is not that hard to find the balance in your day and have one or two with your afternoon tea.”

As it turns out, various commenters were confused about this too, asking: “What about the macros and micro nutrients?” and pointing out that, unlike cookies, “Acai bowls keep you filled up for the whole day.”

Touche.

That said, Comparing Calories’ original point still stands: “Your food choices should consider your diet as a whole rather than cleaning up one meal that may be nutrient dense but is also in fact way too high in calories.”

“Eating clean doesn’t always mean eating flawless.”

And to bring the story to a stomach rumbling conclusion, one smart-arse Instagram commenter reckons he’s found the perfect balance: “I’ll have half the bowl, 8 cookies and a glass of almond milk.”

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Reckon your annoying boss is holding you back? Well they probably are—but not in the way you think.

A new study published in the Journal of Applied Psychology has shown that mistreatment by those at the top of an organisation does not necessarily lead to abusive behaviour by lower-level leaders—and can even improve their leadership skills.

In fact, when offered their own leadership opportunities, the study found that victims of workplace abuse are more likely to treat their own subordinates better—by learning from the bad behaviour of their bosses.

UCF College of Business professor Shannon Taylor, one of the primary researchers of the project, said: “Some employees who are abused by their bosses resolve not to repeat that pattern with their own subordinates and become exceptional leaders of their teams.”

“Some managers who experience this abuse can reframe their experience so it doesn’t reflect their behaviour and actually makes them better leaders.”

As reported by Science Daily, “Through multiple experiments over several years, the researchers examined the differences in attitude and behaviour of supervisors who had been abused by superiors and those who had not and, in turn, how each group treated their employees.”

when your boss asks if you can stay an extra hour #ImACeleb pic.twitter.com/tKD1vJHm4T

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The results hardly surprise: abused supervisors who intentionally distanced themselves from their manager expressed empathy and respect toward their own employees, despite the tyrannical treatment they received from their own boss.

“The lesson here isn’t to hire more abusive managers, of course, but to try to encourage people who have been abused, among other things, to say, ‘Look, I’m not like my boss,'” Taylor said.

“You can take a stand — not just by reporting the bad behaviour, but by actively rejecting this abusive leadership style.”

So although you should never stand for an abusive situation, if you’ve ever been in one (or if your manager has a minor meltdown every time you take a 5 minute coffee break), you can take comfort in this silver lining.

RELATED: Australian Entrepreneurs Share Strategies For Managing Stress & Mental Health 

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We're big fans of luxury. The fit and finish of something quality is well-worth the rather expensive price tag. But, if you're one of those guys who's wearing (or eating) his pay check week to week, it's time to start learning how to look cool without spending too much money.

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If you’ve ever come to the end of a thirty minute swiping binge and wondered why no-one returned the favour, Tinder now has a solution. Sort of.Turns out Facebook hasn’t been the only company gathering data. Tinder just released its ‘year in swipe,’ revealing—amongst other things—the best time of day (and day of week) you should be swiping to get a match.According to their research, the most popular day of the week to swipe was… Monday. And if you wanna get real specific, the best time is between 6 and 9pm.Although Monday is generally considered a day of mourning (RIP weekend), when you think about it, it makes sense that it is prime ‘swiping’ time.After all: by Friday you should already have a date organised, and on Saturday and Sunday you are generally having too much fun to bother looking at your phone.We also learned some useful info for people that haven’t got a clue what to put in their bio.

 

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An absolute keeper.

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According to this year’s stats, women who are (or say they are) a surfer, lifesaver, scholar, model or engineer, attract more matches than any other professions.Similarly, men who had the tags, surfer, doctor, military, traveller or scholar in their profile raked in more matches than their less adventurous (or impressive) counterparts.And of course, the most popular drink found in bios worldwide (not just Italy) was wine, closely followed by beer (with pizza topping the food charts).

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There’s a time of week when you’re after something fun-loving and easy to drink. For those days a Merlot or Nebbiolo could be on the cards. There also comes a time when you want something a little more hard hitting. Whether it’s to accompany a thick juicy steak or you’re simply after something a little riper and full flavoured, these are the moments when you crack open a Shiraz.

But what to pick? Although Shiraz is the fairly specific love-child of two obscure French grapes (Dureza and Mondeuse Blanche), it is now grown internationally, and Australia is one of the most prolific producers: so how do you decide which of its many quality vintages to lash out on?

You either strike out on your own and end up with a fuzzy mouth and a hangover, or you read this list and end up with a waitlist for your next dinner party and an epiphany. Well: perhaps the difference isn’t quite that pronounced: but you get our drift.

These are the best bottles of Australian Shiraz, picked by some of the country’s foremost sommeliers and wine connoisseurs.

Battley Syrah by Russell Bourne

Vintage: 2010

Picked by: Sean McManus, Sommelier at French restaurant Hubert in Sydney’s CBD, and Italian restaurant Alberto, Surrey Hills.

Sean’s two cents: From Beechworth, Victoria this vintage was challenging and rewarding at the same time. 2010’s cool drying autumn saw great elegance and complexity in this European style Syrah (Shiraz). A savoury bomb full of tight black olives, blasts of truffle and wafts of wild herbs, melting tannins saturate the palette of condensed black berry fruit, lifted by soft aromatic florals from 3% Viognier (grape) and gentlest splash of salty sea spray leave this Syrah perfectly poised.

Buy @ Cellar D’Or  $55

Harkham Aziza’s Preservative Free Hunter Valley

Vintage: 2016

Picked by: Chiara Danieli, head sommelier at Matteo Downtown.

Chiara’s two cents: Blackberry and juicy blue fruit, earth, spice. Fat, but medium bodied, with a load of silty tannin, round mid-palate, then a lick of soft acid and sweet fruited perfume to finish. So good to drink.

Buy @ Vaucluse Cellars  $40

Grampians ‘Over the Way’ Shiraz

Vintage: 2017

Picked by: Mark Willoughby, head honcho at Esoterica Wine & Food.

Mark’s two cents: Single vineyard shiraz grown at Rices Vineyard in the Grampians, 30 year old vines grow intensely flavoured grapes that are handpicked and processed then given 14 months in seasoned French oak. Only 1600 bottles produced, this wine shows great fruit intensity but retains an elegance that is the hallmark of great cool climate shiraz. Mid bodied, blackberry, cherry and spice, a wine for the warmth of the colonial Christmas and well matched to the ham and turkey fair. A premium shiraz without the premium price.

Buy @ Over The Way $35

St Hugo Shiraz

Vintage: 2016

Picked by: Luc Wiesman, founder of D’Marge and avid wine drinker.

Luc’s two cents: The Barossa Valley provides this wine’s dark berry fruits with opulent herb and spice characters. With a cellaring potential of over 10 years, you can either savour this generous, supple and loose-knit wine now, or save it for later. Check it out if you like a “big” wine, full of complexity and freshness.

Buy @ Dan Murphy’s   $33.60

Mollydooker The Boxer  Shiraz

Vintage: 2015

Picked by: Luc Wiesman, founder of D’Marge and avid wine drinker.

Luc’s two cents: The Boxer Shiraz epitomises the full-bodied Mollydooker style, so if you love succulent, soft and luscious wines, the Mollydooker Shiraz is worth a sip (or swig). Brimming with fresh black fruits, plums, figs and a hint of cigar box (and liquorice) this wine is velvety and layered with lovely warming oak—all without being too much.

Buy @ Vintage Cellars  $31.10

Jasper Hill Georgia’s Paddock Shiraz

Vintage: 2017 

Picked by: Nick Stamford, Managing Director of MW Wines in Collingwood, Australia’s largest independent wine auction house.

Nick’s two cents: Easily the most approachable Jasper Georgia’s I’ve seen on release. This wine has all the hallmarks of great Heathcote Shiraz with deep red and black fruits, firm tannins and beautiful acidity from one of the pioneers of organic farming and winemaking. Jasper Hill has been organic since its vines were first planted in 1975.

Buy @ MW Wines $89

Linke Shiraz

Vintage: 2015

Picked by: James Booth, writer and wine event ‘enthusiast’ at D’Marge.

James’ two cents: Deep red-black hues invite you in, while the inky black colour hides its secrets. This Shiraz’s powerful aromatics (think liquorice, ripe blackberries and liqueured black cherries) are made to drink over the next 3-4 years, while its velvet smooth tannins, aftertaste of ripe black cherries, spicy vanillin oak and subtle hints of dark chocolate make this a great—and affordable—wine to add to your collection.

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