8 September 2010
7 September 2010
Vanity Fair has the Proust Questionnaire. Theirs is “candid, surprising, fascinating.” Ours? Not so much. It’s more: contrived, surpassed, fallacious. We’re kidding of course. No way do the guys at Vanity Fair have a monopoly on revealing interview techniques. When it comes to penetrating the reasoning behind a watch-buying decision, we think you can’t do… [Read more…]
Here’s our monthly roundup of what we’ve been writing and you’ve been reading. The ten most popular posts last month were: At number 10 – A Prodigal beater from Greenwich? Hamilton’s Navy GMT – In which Straight-Six concludes that if he were a little less of a sissy and actually could bear to have a… [Read more…]
Oh yes, we’re fully Parisian now! See you next week for our first review from the City of Lights.
You can’t help but look, can you? Over-sized, bulging muscles, ripped to the core and just as hard, we should be talking about body-builders. Instead, we’re pointing your eyeballs at the Cadillac CTS-V – a car we won’t hesitate to label the ultimate modern US muscle car. And it’s a sedan. There’s so much history… [Read more…]
This is it. Not in the Michael Jackson sense. But our farewell to London. Three years, eleven months and eight days after arriving in the Big Smoke, we find ourselves once again, passport in hand at the Eurostar terminal. In the intervening years, the terminal has of course moved from Waterloo to St Pancras. Other… [Read more…]
It’s silly season on the news, and The Guide is no exception. With all our packing, admin and preparations for Paris, we haven’t had time for gourmet nights out, so instead we’re going to share with you our guilty pleasure: Sandra Bullock movies. We know, we know. It’s not cool. But we figured if there… [Read more…]
It’s a fact that we’ve always believed there to be a no-man’s land between luxury watch brands of design and mechanical repute that you can quite literally bank on and, well, a monstrous horde of watch brands that inhabit the Badlands just below. What this means for us at The Prodigal Guide is this: why… [Read more…]
We’ve made an astonishing scientific breakthrough, dear readers. Yes, that’s right, your friends at The Prodigal Guide -while stumbling around life’s frivolous sidelines, drunk and mostly disorderly – have chanced upon an, as yet, undiscovered – certainly not yet properly documented – new syndrome. Our dictionary defines a syndrome as “a group of symptoms that… [Read more…]
Let’s make one thing crystal clear from the outset: Here at Prodigal House we are dedicated and loyal fans of British Airways. This is much in the same way as we love (unconditionally) 007 and Aston Martin. BA encapsulates to us the very best of British. OK, so we know BA does not possess quite… [Read more…]
Goddamn, there’s something tremendously uplifting about being driven somewhere in a large limo. That your legs usually end up being splayed out as you ride in the leather-trimmed rear seat is no coincidence: there’s something primal and supremely decadent about it all. The US serves up this experience as often as a tasty cheese-burger, while… [Read more…]
When we visited Linde Werdelin recently to interview their managing director, Jorn Werdelin, we couldn’t very well leave without getting our grubby little paws on some of the firm’s more interestesting models. So, after our interview was over, we asked Werdelin to talk us through some of the Danish brand’s product highlights. And with that,… [Read more…]
One Saturday afternoon we arranged to meet our good friend McNally for lunch. The intriguing part of the story is that he brought along his teenage son whom we’d never met but had heard lots about. As it turned out, he was the most charming teenager we’d come across. Far cooler than we ever were and… [Read more…]
We first came across Linde Werdelin at SalonQP last year and were immediatley impressed by this Danish newcomer to the luxury watch scene. By blending digital instruments with mechanical watches, wrapped in design that was modern yet stylish, the brand seemed to have achieved the impossible: it had created something genuinely different from the raft… [Read more…]
We hope you’ll excuse the vulgarity of it, but this is 007 we’re talking about after all – one of the world of fiction’s greatest lovers – so we couldn’t very well end Bond Week without asking the obvious: who’s the best Bond girl? Who’s the best 007′s had? There are so many – and… [Read more…]
When Pierce Brosnan took over from Timothy Dalton in 1995’s Goldeneye, the trailer’s voiceover reminded us gravely that “When the world is the target, and the threat is real. You can still depend, on one man.” Eh, except you can’t anymore. It seems not even James Bond is a match for the global economic crisis.… [Read more…]
What is it about the James Bond watch that stirs such passions? For many, I suspect it’s the implied promise of making fantasy real. Consider the following. Unless you’re Steven Spielberg, who has, in fact, publicly attributed his ownership of an Aston Martin to personal affinity for Our Man and the film Goldfinger, said iconic… [Read more…]
What is it about @Noodlefish? This is the second time in a week that the man has kicked-off a post for us. So, yesterday we were chewing the fat with him about Omega and their uncanny ability to repackage essentially the same product and keep selling it to the same people. He wrote: Re Omegas,… [Read more…]
We thought we knew all about Martinis. As a founding member of the Dry Martini Club (DMC to its friends) we have spent the last four years researching, making, re-making and tasting Martinis. What more could we learn? As it turns out, quite a lot. And we’re going to share it all with you. Right… [Read more…]
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