Right, let’s clear up two things straight from the get-go: we’re now genuinely split on the Tudor Monte Carlo Heritage and it turns out there’s another model in the recently revitalised Tudor line-up that may just be more deserving of your attention. Though it does sport one of the most guffaw-inducing names we’ve yet come… [Read more…]
27 August 2010
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…]
17 August 2010
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…]
13 August 2010
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…]
3 August 2010
Let’s cut to the chase, shall we? James Bond will be forever linked with Aston Martin. While many other marques have come and gone, it is no coincidence that the first and last of Bond’s films have made this automotive circle complete. Perfection of the vintage and modern order. Now, don’t expect a comparison here,… [Read more…]
30 July 2010
While the psychoactive properties of absinthe have long been exaggerated, we’re thankfully left with the delicious literary reference that the drink’s users were devotees of chasing la fee verte (the Green Fairy). And let’s be frank: it’s not every day that you can look someone in the eye and say that you’re hounding a bewinged… [Read more…]
27 July 2010
We’re more often amused than inspired by Top Gear but last night’s episode reminded us of a little clip that has been lying dormant on our hard drive for over seven years now; one that’s too inspiring and awesome not to share with our two Prodigal fans. The turbo-charged 1,200hp Formula 1 monsters of yesteryear… [Read more…]
23 July 2010
We’re suckers for the draw of a simple, powerful design. Particularly when it comes to timepieces. While watch brands jump on the bandwagon of ever more Grandes Complications, like a double tourbillion that will also predict whether the Man in the Moon is going to be looking shit-faced tonight, it’s time once again to recognise… [Read more…]
16 July 2010
It was a moment you don’t ever forget: during the Great American Run of 2007, your editors were in New Mexico in a trusty Audi A4 3.2 litre Quattro convertible, flat-out at a limited 125 mph in hot pursuit of a Saleen Mustang and a Corvette Z06; both of them black as the night and… [Read more…]
13 July 2010
In the very early years of our horological curiosity, we used to put our finest blazers over our Polo shirts and bluff our way into luxury watch stores. It was most impressive at the time: the hushed quiet of the vault-like showrooms; the attention of the staff; the fondling of pieces it would have taken… [Read more…]
9 July 2010
In 1994 a friend told us an impressive and entertaining tale of wearing his baseball cap backwards and driving his father’s car from Switzerland to Brussels with the German leg of the trip distinguished by pegging the speedo needle against the speed limiter for, well, far longer than he should have. The top speed in… [Read more…]
29 June 2010
We’re tired from the long hours of our daytime jobs. Exhausted from the endless amount of online drivel that we and you continue to spew in utterly unabated fashion. Oh, and we’ve also been focusing far too much on those hunks of metal and their nylon straps that dangle from our wrists, however damned impressive… [Read more…]
21 June 2010
A bloody tool. That’s what the Prodigal Fool has taken to calling Straight-Six since his acquisition of a vintage Rolex Submariner and Sea-Dweller in less than a week. And instead of challenging the Fool to a round of drunken fisticuffs, Straight-Six merely took it. And took it. Until the Fool recently explained that it was… [Read more…]
15 June 2010
If we had approached you, as the organizer of a major navigation/smart-phone launch event, and slurred our way through the tale of how we dropped our Nokia E71 into the porcelain throne late one night and were still fiercely proud of it despite weakened battery life, what would you have done? Kicked us in the… [Read more…]
4 June 2010
We don’t know about you, but we’re absolutely exhausted: both mentally and physically. And that’s before we get to the financial tsunami that has hit us this week. Want proof? Then how about a debaucherous champagne party in Marbella, or spunking cash on an iPad in a house already filled with gadgets galore, or getting… [Read more…]
1 June 2010
Sometime between the fifth and sixth bottles of Veuve Cliquot, we directed our gaze at the group of Dutch pseudo-mobsters in the poolside bed across from ours. They’d been spraying each other with champagne for several hours now, along with the, ahem, ladies who’d screwed themselves to their posse. Hard, thirsty work indeed and it… [Read more…]
28 May 2010
Opening a simple drawer can elicit all kinds of reactions. Some child-like and docile, others raunchy or even downright violent. All are directly linked to what lies within, right? Well, we could only muster a chimp-like gape when the artisans at Atelier du Bracelet Parisien pulled open a drawer filled with unbelievable swathes of dyed… [Read more…]
21 May 2010
There is a country. In this country is a city. And in this city is a small unassuming store called Atelier du Bracelet Parisien, or ABP. And it may just be where us horological fanatics can buy the world’s finest watch straps. We’re heading over there today to order a special something for Straight-Six’s vintage Rolex 6536-1,… [Read more…]
18 May 2010
Be afraid, very afraid, when yet another car manufacturer/tuner attempts to lower the lap time record for production cars at Germany’s hellish Nordschleife race track. Ferrari recently decided to take on what is often just called the Nurburgring (or Ring) with its 599XX, a stripped-out, fire-spitting version of one of our all-time favourite Ferraris. You… [Read more…]
11 May 2010
It’s a blessing and a curse to have your schedule as a harried parent define how and – most importantly – when you can tuck into that some popular culture. These days that’s mostly DVDs, given we haven’t been able to finish a book in years. So, barely any time for your beloved, let alone… [Read more…]
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