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…]
1 September 2010
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…]
16 August 2010
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…]
12 August 2010
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…]
9 August 2010
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…]
8 August 2010
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…]
7 August 2010
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…]
6 August 2010
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…]
5 August 2010
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…]
2 August 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…]
2 August 2010
If ever one man truly lived the Prodigal lifestyle it is James Bond. The cars, the food, the gadgets, the travel, the watches, the – eh – nocturnal activities: everyone’s favourite gentlemen spy had the life we all aspire to. Or do we? The truth is that if you’ve ever actually tried to match Mr… [Read more…]
1 August 2010
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 – Just because: The Rolex LV Submariner - In which a post over on Jake’s Rolex Watch Blog prompts us to celebrate one of our favourite versions of the venerable Submariner,… [Read more…]
29 July 2010
Never let it be said that we don’t listen to our readers (both of them) here at The Prodigal Guide. Just yesterday, our Twitter buddy @Noodlefish dropped us a line with a little, eh, reader feedback. “Not seen much film-ic stuff on t’Guide recently…” he said. Well, @Noodlefish our friend, this one’s for you. We’re… [Read more…]
26 July 2010
The inaugural Prodigal Meetup took place in Paris just over a week ago. Predictably, it was a slightly shambolic and very drunken affair. So, what follows is our best – if not totally accurate – recollection of a day which was surprising, enlightening and fun in equal measures. We arrived at Paris’ Gare du Nord… [Read more…]
24 July 2010
You know when you buy a film on Blu-ray nowadays and it contains a set of missing scenes – bits the director took the very conscious, deliberate and educated decision to remove from his version of the film because he thought they didn’t add anything and may even be detrimental to the finished product? Yes,… [Read more…]
22 July 2010
You’re reading The Prodigal Guide so we’re going to take a wild guess here: you like watches and you like gadgets. Well, what about watches on your gadgets? Of course, why not right? What’s not to like!? So today, we’d like to introduce you to the top five watch apps for the iPhone. The watch… [Read more…]
19 July 2010
Two days ago we were in Paris marveling at the beautiful and sophisticated range of luxury straps at ABP. And fear not, we’ll be bringing you a full report of the Prodigal Meetup very shortly. But today we wanted to take you to what is in many ways completely the opposite end of the watch… [Read more…]
15 July 2010
“I didn’t book anything; I thought that way we’d have more options” are crushing words if you hear them – as we did – standing, hungry and so very thirsty, on a street corner in Mayfair at 12:30 on a busy Saturday afternoon. We’d met-up with the idiot responsible for uttering them at Omega on… [Read more…]
8 July 2010
Dear readers Back at the beginning of June, we retired to bed one evening having just read our own review of ABP, the incredible watch strap supplier in Paris and, as it turns out, having had one helping of Camembert too many. We later woke in the middle of the night possessed by both severe… [Read more…]
6 July 2010
Dear Lord, Jake’s Rolex Watch Blog has done it again. Time and again, Jake comes up trumps with just the most beautiful Rolex photography the web has to offer. So, just because last Friday he showcased this little beauty, we couldn’t resist bringing it to your attention. Feast your eyes on this stunning Rolex Daytona… [Read more…]
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