We really can be a self-centered, narcissistic, self-indulgent, profligate bunch! And yes, I’m talking about us watch enthusiasts who, for the majority, are men. Just when was it that we stopped noticing the decreasing amount of physical, emotional or even mental response from our significant other as we pontificate at length on the various attributes… [Read more…]
September 7, 2010
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…]
September 1, 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…]
August 17, 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…]
August 12, 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…]
August 9, 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…]
August 6, 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…]
August 1, 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…]
July 30, 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…]
July 26, 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…]
July 24, 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…]
July 23, 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…]
July 19, 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…]
July 13, 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…]
July 1, 2010
Here’s our monthly roundup of what we’ve been writing about and what you’ve been reading. The ten most popular posts last month were: At number 10 – Reflections on our first week with the iPad: Is it magical? - In which we’re left impressed, very impressed, with Cupertino’s slate computer but can’t help highlighting some… [Read more…]
June 21, 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…]
May 31, 2010
Don’t worry dear readers, The Guide isn’t turning into a political commentator. We remain as shallow and flippant as ever. No, the NATO we’re talking about here is not the intergovernmental military alliance but the venerable watch strap of the same name. To understand why the NATO is front and centre in our thoughts again, you… [Read more…]
May 28, 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…]
May 24, 2010
A couple of weeks ago, we popped in to see our friends at The Swiss Watch Company. Wait! Our friends? What are we saying!? These guys have taken thousands from us over the years without so much as a smile or a thank you. Yet, like some deluded lovestruck schoolgirl, we’re still going back for… [Read more…]
May 21, 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…]
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