Browsing All posts tagged under »IWC«

The top five watch apps for iPhone

22 July 2010

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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…]

Our shopping list for this week’s watch auction at Bonham’s

30 November 2009

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As we told you last week, the small selection of the Porsche watch collection that Bonham’s exhibited at SalonQP was enough to entice Straight-Six and The Prodigal Fool to clear the decks on 2 December. We pretty much decided in the taxi on the way back from the event that we had to be at… [Read more…]

Just because: The IWC Aquatimer Automatic 2000

25 November 2009

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Just because we woke this morning to an email from our friend – and all too occasional commenter on this site – Matt raving about it, we thought we’d share the IWC Aquatimer Automatic 2000 with  you. In his email, after calling it “lovely” Matt goes on to say finally, one that will stand the… [Read more…]

Three ways to spend £1,200 on a vintage watch

14 November 2009

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The guys and girls at Byron Hamburger make a mighty fine hamburger; that much we’ve known for a while. What we didn’t know until recently was that someone on their team is also a bit of a watch fan. A couple of weeks ago, they sent us the following seemingly innocuous question over Twitter: “If… [Read more…]

Just because: gratuitous shots of the IWC Pilot’s Watch Chrono

20 February 2009

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Just because The Guide was passing through Brussels today and remembered coming very close to buying an IWC Pilot’s Watch Chrono a few years ago at the airport there, we thought we’d post a few shots of this glorious watch. IWC is a funny old brand. On the one hand they make some of the… [Read more…]