Posts tagged with: Jaeger-LeCoultre
Antwerp’s Slaets welcomes us into its horological cave of delights
We talk watch. A whole lotta watch a whole lotta the time. Truth is, outside of our personal collections and the odd visit to a retailer or watch fair we – much like you, dear readers – have to satisfy ourselves with watch porn. A whole lot of it. Now, that’s all good stuff and [...]
By Straight-Six, published on 26 November 2010
Prodigal Meetup in a Paris revitalised
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 [...]
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 26 July 2010
The top five watch apps for iPhone
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 [...]
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 22 July 2010
Sublimely elegant: The Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Grande Ultra Thin
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 [...]
By Straight-Six, published on 21 June 2010
You never feel completely safe in a Porsche 911
Have you ever been hunting with dogs? Ever watched the nose of a well-bred hound as it darts around furiously in the air, desperate to pick up the scent? Then, seconds later it gets it; the nose is down and the dog is off like a bullet? That, ladies and gentlemen, is what it’s like [...]
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 14 June 2010
Prodigal Meetup: Join us in Paris on 17 July
We’ve been toying with the idea for a while now. We love writing this nonsense, you seem to like reading it, and we love getting into discussions with those of you who leave comments. Our most popular posts – certainly the ones that elicit the most comments and hits – are often the watch-related ones. [...]
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 8 June 2010
Is Atelier du Bracelet Parisien the world’s finest watch strap supplier?
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, [...]
By Straight-Six, published on 21 May 2010
Prodigal Questionnaire: Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Grande Reserve
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 [...]
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 3 May 2010
Our shopping list for this week’s watch auction at Bonham’s
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 [...]
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 30 November 2009
Three reasons why Bonham’s was the highlight of SalonQP for us
Against all the odds, we made it back from our little jaunt to Geneva in time to attend SalonQP earlier this month. And the first people we stumbled across upon entering One Marylebone were the good folks at Bonham’s. Their stand was the first one we visited, the one we were still loitering on when [...]
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 27 November 2009
