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Luxury Watches
They may both have a co-axial escapement, but I have to believe there are other differences between an individually designed Daniels movement and an Omega branded ETA movement. His book "Watchmaking" has some excellent photographs. Granted, but an Omega co-axial will cost you what? $4K while...- William Massena
- Post #83
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Luxury Watches
I've seen some of this gentleman's watches, and read some of his books and I would dearly love to have him make a watch for me, but I'm afraid it isn't meant to be. http://www.danielslondon.com/ His really are different on the inside. Well, actually not really. You can buy most Omega and you...- William Massena
- Post #76
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Luxury Watches
William, I'm not disagreeing with you, but I think it's a little hypocritical for us in this forum to rave and rant about marketing and mark-up with respect to watches. It's really like the pot calling the kettle black; most of the people on this board are willing to pay high prices for...- William Massena
- Post #73
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Luxury Watches
I agree. So instead of the "ever decreasing return" that you get with most things in life, with watches you reach a point where you can rapidly earn yourself negative returns. Sadly, most WIS (watch idiot savants) types are quite blind to this fact. I am not sure I qualify as a WIS and I don't...- William Massena
- Post #63
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Patek Philippe
To answer to the OP. Uruguay was a small but active market for Patek Philippe in the first part of the XXth century. There were 3 dealers in the city of Montevideo; A. Carussale, Arte Suizo and the most famous; Freccero y Cia. Your watch, if it is genuine, was most probably sold by the latter...- William Massena
- Post #16
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Patek Philippe
Awfully gentlemanly response of you, very timezone-ish. You are right, let me rephrase it; YES, because people who know **** about Patek but still have an opinion would think they would not go into the trouble. W.- William Massena
- Post #13
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Patek Philippe
I don't know anything about PP watches, but I just can't really imagine that someone making a fake would go to the trouble of making it appear to be a gift of some former President of Uruguay. So, I'd venture to guesss it's probably genuine. Like you, I know nothing about Patek watches, but I...- William Massena
- Post #10
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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In case you thought $300K watch was insane
Good try. The actual figures are: US GDP (PPP) $12.98 trillion (2006) US GDP (OER) $13.22 trillion (2006) US GDP per capita (PPP) $43,500 (2006) Swiss GDP (PPP) $252.9 billion (2006) Swiss GDP (OER) $386.8 billion (2006) Swiss GDP per capita (PPP) $33,600 (2006) Whether the figure in question is...- William Massena
- Post #55
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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In case you thought $300K watch was insane
Seriously, I have some o.k. watches, but spending hundreds of thousands is just silly IMO. I understand that they are mechanical marvels, etc. But they are more complicated than a fine car? Please. I don't care if it took an artisan 3 months to put together (which it didn't). Assuming he works 9...- William Massena
- Post #17
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Pick any Shirtmaker in the world to make your shirts.
LabelKing: Lauwers has dropped off the radar. If you can find him, good for you. Charvet uses a variety of cottons from Italy, Switzerland and perhaps England -- I've seen bolts labelled David and John Anderson there, for one. Cloth selection is not the only factor in the quality of bespoke...- William Massena
- Post #23
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Rubinacci to open in New York
Really? - that's great - any idea when it opens? From experience, I never ask a Neapolitan tailor about a delivery date . Artisan fan: No bespoke at that location for now? I hope. W.- William Massena
- Post #5
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Rubinacci to open in New York
I saw Mariano and his son Luca last week. They confirmed that they will open a store in New York, in the Carlyle Hotel. The store will sell exclusively Rubinacci accessories. They will not offer bespoke services at that location . The concept will be similar to Marinella's location at the George...- William Massena
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- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Is it cliche to Agnelli it?
It is ridiculous except if you first name is Gianni. As for promoting a watch, the one who want to check out your watch won't need to see it atop your cuff. Actually, it would produce the counter effect. W.- William Massena
- Post #4
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Crocodile Shoes
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- Post #34
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Crocodile Shoes
Good thread, I was actually wearing my brown Weston 180 in Alligator today. I can vouch for the 180 in Gator, I own them in black and brown (I rarely wear the black), and they are excellent shoes with limited maintenance needs (actually Weston sells a reptile neutral cream that I use with good...- William Massena
- Post #29
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Wrist watches
Jon, After reading Maton disclaimer, I had to put mine  Dorian, WIS stands for Watch Idiot Savant, it was a "title"i nvented by Richard Paige in 1997. At the time Paige was the owner of Timezone. He created a pin and gave it as a token of appreciation to major article contributors to the site...- William Massena
- Post #21
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Wrist watches
I am somewhat flabbergasted, for a WIS (and I don't claim to be one), wearing a Seiko monster with a suit (regardless of brand or make) is like wearing Converse High tops with a suit from Raphael. To be honest, when I walk the street here in NY, I first look at the watch, then the shoes, and...- William Massena
- Post #9
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Why Bespoke Shirts?
Alex, Would you mind sharing the name of the 4 other mills (in your opinion)? Thanks. William- William Massena
- Post #119
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Shoes from Paris
Mais bien sur. Don't forget that the French consider themselves a nation of farmers.- William Massena
- Post #41
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Richard James circa?
I am talking about the RTW collections here. I think they are many similarities between RJ and Etro. While RJ gets mostly inspired by Savile Row and adds some little details that might look new and interesting to a younger crowd and mainstream fashion, the funky linings, camouflage, denim that...- William Massena
- Post #13
- Forum: Classic Menswear