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Blancpain’s Villeret 2010 Collection Offers $56,500 “Complete Calendar 8 Jours” Timepiece

By Giuliana Guillen • Oct 5th, 2010 • Category: Horology, News & Noteworthy

Since the early eighties, the Villeret Collection has been an essential line for the Blancpain family. This year, Blancapain’s prestige line has unveiled nine new creations which include a pocket watch, an “Eight-day Complete Calendar” and a “Eight-day Power Reserve” timepiece. Blancpain’s Villeret Collection of fine timepieces has always been defined by round double-stepped cases, [...]



Jaquet Droz’s Opens its First Parisian Shop on Rue de la Paix 

By Giuliana Guillen • Oct 4th, 2010 • Category: Design, News & Noteworthy

Paris houses the world’s most lavish fashions and this fall, the well-renowned Parisian street, Rue de la Paix, adds yet another distinguished name to their selective line of fine shops. In September, Jaquet Droz inaugurated its first Parisian boutique at 8 Rue de la Paix. The famous Swiss watchmakers opened the first Jaquet Droz workshop [...]



Ferrari’s Limited Edition SA APERTA Unveils at the Paris Auto Show

By Giuliana Guillen • Oct 1st, 2010 • Category: Automobile, News & Noteworthy

Ferrari will unveil the SA APERTA, one of their most exclusive models up-to-date, this upcoming weekend at the Paris International Motor Show. The SA APERTA is a special series model and only eighty cars will be built. The Italian carmakers chose to build only eighty models in celebration of Pininfarina’s eighty years of exceptional car [...]



Bentley Boutique’s Limited Edition Line Will Launch at the Paris Motor Show

By Giuliana Guillen • Sep 29th, 2010 • Category: Horology, News & Noteworthy

Bentley, world renowned British car maker, has announced the debut of an exceptional boutique. A broad selection of Bentley branded merchandise from the Bentley Collection as well as a limited edition line of newly designed products made exclusively for the 2010 show will be accessible to the public. Other well known brands including Breitling, Tibaldi, [...]



Vox Olympian Offers £210,000 Bespoke Sound System

By Giuliana Guillen • Sep 27th, 2010 • Category: Entertainment, News & Noteworthy

Living Voice “designs and manufactures ultra high performance audio products for the world’s most critical and discerning music lovers.” If music enriches the soul than award-winning Living Voice designer, Kevin Scott, is bound to enhance your audio experience. Last week at the 2010 Monaco Yacht show, Advanced New Technologies, a service well-known for providing the [...]



$48,000 High-Tech Surface Table Co-designed by Formula One Racer

By Giuliana Guillen • Sep 24th, 2010 • Category: Design, News & Noteworthy

This award-winning design is sure to turn heads. During the 2007 Milan Exhibition of Design, the British-based design firm, Established & Sons, launched its “Collaborations” program with a plan focused on developing partnerships between designers and artists. In 2008, an alliance between furniture designer Terence Woodgate and Formula One race car designer John Barnard produced [...]



Bugatti Type 51 Expected to Fetch for €1,000,000 at Bonhams Upcoming Auction

By Giuliana Guillen • Sep 24th, 2010 • Category: Automobile, News & Noteworthy

“If Bugatti-worship were a religion, then the atheist Fitzroy Somerset, the 5th Lord Raglan, would have been its pope,” writes Andrew Roth in Lord Raglan’s obituary in The Guardian. Bonhams’ has announced the sale of the 1933 Bugatti Type 51 Grand Prix, previously owned by the late Fitzroy John Somerset, the 5th Baron Raglan: patron [...]



£115,000 Lotus Elite Will Make its First Appearance Next Week

By Giuliana Guillen • Sep 23rd, 2010 • Category: Automobile, News & Noteworthy

The newest elite to join the extensive line of the renowned British family is set to mark “the dawn of Lotus’s new era,” states Dany Bahar, CEO of Group Lotus. In just a few days, the most elegant model Lotus has delivered, up-to-date, is set to make its public debut at the Paris Auto show. [...]



Zadora Debuts $145,000 Enamel Guilloche Timepiece

By Giuliana Guillen • Sep 23rd, 2010 • Category: Horology, News & Noteworthy

Gemologist extraordinaire, Andreas von Zadora-Gerlof has introduced a new line of bespoke timepieces to his repertoire of remarkable jewelry. Each piece carries an inimitable cylindrical dial upon which a stunning embellishment, of one’s personal choice, is mounted. Creator of some of the most exquisite works of art existent today, he has revisited the early evolutionary [...]



$100,000 Membership: Welcome to the Willow Club

By Giuliana Guillen • Sep 22nd, 2010 • Category: Entertainment, News & Noteworthy

New York houses the world’s most prominent landmarks and is well celebrated for its vibrant allure. Lately, the city that never sleeps has yet another reason to stay awake. Now, the very best the metropolis has to offer can be experienced through a revolutionary first-of-its kind private membership: Willow Club. “Willow Club offers premiere access [...]