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"I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it."
-- William S. Burroughs --
4 Macromania Intentions and failures
Greetings. Especially to Mods. Also to the watch collectors and those department heads involved of brands. Macromania was an idea I mooted to the brands I met in 2009 after I persuaded Massimo Landi to help me recreate the Geneva GPHH, I discussed over a ...
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"I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it." -- William S. Burroughs --
After reading 4 macromania, do Greubel Forsey owners look like this?
My family. My home. I had to borrow some money to buy a Greubel Forsey...madness. That's what I call a profile of a collector. Well, at least, it says something about both brand vs buyers. How much I treasure it. How I can't afford it. But had to trade in...
Is it an Absolut's bottle on the desk?
I really love photos like this one, because show how we are living. the mess on the desk is funny, it means someone lives and works there.
Without derailing Bernard's thread, is our watch collecting mostly..
A Gentlemanly pursuit?
Not very well. Without offending anyone, my best analogue is...
A group of 19th century British upper class men displaying their watches and discussing the merits of owning them.
Ronald, let's carry on this discussion in a new thread. It is an interesting and I think relevant topic
worth discussing, as it will also help define "virtual cocktail party"
The PuristS, and its current incarnation, PuristSPro, were created from the outset . . .
. . . as virtual cocktail parties, where discourse could be made with the restraints inherent in polite company. Not, I might add, entirely as an end in its own right, but also by way of contrast to the rest of the Internet, where the balance between vile...
Dear Dr.
The choice is very clear and I implore you to choose "US" and to come "HOrologicalMEeandering" aka HOME back to us. Executives and Industry professionals come and go but we will always be here and be loyal friends to the end if you abandon this ill fated ...
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While I am a relative newcomer and have really only been viewing PuristSPro for a year or 2 now, in the short time I have been here I have become a voracious consumer of the vast amount of thoughtful content from member's daily posts, and the incredible a...