The Cabestan Winch Watch has got to be one the most unusual time pieces on the planet. It’s got a tasty price tag of £200,000 ($400,000) to boot.
The Cabestan is the result of a collaboration between Jean-François Ruchonnet and Vianney Halter.
They describe it as having:
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Manchester based tailor Nicholas Jones has been quietly growing a formidable reputation for supreme bespoke suits.
English soccer stars like Ryan Giggs have been seen sporting “understated, elegant Nicholas Jones suits” which is beginning to raise the profile of the brand. Jones is now said to be planning a crack at London’s Savile Row.
He is quoted as saying “we’ll be the first Manchester tailors to open a store there. Still they need shaking up a bit.”
One of the most delicious single breasted numbers from Nicholas Jones is said to comprise Super 150 wool with silk and diamond chip fragments that give it a price tag of £10,000 ($20,000).
Retailing at £6,500 ($13,000) from Harrods, the SeaBob is not going to be within everybody’s reach. Which is a shame because this piece of kit really is a little gem.
The Seabob enables a smooth glide through water, hydrodynamic shape and a unique patented jet stream engine which offers rapid change of direction and speed.
The Harrods web site says:
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Being a fairly rotund fellow I like to keep informed on my fluctuating weight. Usually a cheap pair of scales from the local supermarket will suffice. But what about this beauty:
Ok, gold scales are a bit blingy, but what a luxurious way to discover that your packing one too many pounds!
The supreme watchmaker Michel Parmigiani’s created a lasting classic when he developed the Parmigiani Type 370 Bugatti timepiece.
Intended to be sold only to buyers of the Bugatti Veyron supercar, the watch went on open sale due to unprecedented demand.
The prominent feature is the transverse movement which puts the dial on the side of the wrist rather than on top. This highly original design took three years to engineer and was inspired by the motoring watches of old which were worn on the side so they could be read while holding the steering wheel.
The mechanism requires winding every ten days and is accompanied by a pen shaped electric tool that has been designed specifically for the watch and can rewind it in five seconds flat.
Retailing for a staggering £139,000 ($280,000) it’s not going to be everybody’s cup of tea!!
