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1 month ago | 
wallpaper.com | Josh Sims
The Oscars’ red carpet may be an opportunity for celebrities to deliberately push style boundaries – if only for the publicity that follows – but the recent awards ceremony confirmed what looks to be a paradigm shift in the watch industry.
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1 month ago | 
wallpaper.com | Josh Sims
‘We always feel a bit like the new kinds on the block, but we like that,’ says Vasco Buonpensiere, the co-founder and CEO of Ancona, Italy-based yacht builder Cantiere delle Marche, founded just 15 years ago in a market that privileges long heritage.
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2 months ago | 
apetogentleman.com | Josh Sims
The yellow gold watch was the accessory that bling killed. It was once the go-to gift to mark retirement, a tradition said to have been started by Pepsi Co. in the 1940s. It also marked a special achievement, such as when Florida State Senator Grant Stockdale commissioned a gold Omega Ultra Thin as a gift for John Kennedy. It was inscribed with ‘President of the United States’ – Kennedy hadn’t yet won the election.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
apetogentleman.com | Josh Sims
So you’re ready to buy your first mechanical watch. But, wait, not so fast. A mechanical timepiece may be regarded as some as the definitive male accessory, but have you thought it over carefully? Here are 10 things you need to ponder before picking your ticker. AccuracyThe fact is that a mechanical watch, while accurate to most practical, day-to-day needs, is never going to be as accurate as a quartz battery-powered watch, let alone a smartwatch synched to a smartphone.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
wallpaper.com | Josh Sims
Mai Ikuzawa concedes that white denim is perhaps not the best thing to wear when oil, grease and racing fuel are all around. But she didn’t want her capsule clothing collection – launched together with the American artist Daniel Arsham at Goodwood Revival earlier in 2024 and now online – to be the usual motoring merchandise, which tends to mean lots of baseball caps.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
apetogentleman.com | Josh Sims
Image Credit: Brunello Cucinelli Life is full of rules – even, it seems, about how to dress well. Don’t do this… Never do that… Get out of there, it’s the woman’s section… Dig a little deeper though, and some of the supposedly unbreakable rules of dressing are not very smart at all. Or, at least, should long ago have been consigned to the textile off-cuts bin of history. Why, for example, can’t one wear brown in town, as one outdated style rule has it?
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
wallpaper.com | Josh Sims
The Peugeot 205 is a design that endures, even if the actual cars themselves are becoming scarcer as time marches on – 5.3 million were built between 1983 and 1999. The most enduring 205 of all is the 205 GTI, a two-door performance variant shaped in-house by Peugeot’s head of design Gerard Welter and his team. Around 333,000 GTIs were built. Highly praised at the time of its introduction in 1984, the model is now seriously sought-after but examples are frequently fragile and in poor shape.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
apetogentleman.com | Josh Sims
Arnold Palmer once noted that “people had told me that I was a well-dressed golfer. I guess that has something to do with the fact that a lot of people who play golf don’t dress very well.”In his knitted polo shirts and pressed slacks, Palmer certainly looked more classy than what had come before. But by ushering in an era of conservatism, he played to the image golf has, more or less, self-consciously maintained ever since: defiantly middle-class, monied, white and elitist.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
apetogentleman.com | Josh Sims
Those paying attention to the debate around the merits of electric cars will have picked up on a rising appreciation for hybrids: those best-of-both-worlds transport solutions that are more environmentally sound and properly functional. Now enter meca-quartz, the watch-making equivalent, which, likewise, is enjoying a renaissance, partly due to its adoption by the growing number of micro-brands now populating the world of horology. The idea is not new.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
wallpaper.com | Josh Sims
When the Orient watch brand recently started referring to two of its more popular watches – the Bambino and Mako – by name, it wasn’t because of some decision within the company. ‘It was consumers who had named watches which until that point had just had reference numbers,’ says the brand’s senior business manager for Europe, Wiebke Bird.
