The super-luxury watches that take years to make

A BBC Website on mechanical watches and some obscure watchmakers it calls the best in the world for some reason (and needles to say they are British).

The super-luxury watches that take years to make -LINK

Fetching hundreds of thousands of pounds, they’re the ultimate statement piece. Who are the people that make the world’s most intricately designed watches?

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Bloomberg - Signet Rings are Back

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Everything You Need to Know About Wearing a Signet Ring 


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2015 Ford Fiesta Sedan and 2015 New Ford Focus in Russia

Re-posting this from my car spotting blog, Spotted...Cars in Moscow, in my Car Shows series of posts.

August 8, 2015 was the date of the All-Russia presentation of the 2015 Ford Fiesta Sedan and the new 2015 Ford Focus in the sedan and hatchback versions, and I went to the nearest Ford dealer to attend said presentation.

The Ford Fiesta Sedan, the Ford Focus sedan and hatchback (and the Mondeo sedan) are made locally in Russia at two venues, I think, and are very popular. 

For this presentation I went to a Ford dealer near me.

Photos turned out not too good this time especially, hey, but at least there are lots of them.

There weren't very many people (but there were some at least) at the presentation because it was August 8 and plus 30 Celsius so most were at their dachas or on vacations or otherwise out of town.

A test-drive unit Fiesta Sedan.

I think the sedan, or saloon, version is not sold in all the countries where the Fiesta is sold.

The Fiesta Sedan will be produced locally in Russia along with the Focus (minus the wagon version) and the Mondeo (only in the sedan version) which have been manufactured here for over 10 years already.

Food Truck Fest

This one is from my car spotting blog, Spotted...Cars in Moscow which I have been updating for about three months already.

And it's about Food trucks!

On Saturday August 1, 2015 I went to this Food Truck Fest here in Moscow, had lunch and saw some food trucks, amongst various other things.

There were about a dozen different food trucks with different food. 

 Number one is an MB van-based food truck serving chef's burgers (designer burgers).

Here is Pizza Love... which in Russian sounds like Пицце лов meaning "Pizza catcher".

Another small sausage truck type of food truck offering Taq Taq Mexican (?) burritos.

It says burritos but what they offer is more like tacos, square-like shaped.

A Peugeot van-based food truck.

Koutouzoff's soviet watches: Early chronograph 3133, silver dial

Koutouzoff's soviet watches: Early chronograph 3133, silver dial

Hunter S. Thompson's Rules for Driving Fast

From my other blog, AutoZilla, which is an occasional car related blog in English.

Time for another quote by Hunter S. Thompson...

Here's a quote from the Kingdom of Fear... which I am reading now incidentally and about to finish some time soon... which is not to say that the book is entirely automotive related - far from it but it does have this chapter called Speedism...from where comes today's quote (Song of the Sausage Creature is also there, btw).

Speedism can be Fatal when mixed with high-speed automobiles & whiskey. It is wrong & I condemn it, but some dingbats will do it anyway.... And not All will survive, but so what?

For the others, the Living, here are some basic rules.

No 1 - Make sure yr. Car is Functioning on all Mechanical & Electrical levels. Do not go out on any road to drive Fast unless all yr. Exterior lights are working perfectly.

There is only failure & jail very soon for anybody who tries to drive fast with a one headlight or a broken taillight. This is automatic, unarguable Probable Cause for a cop to pull you over and check everything in yr. car. You do not want to give them Probable Cause. Check yr. lights, gas gauge, & tire pressure before you drive Anywhere.

No 2 - Get familiar with Brake pressures on yr. machine before you drive any faster than 10 mph. A brake drum that locks up the instant you touch the pedal will throw you sideways off the road & put you into a fatal eggbeater, which means you will Go To Trial if it happens. Be very aware of yr. brakes.

No 3 - Have no small wrecks. If you are going to loop out & hit something, hit it hard. Never mind that old-school Physics bullshit about the Irresistible Force & the Immovable Object. The main rule of the Highway is that some Objects are more Movable than Others. This occurs, for instance, when a speeding car goes straight through a plywood billboard, but not when one goes through a concrete wall. In most cases, the car going fastest sustains less damage than the slower-moving vehicle.

A Small Wreck is almost always both Costly and Embarrassing. I talked to a man tonight who said he had been demoted from Head waiter to Salad Boy when he had a small wreck in the restaurant parking lot and lost all respect from his fellow workers. “They laughed at me & called me an Ass”, he said. “I should have hit the fucker at seventy-five, instead of just five,” he whined. “It cost me $6800 anyway. I would have been maitre d' by now if I'd screwed it on and just Mashed the bastard. These turds have made me an outcast.”

No. 4 - (This is one of the more Advanced rules, but lets pop it in here while we have the space.) Avoid, at all costs, the use of Any drug or drink or Hubris or even Boredom that might cause you to Steal a car and crash it into a concrete wall just to get the Rush of the airbags exploding on you. This new fad among rich teenagers in L.A. is an extremely Advanced Technique that only pure Amateurs should try, and it should never be done Twice. Take my word for it.

No 5 - The eating schedule should be as follows: Hot fresh spinach, Wellfleet oysters, and thick slabs of Sourdough garlic toast with salt & black pepper. Eat this two hours before departure, in quantities as needed. The drink should be Grolsch green beer, a dry oaken-flavored white wine & a tall glass of ice cubes & Royal Salute scotch whiskey, for the supercharge factor.

Strong black coffee should also be sipped while eating, with dark chocolate cake soaked in Grand Mariner for dessert. The smoking of oily hashish is optional, and in truth Not Recommended for use before driving at speeds up to 150 mph in residential districts. The smoking of powerful hashish should be saved until after yr. return from the drive, when the nerve ends are crazy and raw. 

I also like how he saves himself some - not many though - keystrokes by abbreviating "your" as "yr." at all times in this piece.