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What’s Old is New Again No.12: Delvaux Newspaper II Attache Bag (1829)

There are many exceptional heritage brands that, like Girard-Perregaux, have maintained their commitment to luxury and superlative quality across the decades — sometimes, indeed, across the centuries....

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Digital Gizmos No. 11: Vertu Signature Touch

  IN A WORLD awash in iPhones, how do you stand out when you’re pecking away at the conference table during a meeting? Here’s how: with the new high-performance VertuSignature Touch smartphone. Is it...

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Going With the Grain

Let’s go surfin’ nowEverybody’s learning howCome on and safari with me—The Beach Boys FIRST THINGS FIRST: Our sincere apologies for the fact that you’ll have a Beach Boys tune in your head the rest of...

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GP Accents No. 6: Flasking

CONSUMING A LIBATION on the go, or in public spaces not specifically intended for drinking, is for some incomprehensible reason frowned upon by American society in general: Open-container laws are...

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Ciclotte: The Fastest Stationary Bike

  TO DATE, EVERY BIKE we’ve featured on Mechanics of Style has been an exceptional city or racing bike — how exciting, after all, can a stationary bike ever be? Well, we’ve since discovered the...

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Haute Wheels

ABOUT THREE HOURS outside Los Angeles — in Thermal, California, which is just outside La Quinta, which is just outside Palm Springs — you’ll find The Thermal Club, one of the world’s first...

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The Serious Chronos Watch Safe

  ONE OF THE last questions we ask of each participant in the Mechanics of Style Collector Q&A is “are you a casual watch enthusiast or a serious collector?” Well, are you, punk? Both the casual...

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Digital Gizmos No. 12: Buster + Punch Light Switches

MOST OF US have likely never given the humble light switch much thought. You flip them on, you flop them off. Since the days of Edison, it’s been as utilitarian as a daily device gets—but no longer....

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SPECIALIZED + MCLAREN: S-WORKS MCLAREN TARMAC BICYCLE

PICTURE A FANTASY GARAGE — one containing a McLaren, Maserati, Lamborghini, Aston Martin, perhaps even a Morgan — and then imagine that the only engine in that garage is… well, you. Your conveyance...

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The Döttling Fortress

THERE ARE watch winders, desktop safes, floor safes, wall safes and bank vaults — all of which will store one’s precious watch collection (which we presume includes a Girard-Perregaux or two). Yet...

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Now Read This No. 6: The World’s Most Expensive Watches

AS THE OLD ADAGE GOES, you get what you pay for. That’s never been truer than it is in a hefty new slipcased tome, The World’s Most Expensive Watches. The book is a meticulously curated collection of...

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MoS 2014 Holiday Gift Guide No. 1: The World of Departures

Throughout the holidays, Mechanics of Style will bring to your attention a selection of magnificent gifts of many kinds (each paired with a Girard-Perregaux watch) with which to celebrate the season....

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MoS 2014 Holiday Gift Guide No. 2: Hasselblad Stellar Carbon Fiber

Throughout the holidays, Mechanics of Style will bring to your attention a selection of magnificent gifts of many kinds (each paired with a Girard-Perregaux watch) with which to celebrate the season....

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MoS 2014 Holiday Gift Guide No. 3: Valextra Sherlock Holmes

Throughout the holidays, Mechanics of Style will bring to your attention a selection of magnificent gifts of many kinds (each paired with a Girard-Perregaux watch) with which to celebrate the season....

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MoS 2014 Holiday Gift Guide No. 4: Parabellum X Blackman Cruz Medicine Balls

Throughout the holidays, Mechanics of Style will bring to your attention a selection of magnificent gifts of many kinds (each paired with a Girard-Perregaux watch) with which to celebrate the season....

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MoS 2014 Holiday Gift Guide No. 5: ONE SAVILE ROW – Gieves & Hawkes

Throughout the holidays, Mechanics of Style will bring to your attention a selection of magnificent gifts of many kinds (each paired with a Girard-Perregaux watch) with which to celebrate the season....

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MoS 2014 Holiday Gift Guide No. 7 For Her: Joya Studio FoxGlove

Throughout the holidays, Mechanics of Style will bring to your attention a selection of magnificent gifts of many kinds (each paired with a Girard-Perregaux watch) with which to celebrate the season....

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MoS 2014 Holiday Gift Guide No. 8 For Her: Loro Piana My Jewel Box

Throughout the holidays, Mechanics of Style will bring to your attention a selection of magnificent gifts of many kinds (each paired with a Girard-Perregaux watch) with which to celebrate the season....

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MoS 2014 Holiday Gift Guide No. 9: 1884 Collection Ravello Cufflinks

Throughout the holidays, Mechanics of Style will bring to your attention a selection of ten magnificent gifts of many kinds (each paired with a Girard-Perregaux watch) with which to celebrate the...

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MoS 2014 Holiday Gift Guide No. 6: Vertu for Bentley

Throughout the holidays, Mechanics of Style will bring to your attention a selection of magnificent gifts of many kinds (each paired with a Girard-Perregaux watch) with which to celebrate the season....

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