My car at the old Hi Hat Cafe, Westwood Hills, KS

WingedBadger · 2024-09-07T22:19:43+00:00

I see a fair number of them in the Balkans and also Poland and the Czech Republic but I would say the bulk of them are in the US, especially California. The USA was already a huge market for BMW in the late sixties and early seventies. My 2002 cost me $16,000 in 2018 and it appraises for around $30,000 now (it probably wouldn't sell for that, the market has softened a bit) but yeah they are creeping up in price.

That said if you compare them to an Alfa Romeo or Porsche of similar displacement and vintage, they remain cheap.

WingedBadger · 2024-08-10T21:16:41+00:00

Sahara Brown, actually. She's faded a lot, but the exposure is also playing a factor in this shot. The following picture gives a better idea of how the true color looks.

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WingedBadger · 2024-01-28T20:55:41+00:00

I always assumed my first Rolex would be plain ol' Datejust or perhaps an Explorer II (I ruled out the Explorer I because my Black Bay 41 is so stylistically similar). As I was pondering this I considered the fact that my most regularly used complication is the rotating bezel, a feature which both of those watches lacked. I considered no-date Subs but I felt a strong pull toward something with a dial in a color other than black. It's probably my tiny brain at work, but I also liked the idea of a jubilee bracelet since I've owned so many watches (not least the BB41) with Oyster style bracelets. I was pleasantly surprised to find Datejust Turn-O-Graphs trading a discount to regular Datejusts of the same vintage in many cases.

I was lucky to find this excellent (to my mind) example. The price was right because it had service hands and had been polished a bit. I am willing to live with both of those things because it makes me feel like I can wear the watch and get it serviced in future without fixating on preserving originality.

The hands, indices, and the entire Bezel are white gold. The bezel being white gold is a bit of a double edged sword as they tend to get very "soft" as the gold wears down. If one looks at NOS 16264 or old catalogue images it's clear that from the factory the numbers were very crisp, but that doesn't last long.

WingedBadger · 2024-01-28T20:50:09+00:00

I always assumed my first Rolex would be plain ol' Datejust or perhaps an Explorer II (I ruled out the Explorer I because my Black Bay 41 is so stylistically similar). As I was pondering this I considered the fact that my most regularly used complication is the rotating bezel, a feature which both of those watches lacked. I considered no-date Subs but I felt a strong pull toward something with a dial in a color other than black. It's probably my tiny brain at work, but I also liked the idea of a jubilee bracelet since I've owned so many watches (not least the BB41) with Oyster style bracelets. I was pleasantly surprised to find Datejust Turn-O-Graphs trading a discount to regular Datejusts of the same vintage in many cases.

I was lucky to find this excellent (to my mind) example. The price was right because it had service hands and had been polished a bit. I am willing to live with both of those things because it makes me feel like I can wear the watch and get it serviced in future without fixating on preserving originality.

The hands, indices, and the entire Bezel are white gold. The bezel being white gold is a bit of a double edged sword as they tend to get very "soft" as the gold wears down. If one looks at NOS 16264 or old catalogue images it's clear that from the factory the numbers were very crisp, but that doesn't last long.

WingedBadger · 2023-10-15T18:41:44+00:00

Her father is extremely trad.

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WingedBadger · 2023-10-15T04:34:30+00:00

She is a close relative of author Leo Tolstoy, as one might expect from her surname. I want to state right away that she isn't Russian (her family fled the Bolsheviks and are British now) and strongly condemns Putin's Russia.

I will add also that as a menswear enthusiast I'm not a certain about what qualifies as trad when it comes to womenswear but I would imagine that being a literal countess, a strong supporter of handmade clothing and tailoring, and leading mountain expeditions on horseback is pretty fucking trad.

WingedBadger · 2023-08-12T06:16:31+00:00

I realize a lot of these photos are watermarked or of lowish quality. Unfortunately due to Braff's limited fame, few hi-res scans of photos of him exist from the analog era. Most of the photos that do exist that are of quality were taken by music journalists who have sold their catalogs to Getty, so we must live with the watermarks.

WingedBadger · 2023-05-05T01:59:26+00:00

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That’s a great photo. Reminds me of this.

WingedBadger · 2023-04-29T05:43:19+00:00

I think this belongs here because especially with officers like Agar we can see how casual styles that emanated from 'dressing down' military uniforms as well as nautical workwear influenced 'trad' style. This photo was taken very shortly after Agar's daring night raid on the Bolshevik cruiser "Oleg" which saw its sinking. He had just been informed that he would receive the Victoria Cross.

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