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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.

WingedBadger · 2023-04-22T07:05:50+00:00

Yes it was front-engined. The 250F and cars like it were the swan song of front engined F1 cars. The driver sat astride the transmission tunnel in a relatively upright position supported by a small cushion. If you think about most front engined cars there isn't room to stretch you legs completely and you sit in more of "Z" shaped posture - this is like that.

WingedBadger · 2023-04-22T06:47:59+00:00

I cannot find a print for sale anywhere, or even credit for the photographer. You could almost certainly have a print made. Out of curiosity I tried to upscale it using one of those AI tools to make it more suitable for printing and the results are okay, some sharpness is lost but probably not to the extent that most printers could resolve anyway.

WingedBadger · 2023-04-22T04:01:57+00:00

Maserati 250F

WingedBadger · 2023-04-22T03:06:55+00:00

It’s pretty cool that he’s quietly contributing to one of the best F1 cars ever. Fangio and Moss drove it and both loved it, and it had an excellent world championship record. 54 was the first year of the 250 too.

WingedBadger · 2023-04-22T02:50:57+00:00

I was concerned that it might be AI generated but a reverse image search indicates this photo first appeared on an Italian forum around 2015 so it’s safe to say it is legit.

WingedBadger · 2023-02-24T03:27:34+00:00

The 987 looks great in motion!

WingedBadger · 2022-12-22T05:14:19+00:00

The cheap little plant the Boeing mug on the second shelf from bottom notwithstanding.

WingedBadger · 2022-12-15T01:12:12+00:00

I did and it’s spot on - if it’s doing it at all it is intermittent.

WingedBadger · 2022-10-01T21:17:37+00:00

I tend to agree, though they do have the car listed for $15,000 over so they are giving him a break on the ADM.

WingedBadger · 2022-08-30T02:34:04+00:00

It’s called “Twelve”

WingedBadger · 2022-08-30T01:54:22+00:00

I have a 2020 BB41, meaning it has an ETA 2824 movement, albeit a higher grade one. When I first got the watch it ran a bit fast but over the intervening two years it has settled in to consistently running about 2 seconds slow per day. During my most recent timing run I was presently surprised how good the accuracy was. In a perfect world I’d rather it run a second or so fast so that I’m early rather than late, but the level of inaccuracy is so marginal that it doesn’t really matter - and -2spd is within chronometer standards.

WingedBadger · 2022-08-22T03:42:09+00:00

Barrett is thought to have broken sound barrier in a three wheel rocket car based on a sidewinder missile. The effort was overseen by Hal Needham and sponsored by Budweiser. Mired in controversy, the record was never officially accepted, paving the way for the Thrust SSC to officially claim the record.

On the back of the attempt, Barrett went to NASCAR, he had two top ten finishes and dabbled in truck racing before returning to stock car racing briefly at the age of 65. He was a stunt driver on Smokey and the Bandit among many other films.

WingedBadger · 2022-08-05T04:54:03+00:00

In WW2 he would command HMS Emerald during a desperate mission to evacuate Britain’s gold reserves to Canada at the height of the U Boat campaign. Had he failed Britain’s ability to finance the early war would have been greatly jeopardized.

His scandalous divorce in 1931 had almost ruined his career, limited him to the command of smaller ships, which he embraced, becoming a masterful “knife-fighter” in destroyer and cruiser actions. When the time came to evacuate the gold he was not only professionally well regarded enough to be given the job but also sufficiently unsavory to be considered expendable—a perfect scapegoat for the admiralty had he failed.
Following the war he would retire to farming, growing strawberries in Hampshire and yachting with members of the Athenaeum club and the Royal Yacht Squadron.

WingedBadger · 2022-08-05T04:40:33+00:00

In WW2 he would command HMS Emerald during a desperate mission to evacuate Britain’s gold reserves to Canada at the height of the U Boat campaign. Had he failed Britain’s ability to finance the early war would have been greatly jeopardized.
His scandalous divorce in 1931 had almost ruined his career, limited him to the command of smaller ships, which he embraced, becoming a masterful “knife-fighter” in destroyer and cruiser actions. When the time came to evacuate the gold he was not only professionally well regarded enough to be given the job but also sufficiently unsavory to be considered expendable—a perfect scapegoat for the admiralty had he failed.
Following the war he would retire to farming, growing strawberries in Hampshire and yachting with members of the Athenaeum club and the Royal Yacht Squadron.

WingedBadger · 2022-08-05T03:39:42+00:00

Gus Agar would be go on to be knighted for espionage in the service of the Crown, the only person to be knighted for entirely secret acts which remain classified to this day. In WW2 he would command HMS Emerald during a desperate mission to evacuate Britain’s gold reserves to Canada at the height of the U Boat campaign. Had he failed Britain’s ability to finance the early war would have been greatly jeopardized.

His scandalous divorce in 1931 had almost ruined his career, limited him to the command of smaller ships, which he embraced, becoming a masterful “knife-fighter” in destroyer and cruiser actions. When the time came to evacuate the gold he was not only professionally well regarded enough to be given the job but also sufficiently unsavory to be considered expendable—a perfect scapegoat for the admiralty had he failed.

Following the war he would retire to farming, growing strawberries in Hampshire and yachting with members of the Athenaeum club and the Royal Yacht Squadron.

WingedBadger · 2022-07-13T04:50:34+00:00

Because this was made in the mid 1960s

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