Scrooged by Richard Donner is now a great classic of the Christmas holidays. While the versions of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" are countless and all closely related to the original tale, Scrooged is different. In 1988, Bill Murray starred as Ebenezer Scrooge in Scrooged, a dark comedic adaptation of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." A parody of the tale [...]
Raise your hand who wouldn't have wanted to empathize, even if only for a moment, in the shoes of Steve McQueen and the very rich gentleman thief Thomas Crown? The Thomas Crown Case is not simply a film, it is a photograph of a world, of an era that is certainly as fascinating as that of the 60s. Starting with the likes of Steve McQueen and the alluring Faye Dunaway, this classic [...]
Rolex is in perpetual evolution. The Maison is in fact about to invest 1 billion francs (CHF) in a new production site in Bulle, in western Switzerland in the Canton of Fribourg, which should be inaugurated in 2029 and which will include another 2 jobs. Rolex's global headquarters This could translate into a major increase in production starting [...]
Only two years after the first volume, today we present to you "Time to Race Part. II. Watches and speed. Other new stories of men and machines", the new book by watch collector John Goldberger and car specialist Cesare Maria Mannucci coming out in December. If with "Time To Race" we thought we had read the definitive work on the world of competitions and gold [...]
The award ceremony of the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG), the night of the Watchmaking Oscars, has just ended, where the coveted awards were awarded to 15 watches, divided into their respective categories, including the prestigious " Aiguille d'Or ”Grand Prix Best-in-show award. This year I had the honor of being part of the GPHG Academy and I am really excited to see [...]
UNIMATIC introduces three new unique editions, Model One and Model Two and, for the first time, a GMT, declined in grade II titanium. The result is a perfect symbiosis between an avant-garde material and the modern lines of UNIMATIC watches. Grade II titanium allows better resistance to mechanical stress with a weight reduction of almost 45% when compared to steel [...]
Rolex writes a new chapter in the history of diving watches by presenting the new Oyster Perpetual Deepsea Challenge 126067, the first titanium watch marketed by the brand and a true "King of the abyss" thanks to its record water resistance of 11 meters. The Deepsea Challenge is an adaptation of the experimental specimen designed for James Cameron which, on March 000, 26, [...]
Dear friends of Perpetual Passion, with the beginning of November Geneva comes alive and will be the stage for the most prestigious watch auction houses. To get in the mood and create the right atmosphere, we sat down with Aurel Bacs, Senior Consultant for Phillips, and the man who has helped revolutionize our industry in recent years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnwqsLMimwk If [...]
A few months after the last price increase in the list, Rolex is again adjusting the prices of its watches for 2022. Again, as in 2020, these are spreads with an average of 5%. In this article you will find the Italian prices updated to November 2022, focusing on the most requested references from Rolex, in particular on the Professional models. R [...]