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@styleternity

Musings of the wound & wined variety… ✍️: @wristcheck , @bhofficial , @unekual
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Throwback to happier times at @fshongkong — when “impromptu group drinks at 6” didn’t ooze such dire implications. For those who give a toss: the cloth is vintage Wodehouse wool/cashmere mix, thoughtfully proposed by @jctong (who incidentally has a great eye for this sort of thing). Preview of some content we shot of @prologuehongkong , coming soon to @lifestyleasiahk . As per usual, all other artisans are tagged on the applicable slice of flab. 📸: @aydeetie #fshongkong
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4 years ago
“Toto, we’re not in Côte des Blancs anymore”🍂 • Throwback to two Sundays prior: when we ate hearty Margheritas cooked over a charcoal barbeque (diligently tended by @brn.lo ) and drank this superb #BDN . It is built upon fruit from a diminutive, ultra-specific site in the village of #Congy — home to Olivier Collin of the eponymous vigneron, #UlysseCollin . A wine full of gutsy, barrel-chested bravado that I honestly prefer sans pearlage. • 🧮: Really, the name says it all. ‘Les Maillons’ is made on Pinot Noir sourced from a 6-hectare lieu dit (“small area”) where the vines average 40 years of age. Fermentation is lengthy and verging on organic — though external pressures are seldom needed because of the fruit’s extreme ripeness come harvest. Hewing close to the ideals championed by his legendary forebear Anselme Selosse, Oliver bottles the wine at a rather lean dosage (2.5g/L).
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2 years ago
A mean, green, stylishly versatile machine. @styleternity fires off all of his first impressions, in under 45 seconds, of the TAG Heuer Carrera ‘Dato’. #bosshunting
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2 days ago
“If you can’t beat ‘em…” • Shamelessly reposting this reel of the contemporary Rolex Sub #126610lv @oscargreen24 cooked up for the #BossHunting feed last week. • Disregard, if you can, the dull droning voice of the video’s narrator (who, rumour has it, spent 25 minutes trying to pronounce #chronergy correctly). That’s what captions are for I guess. • 🎥: @oscargreenmedia
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8 days ago
Since January, I’ve been working my way through a plethora of commissions for @bhofficial ’s inaugural new print tome — the first in what the preeminent Aussie men’s publisher hopes will be a regular, twice-yearly extravaganza. • Among a host of great features, from some of Australia’s leading lifestyle journalists, I’ve been agonising over a little story about the evergreen attraction of vintage watch collecting. Hence the images above (sadly, victims of the editing/final layout process). • In our brave new post-pandemic world, $30,000 doesn’t get one nearly enough at their [un]friendly neighbourhood watch retailer. (Unless ‘disappointment’ and ‘impotent frustration’ are new Rolex collections.) • Fortunately, dealers like @classictimeclub - the young Piaget, Cartier, and Rolex specialist who I tapped to write this story - remain emphatic there’s still gold in them there horological hills. All you need is a prospector’s mindset. • Come mid-April, find the full story in #BHMagVol1 : available at your nearest quality newsagent/premium airport lounge.
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21 days ago
“…and the kitchen sink.” • I haven’t been a city desk editor in A WHILE now, so it was a surprise (and a delightful one at that) when @thisisjero and @jpnuge called me up with an offer to test-drive @cristalroombyasp whilst I was back home in Hong Kong over the holidays. • All of the renowned #AnneSophiePic dishes are replicated here in fine form. I am decidedly not a dessert person, yet the feted Chef’s “White Millefeuille” is something I would happily eat in place of most restaurants’ cheeseboards and underwhelming choux pastry. • @d.d.w.w and I ducked our heads in at the tail-end of the restaurant’s soft open. There were, consequently, a a few wobbles in the pacing and seasoning of individual courses; yet it’d be a real sonofabitch move to claim these did anything to diminish my enjoyment. A gaggle of Van Cleef-covered debutantes, parked at the corner table behind us, seemed to be enjoying themselves similarly. They are, I expect, a microcosm of the clientele that will get up to all sorts of shenanigans in Hong Kong’s latest ‘it’ dining room. • Of course: hoofing three nips of @petrossiannyc vodka — produced by #Guillotine , and infused with 20g of Tsar Impérial Ossetra — tends to put one in a fairly magnanimous mood. If not, might I suggest a Snickers? • Dishes (chronological): 🌟— Chanteclerc ‘whisky apple’, uni and white soy bean. 🌟 🌟 — ‘Les Berlingot’ of sobacha pasta filled with 24-month comté, champignon consommé. 🌟 🌟 🌟 — Jacques Pic’s ‘1971’ wild-caught seabass, Daurenki caviar sauce. 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 — Iced mochi of Saint Marcellin, smoked Madagascar vanilla.
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1 month ago
Late to the party with this one, so in the interest of sidestepping excessively trod ground…the sort of collectors who the new Piaget #Polo79 was specifically calibrated to appeal to are unlikely to balk at a US$72,000 pricepoint. • Discussions about “what else” can be attained at this budget are — I imagine — largely immaterial: especially for the haute joaillerie customer whose laughter resembles the popping of Salon corks and whose toots smell of Kilian Black Phantom. • That’s just as well: the original Ref. 761 was the horological embodiment of the excessive ‘80s. A combination of new technology and luridly luminous gold metalwork, engineered to make a statement. In that, the 79 remake is certainly succeeding. • 🎥: @oscargreenmedia
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1 month ago
Not quite as heady as the perpetual calendars of Roth’s era, but ornately beautiful all the same…#7327@bernardfung88 (of Monards Australia fame) has often spoken about how Breguet’s modern clientele tends to be dominated by “quiet achievers”: the sort of individual perfectly content to please their own sensibilities, rather than projecting strength to the strangers around them. • Comparing with the previous-gen Ref. #5327 , the calendar layout displayed here is admittedly more streamlined. But dammit if I don’t miss the signature, lavishly decorated off-centre rotor of the previous movement!
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2 months ago
Some things never change… such as the height difference. Randy and I both wearing @theanthology x @labowtiquebowties black bow-ties.
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2 months ago
“Striking The Right Tone” • First perma post of 2024 deserved something properly tasty; so once again, I’m turning to VC. • This, my friends, is a Ref. #4261 minute repeater — “sympathetically restored” by the horological heroes of Vacheron itself, to visibly stunning effect. • A 36mm ‘gentleman’s’ watch that’s about half the thickness on the wrist of a modern Aquanaut GMT, this minute repeater epitomises all that is good and great (to me at least) about the Swiss Trinity’s most ruminative Maison. • In hand, the 4261’s divine spirit is parsed gradually; revealed in a procession of small details that astute collectors will enjoy gleaning — first singularly, then as individual parts of a whole. • Many of the historic #Vacheron tells are there: the soldered tear-drop lug, accent grave signature; the flurry of shaped indices and numerals. • What really tickles me is the brand’s remarkable spatial literacy. Together, touches such as the subtly curved rehaut and multi-step bezel give the whole package a feeling of fluidity; and as your eye dances across the case, that sense of ‘flow’ extends across the minute repeater slide. • The first minute repeating wristwatch made at VC, this particular version (travelling as part of the #LesCollectionneurs roadshow late last year) is one of very few in platinum. Also fabricated in pink & yellow golds, a total of 36 pieces exist; and it goes without saying that the platinum is the rarest execution. • Where oh where does @selmoni.christian get such wonderful toys? 🃏
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2 months ago
In his characteristically prolific fashion, my colleague @nick.kenyon rounded out the year at BH with (yet another) IG reel — this time of his favourite sports watches of 2023. • Assuming I had the testicular fortitude to do the same, vis-à-vis dress watches, then Longines’ Master Control Small Seconds (celebrating the brand’s 190th anniversary) would surely be front-of-mind. • I spent the final days of #2023 pestering @jessica_hutton incessantly to spend a few days with the anthracite reference. And boy am I glad. • In profile, the 38.5mm case wears small in that unmistakably ‘vintage’ way; while the medley of engraved numerals and sloped rehaut lend a dynamism to the overall dial that is rare at this price-point. • For a final touch of grandeur (in contrast to the silver and salmon dials) this Anthracite model is also plated with rose gold hands & indexes — well-suited to whatever black tie rig you’re likely to deploy come New Year’s Eve.
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3 months ago
“A Festivus For The Rest Of Us” • Invigorating as it is to be back home in Hong Kong, I’m even more elated to have the opportunity to share a scrummy bottle of suitcase wine with old friends. “Largesse” is the watchword of the season. • Crafted by the prodigious young talent that is #JoshuaCooper , this adorably sketched bottle (2021) contains what many oenophiles regard to be the most complex and singular Cabernet Sauvignon to roar forth from Victoria — possibly even Australia. • Like all the bottlings Cooper turns his expert ministrations on, the #BalgownieVineyard is made with fruit from a historic site: first planted in 1970, upon primordial Aussie soils of shale, quartz, and rubble ironstone. • The critic Jeremy Oliver described Balgownie as a “national treasure”, and the red wines which emanate out of this terroir are, without fail, intensely aromatic, concentrated (without being dumpy) and capable of long ageing. • A delicious drop — full of pepper and gently macerated purple fruit — to have in the company of good people and 15 °C weather.
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3 months ago