Earlier this week I wrote about the Concours d’ Elegance and some of the most fantastic cars seen there. Today, while we on the US Eastern Seaboard await the wrath of Hurricane Irene, writing about storm watches — or watches that weather the storm — just doesn’t do it. Instead, Atimelyperspective brings you something more …
Category Archives: Weekend Sojourns
Weekend Sojourn: SEAH® Astrological Watches Let you be you
When Rachel Levy conceived of the SEAH® (an ancient word for time) watches 7 years ago, she did so in the blackout wake of a hurricane that hit her home in Florida. She was looking for a way for people to reconnect with themselves and the universe after so much disconnect. When she first set …
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Weekend Sojourn: Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion – Coming This Week!
I’ll be there with Rolex – maybe you should, too… more than 550 extraordinary cars will amass on August 19 through 21 to confront the challenging Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey. The 2.238 mile road course with 11turns and 300-foot elevation changes is demanding and exhilarating, even for spectators. Plus, these are legendary cars …
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Weekend Sojourn: Watch Shop Spotlight — Exquisite Timepieces
Sometimes a retailer is so exceptional that it warrants talking about. Trying to find the best watch shop isn’t always easy, but brick-and-mortar store, Exquisite Timepieces in Naples, Fl, is an amazing store. The authorized watch shop for some of the finest watch brands in the world, the luxurious store sells more than 32 top …
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Weekend Sojourn: Great Reading – Coming Soon
New AP book It was in 1875 that Jules Louis Audemars and Edward Auguste Piguet founded Audemars Piguet in Le Brassus in the Swiss Jura. Today, almost 1,000 people in Switzerland and around the world work for AP. A new book, Audemars Piguet, et cie, celebrates this legendary brand and recalls the passion for fine …
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Weekend Sojourn: Orbita Watch Winders Team with Brown Safes for High-Tech Safety
Keeping those mechanical watches wound, and safe, can be problematic – but North Carolina-based watch winder manufacturer Orbita, has been teamed with Brown Safe Manufacturing — premiere safe and vault company in California, for a decade to bring watch lovers several cool products that give solutions. Among them is Brown’s luxury “Man Safe” with eight custom-made …
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Weekend Sojourn: The Jersey Shore
With all the hype since 2009 about MTV’s reality show, “The Jersey Shore,” shot in Seaside Heights, NJ, a visit to the Jersey Shore, as we New Jerseyans call the beach, somehow seems contrived. In fact, I’ve been vacationing at the Jersey Shore – in and around Seaside Heights — for – well – let’s …
Weekend Sojourn: Enjoying Martha’s Vineyard
Just recently, thanks to Alpina, I had the great experience of flying (in a private Cessna jet) for the day to Martha’s Vineyard, MA, for a nice tour of this famed island and lunch before flying back. If one has never experienced it, it is well worth the visit. The Vineyard, as it is commonly …
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Weekend Sojourn: Behind the Sound of Music in Salzburg
Recently, while joining A. Lange & Sohne in Salzburg, Austria, where the original Glashutte watchmaking brand sponsored the Whitsun Music Festival, I got the privilege of touring this wonderful city – with an emphasis on the sites where the well-known 1960’s movie “The Sound of Music” was filmed. It was an interesting tour that led …
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Weekend Sojourn: Dresden in a day, with A. Lange & Sohne
During my recent visit to the Saxony region of Germany with A. Lange & Sohne, we stayed in lovely Dresden, the capitol city of the Free State of Saxony, where one afternoon, Lange took us on a stunning walking tour of the city that was once behind the Iron Curtain. Nearly totally destroyed during World …
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