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Top 10 of 2019
Frankly, we’re glad 2019 is coming to an end. We’re ready for a new start in a new decade. Hopefully, the world will get on with the name Roaring 20s again, and it will actually roar. In the watch world, it’s been an exciting few years, a Cheese watch selling for $100K USD, Paul Newman’s Paul Newman Daytona selling for $17mil USD, and Timex releasing some of the most interesting watches of the year in 2019. We’re here to give you the download of the Top Ten Things of 2019. Watches, cars, TV shows, everything is fair game. Let’s get it! 10 Devolved Parliament A 2009 Banksy Painting, Devolved Parliament, auctioned…
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Richard Mille Drops new Pharrell Williams Reference: RM 52-05
Earlier this week Swiss watchmaker Richard Mille announced their newest reference, the RM 52-05 Pharrell Williams. The second of their collaborations is a manual winding tourbillon movement with hours and minutes. Pharrell Williams is a musician, producer, designer and all-around renaissance man. I first became aware of him through N*E*R*D music in the early 00s. In Search of… is one my favorite albums of all time. He produced so many hit singles in the last 20 years it would be difficult to find a top ten list of any rap or pop chart without a Pharrell / Neptunes produced track. The case color is a great match for the dial…
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Fake Alligator’s Top 10 of 2018
As 2018 comes to a close it’s time to look back at the Top 10 of the year. Top 10 what? Watches? Movies? Books? Limited edition Vacheron Constantin Chronographs? Whatever. Anything and everything.So without further ado…. #10 Elon Musk Elon Musk saying there’s a 70% chance he’ll move to Mars.Am I happy about Man’s ability to live on another planet? Am I happy Space Travel is still a thing? Am I happy that Elon Musk will be leaving this planet? I don’t know the answers here, but him saying that in an interview in late November has my interest piqued. I’ll start saving for a simple trip to space. #9…
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Top Ten things of 2017
We here at Fake Alligator put together a list of the top 10 things in 2017. Trying to steer clear of watches and cars (for the most part) we wanted to showcase the biggest and most exciting things of the year. So without further ado: 10: Damien Hirst’s Venice show: Treasures From the Wreck of the Unbelievable 189 pieces in bronze, marble, malachite, rock crystal, silver and gold. The work took 10 years to produce at a cost of over $65million USD, that’s a few Paul Newman Daytonas. Love him or hate him, this show was the only thing I remember from Venice this year. 9: That fight scene in…
