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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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Fake Alligator’s 2019 Shopping Guide
Every year at Fake Alligator we put together a list of the best things to buy your significant other, worst enemy and everyone in between. Past highlights have included cars, planes, and even busses. This year is no different so without further ado, we give you the 2019 Fake Alligator Shopping Guide! The Tiffany & Co Table Tennis Paddles No Fake Alligator shopping list would be complete without an item from Tiffany & Co. They’ve made and will continue to make the list every year. This year they’re presenting Leather and Walnut Table Tennis Paddles. Their Everyday Objects collection is really one of our favorite things. (Hey, we’re like Oprah!) A set…
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Of Course We Need a Vantablack® Car
German automaker BMW painted one of their new X6s in Vantablack®. You know… that paint artist Anish Kapoor controls the usage of. BOO. To be more clear, he had to give his blessing of the project. Wrap your head around that, someone controls the usage of a color. Anyhow, this paint absorbs 99.965 per cent of light hitting it. Composed of nanotubes that just suck up light, this paint is much cooler than a matte black wrap. It also probably makes the car undefinable on the road and therefore confusing and dangerous. I’m sure it’ll never be part of a wide-spread release strategy, but it’s a very cool project nonetheless.…
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Kobe Bryant Black Mamba Basketball
Kobe Bryant left his mark on the NBA: Scored 33,643 points Averaged 25 points per game Made 11,719 field goals Played 20 years Had 32 nicknames, the best of which was Black Mamba. Last month Spalding threw a pretty interesting item on their site: a basketball wrapped in black Mamba skin. Featuring Kobe Bryant’s signature in gold and a fancy black presentation box, official height and weight and rated for indoor use only, this ball would certainly be a show stopper. Has a ball ever been a show-stopper? So this ball has a surface modeled after a black mamba snake. No word on whether or not the surface has a…
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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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Fake Alligator’s 2018 Shopping Guide
The holiday season is upon us. Time to buy a whole bunch of stuff for your friends and family without any clue if they’ll like it or not. If thay already have it or not. Or buy stuff for people you, frankly, don’t really like. (Anything made by David Wellington, Tiffany, or Hermes (ties excluded).) I know what you’re thinking… Who the hell are you to write a guide on what to buy people, you’re such a curmudgeon, you only like 3 watch brands, 2 car manufacturers and 2 clothing brands. I say you’re right so let’s just say I’m doing this out of social obligation for those who really…
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Hermes Also Makes Foosball Tables
HERMES DOES FOOSBALL Background I love foosball. Who doesn’t? I thought I was pretty good until one fateful night at a bar in Tallahassee in 2000. A regular straight up destroyed my friend and I. I had no idea people could be that good at this throwaway game. Ball control, speed, controlled random rotation- you name it. He could juggle the ball in the air between his lines of players. I may have scored one lucky goal, I don’t really remember, but what I do remember is my disbelief in a human being’s skill at this game. It clearly left a mark on me. Tell me about THIS table… …
