Reply With QuoteI am surprised he even has a reflection
“Once upon a time there was a king, and the king commissioned his favourite wizard to create a magic mirror. This mirror didn’t show you your reflection. It showed you your soul - it showed you who you really were.
The wizard couldn’t look at it without turning away. The king couldn’t look at it. The courtiers couldn’t look at it. A chestful of treasure was offered to anyone who could look at it for sixty seconds without turning away. And no one could.”
Martin Amis, The Zone of Interest
I am surprised he even has a reflection
'Against stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain' - Schiller.
Gratuitous Mirror joke from the General Humour thread:
A blonde was speeding in a 25 mile per hour residental zone when a local police cruiser pulled her over.
The female police officer who walked up to the car also happened to be a blonde.
She asked for the blonde's driver's license.
The driver searched frantically in her purse for a while and finally said to the blonde policewoman, "What does a driver's license look like?'
Irritated, the blonde cop said, "Don't be a smartass!, it's got your picture on it!"
The blonde driver frantically searched her purse again and found a small, rectangular mirror down at the bottom.
She held it up to her face and said, "Aha! This must be my driver's license", then handed it to the blonde policewoman.
The blonde cop looked in the mirror, handed it back to the driver and said, "You're free to go.
And, if I had known you were a police officer too, we could have avoided all of this."
And the re-edited version for TZ-UK:
Davide was on the door welcoming VIP guest to the Bremont launch event.
A TZ member walks by and tries to gain entry (wearing an end of line Barbour jacket, oversize short legged jeans, and fake doc Martin Chelsea boots).
Davide asks to see the TZ members invitation.
The TZ-er searched frantically in their Magsafe wallet for a while and finally said to David, "What does the invitation look like?'
Irritated, Davide said, "Don't be a smartass!, it's got your picture on it!"
The TZ member frantically searched the Magsafe wallet again for an invite and found a small rectangular mirror on the inside of the lid, but there was no invite in the Magsafe.
The TZ-er said to Davide, "This is all I have with me", and handed it over.
Davide looked in the mirror, handed it back to the TZ member and said, "You're free to go in".
And, if I had known you were Lawrence Llewlyn Bowen, we could have avoided all of this."
Some faces really do provoke a primæval instinct to undertake acts of violence upon them...Originally Posted by dkpw
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Bravo! WOTDChortle,,, dressed in his finest wizarding gown, standing in front of his magic mirror, Davide contemplates his next horological thaumaturgy.
Brilliant
David
Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations
Considering all he had to do was come up with a modern reinterpretation of a vintage diver, I can’t imagine ‘success’ at Tudor was all that difficult for him. In fact all the “creative alchemist” had to do was not make something seen as more desirable than a Rolex Sub. I can’t imagine success at Bremont will come as easy and I don’t think he has set off in the right direction at all.
Looks like message received, or at least they could have been clearer at the time when launching the new collections.
This just into my in box with a picture of an MB2 “… pilot watches, Bremont’s starting point, are some of our most treasured timepieces”
I wrote of huge disappointment in there contact form in seeing thisScreenshot_20240428_175011_Chrome.jpg
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I knew it, I have seen this design before.
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I'd noticed their latest mailshot didn't include any of the new watches.
I would love to know what is currently being made in the factory right now - are there new MB2 cases being machined or is stock being run down. The mailshot was very confusing from a branding point of view.
Incredibly confusing.
The font in the email for "Altitude" is the new Bremont font, but then a different font is used on the website.
They'd be nuts to ditch the MB2. I think that was their most inspired model and gave Bremont a unique angle amongst the luxury watch companies.
dressing gown + cravat = bellend
Whenever I hear anyone use the words "alchemy" or "alchemist" I think of the John Finnemore sketch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i7g5em_Iug
All he had to do was make something that (from a distance) looked like a Bremont but was slab-sided and cheaper.
THIN is the new BLACK
Strangely the first thing I think of is this:
Davide Cerrato obviously fancies himself as a modern day Lord Percy.
Gary
I think he sees himself more in the mould of Leonardo Acropolis:
They've gone from Bre-montre to Bre-monstrosity.
Still, at least the prices are the same.
Followed by Bredundancies, and then Breceivership...?
Funny how everything prefaced by "Bre-" turns to s***.
Not everything, fortunately :)
Breakfast? My high fibre cereal certainly does. Keep me regular as (imported) clockwork.
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