The Fixation | 2010 Ford Focus RS500
Yes, a Ford Focus has made it to the list of Fixations. Why you ask, is this my first submission to the covet list? No, it’s not because of the comical $54,000 asking price (though that might lend enough credo). No, it’s not because Ford has limited production to only 500 Foci. And no, it’s [...]
The Fixation | Brunswick Gold Crown V Tournament Edition Billiards Table
Ever since The Hustler, Brunswick has etched its place in billiards history. Their oldest table in production, in its latest and most elevated form, the Gold Crown V Tournament Edition ($10,400) is this week’s Fixation. Made in America of selected hardwoods using high-torque bolted construction, 10 ball capacity pockets, flush rail castings, patented slate levelers [...]
The Fixation | 2011 BMW 750Li Alpina B7
With a production count of only 500 this week’s Fixation, the 2011 BMW 750Li Alpina B7 is a BMW guaranteed to do less blending and more asphalt igniting. A driver’s coach for the driving enthusiast. Alpina, an oft misunderstood variation of BMW (the 80′s come to mind…) has made massive strides in their 45 years [...]
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The Fixation | MB&F HM3 Frog
It’s amazing what “relentless pursuit” can achieve. In the case of MB&F, the Horological Machine N°3 Frog or HM3 Frog. MB&F (Maximilian Büsser & Friends) is a consortium of timepiece artisans and professionals with an ingeniously simple yet incomprehensibly difficult mission: to design and craft a radical timepiece every year. You can summarily call it, [...]
The Fixation | Hasselblad H4D-40
40 Grand For 20 Grand
In a declaration only Hassleblad could pull, the new “entry level” H4D-40 ($19,995) medium format digital camera will bring 35mm camera ease to medium format shooting. The 40 megapixel H4D-40 is touted to employ a new autofocus technology called “True Focus”. True Focus AF allows (pro) photographers to compose close distance shots with a unique [...]
The Fixation | Hayes Silver Aspen Buckle
As with most things I end up stuck on, I did not go looking for this particular piece or expect it to sing me a siren song. While searching on eBay for an engine turned belt buckle over Thanksgiving I stumbled onto a very unique belt buckle from Hayes Silver. In addition to wanting something [...]
The Fixation | Mark Albrecht Desk
Few things hit strike my inner nerves harder than Industrial Design: purposeful, task oriented, functional. This week’s fixation comes from Long Island City, New York based designer (literally, they’re a mile away from our offices) Mark Albrecht who’s fashioned together an achingly gorgeous desk, with an aching price to match. Fashioned in your choice of [...]
The Fixation | Rogue Territory Custom Jeans
This week’s fixation is a pair of custom jeans from LA-based Rogue Territory. You see, I am afflicted with serious Thunder Thighs (from the days of college sports) and a penchant for dry denim. That’s a combination that leads to reduced blood flow in my lower body as I break in jeans and the potential [...]
The Fixation | RGM Signature Series Watch Model 222
100% Swiss Accuracy. 100% American Made.
Based in Lancaster, PA, RGM Watches (Roland G. Murphy) harkens back to a day when it was the Americans who rivaled any timepiece the Swiss made. As a person with resounding appreciation for products Made In America, I’m totally fixated on RGM Watches. Constructed in the town where venerable brand Hamilton Watch Co. once resided, [...]
The Fixation | Zeiss Ikon
My struggle to keep the insatiable desire to be an early adopter in a perpetually advancing world of technology and a contrasting appreciation of the slower, more deliberate pace of analog products is nowhere more evident than in the realm of cameras. Sure, I love(d) my Nikon D90, but I also love my Canon AE-1 [...]
The Fixation | 1968 Datsun 2000 Roadster
The Fixation is a new series of posts focused on… well, fixations. Unlike our regular posting schedule, yet much like the fixations that have laid victim to many-a-coveting, lusting men, these posts will come without measured planning (though we’ll aim for a weekly basis). There is no true rhyme or reason behind the uncontrollable yearning [...]
