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22 March 2009, Grand Hotel et de Milan, Milan, at 2.00 PM For the first time the Auction season opens with an Italian auction. Patrizzi & Co Auctioneers, one of the most prestigious names in the watch collectors market, presents an extraordinary collection of Rolex Vintage Watches. The 114 examples of rare quality and condition [...]

Max Bernadini’s Luxury Vintage store in Milan is chock-a-block with faultlessly chic, infinitely covetable old stuff, says O’ar Pali In Milan, a few steps from the Santa Maria delle Grazie, home to Leonardo’s The Last Supper, lies a negozio which in its own right houses a charming array of past riches. Max Bernardini’s Luxury Vintage [...]

Above is the example of Rolex Submariner ref. 5513 from the 70′s, which has been treated with the PVD process PVD (Physical Vapour Deposition), the futuristic plasma coating that maintains all the characteristics of the materials treated, without modifying them, enters the world of Vintage watches. Following the “Black Rolex” trend, Luxuryvintage.net offers its own collection [...]

For the man who has everything, this is the car that does everything: at least, it did for Roger Moore in The Spy Who Loved Me. The 1976 Lotus Esprit that Bond drove underwater in the 1977 film is up for auction December 1 in London. In fact, two versions of the vehicle were used in Spy – and, unfortunately, the aquatic [...]

Looking for a yacht fit for a king? The Ocean Breeze was actually built for a tyrant: Saddam Hussein. The late dictator commissioned Danish company Helsingor Vaerft in 1981 to create a craft that would be the very definition of excess: ornate fountains, fittings in gold (such as bathrooms with gold taps), silver and marble [...]

 Two dogs have been left $700,000 by their deceased master in Australia. The unidentified owner outlined in his last will and testament the lavish lifestyle he wanted for his “faithful dogs”. Wags (9 years old) and Deefa (10 years old) will spend the rest of their lives at a 5-star animal resort north of Melbourne, at a cost [...]

Given her family’s heritage in hotels and her notorious sex tape, Paris Hilton latest acquisition makes a lot of sense. The reality TV star has bought herself a 19th century bordello in London. The place has also been an opium den, gin palace and Chinese restaurant – making the building’s past arguably more respectable than [...]

 With marketing people throwing around the word ”luxury” for every overpriced item that they’re trying to sucker people into buying, getting the real definition of the “L-word” is getting harder and harder. The Luxury Institute has devised a way to sort out the wannabes from the real deal: their new Luxury Institute Seal of Customer Approval. The New York-based group [...]

Although Hugh Grant’s career may have cooled, ex-girlfriend Liz Hurley is doing fine: married to Indian textile magnate Arun Nayar, long-term spokesmodel for Estée Lauder and, recently, a swimwear designer, Hurley shows no signs of slowing down. Above is the dess that started it all, voted the Most Iconic of all time by customers of [...]