“I once did a photo shoot for L’Uomo Vogue with a Scala musician,” says Vadoukour,” I remember seeing an IWC Doppel on someone’s wrist. Like, on a security guard or something. Only in Italy.” The details of the watch linger in his mind – “the way it sat, the bracelet, it was like a piece of armor that the Ottoman Sultan Mohammed, who destroyed Constantinople, might have worn.” Thereafter, it became the watch he wore every day, more for its aesthetics than its unusual function. The extra pushers separate the second hands, so you can time two different things that start at the same moment.” Don’t ask me why the hands are separated, but it does the job.” It’s the alarm function on his other IWC watch – a titanium GST – that comes in handy. Both make great “work” watches, but when he’s shooting in a different time zone and needs to wake up early, “I’d rather wake up to the pleasant clang of my watch than to my iPhone.”
A man who owns an Audemars Piguet watch
“I don’t keep that many best replica watches,” says Vadoukour.” In 2008, when I wasn’t working, I put my pink gold Patek Philippe 3970 up for auction at Christie’s and got three times what I paid for it. I had a few of these when Franck Muller was fashionable, but I don’t wear them anymore, so I don’t miss them.” There have been misadventures, too. A few years ago, a thug in Buenos Aires snatched the stainless steel Rolex Oyster his father-in-law gave him on his wedding day, but he says, “I kicked him in the balls before my wife bit him.”
From the beginning, Audemars Piguet was different.” It was a purely emotional purchase. I walked into Cellini, and I just loved it.” One night, as usual, he took it off and put it next to his bed. But the next morning, it wasn’t there. He searched their townhouse. That night, his wife came up to him.” I found this,” Nicoletta said, holding the watch.” It was in the washing machine.” Somehow, during the night, this Audemars Piguet was put on the bed where it got tangled in the sheets.” I grabbed it and tried not to get mad like Shiva. It was still ticking, even though I could see water under the crystal.” Through Cellini, Vadukul sent it to the factory in Switzerland.” He says, “I spent about $8,000 to fix it, but it came back like brand new.” After all this, it’s more than just a replica watches usa to me. It has its own survival story, and that’s why I’ll never let it go.”