Beautiful Barbara Bel Geddes (though, in the film, she was supposed to be the "homely" one.
Regards,
Posted on 06/23/2023 12:39:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
No, you’re incorrect, this is exactly what’s been happening in the high end watch market for the last few years. Patek, Audemars, Vacheron, Rolex, A.Lange & Sohne are all affected by this. This is how business is conducted for these highly sought watches. For example, a Patek Nautilus with a green dial that list for 37K, can immediately be resold after purchasing for 300-400K. This massive increase in value on the secondary market has caused real problems with purchasing in demand watches, and for the AD’s ( authorized dealers) on who they should sell their limited number of pieces too. They know flippers can make way more money on the sale, they they, the authorized dealer can by a very large margin. No, the AD’s are not allowed to raise the list price themselves ( sell@ market rate)
There are clocks built into just about every consumer electronic gadget. I don't need a reminder of the time on my wrist as well.
If other men wear watches, I take no notice of it. I might have a co-worker walking around the office with a $10,000 Rolex for all I know. Point is, nobody notices except the man wearing it.
PT Barnum said it best.
Okay, I’ll ask; what is Shreve? Where is it? And why was she contemptuous?
Okay, I see the what and where. S.F.? But not why.
Shreve, Crump & Lowe is a snooty, over-priced jewelry store with locations in a number of “important” cities. Only the finest people shop there. To indicate that you haven’t heard of “Shreve” is to mark oneself as a classless peasant. I assume that the lawyer thought I was “from a good family” and headed for a brilliant career after attending Harvard Law School. When I didn’t know “Shreve”, she realized that I was not in her social class.
Shreve. Crump and Low not in the west cost…..just Shreves……different owners.
I have shopped at S,C,and L and I am far from rich .
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“You can’t take it with you.”
A portrait was hung in the Legion of Honor for 'Vertigo.' No one's seen it since
By Katie Dowd, SFGATE, September 14, 2019
The painting is lost. It was just a prop at the museum and got lost after they tore down the set. The suspicion is one of the set decorators took it home. Not set decorators have passed on.
The fourth painter, John Ferren, was a founding member of The Club, an American group of abstract expressionist artists. He'd done some work for "The Trouble with Harry," another Hitchcock film. Ferren was in Los Angeles at the time the shoot was getting set up in San Francisco, so he set to work on the revised portrait. The piece, obvious enough for the film but still elegantly rendered, was a winner.
The people trying to find the painting tried contacting Ferren's son Bran who, you may be surprised to learn, holds the patent to the pinch-to-zoom technology utilized by smartphones.
Now you know the rest of the story.
Beautiful Barbara Bel Geddes (though, in the film, she was supposed to be the "homely" one.
Regards,
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