The best example that life can be unfair, even to the well-heeled, is the recent theft of a 150 kg (330 lb) book cover…
Tech tycoons, business magnates, and sports celebrities all spend time aboard fancy superyachts. Add to this elite 0.01% of the world’s population the students…
Five iterations. Rarer than diamonds. A Cartier no money can buy, perhaps not even pay to see. That is the Cartier Cheich. The Crash,…
The coming together of four centuries of consistency, heritage, design, and vibrancy can be found inside a 35 x 67 x 8 cm case,…
Some police cars spend their lives chasing speeders. This one ended its career by chasing an auction record. A 1989 Porsche 911 Carrera 3.2…
If you have to dance to someone’s tune, let it be Vangelis’ and preferably one played on his first Yamaha CS-80. Unfortunately, that chance…
A 2003 Ferrari Enzo, the only one ever finished from the factory in Rosso Dino, sold on duPont Registry for $13 million and change…
Most outdoor theaters settle for a white screen stretched between poles. Paris decided to use a Boeing 747. Every summer evening at the Musée…
It is not just a bottle of wine, it is the world’s most expensive bottle of white wine. It is not just a bottle…
$550 million. That is how much the world’s most expensive apartment reportedly sold for. It was purchased by Ukraine’s richest man, Rinat Akhmetov, who…
The young can often surprise you, and Henry Somerset, 3rd Duke of Beaufort, did exactly that in 1726 when, at just 19, he commissioned…
Casio has sold over a billion calculators since the 1950s. That alone suggests it knows more about calculators than most of the world put…