Luxury Swiss watchmaker Bovet has received plenty of attention for its Récital 22 Grand Récital over the prodigious price tag, which ranges from $469,800 to $502,200.
Now, Bovet has an appropriately glitzy award to support its implied contention that this horological masterpiece is worth that kind of money: top prize at the 2018 Grand Prix d’Horlogerie—a.k.a. the so-called “Oscars of Swiss watchmaking.”
Anyone lucky enough to wear a Grand Récital will feel like a living, breathing fine art display, with its hand-painted half-globe and 24-hour clock, tourbillon, and orbiting moon symbol orbiting over all.
Robb Report has some additional details about the watch and the company behind it:
The Bovet 1822 Recital 22 Grand Recital is the third and most complicated in a trilogy of astronomical complications made by this small independent brand, which makes only 2,000 watches a year.
The timepiece is equipped with a mind-boggling array of functions. Aside from hours, seconds, and retrograde minutes, there is day, month, year, moonphase, power reserve, flying tourbillon, perpetual calendar, double-face retrograde date, perpetual calendar and a tellurium-Orrery.
If James Bond drove an amphibious motorcycle that turns into a jet ski at the push of a button, then his villainous counterpart would definitely pilot this crazily unique watercraft that’s half-submarine, half-speedboat.
HSP Technologies claims that their Hyper-Sub Multipurpose Sub-Sea Vehicle, or Hyper-Sub MSV, is the world’s first long-range speedboat that’s also a true submarine.
On the surface, two 480-horsepower straight-six diesel engines can propel the 45-foot vessel along at a brisk 35 mph. At its cruise speed of 30 mph, it can travel up to 500 miles.
Upon arrival at a “point of interest,” the Hyper-Sub can dive up to 1,200 feet. Submerged propulsion comes courtesy of two 60-hp Innerspace thrusters capable of achieving a max speed of around 6.3 mph over a 300-mile range.
A crew can stay submerged comfortably for 12 hours and up to 96 hours in emergency situations.
HSP Technologies offers a number of different cabin configurations. Single-cabin layouts can comfortably accommodate a pilot and four passengers or a pilot and nine personnel with military-style seating. Two-cabin configurations that allow for more storage are also available.
With the functionality of a traditional boat, the Hyper-Sub is also the first submarine that can launch in only three feet of water. Plus, it totally wouldn’t look out of place parked in Batman’s garage, so you got that going for you, too.
Interested in taking this thing for a spin? Visit teamhypersub.com for further details.
Remember that wildly controversial sex and drug vacation in Colombia called “Sex Island” that was so damn wild it was banned by the Colombian government? But it still went ahead and happened anyway, albeit on a different island?
Initially, Sex Island was actually going to be held on a private island off the coast of Cartagena, Colombia, but the Colombian government shut it down.
So, the trip was relocated to an undisclosed luxury hotel on a private island in the Caribbean, where prostitution and brothels are legal. Problem solved!
Here’s what the tour package includes, according to the website (misspellings also courtesy of the site):
The even is in our private island. Enjoy de company of 60 beautiful latina girls, 2 hot DJ’s streaming the most exiting music all day and night, and a drug friendly environment. All the girls are here to please you and make you feel like a king, if you have any special fantasy make sure to inform the host, or the girls and they will make sure to bring them to life.
All our girls are tested and free of any sexual disease. There is also a very strict condom policy rule, and of course and unlimited amount of condoms. Party with our girls in our luxury yacht, have fun with jet skis, volleyball court, and of course breathtaking beaches in our sex island.
Sure, reading a poorly spelled description of the debaucherous event is cool and all, but here’s a closer look inside the wild sexperience where anything goes.
Speaking with the New York Post, a Sex Island representative says the event is the brainchild of five 30 and 40-something friends who “sort of think of themselves as Robin Hood.”
Um…okay?
The hard-partying group friends, who include a hedge fund manager and a nightclub owner, reportedly love throwing sex parties around the world, and ultimately decided to bring that drug-fueled party down to a tropical location.
And so, Sex Island was born, where tickets go for $6,000 and give you access to unlimited booze, countless prostitutes, and more hard drugs than your body can handle.
Speaking of drugs, Sex Island’s head of PR, “Tony,” says they actually don’t provide drugs. They provide dealers, which is even better, I guess, because you can get exactly what you want. Percocet? DMT? A bathtub of cocaine? You want it, you got it, my friend.
The drug of choice? Cocaine, obviously, with a “toothy pink powder” (I think it’s a synthetic opioid…) as the second most popular.
“We had a guest ask if he could bring a kilo of cocaine on an international flight and we told him that wasn’t the best idea,” Tony says.
Sex Island has hosted over a dozen private events like bachelor parties and a “boys weekend” for a group of wealthy men from Saudi Arabia, where the price per head ranges from $10,000 to $15,000.
And just what do you get for such a price tag? Literally anything you want.
“One of our clients has a fetish, he really likes high heels,” Tony said, explaining how a fleet of high heels was brought to the bedroom for sexytime. How they were used, I don’t know. But one can assume the prostitutes or the client wore them.
And apparently, another client wanted to go skydiving naked with the hookers…which he did. Like I said, anything goes.
One person, though, wanted to “keep” the prostitute. “He really, really liked her,” Tony says. “He was like, ‘I want to keep you.’”
“The only problem was that his friend also liked the same girl,” the Post explains. “However, Tony said the men came to a resolution when the amorous client gave the girl $10,000 and threw in $5,000 for his buddy.”
Sooo they bought the prostitute?
Anyway. As of right now, there are 29 tickets left for the December 14th sextravaganza, so you better act quick if you’re interested. It’d make a hell of a Christmas gift, too.
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Internet providers and wireless carriers, by necessity, can see the traffic coming and going to your phone. Some companies have better privacy policies than others, but Google’s Project Fi can’t make a blanket policy — that’s because the carrier doesn’t control its own network, and instead piggybacks off of companies like T-Mobile and Sprint.
To solve that, Project Fi is launching a new option today that allows subscribers to route all of their traffic through a Google-run VPN. That means all traffic will be encrypted as it goes out and returns to your phone, so T-Mobile and Sprint won’t be able to see what you’re up to.
But your traffic will be going to Google’s servers, so Google will be able to see what you’re visiting. In a blog…
