This all has to do with this timepiece being auctioned off later this month by Antiquorum in New York. This is a Gold cased Vacheron Constantin watch that was given to Marlon Brando by Zsa Zsa Gabor in 1954. The watch was produced around that time as well, and represents a style of guilloche engraved dial decoration that you don’t see these days anymore. It is said that the watch was given to Brando by Gabor when “On The Waterfront” was released in theaters. The movie went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, as well as Best Actor for Brando. It is interesting to think about the message she wrote to him. Space was of course limited on the back of the watch, but other than the fact that Gabor was giving it to Brando on a specific date,fake omega, it is hard to delineate what their relationship was. Maybe it included a message that only they understood. A Vacheron Constantin watch was a luxury watch back then, as it is now. Conservative auction estimates have this watch going for only $3,000 – $8,audemars piguet,000.

Ariel Adams publishes the luxury watch review site aBlogtoRead.

From Cityfile’s Buyers and Sellers:
–Former model and fashion designer Gail Elliott and her husband, Joe Coffey, have sold their condo at 40 Mercer. The buyers, club owner Bryant Yunker and his wife, paid $3.812 million.
–Seymour Zises, founder of the investment advisory firm Family Management, and his wife Cathy, have closed on the sale of their five-bedroom apartment at 1016 Fifth Avenue. It was listed for $10.95 million and sold to investor Paul Orlin for $8.9 million.
–via the Real Deal, British architect Lord Norman Foster has closed on the purchase of a second apartment at 912 Fifth Avenue. The eighth-floor pad, which Foster was first reported to be buying back in July, was bought for $6.7 million.
–via the Real Deal, Mark Brashear, who heads up Hugo Boss in the US, has paid $3.2 million for a 2,793-square-foot condo at 60 Beach Street in Tribeca.
–via Curbed, publishing entrepreneur Win McCormack has put his apartment at 170 East End Avenue on the market less than a year after he bought it for $8.75 million. The four-bedroom apartment with 1,600-square-foot terrace overlooking Gracie Mansion and the East River is currently listed for $10.5 million.
–Real estate investor Adam Gordon has dropped the price of his West 76th Street townhouse. It was listed at $25 million last November and is now listed for $23.5 million.
–Jewelry designer Lorraine Schwartz paid $4.7 million for a duplex at the Olympic Tower on Fifth Avenue.
–Steven Oesterle, a managing director at Giuliani Partners, and his wife Nancy, have sold their three-bedroom apartment at the Park Imperial on West 56th Street for $4.9 million.
–Developer Arthur Zeckendorf and his wife Connie have sold an apartment they owned at 524 East 72nd Street for $1.81 million, which is $1 million less than what it was listed for when it first went on the market for in August 2008.

From the NY Observer’s Manhattan Transfers:
–Charles Schwab’s small penthouse at 834 Fifth Avenue, which neighbors part of Rupert Murdoch’s triplex is now available for around $14 million.
– Media entrepreneur Clive Ng and his wife, ex-model Farrah Summerford, have put their 25-foot-wide townhouse at 20 East 10th Street on the market. The five-bedroom home is listed for $19.9 million.
–A third-floor, 14-room apartment at the Plaza which was to sale to Italian businessman Luigi Zunino for around $45 million now appears to be listed for $39 million. The huge L-shaped apartment includes former State Rooms which were used for private entertaining.
–The drama between Princess Firyal and the family of Lionel Pincus, a 78-year-old who’s been legally incapacitated for three years continues. Mr. Pincus’ two sons want to sale off their father’s $50 million, 14-room duplex at the Pierre while the Princess says the she was promised the pad.

From Move Trends:
–A classic mid-century modern home designed by R.M. Schindler and used in the movie “Pineapple Express” is on sale in Glendale, California for $2.475 million. The listing is here.

From NOLA:
–Sandra Bullock has purchased a historic home in the Garden District of New Orleans,movado watches, Lousiana from entrepreneur John Russale Lee Sr., whose I CAN Learn educational software was at the center of the Mose Jefferson trial. The 1876 home is near properties owned by John Goodman and Nicolas Cage and the home previously owned by writer Anne Rice. It sold in June for $2.25 million in cash to Big Easy Bebe LLC, which was incorporated a few days earlier by John Chamblee, a lawyer from Austin,fake rolex, Texas, who has represented Bullock in other real estate transactions.

From a reader tip (thanks, Patrick)
–A Houston estate that we covered in 2007 when it was listed at $19.9 million has had a huge price chop and is now listed at $9.5 million.

From Homes of the Rich:
–The businessman who bought the most expensive Yankees seats, has been charged with mortgage fraud. His New Jersey house just hit the market for $7.99 million.

Gallery: Tuesday Weld in Montauk

From the Real Estalker:
–A New York City townhouse rented by Kate Hudson is now for sale for $4.95 million. The listing is here.
–Christina Ricci’s home in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles is for sale for $1.549 million. The well-decorated home, shown above, is already listed as “looking for back up.”

From the NY Post:
–Two new townhouses, which can be converted into one monster home, are hitting the market for a combined $33 million. The townhouses are currently under construction at 22-24 Downing St. in the West Village. Together they would form one 12,127-square-foot, 50-foot-wide,replica rolex, six-story home. The listing is here.
–A co-op at 640 Park Avenue belonging to retired financier Peter Smith is on the market for $26 million. Smith’s residence is on the third floor of the 13-story building which has only 12 units. The listing is here.
–Last month, Dick Fuld, the former boss of Lehman Brothers, sold his apartment at 640 Park Ave., which closed for $25.87 million to Glenn Fuhrman, an art collector and co-founder of MSD Capital, Michael Dell’s investment fund.
–Tuesday Weld’s Montauk beach house has sold for nearly its latest asking price of $7.75 million. The home had been on the market for years but we only covered it as an estate of the day last month. The buyers of Weld’s house are a finance family based in Manhattan.

Rabeder sold his successful furnishings and accessories company in 2004 and supports several orphanage projects in Central and South America. He and his wife have created a micro-credit organization. They plan to use the proceeds of the house lottery, on the one hand, to pay back existing house construction loans and cover the startup costs for MyMicroCredit which will fund self-employed entrepreneurs in several South American countries. A total of 21,999 lottery tickets will be sold.

It’s not the first time we’ve seen this type of thing. Last year after a divorce English banker Andrew Paul started the Win A New Life website to give way his his home, car and boat in a competition that anyone could enter for £20. Up for grabs were his £1.1m five-bedroom house, a &pound,replica rolex;160,000 Aston Martin DBS and his &pound,cartier watches;200,000 Sealine 35 Sport motor boat. He was looking to sale 200,replica rolex,000 tickets but did not sale the required amount of tickets for the first prize of his belongings so a cash sum was given out instead.

Sony Ericsson offers three new styles in the MBW-150 series: Music, Executive or Classic Edition. See hi-res photos in our gallery. The Bluetooth Watch MBW-150 Music Edition is finished in black with orange details; the Bluetooth Watch MBW-150 Executive Edition features a professional-looking stainless steel bracelet and the Bluetooth Watch MBW-150 Classic Edition sports a premium leather strap and black face.
The Music MBW-150 is especially designed to control your music phone (Walkman phone).

All three timepieces in the MBW-150 range have a scratch-resistant mineral crystal glass face with an antiglare coating. A Quartz analogue precision movement,tag heuer, plus a digital time display that’s synchronized with your phone,panerai watches, make sure that you stay on track.
With the Bluetooth watches you can see the Caller ID in display, reject/mute call, adjust volume and Play,replica breitling, stop, next/previous track on your music phone.
The new watches will be available in Q4 2007.

Sony Ericsson introduced the first Bluetooth watch MBW-100 in September 2006. They developed it together with Fossil. Fossil offers their own line of Bluetooth watches.

Via this press-release.

In an interesting twist, the wines were picked with specific recipes from the chef in mind. Each month,armani watches, Ripert and Sohm choose two bottles of wine for their members with the intention of pairing them with recipes inspired by his new series. The members will receive the recipes, as well as the wines,breitling, in addition to detailed tasting notes written by Sohm. Members also gain access to monthly online videos of the duo explaining each pairing. The wines are a mixed selection of reds, whites and sparkling chosen to complement the proposed dishes.

Ripert feels strongly that great food does not need to be complicated or intimidating for the home chef. Each show starts out with a trip to a vineyard, farm or four-star kitchen but finishes with the chef in his home kitchen demonstrating recipes for the home cook and enjoying the perfect glass of wine to accompany his meal. A Votre Sante!

Eric Ripert, the chef/owner of the New York restaurant Le Bernardin, along with his wine director Aldo Sohm,movado watches, has introduced the Avec Eric Perfect Pairings wine club.

Late-model business jets aren’t as cheap as they used to be, and the surplus on the market has dropped a bit, but new aircraft deliveries haven’t returned to earlier levels. Flying hours have fallen, and constraints in the credit markets make it difficult for people to put the requisite cash together to buy and operate a private jet. Following five years of record growth, the NY Times reports, last year was dismal. In the second half of 2009,replica rolex, business jet shipments plunged 33.7 percent year-over-year to 870. High-end propeller plane sales fell 17.6 percent to 441 for the same period.

But, that’s all in the past.

The Loews Regency Hotel is catering to long-term residents. A one-bedroom suite costs around $12,450 per month, a two-bedroom unit goes for around $18,000 per month.

From the Wall Street Journal’s Private Properties:
–James Preston, who ran Avon Products from 1988 to 1998, has sold his 398-acre property in Kent, Connecticut for $8.5 million, it had previously been offered for around $14 million.
–The late Walter Cronkite’s apartment in New York City has sold for $2.5 million,patek philippe, which is about 17 percent less than the original asking price of just under $3 million in December. The buyer is a Citibank executive.
–Bell Ranch, a 250,000-acre ranch in New Mexico first listed in 2007 for $115 million is now for sale for $83 million. It was listed at $103 million with an additional 40,000 acres thrown in when we last covered it in April 2009. The Bell Ranch features Bell Mountain and a a 10,832-square feet hacienda with swimming pool and tennis courts The property includes a general manager residence and lake house, ranch offices,rolex watches, stables, barns, garage and storage facilities. Cowboy camps are located throughout the property. The Bell Ranch airfield (8,200′ x 75′ lighted dirt airstrip) has a large hangar. The new listing is here.

Gallery: East 94th St

Gallery: George Stephanopoulos and Ali Wentworth in Washington D.C.

From the Real Estalker:
–via the Palm Beach Daily News, Bruce Springsteen bought two homes next to each other in Wellington, Florida. He has sold one of them which was listed at $3.95 million but sold for $2.95 million.
–David Chu, the fashion designer who created the Nautica brand,breitling watches, and his wife Gina have listed their Park Avenue triplex for $32.8 million. The listing is here.

From MediaBistro:
–George Stephanopoulos and Ali Wentworth have gone to contract on their Washington mansion.

Gallery: Garland-Crick Residence

–Actress Missi Pyle and her husband, grizzly bear expert Casey Anderson, have listed their Beachwood Canyon home for sale at $669,000.
–Kim Kardashian has bought a furnished estate in the Beverly Hills Post Office area for about $3.5 million.
–Actor Malcolm McDowell and his wife, Kelley, have listed their 1922 home in Ojai at $3.55 million. The listing for the three-bedroom home is here.

From the NY Post:
–One of the three East 80th Street townhouses Frank Winfield Woolworth created for his daughters is up for sale. The home at 2 E. 80th St. built in 1915 for his eldest daughter, Edna Woolworth Hutton is now up for sale at $19.99 million.
–Blake Lively has been spotted apartment hunting in TriBeCa. She was seen looking at apartments at 55 Vestry St., also known as the Fairchild building, a development we profiled recently.
–Real estate developer Aby Rosen has re-listed a six-story limestone townhouse at 3 E. 94th St. for $24.75 million. It was listed at $23.75 million when we checked it out as an estate of the day last year but has been listed as high as $29.5 million. Rosen bought it for $8.8 million in 2005 and gave it a gorgeous renovation.

Gallery: Bell Ranch

Inside the watch is Glashutte Original’s automatic caliber 90-03 movement that has the time with subsidiary seconds dial, power reserve indicator,rolex watches, and a big date indicator. I like that Glashutte Original was able to tone down the watch (other versions or after in gold) and at the same time make it more sporty. This piece unique is really stunning and I hope more timepieces from the luxury German brand follow in suit.

Ariel Adams publishes the luxury watch review site aBlogtoRead.