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So you just got back from the Baselworld watch and jewelry exhibition with your fancy new watch and those crazy TSA people confiscated your watchband. You need a replacement, and you can’t just run down to the corner drugstore. You need something with style. You need to go to Watchband.biz.
According to their site:

HIRSCH Artisanal leather watch bands are handcrafted - one by one, in a process consisting of more than 60 steps. Fine reptile leathers are punched, seams are sewn, varnish is carefully applied. The Classic Collection offers unique leather watch bracelets made in HIRSCH Rembordier Technology. All leather watchbands are Sauna-Tested and Water-Resistant. Some watch straps in the collection are even 100m Water-Resistant and are provided with the HIRSCH No Allergy System.

Sounds good to us. Besides, what better accoutrement for a Swiss watch than a German watchband?

In addition to the bands themselves, Watchband.biz sells related parts such as springbars, buckles and batteries. They also sell the tools you’ll need to open the thing. But that’s pretty much it. Watchband.biz is a biz that sells watchbands. If we still wore a watch and it needed a band, you know where we would go.

Hottest New Luxury Watches - Forbes.com

When the Baselworld 2007 watch and jewelry exhibition begins in Switzerland this week, close to 2,100 of the world’s top watch makers will display and debut their latest creations. A week later in Geneva, a second exhibition starts–the SIHH (Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie).

We wish we could be there. Even though we don’t use a watch anymore (cel phones, computers, clocks everywhere) we love looking at them.

World’s Most Decadent Cocktails - Forbes.com

A doctor from Spain recently spent time visiting friends in Belfast. For their hospitality, he treated them to one drink at the Bar at the posh Merchant Hotel.Cheap? Not exactly. It was a $1,400 Mai Tai, the most expensive cocktail in the world, according to the Guinness Book of World Records.

The only drink where the interest charges are worse than the hangover.

Hooters growing in China, sources say - Mar. 30, 2007

KurzweilAI.net

The sheep have 15 per cent human cells and 85 per cent animal cells, and their evolution brings the prospect of animal organs being transplanted into humans one step closer.

Normally we’d say something snarky here, but there just isn’t enough of a challenge this time.

Sony Ericsson W950I - Review by PC Magazine

Not quite the anti-iPhone, this music-playing smart device feels like a luxury item—until you try to get online.

We expect more for our $730.

Shelter Island Stunner - Forbes.com

For the first time in its history, the Shorewood Manor, a 23-room Queen Anne Victorian on Shelter Island, N.Y., is publicly listed for sale. Interested? Be prepared to pony up $33 million.

Actually, since it has been around since the 1800’s you can’t even get this deal once a century.

First class travel is great, except for the fact that they put all the riffraff on the same flight with you. That’s where the all-business niche found an opportunity.

Business-Class Boom - Forbes.com

Business travelers looking for a headache-free way to jet to Europe needn’t worry about securing one of a limited number of reclining seats. Now they can choose from four airlines where it’s all business class all the time.British carrier Silverjet is the newest entrant to the business class-only market. It began daily routes between Newark and London’s Luton airport this year. L’Avion, a Paris-based airline, has been flying between Newark and Orly-Sud since December. They join Eos and MAXjet, both London-based carriers that in 2005 began offering service between JFK and London’s Stanstead airport and London’s Stanstead airport and Las Vegas, respectively.

That’s more like it.

The Size of a Paperback and Most of the Functions of a Real PC - New York Times

Hoping to put a PC in every purse, Samsung has upgraded its Q1 line of tiny 1.7-pound portable computers.These paperback-size devices, 9 inches by 5.5 inches by 1 inch thick, run Windows — that is, they are real computers — but they also function as touch-sensitive notepads. The Home Premium edition of Windows Vista has been added to the $1,300 Q1P, available now, and its enhanced handwriting recognition should make it easier to use the seven-inch screen as an input device.

Nice. Very nice.

Bentley’s Elite New Drive - Forbes.com

The company recently unveiled its new Brooklands model, which it is calling “the world’s most exclusive coupe.”
Bentley will start delivery in the first half of next year, and will build no more than 550 during the vehicle’s lifetime. The company’s engineers will hand-assemble each one, using its famous, traditional coach-building techniques and craftsmanship skills in wood veneer and leather hide.

Be the first in Greenwich to buy one.