The Graham Liberace. Bling for Sale.
This used Graham watch went online for auction for some 200K + recently but unfortunately we have lost the precise details on it in the Endymion data base. If you find out please let us know the particulars below because detail is important. But here are the few pictures we were able to save, and they are priceless, and very publishable, and, because in case something is put on sale online, carry no credits nor copyrights. So we share them with you today so that this remarkable standout item will receive the attention it properly deserves, and as it befits well our very own Endymion motto that a thing of beauty is joy forever. For this is a man’s watch after all, and a real man is never afraid to flaunt it or to flash it.
So by a lack of information (the watch code sounded like an advanced Terminator model, something like T 1000) let’s call the precious item the Liberace giving it a name instead of a code, and so as to recognize the blatant silver-on-white encrusted multi-colored mini jewels with rhinestone and glitter fashion first pioneered by the great piano performer Liberace, somewhere on the Vegas strip in the early fifties at the dawn of the golden years of apparel outré, when Hunter Thompson was still around to write about mad – mad – useless accessory items like this museum piece, and when Elvis and others copied and adopted Vegas behavior (shaking hips) and style (sideburns, shades, and rhinestone encrusted white capes) everything, anything that could stand out in a grand performance of ultimate tasteless Rococo.
Because this watch so Rococo, so exaggeratedly Baroque, and so beautifully tasteless and vulgar, that it has become impossible to please anyone – aye, its one grand virtue is that it will offend everyone – and that it becomes an instant eye-turner and a head-scratcher all in one, a piece of high relevance in the attention economy of today that is the age of Instagram where people constantly seek new memes, its magic being that it is both very ugly and very beautiful at the same time. Here is my watch folks, now take your picture, and blush!
This is millennial BLING made for the age of Instagram.
It must be expensive (unaffordable). It must be so ugly that it is both beautiful and unique. It must be blatantly visible and vulgar (so you show it on the street and flash it or flaunt it). It is designer streetwear par excellence.
Pimp. My. Watch.
Voilà the Graham Liberace
Story: Sandro
Photo credit: none
Category: accessories, watches
