The 2015 VCH Holiday Gift Guide
We received a request to do this, so even though it’s late in the season, we’re on board. Here’s a short list of five things we’d love to...
VCH Asks: What Kind of Watch Would Obi-Wan Kenobi Wear?
Is the pocket watch really dead as disco? I certainly hope not. The best of them are beautiful, stylish timekeepers. In the original Star...
Can You Ever Have Too Many Navy Blazers? VCH Says No, and Here’s Why
Classic Hickey Freeman Blazer with Metal Coin Buttons I was inspired to write this brief essay on the pleasures of owning multiple navy...
James Bond and the Super Martini--The Vesper
It's been around since 1953—as long as Bond himself. Like the original Bond—the literary Ian Fleming creation—its flavor is not easily...
VCH Vinyl Review #1: Johnny Cash At San Quentin
February 24, 1969. Johnny Cash is staging a comeback after years of lagging success and a personal battle with drug addiction. He records...
VCH Veterans Day Salute # 1: USMC Ka-Bar Fighting Knife
It may not be quite as rare as a British WWII Fairbairn-Sykes Commando dagger, or the later Randall Model 7 of Vietnam Green Beret fame,...
VCH Finds: Jack Georges University Briefcase #2456
There are few material goods as satisfying as an elegant and nicely burnished-by-time piece of leather. The kind of leather that will age...
VCH Book Review # 2--From Russia, with Love
With Spectre soon to be released in the US as the next installment of the Bond phenom on November 6th, we thought this was the perfect...
Paul Newman and L.L. Bean's Camp Moc
If there is one thing Mr. Newman knew how to do besides act, it was how to look cool*—and how to make it look easy. He wore a Rolex...
VCH Looks at The Hamilton Model 22 Chronometer Deck Watch
The Hamilton 22 is a World War II-era deck watch. A deck watch was used as ship's chronometer on some smaller vessels, and as a companion...
