If you want something done right, do it yourself. Famous idiom, one of Gary Oldman’s only memorable lines from Fifth Element, and Agni Tilla’s feeling about watches. Instead of just bitching about the lack of completely unique men’s watches (like most of us do) she went all Frank Lloyd Wright and started creating May 28th Architect Watches. They might not be blueprints for the ZF-1, but these watches are actually real.
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