Absolutely gangster, even at $26,000. Click here fore more tag heuer carrera watch details.So you've got your timepiece down, but how do you get all those fancy clothes you bought on 5th avenue back to Paris? You'll need trunks, of course. But not just any trunks, you'll need turn of the century, authentic Louis Vuitton trunks in mint condition. Now in the year 1900, Louis Vuitton (the company) was only 6 years old, and the trademark LV logo was only 4, so these are some of the earliest known Louis Vuitton monogram trunks in the world. Three of them are for sale (two steam trunks & one wardrobe trunk) and frankly, this is about as slick a luggage set as you will ever find, especially in this condition and with the spattering of bygone hotel stickers placed on them. Each of the steamer trunks are selling for $22,500, and the wardrobe is $29,850. So, for $100,000 you can be as fresh to death as any man in the year 1900, or you could just buy all this, sell it to Kanye West, and then see tag heuer carrera watch it in a Tweet a week later.
Say it's approaching the turn of the century, the 20th century that is, not the 21st. Say you've got some family money, or you made a little bit in the latter part of the industrial revolution and now you spend your days being a dandy in the streets of Paris and the shops of New York. What do you buy to show everyone you've got what it takes to be the best bon vivant this, or any town has ever seen? The two items you'll see here.First, a pocket watch sold by Tiffany & Co. in 1888. The tag heuer carrera watch is 18k yellow gold, and happens to have been made by Patek Philippe. Not only is it a Tiffany signed Patek, which by now you should know is worth a pretty penny, it also happens to be a split-second chronograph. But, the complication coolness of this Patek doesn't end there; it's also a minute repeater.
