Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Watch your tongue!

Ooooooh! Did you finally acquire that to-die-a-million-deaths-and-then-some-more salivation worthy horologe? Will you be subtly, albeit a bit pompously yet casually, throwing in the name of that beautiful thing that adorns your wrist? Then watch out – not knowing the pronunciation could be a big, fat dampener to your proud moment. A ready reckoner to become a linguist in 5 minutes….

Audemars Piguet: OH-duh-MAHR PEA-GAY
A.Lange & Sohne: AH Lung-Geh Oohnt Sew-neh
Corum: Core-oom
Girard-Perregaux: Jee-rar Pear-ago
Jaeger-LeCoultre: YAY-ger Le-Cool-ter
Ulysse Nardin: YOU-lis Nur-den
Vacheron Constantin: Va-sher-own Cone-Stun-tuhn
Raymond Weil: Ray-mand WHILE
Breitling: brEYE-tling
Blancpain: Blon-pan
Audemars Piguet: awe-de (short e on de)-MARR pee-GAY
Paul Picot: Paul PEE-coe

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