This would sort of being the demographic car that the average tv viewer would remember. Announcer knowledge you have been thirsting after. Learn the rules of cocktail bars. Do not come into a bar and ask what is good, because the bartender does not know what you like. Give him something to work with. Say i like whiskey, what is good with whiskey . Or give us something we can build on. Announcer and see how the worlds most spectacular watches are put together, one tiny, magnificent piece at a time. With a mechanical watch you buy today, it is not the leading technology anymore. It is really craft and art. You are not racing for the technological breakthrough. You are racing to make the more spectacular watch. Announcer but first, travel with us to one of the worlds legendary destinations. Whether you know it as the city of light or love, paris charm is unmissable and it is all irresistible. Its galleries, cafes, wine bars, and restaurants are revered the world over. Welcome to bloomberg pursuits. We will show you how to make the most of paris when youre here on business. The Historic Center of paris has been missing two of its most famous institutions for the past four years. The ritz, probably the worlds most famous hotel, and its even more exclusive brother, the crillion, have been closed for renovation. Well, the wait is over. They are back, and better than before. Prior to renovation, the ritz was under threat from modern hotels like the w and mandarin oriental. A 450 million renovation has brought this grand building into the 21st century. Welcome inside the ritzs premium suite. Theres no shortage of marble, gold leaf, or antique furniture. Decadence is still the order of the day. And this could all be yours for a cool 33,000 a night. Staying in the ritz has its perks. Down in the basement is the hotels own cooking school, in case you need to brush up on the culinary crafts. The ritzs head pastry chef can show you how to make the perfect macaron. Last one. Yes, great job. If the ritz is famous, then its bar is legendary. The hemingway is named after the american author who liberated it during the second world war. The man behind the bar is colin fields, ranked as best bartender in the world by forbes and travel and leisure magazines. Colins got a drink for any occasion. Perfection in a glass. Paris is trying to go green, banning diesel cars by 2025. The churn of the city is hard to escape, but it is possible. There are beautiful parks. Its also transformed one of its busiest stretches of road into a new twomile pedestrian route along the seine. Paris has been making perfume since the 14th century. How exactly scents are created remains a closely guarded secret, but here at ex nihilo, a newly opened store, you get the chance to design your own perfume. Paris hotel scene is welcoming back its other grand palace hotel, the crillion. If the ritz is playing it safe, then the crillion is taking risks, and its worked. Modern art adorns the lobbies and bars while staff are useful and dressed to the nines. If you thought the ritz was expensive, then take a deep breath. Suites start at 1350 and go up to an eyewatering 38,000 per night, but every room has its own butler with modern styling mixing seamlessly with tradition. Before the renovation, the crillion was seen as aging and stuffy. Well, the cobwebs have been blown off, revealing a new hotel of style and substance. A barber is onsite to make sure your beard is as sharp as your suit, while inhouse cobblers are at the ready to keep you looking like you belong. Food and the art of taking the time to enjoy it are traditions the french hold dear. And ive got some tips for the uninitiated. First, dont do lunch el desco. The french hold to traditional mealtimes. If going out for a work lunch, always plan to sit at around 1 30. Second, if you are heading out to a nice restaurant, book ahead. You need to make a reservation or you will end up locked out. Dont be afraid. Even if your french is not great, chances are the maltre will speak some english. If youve got a morning to spare and want to get out of the city, heres a surprising option. The champagne region is just 35 minutes away by helicopter. Its not cheap. Prices start at 1000, but in no time at all, you will be sipping away. , you willtime at all be sipping away. If you get the chance, check out the ballinger cellar. This 188yearold winemaker is one of the worlds largest. So, now youve had your aperitif, it is time to head back to paris. This city knows how to do luxury. It has had some practice. Other cities might be biting at their heels, but paris still leads the way. Theres no revolution needed. Great food, dangerously good wine, killer style they make it look easy. Announcer from the city of lights, lets head to hollywood. Hannah elliott rides shotgun with a king of comedy who is also a connoisseur of cars. Jay well, the first car i bought when i came to california was my 1955 buick roadmaster, which i still have. Its how i met my wife in it, i got married in that car. Hannah wow. Announcer plus, learn the rules for being a star at a cocktail bar. When it comes to house cocktails, try the way it is made, the way it is written on the menu. Chances are, the bar staff put a lot of effort into making that drink taste as good as possible. Announcer and later, peek inside a factory that makes timeless timepieces. We have more than 30 different job descriptions. Purely different educations, and you find these educations, this training, only in this region. Because nowhere else in the world do you need such kind of knowhow. Announcer this is bloomberg pursuits. Announcer getting a drink at a good bar is one of lifes great pleasures, but there are right ways and wrong ways to go about it. Lets go over the rules. Mr. Bell im jeff bell, general manager of pdt here in new york city. Today, well go over a few dos and donts of drinking at cocktail bars. Theres a few things i see on a nightly basis that i want to address and kind of share with you and things that can make your life easier. Dont come into a bar and ask what is good, because the bartender does not know what you like. Give him something to work with. Say, i like whiskey. Whats good with whiskey . You know, something that we can build off of. If you have dietary restrictions, no problem. We have plenty of options that can fit your needs. Just dont start deconstructing our drinks, adding substitutions here and there. Its going to slow everything down, drinks are going to take a while, and everyone will be mad at you for that. When it comes to house cocktails, try the way its made, the way its written on the menu. Chances are the bar staff put a lot of effort into making that drink taste as good as possible the way it is. Speaking of being dissatisfied with the drink, if you are, it happens. Let us know. Just let us know as soon as possible. Dont drink half the cocktail and then tell us. Tipping a dollar per drink it works at your local bar when they are pouring a draft or opening a bottle of beer, but a little bit more elbow grease goes into a making a craft cocktail from scratch just for you. Most guests tip 20 per craft cocktails. Just because you step foot in a cocktail bar doesnt mean you have to order a cocktail. If its a good bar, they should have good beer, good wine, good nonalcoholic offerings. At the end of the day, drink what you want. Here at pdt, on friday nights it can be a threehour wait. If you come into the bar, sit and just have a glass of water, you are taking away the opportunity for someone else to have a good time. Bars in places like new york and london, the rents are extremely high, so the seat you are sitting in is quite coveted. If you are wondering whether or not you had too much to drink, you probably have. Many states hold bars and bartenders legally responsible for the state of their guests, even after you leave the bar. If you sense you are about to be cut off, avoid the fight. You are not going to win. And remember, guys, you came to the bar to have a good time. So did everyone else. Be considerate to the rest of guests in the bar and the staff, because we are all in this together. Announcer Hannah Elliott can tell you everything you need to know about cars, but theres more to the automotive experience than just the machine, as hannah explains. Hannah you dont write about cars for a living without meeting some pretty interesting characters. So im circling back and getting cozy with some of my favorite automotive aficionados. Well talk shop, luxury, and passion in a new series i call crossing lanes. Jay leno good to see you again. What has it been, a couple years, right . Hannah a couple of years, yeah. Thanks for having me back. Jay there are a few new things. I brought something i think could not be more americana. This is a 1958 imperial. Just the epitome of american optimism. That postwar, we won world war two. Now we started a space program, all cars had fins and the jetsons was coming on tv. Hannah how many feet is this car . Jay i dont know. People lose count after a certain number. They are sort of like dinosaurs from another era. This should be the demographic car that i think the average tv viewer would remember. I mean look how much room there is in this car. Just hilarious. I love how huge the gauges are. Theyre like giant pie plates. This was considered safety. Hannah padded with leather. Jay no great hurry to be safe. The way you start this, you turn the key and hit the neutral button. Everything is pushbutton. Hannah yeah, people think thats a new car thing, but actually, old cars. Jay if you can type, you can drive. Push the button, and you pull away. How many cars can you cross your legs in the front seat . Hannah i mean, none. Except for this. And im tall, too. Jay comfortable car, isnt it . You dont get all windblown. Hannah we can have a conversation even though we are so far apart. Jay you wonder how many 16yearolds took their drivers tests in these big, stupid things . Hannah i mean what about the parallel parking section . That would be an issue. Jay dont think about parallel parking. Hannah so what cars did you grow up idolizing when you were a young kid . Jay when you grow up in a little town in new england, anything with less than four doors might as well have been a ferrari. Nobody had cool cars. I was 9, 10 years old, riding my bicycle up the hill, i saw an old man polishing a 1951 jaguar xj120, and i was fixated. He said, come on over here, you want to sit in it . It was unbelievable. Ive never seen anything like that. You have to remember, back in 1959, 1960, most car magazines are black and white. You didnt really get the sense of speed or excitement or anything from it. Hannah who taught you how to drive . Jay so many houses had abandoned cars in fields, and there was a 2cv in a field near my friends house. And when we were kids, we would go over there and work on it. We got it running and we just would drive around the fields all day. Our moms would sit at the kitchen window and watch us. Ok, i did all right. Hannah once you finally started making some real money, did you finally buy a special car purchase . Jay well the first car i bought when i came to california was my 1955 buick roadmaster, which i still have. I got off the plane. I had no place to live. And in california, you need a car before you need a place to live. Hannah of course. Jay so i bought the 1955 buick for 350. I lived in it. I slept in it. I met my wife in it, i got married in that car. Hannah wow. Jay drove that car to my first tonight show. And i still have it. That was a special car. Hannah how would you define a luxury car . Jay nobody does luxury like the french. The french put a premium on comfort while driving. The cars dont appear to be ostentatious or flashy, but they are exceptionally nice to drive and very, very comfortable. We americans tend to confuse luxury with crass, garish. I mean, look at trumps apartment. Is sitting on a gold chair really comfortable . No, its not luxury at all. Its like oscar wilde, you know . The price of everything, the value of nothing. Hannah have you ever paid more than you thought you should for something that you bought . Jay no, all i have done is buy too early. I see a lot of people, they buy something because they immediately think they will make a lot of money on it. Then when they find out it is not worth as much as they thought, now they hate the car. The most important thing is buy what you like and then worry about the price later. I dont mean that from, like, oh, im so rich. Hannah no. Jay better off if you pay a little bit more and buy something you truly enjoy. Yeah. jay you know . Hannah if you were 21, 22, 23 now, would you still get into the business . Jay i always liked telling stories and doing comedy. I mean, i always liked talking to people. So, yeah, i think that i would. My dad sold insurance, and he became manager. And once a month, to motivate the men, he would put on some kind of goofy show. He would play like the sinatra song high hopes, and he would juggle. So i thought i would sell insurance because you get to do a show once a month. Hannah that is very interesting. Jay yeah. Hannah i love that. Well jay, it has been so great talking with you. Jay yeah, its always fun when you come by. We have fun. We have a good time. Hannah yeah. Jay lets continue motoring. Hannah motoring. Thats a proper term. Term. Er [horn honks] announcer up next, here is a luxury product still made by hand. There is a painstaking process behind each of these beautiful watches. With the mechanical watch, it is really the object, the physical object of the handwork which makes it special and unique. Announcer this is bloomberg pursuits. Announcer to close out bloomberg pursuits, a regular series we call made, because to truly appreciate an object of luxury, you need to go back to the beginning and see how it came to be. The swiss watch brand arnold son makes luxury timepieces from scratch. The companys former head of Product Development took us inside the process earlier this year. Every new watch is like a new piece of art. It has a different story to tell. Its a very interesting thing about watches. On one hand, you have a High Precision device. And the other thing is they have to be hand finished, which is very related to arts and crafts. You have these two worlds in one watch. Both the aesthetical aspect and the mechanical aspect of it. Here we are on our premises where we manufacture all of our watches. Arnold son refers to john arnold, who was one of the biggest and most important watchmakers who ever lived. He invented a lot of Technical Solutions still in use today. The aim of the modern company is to innovate and continue his legacy, but in a contemporary, new manner. The idea is really to continue the story more than repeating it. First, with the design team, we design how the watch should look like the size it should have, the thickness. You have to have a kind of mechanical harmony. Is it good looking or not . And when we are happy with the new complications and think the watch has something new, then we create basically the inner works, which will make the aesthetic happen. The first thing you have to do is to order the right material because we use a lot of different materials in the mechanical movement, going from brass over steel up to titanium or gold and you need a specific material for every different part of it. Once you have the raw material, you start remaking the components. We have different kind of Raw Materials going to different workshops, so depending on the part you want to make. If you want to do watch making on a superhigh level, you need extremely skilled and specifically trained people. We have more than 30 different job descriptions, purely different educations, and you find these educations, this training, only in this region. Because nowhere else in the world do you need such kind knowhow. Working with tiny parts is a challenge because tiny parts make very small tolerances. We are working in micron tolerances, so you cannot do anything without good tooling. We have an inhouse toolmaking department, which makes from the little screwdrivers a watchmaker needs up to a stamping tool, which takes months of development. The reason why we do our tooling inhouse, because if you are not mastering your tools, you are not mastering the part you want to produce. Once all the parts are cut with machinery, they go to be cleaned. Its submitted to quality control, who decides if the part is good enough to continue to the decoration workshop. Different kinds of Traditional Movement decorations are applied, from geneva stripes, satin finish, depending on the components. The mechanical watch you buy today is not the leading technology anymore. Its really craft and art. You are not racing for technological breakthrough, you are more racing for more spectacular watches. You build a very different relation to a mechanical watch than you do to an Electronic Device because the day you buy it, you know the next one will come and you will swap it to getting the better one. With a mechanical watch, it is really the object as a physical object of the handwork which makes it special and unique. That makes, i think, a big difference to something more on the electronic side. Once these parts have been decorated, they are quality checked again to see if the decoration has not affected the functional aspect of it. That is always a bit of a trick. You have to decorate but not deteriorate the part. They go to be reassembled in a specific workshop before going to the watchmaker. You set stones for instance into mainplates, put axis onto wheels, and once all these parts have been reassembled, they arrived to the watchmaker who does the final assembly. The watchmaker gets all the little parts in little boxes. They take the mainplates, which is the base that everything that is built on, and the wheels, put different bridges to hold the wheels in place. You have to add the winding mechanism, because you want to be able to wind your watch. Put a dial on it, then you put hands, and one last thing we add always at the end is the escapement, which is basically the heart of any mechanical watch. It is also what you hear when you listen to a watch, when you hear the ticktock. It is the very first time you will see and hear your watch moving. [watch ticking] starting from the simple beating, its a long process going to a highly accurate mechanical watch. You cannot just put the parts together and expect the watch to tell perfect time. We are checking the watches on for 600 hours on different vibrations and other machines to get really sure everything is ok. A tiny bit of dust you do not see when you put it together, but when you move the watch, it can affect the movement. So this process is really, really long, but this is what the complexity of such a mechanical device requires. Once you see the accuracy of the movement is good, you put it into a watch case which will protect the movement. You add the bracelet and the buckle and you have a watch. Watches are most of the time perceived as a time capsule. Its really something still built today as it used to be for the last century. It is nice also for people to be able to buy something which has always existed and probably will always exist as a form of art. Announcer you can find more films from our made series as well as many more pursuits stories and videos at bloomberg. Com pursuits. Thanks for watching pursuits. This is bloomberg. Coming up on bloomberg best, the stories that shaped the week in business around the world. The brexit deal. Have the deal. While in washington, the challenge is keeping washington open. And the details of tax reform as Congress Heads to congress. 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