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Last Wednesday, less than 24 hours after arriving home in Los Angeles from two solid weeks of business travel, I found myself back on the party circuit at an event hosted by Geary’s (Beverly Hills’ preeminent independent retailer) and Tudor Watch to celebrate the latter’s United SportsCar Championship, held in Long Beach, Calif., this past weekend.

I had contemplated flaking out on the cocktail party (so many soirees, so little time!), but I’m so glad that I didn’t.

The venue, a private garage in Beverly Hills housing one of the world’s finest vintage car collections, was better than a museum. Owned by Bruce A. Meyer, a real estate investor who also happens to be founding chairman of the Petersen Automotive Museum and president emeritus of Geary’s, the garage had the vibe of a gallery displaying works of automotive art, from a 1957 Ferrari 250 TRC Testa Rossa originally owned by Ferrari dealer and race-car driver John von Neumann, to a 1929 4½-liter Bentley that Meyer piloted in a