Are Watch Winders Good For Anything? – Reprise
A client once asked John Keil if there are any benefits to using automatic watch winders. The short answer is that he has two viewpoints on them. Click to learn the pros and cons as he sees them.
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Professional Watch Journalists Reveal What Makes Them Tick: WATCH-ing Out (Video)
/0 Comments/in Collectors and Collecting, Thoughts & Opinion, Video/by Elizabeth DoerrMany professsional watch journalists may or may not have loved watches when they first started writing about them. But attitudes and personal tastes transform over time, so that some journalists who started in another field may come to love watches more than they ever thought possible. And four of them feature in this Instagram Live video. The overriding question answered is what makes individuals like us decide on what we do, say, buy, collect, and, above all, write?
For The Love Of Two-Tone Watches – Reprise
/10 Comments/in Highlights, Collectors and Collecting, Thoughts & Opinion/by Martin GreenA discussion with fellow collectors that is bound to elicit interesting responses is two-tone watches. People tend to either love them or hate them. The lovers consider them the perfect mix between a sporty looking watch and a dress watch. People who don’t care for them may think of them as a weak compromise at best. What do you think?
WatchBox Commentary On Hodinkee Takeover Of Crown & Caliber And State Of The Pre-Owned Market
/0 Comments/in Watch Brands & Horology, Highlights, Thoughts & Opinion/by Elizabeth DoerrIn 2020/2021, the pre-owned landscape has experienced a seismic shift called consolidation, led by the acquisition of online vintage and pre-owned dealer Analog/Shift by Watches of Switzerland in late 2020 and more recently Hodinkee purchasing Crown & Caliber. Elizabeth Doerr converses with pre-owned watch specialist WatchBox’s CEO Justin Reis for views on the Hodinkee takeover and the current pre-owned market.
Vintage Watch Snobbery AKA How I Met Your Mother – Reprise
/2 Comments/in Thoughts & Opinion, Vacheron Constantin, Vintage/by What Makes Me TickStanding before his eyes was the most perfect of God’s creatures, a wonderful mix of Audrey Hepburn and Penelope Cruz. What Makes Me Tick thought his heart had skipped a beat, and he heard the chimes of every single minute repeater Patek Philippe had ever created – all chiming at exactly the same time! Six months later the gentle creature and he were married. This extraordinary story reflects the marvelous world of vintage watches: finding the rare bird, linking it to a story, and never letting it go.
Tim Mosso Of Watchbox And Elizabeth Doerr Share Views About The Impact Of COVID-19 On The Big Fairs And Other Current Events (Video)
/1 Comment/in Highlights, Thoughts & Opinion, Video/by Elizabeth DoerrWatchbox’s energetic Tim Mosso chats with Elizabeth Doerr about the watch industry in the time of crisis, and the two share views on canceled trade shows, the increased importance of the internet, how brands might weather the storm, and much more.
Taking Stock Of First Quarter 2020: Significant Damage To The Watch Industry
/2 Comments/in Highlights, Events, Fairs & Exhibitions, Thoughts & Opinion/by Elizabeth DoerrWith the two big Swiss fairs’ very existences hanging in the precipice thanks to past mistakes and the global pandemic COVID-19, and with no inkling of a clear way forward, Elizabeth Doerr looks at the turbulent first three months of 2020 and shares how brand managers are reacting to the ‘new normal.’
Celebrity Brand Ambassadors, Are They Really A Good Fit For Watch Brands? (Video) – Reprise
/2 Comments/in Thoughts & Opinion, Video/by Elizabeth DoerrThe Watches TV founder Marc-André Deschoux shares his thoughts on celebrity watch brand ambassadors, starting with Tudor and David Beckham, which he personally felt was counterproductive: so much so that the announcement pushed him to not make a Tudor purchase he was leaning toward.
Gerontohorologyphobia: A Young Man’s Fear Of Being Seen Wearing An Old Man’s Watch
/14 Comments/in Highlights, Thoughts & Opinion, Seiko, Vintage/by Colin Alexander SmithColin was wearing a steel watch with blue dial when the receptionist at the trading company he was working for, a chirpy lass straight out of the BBC’s ‘Eastenders’ soap opera, looked down disdainfully and said, “I hate watches with blue dials. They remind me of old men in pubs.” What happened after that can only be described as a case of gerontohorologyphobia: fear of inadvertently wearing an old man’s watch.
Trends: Not All Watches Are Created Equal – Reprise
/0 Comments/in Thoughts & Opinion/by Martin GreenTrends rule a larger part of our lives than many of us wish to admit. Sometimes we follow trends consciously, but often we are subconsciously influenced in the choices we make. All brands perform a delicate tightrope walk, but they differ in how successful they are. Martin Green takes a look at how trends affect or don’t affect now-iconic timepieces.