FabR[Senior Patek Moderator]
26166
Definitely with you here -- I might be getting old, but in general, the charm of reading and handling the hardcopy of a good text is incomparable to reading it off of a computer or iPhone...
Jan 10, 2022,23:19 PM
In Math, with my papers I even try to specifically target the (very few) top journals that still mail you a copy of the offprints, rather than e-mailing a cheap pdf (this was my excuse to publish a few good papers in the Journal of Number Theory recently! ;-))
In our world, I'm glad that Patek keeps producing the hardcopy versions of its two texts I care the most about (the International Magazine and the annual Rare Handcrafts volumes), and I very much hope we'll never cease production of these!
Comments:
view entire thread
Well, I for one lament
By: Thomas_3 : January 10th, 2022-21:24
the fact that most watch manufacturers have done away with print catalogs. I understand the reasoning but I do not like it. I looked forward to receiving them and really enjoyed sitting down and looking thru them, over and over ad over again. Some I would...
Yup! I'd flip them as I went to bed...
By: patrick_y : January 12th, 2022-00:55
My bed routine... Brush my teeth, gargle with mouthwash, go to bed, prop up a pillow, read some watch catalogues off my nightstand (or car catalogues), put them down, and go to sleep and dream... Now, no more dreaming materials...
Alas...
By: amanico : January 12th, 2022-07:36
I am with you too!
By: MCG (Markus) : January 10th, 2022-21:41
Not sure if Brands miscalculate the value of these catalogs!
As with watches, likewise car brochures
By: cazalea : January 11th, 2022-00:45
Having worked in a number of male-dominated offices and garages, no proper “men’s room” exists (in my opinion) without a few stacks of pleasantly-distracting reading material, WHICH MUST BE PRINT. No “enter password” or “sorry, source is off-line” is acce...
+++1!
By: amanico : January 11th, 2022-07:17
Interestingly...
By: watchme : January 11th, 2022-14:43
Breitling, under George Kern, put out a hard copy of the 21/22 catalog. Personally, I LOVED the JLC white catalogs because they included the history of the brand. I understand getting rid of print media, but at least duplicate the historical narrative on ...
ISBN 978-0789213990 is the Watch Annual 2021
By: chippyfly : January 11th, 2022-15:23
I am waiting to buy Watch Annual 2022, an US publication with many manufacturers' latest watches and their brief details with estimated prices, pictures and other articles of interest. It is great value and includes many of the Independents as well as the...