Independents

What's going on ?! None of them are watchmakers. (rising stars... calm down please) Are we running out of true watchmakers ?! ...  

This is for Chiccolini ...  

...mak'et'ting and moy'chan'dizing. We know influencers are 'paid' (benefit) to influence. Good for them, wish we had more. To boldly go where, oh wait, wrong video. Here' you go

Gorilla market... find out when the conference venue will not be used. Hire two ladies with Seminar signs.... Aaaaan then 'drop' the Seminar and have the ladies direct people to the seminar. Note: I'm a 'solution-oriented' type. Imho Simon should humbly a... 

Because we all wonder why they matter to us.

Thanks for the laugh!

And other times Revolution has some interesting horology news and articles.

How would you grade a good publishing house? Perspective? Thoroughness? Detailed technical information? Excellent analyses? Timely content? Revolution has got most of those. The Rake (a sister publication) is so sophisticated that I find it harder to read... 

That there’s more to peacocks and showboating when it comes to Singapore. Wei certainly does not represent the country that I live in. If he does, then the country looks pretty shallow. Best Gatsby

So many jokes I can make here. While Wei is not an ambassador who represents Singapore…. If you know his background he’s very close to an ambassador…. And I will say that I like Wei. He knows his stuff. And I find his knowledge is not shallow at all. ... 

WK is really a wonderful quirky guy if you can see past his salesman style speech. His knowledge is quite extensive. But to get to realize his knowledge may mean you might need to sit through some more salesman style speech. If you attend a lot of the pre... 

Thank you Spangles! I'm slapping my knees and laughing! Tell the cats this funny story. They'll roll in laughter at my expense! This is one of those days!

We should applaud the risk takers. And realize, the risk takers come with their own baggage and crazy Rolex rants. Ugh - I didn't like that Rolex rant neither.

But look at the head honchos for a lot of brands... MB&F, Patek Philippe, R. Gauthier, etc. These brands are all headed by Presidents, CEOs, Managing Directors who never went to watchmaking school.

Competition keeps prices low and quality high supposedly in standard economic theory. Which is a good thing for consumers!

One could argue it's the opposite, these folks are just friction in the system, more micro-brands further fragmenting production, reducing economies of scale, and actually driving prices up while their lack of experience in actual watch making will result... 

I wonder if Michael Crichton is a watch guy…

To me brands like Fleming are the opposite reason I like independents. Just a bunch of random stuff from 3p vendors with and OKish design with nothing daring. It’s amazing how generic it is.

They walk around these events like Moviestars . Luckily there are some smaller panel discussions with true watchmakers

Not a lot of difference here. Next… Cheers, Tim