Life on the Wrist

Today we take at a unique piece manufactured by Patek Philippe to be sold at the biannual Children Action Gala. We also discuss how some watches selling on the second-hand market go for way over the market price and whether or not watch companies should police the buyers.

The unique piece reference 5270 in titanium from Patek Philippe can be found here.

The interview between Wei Koh and Max Busser can be found here.

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Finding where to buy a watch as a new collector can be difficult. With so many people interested in watches now, it can be difficult to just find the watch available. The second-hand or grey market is where many people go to buy their desired watches, but are there better ways? With a bit of patience and a focus on the watch collecting journey, there may be.

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2022 has been a wonderful year of watches. Amazing new releases, enjoying our hobby together after 2 years of isolation and finally, a movie that all watch enthusiasts must see.

Keeper of Time explores the astonishing and beautiful world of mechanical watchmaking while contemplating the theoretical and philosophical notions of time, aging and mortality. Along with interviews from cutting-edge scholars in the fields of theoretical physics, physiology and philosophy, Keeper of Time features the stories of four of the best independent watchmakers in the world — Philippe Dufour, Roger W. Smith, François-Paul Journe and Max Büsser.

The World Premier of the show is on April 28th. There is a live premier at the SVA Theatre in New York City at 5:45pm EST and a virtual showing at the same time. Tickets can be found below!

The Keeper of Time website can be found here.

The trailer for Keeper of Time can be found here.

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Alright, watch brands brought the heat this year at Watches and Wonders. There were some incredible watches that your favourite brands showcase this year. Patek Philippe released an incredible dial variation for their Calatrava’s. Vacheron Constantin released a re-issue of their famous reference 222, a skeleton tourbillon Overseas and a serious perpetual calendar chronograph. Tudor even released a Black Bay GMT S&G ‘Root Beer’ that will no doubt be a success. Stay tuned for more coverage of these and other watches from Watches and Wonders 2022 on our Youtube channel and editorial section of the website.

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What a crazy weekend! The watch world definitely spoke this weekend about the collaboration between Omega and Swatch to create their Omega Speedmaster MoonSwatch collection. We discuss the details and the craziness seen at Swatch stores across the world. Our article about the MoonSwatch can be found here.

Watches and Wonders 2022 kicks off this week and watch brands certainly have a lot to live up to with the recent releases that have come out of some of the best Swiss watch houses.

Lastly, Phillips and Christie’s start sharing pictures of the watches being featured in their auctions over the next auction season like The Royal Oak 50th and The Geneva Watch Auction: XV.

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Bulgari has been all over watch news over the last 10 years. Incredible releases have come out of the watch house for many records that they have set. Well, they are at it again. Bulgari has made the thinnest watch ever produced, beating the Piaget Altiplano Ultimate Concept which was 2mm thick. The Bulgari Octo Finnisimo Ultra comes in at 1.80mm!

Now, sure, the record is outstanding, but get this. The watch has a scannable QR code on the front of the watch that gives the wearer a NFT artwork. How modern is that?

An article covering the watch can be found here.

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Exports kicked of the year on a good note, notching up 6.8% compared to this time last year. There were interesting results for steel watches, which made up 3/4 of total exports for the month. We discuss main markets, price categories and significant regions for the month.

January 2022 results can be found here.

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During my travels this week, I was able to catch up on some of the movies I had missed. I ended up watch Ford vs Ferrari - an epic film about the 1966 24 hour Le Mans race. This was a showdown between Ford Motor Company and Ferrari featuring Matt Damon as Carroll Shelby and Christian Bale as Ken Miles. Of course, I couldn’t miss the watches on their wrist which were two really great Heuers. The first, a Heuer Carrera, Reference 7753 SN and the second Autavia ref. 2446 ‘Rindt’.

Hodinkee’s coverage for the watches can be found here.

On The Dash covered the watches as well, here.

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Coming back from a hiatus, let’s cover a couple of topics that happened over the last few weeks.

The owner of the 5711 Tiffany Blue Nautilus that sold at auction is revealed, but it isn’t the winning bidder! His Instagram can be found here.

A 5740 Perpetual Calendar Nautilus was spotted!

Grand Seiko releases a icy blue dialed watches.

Audemars Piguet releases the first-ever openworked AP Royal Oak Flying Tourbillon.

Tag Heuer celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Autavia.

Zenith plays with two dial colours in their latest their latest watch, the Zenith Chronomaster Revival Lupin The Third – Final Edition.

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Blockchain technology has given birth to so many different facets in the world today. Whether it is cryto-currencies, the use of general ledgers or NFT’s, there has been a lot of adoption by the public, and even the watch world. Hodinkee posted an interesting article about NFT watches, which sparked the idea to make this Podcast. We also delve into the application of some of this technology to watch collecting, and talk through this 2019 article we posted about Vacheron Constantin’s use of blockchain technology.

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