Considered Q&A
Talking style and watches with the 'lovable grump'.
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Sitting down with Shinola’s first watch design intern to talk, art, design, and of course, watches.
Read MoreChatting with Books on Time about some of his favorite horology books, Vulcain Crickets and jump hour watches, and visiting Patek Philippe boutiques just to read.
Read More📷TrueDome
The new spiraling structure is a museum, workshop and archive for the luxury watch brand.
Read MoreVortic Watches, including co-founder RT Custer (right) | Vortic Watches
It’s been a long two-plus years for Vortic Watches since Hamilton filed a trademark infringement and counterfeiting lawsuit against it back in July of 2017 (see the original complaint here). But, the suit finally comes to a head this week as a bench (i.e. non-jury trial) is set to begin in the Southern District of New York on February 19 (Hamilton International Ltd. v. Vortic LLC, 17-CV-5575).
Read MoreOn January 15, laCalifornienne submitted an answer to Rolex’s complaint filed in the Central District of California. As expected, laCalifornienne has denied the claims brought by Rolex.
Read MoreWorn & Wound’s 2019 Windup Watch Fair in Chelsea Market | Windup Watch Fair
In Worn & Wound’s final podcast of the year, hosts Zach Weiss, Blake Malin and Zach Kazan tease that a Worn & Wound Windup Watch Fair in Chicago in 2020 is “all but certain”. The news came after the group had just visited the city to host an event with Chicago microbrand Oak & Oscar.
Read MoreIn a recent sit-down with the Des Moines Register’s editorial board, Democratic Presidential candidate Andrew Yang was asked why he didn’t wear an Apple Watch. “This is a Shinola watch” Yang exclaimed. “I’m friendly with the Shinola guys and gals.” The interviewer had noticed the watch had stopped moving and that the battery needed to be replaced, indicating that Yang was wearing one of Shinola’s quartz-powered watches.
Read MoreFirst reported by major Swiss news outlets and now Reuters, the Swiss Competition Commission (Comco, also referred to by German acronym Weko) will ban Swatch Group’s sales of subsidiary ETA’s mechanical movements to most watchmakers in 2020 while Comco contemplates a final resolution to the long-running saga between the Swiss antitrust regulator and Comco.
Read MoreIn a statement published on December 18, Swatch Group threatened to pursue damages after the Swiss Competition Commission (Weka, or Comco) earlier signaled that it will ban sales of Swatch Group subsidiary ETA’s movements to third parties in 2020 (as we reported on Sunday here).
Read MoreA Swiss newspaper is reporting that Swatch Group subsidiary ETA will be banned from supplying its mechanical watch units in 2020. Swiss newspaper Grencher Tablatt is reporting that a decision will be handed down by Switzerland’s Competition Commission (Weka) this week, without yet identifying what triggered the potentially far-reaching decision.
Read MoreBack in October, I wrote about my buying experience with Chronext. It’s an online secondary market platform that connects authorized dealers from around the world with customers, often allowing for prices much lower than MSRP. Chronext sources and inspects all the watches it sells before shipping them to buyers around the world.
Read MoreAround the holidays, outlets are prone to putting out all kinds of “gift guides”. This year, instead of a listicle that Santa can check twice, I thought I’d give a review of a book I often see on these lists: The Watch, Thoroughly Revised.
Read MoreSwiss watch exports grew by 1.5% in October 2019 as compared to a year prior, totalling 2.03 billion Swiss francs (CHF). But, growth was hindered by the Hong Kong market, which saw exports decline by 29.7%, while the rest of the world was up 6.5%. Like outside the watch industry, much of the headlines within the watch industry have been dominated by Hong Kong throughout the year.
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