Worldwide, the like market penetration of luxury wrist watches is still pretty small.

Like there's nothing but room for growth here.

And if this is going to survive into the 21st century in a real meaningful way, this can't be a

brand A versus brand B every minute of everyday situation. Like 21st century consumers expect

more than that and are too smart for that and I'm hoping the industry can kind of like pull together and find a new a new way forward for everybody that is better for everyone. Oh, Hey everybody I'm your host Stephen Palmer and this is Hodincky radio.

2020. It's been a doozy of a year to say the least.

And it feels really weird to say that this year's been good

in any meaningful way, but to wrap things up for 2020,

we decided to try to find the bright spots and to celebrate

them a little bit.

So with that in mind, we've got two segments for you this week.

The first is James, Danny, and me picking our favorite watches of the year. And rather than go with the

usual best chronograph, best dress watch categories, we've decided to break

2020 down month by month, selecting our favorite drops from each. Considering there was a period of time in March

and April where we genuinely didn't know if we'd get any new watches at all this year, the final crop is pretty

outstanding. At the end we'll each crown our favorite watch at a year overall so

you'll definitely want to stick around for that. After that conversation we're

gonna zoom out a little bit and I sit down with Jack, John, and Cole to get a macro look at what the lasting effects of

2020 will be on the watch world, specifically with things like the trade shows and

product releases. The way that the watch industry has functioned for about a hundred years now

was completely disrupted and it was really great to get some insights from these

guys like Jack and John who have been around a long time and Cole who's coming to this a little bit fresh to see maybe

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