Certain kinds of watches do certain kinds of things to certain kinds of people.

I feel like chronographs have the potential to bring out the worst in a watch designer.

People seem to be unable to resist adding just like that one thing that the design totally doesn't need.

Dive Watches really bring out the puritanical in people.

You know, you look at a dive watch, you say to yourself, okay, Dive Watch, this is a purpose-built instrument

designed to fulfill a singular purpose.

It must tick all of these boxes in order to conform to the international standard for

dive watches and anything, anything that is even remotely superfluous to the singularity of purpose

detracts from the purity and integrity of the watch and makes

it an exercise and falsehoods lies and marketing, a soulless contraption devised only

to separate the foolish from their money.

And okay.

You said so much in those two letters, okay. Okay. Hey everybody. I'm your host Stephen Palmer and this is Hodincky Radio.

Over the last few weeks we've had some amazing guests on the show and we've also done a call-in

show giving us a chance to answer some of your questions right on the air.

But we're going to go a little old school with things this week and focus on conversations

with just our editors.

There's been a lot going on in the watch world.

We're getting ready to head into what most of us would think of as the busy season

heading toward the December holidays,

and there have been plenty of new releases, and we're also starting to enter the fall auction season.

So I got Jack and Danny into the virtual studio with me to sort through all of this.

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