I just

I just recently deleted all of my social apps on my phone.

Yeah, I really sort of urge everybody to kind of do that because you know it's just it's it's killing us, you know, like as a society. We just got, we got to move on.

Or at least kind of simplify and get back to basics.

Which again is sort of like, that's sort of the beauty of the timepiece, of the watch. You know, it's sort of the beauty of the timepiece of the watch you know it's sort of like this is this this is

is as basic as it can get. Oh, Hey everybody. I'm your host Stephen Pulburnin and this is Hodinck Radio.

I was able to grab Ben to talk through a whole bunch of things that have been going on in the Hodinck

Universe this past week.

It started off last Monday. We published our first ever book. We published it in

partnership with Asseline. It's called Watches, a guide by Hodincky. And it was really a team effort. Everyone on the

editorial team banded together to write what we think is a really great kind of

primer about watches. It's something if you're a die-hard you can find new things.

If you're somebody who knows nothing about watches, this is about as good a first step you can take. We also then talked

about some stories that we published over the past week, everything from the release of the

new 007 James Bond watch from Omega to an undiscovered astronaut watch that our friend Jeff Stein found to some pre-auction coverage.

Ben and I kind of dive a little deeper into the auction catalog getting past what you would initially

think of as the highlights. Then we've got my conversation with Mark Thorpe. Mark's an artist,

he's an architect, he's a designer, he's somebody who's kind of hard to pin down.

He thinks really deeply about things, but in a totally unpretentious way, he's a ton of fun to talk

to, and he's somebody I wanted to have on the show for a while.

He's actually been mentioned on the show before, so we thought it was time to get him in the studio and hear

from him firsthand. So without further ado let's go.

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