Eric Ku and Justin Gruenberg (Loupe This)

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4.7 • 945 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Today on the podcast I'm thrilled to have two legendary collectors and dealers join me, Eric Ku and Justin Gruenberg. Of course, Eric is no stranger to Hodinkee, having appeared on the site, Talking Watches, and this podcast. He got his start as a vintage watch dealer, soon founding 10Past10 back in 2005. Most recently, he co-founded the online auction site Loupe This in 2021. He's since become known for his expertise in Rolex, Cartier, and pretty much all things vintage. Eric's Loupe This co-founder is today's other guest, Justin Gruenberg. Justin is a second-generation watch and jewelry dealer from L.A., and since joining the family business he also founded the vintage dealer The Keystone. Justin is widely admired for his wide tastes that run the gamut from vitntage to modern, sport to dress, and everything in between. Both of these guys have a keen eye, great taste, and extensive about watches. In today's episode, we discuss the most recent auctions and the market more broadly, what dealers and auctions can do better, and git into the nitty-gritty with vintage Patek, Rolex, and Cartier. We also have a little fun – I get both of the guys to tell me what watch they'd love to snag from the other's collection. Thanks as always for listening, and make sure to hit the show notes to follow along with some of the watches we discuss.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another episode of Hodinke Radio.
0:03.0	Today on the podcast I'm thrilled to have on two legendary watch collectors and dealers,
0:07.0	Eric Koo and Justin Gruenberg.
0:09.0	Of course, Eric is no stranger to Hodinke having appeared on the site, talking watches, and on this podcast.
0:14.6	He got his start as a vintage dealer soon founding 10 past 10, way back in 2005.
0:19.6	Most recently he co-founded the online auction site Loop This in 2021. He's since become known for his expertise in relics,
0:25.6	Cartier, and pretty much all things vintage. Of course, Eric's Loopthist co-founder is today's other guest, Justin Grunberg.
0:32.1	Justin is a second generation watch and jewelry dealer from LA,
0:35.0	and since joining the family business has also founded the vintage dealership of the Keystone.
0:40.0	Justin is widely admired for his wide taste that run the gamut from vintage to modern, sports
0:44.5	address, and pretty much everything in between.
0:47.1	In today's episode we talk about the most recent auctions, the market more broadly, what
0:51.2	dealers and auctions can do better, but we also have a little fun.
0:54.1	I get both of these guys to tell me what watch they'd love to snag from each other's
0:57.2	collection.
0:58.2	So without further ado, let's get to my conversation with Eric Koo and Justin Grumberg.
1:03.0	All right, so another episode of Hodinke Radio,
1:05.0	thank you to Eric Koo and Justin Grunberg.
1:08.0	Two real legends here, legendary dealers here in the United States, known currently I would say perhaps most as
1:15.6	co-founder of Loop This, but we're going to get into their backgrounds a little bit more.
1:19.6	And then we're going to have a lot of auction, market discussion and just general fun watch discussion.
1:25.0	Eric Koo of course is no stranger to Hodinke radio.
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