Not only does this make the watch more interesting, but it makes your boutique a more interesting thing, and also when you engrave a watch, you make it a lot harder for the person to sell it.

You change the way that the emotional connection with the watch, and that's not something you can buy as a brand. Hey everybody I'm your host Stephen Polverin and this is Hodincky Radio.

We're here with our last special kind of like quote-unquote live watches and wonders podcast.

Got John and James here and we're going to talk about independent watchmaking.

What's going on guys? Hey, man, how you doing? We're doing the trade show thing, man.

Yeah, weird remote trade show. We're doing the trade show thing from three different cities.

I'm in the office actually right now for the trade show.

Yeah, it's weirdly comforting to see that, but that Zoom background.

So weird.

You could be like, Cole, you could be on the other side of the world.

It's just a good background, but I like to think that you're

in the world. Yeah I jumped out a call with Cullen was like hey man where are you coming to us from expecting an

answer like Florida or New Jersey and got

Bancoc which was pretty good.

James I gotta say trade shows

way less exciting without the kebab spot.

Oh yeah no I mean the whole scene is you know padded

no kebab spots no late night you know the whole scene is padded.

No cabab spots, no late night, you know,

working on three posts at once

while everybody tries to decide like,

how late can I stay up where it doesn't totally

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