You started designing watches pretty early on in your career as a watch enthusiast, right?

There were a lot of things that I wanted that I couldn't have.

Couldn't afford, couldn't find, and then you look at them and go, well, you know what,

what if that was slightly different or what if that took on that aesthetic and basically I started scribbling to see whether

those ideas would work I learned a lot about what I like and what I dislike from a design point of view because you have to make a conscious choice about every single line, screw, dial element, forces you to consciously evaluate when you look back on your work, do you still like it two or three years later? Oh, Hey everybody I'm your host Stephen Pulverin and this is Hodinke Radio.

I'm recording this in my hotel room in Tokyo just a day after we launched

Hodinky Japan the first ever international edition of Hodinky based here in Tokyo and I'm here with Enri our

C. O. O. and Ben and Dave for a pair of launch events we hosted yesterday at

the Trunk Hotel in Shibuya and we thought it'd be fun

between those two events to sit down and have a couple minutes just the four of us

during the kind of eye of the storm to talk about what this all means what it was like to put

Hodinke Japan together to build a team here in Tokyo and what it means emotionally to see Hodinke in Japanese in another market with a new global team for the first time.

It's a pretty special thing and we get into all of that.

So then we've got a conversation that I had a couple weeks ago with our own Jack Forrester and then Ming Tian, the founder of Ming Watches, and his colleague, Preneth Raj Singh, who's their head of operations, about what it's like to start a watch brand.

Ming started as an enthusiast and in 2017 after years and years of preparation launched Ming watches.

One thing that's going to stand out is the conversation is already a bit outdated.

Like I said, we had it a couple weeks ago, but in the time since, Ming won the Horological Revelation Prize at the 2019 GPHG in Geneva.

And I got to see Ming in Geneva just a few moments after their win and I have to say it really

couldn't happen to a better group of guys and it's amazing to see enthusiasts

enter the space and get rewarded for it. So without further ado, let's get into it.

This week's episode is presented by Tag Hoyer.

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