I would be read a lot and try to make informed decisions. If you're just starting out collecting, you will make some mistakes, but I would, I think by educating yourself, by reading, you know, people who know what they're talking about, you can

mitigate a lot of that risk.

Enjoy buying watches, but you know, learning about them is part of the fun too. Hey everybody. I'm your host Stephen Palmer and this is Hodinky Radio.

This week we're dedicating the entire show to one conversation and that's an interview between me and our own senior editor Mr. John Bues.

John's somebody I've known as long as I've been in the watch industry as you'll hear we met

maybe my first or second week at Hodincky and he was on my first ever press junket with me.

And our careers have kind of intertwined

over the years at a few different places.

So it was really fun for me to sit down with him

and get some time to reminisce about some good old times and to hear

about some things about his life and his career that I didn't know about even after all of these

years of working together. So we'll talk about watches, we'll talk about how the watch

media space has changed over the years, we'll talk about his own collecting, but we'll

also talk about the other things he's passionate about like traveling to

Japan and cooking at home. So I think you're really going to like this one.

It gives you some insight into one of our core team members.

I think you're going to learn some things you didn't know.

And I'm going to let John do most of the talking here.

So without further ado, let's do this.

Hey dude how how's it going? Going well man, how are you?

Good, it's Friday afternoon, man.

I'm ready, uh, ready for some weekend.

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