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Phil Toledano And Big Baselworld News

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4.7960 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2020

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

From funky quartz Pateks to egocentric video art, we cover it all.

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I'm just interested in the corners, the little dusty corners that people aren't really paying attention to.

0:05.0

That's the most interesting stuff to me. I mean that's the point of art.

0:09.0

And actually in some ways that's the point of collecting, like there's nothing that makes me more excited than

0:13.7

being surprised whether it's looking at art or looking at someone's watches or

0:18.0

their cars ago oh shit that's so fascinating I haven't seen that before. Oh, Hey everybody. I'm your host Stephen Pulburn and this is Hodincky Radio.

0:49.0

We had a show all mapped out for you, but then at the end of last week on Thursday and Friday mornings we

0:53.8

woke up to some pretty crazy news both the watches and wonders and Baselworld

0:58.4

shows for 2020 have been cancelled that means there's going to be no major watch trade shows this year as far as we can tell. So I

1:05.5

grew up John and Jack, both of whom have been going to these shows for years, and we sat down in the studio as the news was breaking

1:11.2

about Basel World to discuss what's happening, what it means

1:14.2

for the industry, and sort of what it means to us personally to not be attending the

1:17.8

shows. I learned a ton from these guys, especially as the situation is still evolving,

1:22.4

and I think you're really going to like the conversation.

1:24.7

After that, we've got my chat with artist and photographer

1:27.3

Phil Toledano.

1:28.6

You might remember Phil from his 2016 episode of Talking Watches. It was the one with the bright red BMW in the background

1:35.3

and a whole bunch of funky brightling and sako chronographs. Phil is a consummate collector.

1:40.8

His taste is always evolving. He's always looking for that next

1:43.7

interesting under-appreciated thing. Sometimes to the point where even when he

1:47.8

appreciates it, nobody else does. That's kind of what makes him so

1:51.2

interesting and so special.

1:53.0

There's always a why to the what,

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