I'm going to It's another January, which means we are here in Chile Geneva for the Sihih H Salon Internationale de O'Liorgerie, pardon my terrible French,

but it's really the first big event of the year on the watch calendar. It's where brands from I

Longenzona to Cardier to JLC to Panneri and then smaller brands like the

Grunfelds and MB&F show the watches that they're going to be presenting to their retailers and

their customers for the rest of the year. It's a chance to take stock of where the

watch industry is and what customers are looking for. And this year's a little bit special to the fair, Basel World and

SIHH are both kind of in flux and this year's S.I.H. is the last one for Reshard Meel

and for Autumn R. P. Gae who showed up with a pretty huge release for them, the Code 1159,

which we're going to get into a little bit in this episode, but it felt important for us to do something

different, something a little extra this year.

So in addition to all the great coverage on the web and all the stuff we're going to be

producing real-time on social media, we thought it would be fun to do some daily

podcast updates. So you're going to be getting a kind of mini episode

today, the one you're listening to right now, and then another episode on

Tuesday and a final episode on Wednesday where we'll wrap up the show. It's going to

be different team members every day.

We're going to try to provide you some different perspectives

and give you a little bit of an inside look

at the first important show of the watch calendar.

I'm your host Stephen Pulverin, this is a special S. I.H.

2019 edition of Hodinke Radio. All right, day one. Day one, indeed.

We got John Bues. of S. I. H. H. 2019.

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