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The 10 Most Influential Modern Watches & A New Kind Of Watch Club

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4.7960 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2019

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

We discuss some serious horological reporting from The New York Times and how to create a truly 21st-century community for watch lovers.

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0:00.0

The The And the Hey everybody. I'm your host Stephen Polverin and this is Hodincky Radio.

0:45.8

Our guest this week are two guys named Asher Rapkin and Gabe Riley

0:50.5

and they're the founders of a new kind of watch club based on the West Coast called

0:54.5

Collective.

0:55.8

It started as a Facebook group, but it's evolved into a whole lot more than that.

0:59.4

They do meetups, and they even collaborate with watch brands.

1:03.0

They brought their first watch by, we got to check it out,

1:05.0

and we got to chat about kind of what it means to be a watch enthusiast today

1:09.0

and how these two childhood friends have taken their shared passion for watches

1:12.0

to make something pretty special.

1:14.0

But before that, I sit down with James and John to talk about an article that was published in the New York Times last week

1:21.0

about the 10 watches that have shaped what's on your

1:24.0

risk today. We look at these 10 watches all from the 1990s and newer and kind of

1:29.7

examine how each of them has had an impact on watch culture today. We also talk about the

1:34.8

watches that didn't make the list that we might have included and if you have

1:38.2

suggestions let us know visit hodinky.com leave it in the comments hit hit us up on Instagram. I think there's going to be a lot more

1:45.2

to this conversation down the road. So without further ado, James, John, and myself talking

1:50.1

about the 10 watches that changed what we wear today.

1:53.0

This week's episode is presented by Grand Seco.

2:05.0

Stay tuned later in the show for a look at one of the four watches from the new

2:08.7

Season's collection, which is exclusive to the U.S.

2:12.0

For more, visit Grand Seco.com. Hey guys what's going on? Not too much how you doing?

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