Welcome to the business of watches, the Haudinky podcast where horology meets high finance,

and we go behind the scenes to find the financial drivers of the watch industry.

I'm your host, Andy Hoffman.

This week, the man behind an annual report that often sets the tone for the watch industry for the entire year.

Oliver Mueller is the founder and principal at Lux Consult,

a Swiss-based consultancy that provides the revenue and production estimates for the yearly Morgan Stanley Swiss Watcher report that

the whole industry pays attention to and gives detailed insights into what's working in the

watch business and what isn't. But first, I'm joined by a very special guest to talk about some

of the business news driving the headlines. Ben Clymer needs

no introduction, of course. He is the founder of Houdinke and certainly one of the key drivers

and reasons that the United States is now the biggest single country market for Swiss watch exports.

Music country market for Swiss watch exports. Ben, thank you for joining us.

It's a great pleasure, Andy.

This is my first time doing this with you.

I'm excited.

Indeed, welcome to the business of watches.

And how are things with you today?

What's happening?

Yeah, so I'm at my home office right now working on lots of stuff in the Houdicke realm, including magazine, including

Watches of Wonders, including some more strategic kind of larger conversations with the powers that be.

A very busy day.

But I would say the highlight of it is this conversation right here.

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