What Watch Brands Get Right (And Wrong) About Proportions

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4.7 • 945 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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This week, I'm joined by Danny Milton and Malaika Crawford, and we're talking proportions: What watch brands get right, what they get wrong, and what we want to see more of. We start with Malaika's recent article, "The Plea For Proportionality," but quickly jump into recent releases from Vacheron Constantin, Tudor, and a whole lot more. While some of these smaller and mid-sized releases have garnered headlines, at large, average watch sizes haven't gotten much smaller, though options have certainly increased. Nowadays, tastes are broader than ever before, and that's creating a new demand on brands to recognize that goods things can come in small, medium, and large packages. We finish with a wish list of well-proportioned watches we'd like to see from brands.

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0:21.0	Welcome back to Hodinke Radio. I'm editor Tony Trina. Today I've got managing editor Danny Milton with me.
0:27.0	Danny, how are you doing today?
0:28.0	Hey Tony, doing well, how about you?
0:30.0	I'm good, thanks for asking. No one ever asks how the host is doing.
0:33.6	Glad to be here for you. I've also got fashion editor Malika Crawford.
0:37.2	Malika how are you doing today? I asked you how you were last time I was on Tony.
0:41.8	That's true.
0:43.0	Short memory train over here.
0:44.7	Yeah, the world's smallest violin for me.
0:46.5	All right, well listen guys, today we're going to be talking about watch
0:49.5	proportions, what watch brands are getting right,
0:51.7	and what we want to see more of.
0:53.0	We're using an article by our own fashion editor Malika here titled
0:56.7	The plea for proportionality that we published a couple of weeks ago as a jumping off point
1:00.5	for our discussion.
1:01.5	To me Malika's article is actually making the simple
1:03.9	point that brands need to look at what collectors enthusiasts are really wearing and
1:07.8	asking for and offer more watches and more sizes. Of course the supposed trend
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