Why Are Some Watch Brands Underappreciated?

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Radio, Society & Culture, Podcast, Watches, Rolex, Horology, Wrist Watch, John Mayer, Daytona, Omega, Leisure, Hodinkee, Talking Watches, Paul Newman, Ben Clymer, Hodinkee Radio, Arts

4.7 • 945 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

This week I'm joined by Ben Clymer and client advisor Rich Fordon. We cover a range of topics, but our main discussion is about underappreciated high-end watch brands. Using Laurent Ferrier as something of a case study, we discuss why an important watchmaker might not be recognized as such by the market, what went wrong, and what can be done to change a brand's perception. Before that, we offer quick takes on some of the biggest news of the last week: We talk about Audemars Piguet's slate of releases, including John Mayer's limited edition QP; the Morgan Stanley Luxe Consult report on the Swiss watch industry in 2023, finally, we offer a few recommendations for Hollywood movies about watches, as Oscars season comes to a close. Thanks again to Accutron for supporting Hodinkee Radio. For more on the Accutron DNA Casino Collection, visit accutronwatch.com.

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0:00.0	This episode of Hodinke Radio is brought to you by Acetron and the new DNA Casino Collection.
0:05.0	With 100 pieces made in four vibrant colors, the Acetron DNA Casino perfectly fuses futuristic watchmaking and bold design.
0:13.2	Stay tuned later in the show for more on the brand's new collection
0:16.0	or visit Accutron Watch. com for all the details.
0:21.9	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another episode of Hodinke Radio.
0:26.0	The watch world is kicking into high gear guys.
0:28.0	Watches and Wunders is only about a month away.
0:30.4	We've got exciting releases to talk about for just a few minutes here at the top.
0:34.1	Maybe the biggest release of the year so far we're going to get to from omega in just a second.
0:40.1	But before that let me introduce the guest. First of all you already heard him founder Ben climber then how are you doing today?
0:46.0	Do you think that they could tell it was me when I said yeah of course that come on? It's like one of those songs that you can recognize with one note.
0:53.7	You play a note of thriller or something like that.
0:56.1	I was going to say, hey Jude, but yeah, thriller works. I appreciate that.
0:59.1	How are you Tony?
1:00.3	I'm good, I'm good. Thank you so much for being on the show. You know a few weeks ago you were on
1:05.3	calling from your your home office here and I'm glad that we get to see some of what we've got going on in the
1:10.0	background here all kinds of goodies all kinds of
1:12.6	all sorts of stuff yeah so someday we'll do a tour of all the stuff it's still being
1:15.7	set up thus the the boxes and such kind of right there but we're getting there
1:20.1	okay along with then we've got our client advisor former Division 1
1:24.1	athlete Rich Forden who is sitting just a few offices away from me in the in the
1:28.8	Hodinkey Radio headquarters down in New York City. Rich how you doing today?
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