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Wrapping Up Watch Madness (Plus Watches & Wonders Goes Online)

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

4.7960 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2020

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

It's been a pretty big week for watches.

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0:00.0

Nobody has put better watches in front of more people than John Mayer over the years.

0:06.2

Like it's just a fact, there's not anybody.

0:08.4

And then you have like a connoisseur, like an actual academic in Goldberg. These are the guys that laid the foundation, right?

0:14.7

I mean, this was episode number one and number three, I believe,

0:17.2

with J.J. in between.

0:18.6

You know, I hesitate to say, to use this word about anything we've ever done.

0:22.0

But like, these are iconic videos, you know, these are things that like,

0:25.0

you know, have shaped the collecting culture over the last seven years. Oh, Hey everybody. I'm your host Stephen Pulverin and this is Hodincky Radio.

0:54.0

It's been a pretty big week in watch news from new releases to watch spotings to trade show updates,

0:59.5

and there are absolutely no sign of things slowing down anytime soon either.

1:04.5

First up this week we've got, you guessed it, some more news.

1:08.0

This week's episode is dropping on April 20th, which is the same day that the

1:11.5

FH is announcing that Watches and Wonders Geneva, which used to be known as Sihih H,

1:16.4

is still going to happen.

1:17.4

It's just going to happen online instead of in person.

1:20.6

Now, last week I spoke with FH Chairwoman and managing director Fabian Lupo to get the full scoop on what that actually means, why it's important for the watch industry to stick together and what all of this might mean for the future of the industry.

1:33.2

Last week also saw the end of Watch Madness, our Talking Watch's Bracket Challenge.

1:37.1

There's so much to discuss there, so I got James and Ben on a video call so that we could

1:40.8

just hash it all out. We talk about our favorite

1:43.4

match-ups, the votes that we found hardest to cast, and dive really deep into the

1:46.9

final few rounds. We also share some personal thoughts though on what

1:50.3

talking watches means to each of us and where we hope it goes from here.

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