Last week, news broke that Audemars Piguet was parting ways with their CEO, Philippe Merk and replacing him (supposedly in interim) with François-Henry Bennahmias, formerly head of AP North America. AP is my favorite “big” brand.  In fact, the watch I wear most often is an AP.  They have great products, great history, and many great people who work there. […]

Yesterday’s post was pretty pessimistic.  However, it’s not all doom and gloom.  So here’s some optimism. Watches are made better today than they ever have been before. The sheer volume and value of the watches sold in the last several years all but ensures that servicing them will be a viable job for many years to come. So many fantastic […]

I mentioned in my post earlier this week that I thought very hard about whether I would want to stay in the watch industry or not.  Ultimately I decided not.  I thought I would share some of my thinking. First, I love watches.  There are great companies, great pieces, and real magic that has come out of this industry, as you […]

Hi everyone.  Thanks for all the emails, tweets, facebooks, etc saying how much you enjoy the blog and wish I’d post more.  I apologize for not keeping it up, blogging is hard!  I have a couple posts in the back of my head, so I’ll try to write some stuff soon.  In the meantime, people seem curious as to what […]