Today I am shooting a feature for Tiempo de Relojes, one of the premier watch magazines in Mexico and the organizers of the Salón Internacional Alta Relojería which is, IMHO (in my humble opinion), the best watch show in North America. They do a feature where they follow someone in the industry who shows them their favorite spots in whichever […]

Had dinner with my wife and my mother last night.  My wife is a very talented and successful photographer who has worked quite a bit with high fashion and my mother has been a huge fan of luxury and fashion for her whole life.  My wife is putting together clothes for a new photo series and was showing them to […]

It’s Tech Tuesday again on TickTocking!  (I wish alliteration started with a T) Yesterday Google released a new project called The Wilderness Downtown.  It is essentially a choreographed, interactive, personalized music video done in collaboration with Arcade Fire designed to showcase the capabilities of the modern browser.  If you haven’t seen it yet, you should definitely take a look.  Make sure you […]

This is the best video I have found to demonstrate how a mechanical watch works (don’t be scared by the title, the video is in English): I post this for a few reasons.  First, it is shocking how many people who love, buy, sell, write about and talk about watches have no idea how one even works.  While it is […]

Hope you all are having a great weekend. Just to let you know, I installed Disqus today, a new comment system that will hopefully make it easier to have real-time discussions on here. Unfortunately it wiped out all the comments from last week. Thank you very much to those of you who commented. I will try not to erase them […]

I’m amazed at how well this blog has been received so far.  I’m really glad you all like it.  Thanks for the support. I wanted to close the week out with THE question: how do you sell a $100,000 watch?  Of course that question has as its flipside: why buy a $100,000 watch?  This is something that I will be […]

There was a great article in The Observer the other day about “reverse product placement”.  This passage gives you the gist: Here’s the deal: Remember how Snooki, drunk or sober, was never seen without that Coach bag dangling from the crook of her arm? Snooki and her Coach were as synonymous as The Situation and his six-pack. But then the […]

One of the industry roles least understood by the consumer is that of the distributor.  A distributor is a local agent who buys watches in bulk from the manufacturer and then resells them to local retailers.  In return for receiving a bigger margin than a retailer would, the distributor generally handles PR and marketing, sales training, some level of after-sales […]

Aside from being a big part of my life, technology is my strongest interest outside of watches.  For much smarter people’s take on it, try some of the links to the right.  Here I am going to take each Tuesday to highlight something interesting from the world of technology and, hopefully, how it relates to watches.While the internet has already […]

This is one I have been thinking about for a long time and still cannot seem to fully flesh out my thoughts.  There is a shift that I can feel, but cannot quite put my finger on. 6 years ago, in the beginning of the major mechanical watch boom and early stages of Contemporary Horology, it was all about the […]