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Morgan Stanley's Q2 2026 Swiss Watch Market Report
I guess the recovery was bound to run out of excuses!
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There Is No Fair
A conversation with Jason Lu of 1776 Atelier, on hand finishing, flags, and the strictest label in watchmaking
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Methods of the Monopoly Man
In 1921 an art dealer named Joseph Duveen trapped the US Treasury Secretary in a lift. The same tricks still sell watches today and you won't even…
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Intro to ScrewDownCrown
A 'start here' guide to SDC's growing maze of topics
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Richemont is Cartier, Cartier is Richemont. Everything Else Is a Hobby.
I got a copy of Morgan Stanley's Richemont report which contains over 60 pages of brand-by-brand numbers that tell an interesting story...
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You got this far, surely it's worth a try?
Invisible Forces Shaping the Watch Market
Q1 seems stable, auctions are breaking records, and gold is flying. But what is going on beneath all that noise? What has the consensus not priced in?
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Why most of your watches are technically jewellery
If your Rolex had no movement, would it still be a Rolex? A reply to The Lost Spring Bar on dummy watches, jewellery, and what defines a watch.
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Watch Collecting in the Anti-Social Century
Why watch collecting might still be one of the few antidotes to isolation in the anti-social century. On Derek Thompson, Nick Epley, and the dead space.
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Royal Pop, Two Possibilities
Imagine you're in November 2027 and Royal Pop either saved or ruined Audemars Piguet. Two stories, plus some maths, trademark logic, and research.
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20 Lots from the Geneva Auctions, Spring 2026
Hong Kong just banked an all-time Asian watch auction record. Now Geneva's four houses bring their catalogues, and we review 20 interesting watches.
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AP's Royal Oak in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
AP appear to have done the cleanest possible deal - keep the silhouette but avoid the wrist. Hypothetically, a Royal Oak pocketwatch will protect the…
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Wrist Laundromats
From Hezbollah to Hushpuppi to 1MDB, luxury watches keep showing up in major money laundering cases. Let's talk about watches and moving dirty money…
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SDC Weekly
SDC Weekly is a newsletter containing my thoughts on the world of watches, and any other interesting material I’ve consumed since the last edition. It will likely cover a wide range of subjects in addition to watches including, but not limited to technology, nature, geopolitics, energy economics, parenting and history.
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This is a blog exploring why collectors of luxury items (mainly watches) believe and do what we do, why we pretend otherwise, and how we might do better.
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