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SDC Weekly 118; Gold crosses $4,000/oz - what does this mean for watches? Is China’s luxury recovery real?
Gold crosses $4,000/oz and China's luxury market shows tentative recovery signs. We explore how geopolitical tensions, rare earth weaponisation, and…
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SDC Weekly 117; The Rolex Legacy Book Review; Rory Sutherland's insights applied to watch collecting
Johnny Davis’s Olmsted interview, on cutting stones and building cathedrals, new memory and consciousness research suggests memories aren't stored in…
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SDC Weekly 116; Louis Vuitton’s Monterey; Audemars Piguet's RD#5; American Watchmaking Directory
I tried on the new Louis Vuitton Monterey expecting to hate it and ended up liking it. Also: why AP's RD#5 costs north of $300k, whether Bulgari did it…
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SDC Weekly 115; Greubel Forsey, Oscillon, and Hand Made; Audemars Piguet, Between the Lines; Christopher Ward in SoHo
Exclusive Q&A with Michel Nydegger, Girard-Perregaux Debuts New Calibre, Free MB&F Watch, the Best Music Video of All Time, and more!
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SDC Weekly 114; Watch Habits; AP’s CEO Drama; Bennahmias buying DB?
AP's new RD5 chronograph reduces pusher force by 80%. Nick Hayek speaks out on geopolitics whilst Swatch struggles. François-Henri Bennahmias eyes De…
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SDC Weekly 113; Watch 1505 Mystery; Monks’ Role in Time
Krayon Customer Service, Oscillon Watch Sales, Patek price hike, NASA flight director Gene Kranz talks about landing men on the moon, and more!
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SDC Weekly 112; Berneron Update; Naissance d’une Montre 3; "Why Do It?" - Nike’s New Campaign; Supercars and the Quartz Crisis
New Rolex Mainspring Patent, Geneva Watch Days afterthoughts, Rolex hosts Trump, IWC Enters Pre-Owned Market and more...
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SDC Weekly 111; Pay-to-Play Experiences; Christopher Ward’s Simulacrum; Breitling NFL Deal
Breitling scores NFL's first global luxury watch partnership while battling 39% Swiss tariffs. Christopher Ward's new Twelve 660 embodies Baudrillard's…
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On Unpolished's 47 Rules for Watch Collecting
Some Thoughts from the Peanut Gallery
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Beyond Binary Thinking
Stop thinking in absolutes about watch brands. This discussion is about assigning probability percentages to specific manufacturing claims, rather than…
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Vacheron Constantin's New Clock
Vacheron Constantin recently unveiled La Quête du Temps; an astronomical clock with a bronze Astronomer that tells time through choreographed gestures…
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In Defence of Shitters
Studio Underd0g's recent video sparked a realisation, that the most interesting watch collections embrace contrast. Affordable 'shitters' may not be…
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Behind the Scenes at La Fabrique du Temps
Went behind the scenes at La Fabrique du Temps and discovered jacquemart automaton development. Michel Navas & Enrico Barbasini are solving engineering…
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The Invisible Prison
"The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison." - Dostoevsky. Is watch collecting an elegant prison or a…
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Married to the Hobby
"I married someone who owned three watches. Today, I've genuinely lost count." A somewhat-relatable fictional tale exploring what it's like being…
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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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