As part of the 10 percent, it’s been a joy watching your blog flourish Flum! It won’t be long before people pay premiums to read AI “free”content. What a time to be alive. Cheers!
Appreciate you brother, one of the founding nudges for which I will always be grateful. 👊 and yeah, I wonder what AI will do to this space in the next year, intriguing to say the least 😅
Excellent and informative writing as always. Don’t let the imposter syndrome get to you, we all appreciate the time and effort it takes to compile this, and think the nominal fee of being a paid subscriber is well worth it for an enjoyable and informative read.
I’ve being telling some friends about your blog and encouraged them to subscribe, especially as we’re all relatively new to watch collecting and I find that your blog helps to:
1) cut through the noise and provide insights to hype free watch collecting.
2) connects the dots between the global macro environment and watch brands and their brand strategy.
3) generate discussion topics, areas of interest to go out and do further reading.
In case its useful to you, (although only a sample size of a few people), some of the feedback I received when plugging your blog was that they felt they didn’t need to buy a subscription when they would get the content for free a week later. Which I found surprising as I would consider the ~£1 a week to be practically irrelevant and certainly offers great value for money.
Think you’re spot on with global markets and consumer spending, as the saying goes: ‘bulls make money, bears make money, pigs get slaughtered.’ We may well find as we approach a relative supply glut brands who don’t have the same market perception as rolex, patek, ap will struggle significantly.
Anecdotally in recent months in numerous occasions Rolex inventory doesnt appear to shifting as fast as it once was. In this market who’s paying £10k for an entry level JLC reverso for example.
Appreciate all of it… the long and thoughtful reply, the support and sharing, and the market research/ feedback 😄
Perhaps they have a point, but being relatively new to many potential readers, it helps to have some material to whet the appetite… maybe I’ll just make every second one free from January, and then every third one from February… so they get some but not all. Still seems premature, but will think about it further.
Agree on the slowdown with Rolex, also noticed how many more people are getting calls for hype stuff from Patek and AP. People I know have bought 5726, 5740 and 16202s in the last 2 months. They aren’t mega spenders.
That Rolex section was a DEEP DIVE indeed!!!! TL: DNR (something new I learned here this last year 😝)
Also the sound of “one hand clapping” for your own small but yet significant part in putting “Cvnt” on the newly elevated “semi-respectable” word list! 👋🏻😹
This issue rounds out a highly commendable years worth of genuinely great wordsmithing! KUDOS ☝🏻👍🏼
As part of the 10 percent, it’s been a joy watching your blog flourish Flum! It won’t be long before people pay premiums to read AI “free”content. What a time to be alive. Cheers!
Appreciate you brother, one of the founding nudges for which I will always be grateful. 👊 and yeah, I wonder what AI will do to this space in the next year, intriguing to say the least 😅
Excellent and informative writing as always. Don’t let the imposter syndrome get to you, we all appreciate the time and effort it takes to compile this, and think the nominal fee of being a paid subscriber is well worth it for an enjoyable and informative read.
I’ve being telling some friends about your blog and encouraged them to subscribe, especially as we’re all relatively new to watch collecting and I find that your blog helps to:
1) cut through the noise and provide insights to hype free watch collecting.
2) connects the dots between the global macro environment and watch brands and their brand strategy.
3) generate discussion topics, areas of interest to go out and do further reading.
In case its useful to you, (although only a sample size of a few people), some of the feedback I received when plugging your blog was that they felt they didn’t need to buy a subscription when they would get the content for free a week later. Which I found surprising as I would consider the ~£1 a week to be practically irrelevant and certainly offers great value for money.
Think you’re spot on with global markets and consumer spending, as the saying goes: ‘bulls make money, bears make money, pigs get slaughtered.’ We may well find as we approach a relative supply glut brands who don’t have the same market perception as rolex, patek, ap will struggle significantly.
Anecdotally in recent months in numerous occasions Rolex inventory doesnt appear to shifting as fast as it once was. In this market who’s paying £10k for an entry level JLC reverso for example.
Appreciate all of it… the long and thoughtful reply, the support and sharing, and the market research/ feedback 😄
Perhaps they have a point, but being relatively new to many potential readers, it helps to have some material to whet the appetite… maybe I’ll just make every second one free from January, and then every third one from February… so they get some but not all. Still seems premature, but will think about it further.
Agree on the slowdown with Rolex, also noticed how many more people are getting calls for hype stuff from Patek and AP. People I know have bought 5726, 5740 and 16202s in the last 2 months. They aren’t mega spenders.
As for JLC … 😂
That Rolex section was a DEEP DIVE indeed!!!! TL: DNR (something new I learned here this last year 😝)
Also the sound of “one hand clapping” for your own small but yet significant part in putting “Cvnt” on the newly elevated “semi-respectable” word list! 👋🏻😹
This issue rounds out a highly commendable years worth of genuinely great wordsmithing! KUDOS ☝🏻👍🏼
You made it! 😄🥂
😂 semi-respectable is generous, but I found it amusing that it made it to the mainstream at all… I need to find something new to punt.
Thanks again for sticking around, and for all the support as it grew - appreciate you 👊