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The Watch Collector's Matrix 2.0

The Enrichment Economy

25 Argument Starters For the Holidays

SDC Weekly 79.5; Rolex 2025 Price Hike; Sotheby's Fee U-Turn; Bucherer Backstory; LVMH Watch Woes

SDC Weekly 79; Screw Down Crown History; 2024 Wrap Up; Longevity; Defining Quality

A Watch Collector’s Guide to Living Well

SDC Weekly 78; What You Believe; Bubble Potential; Instant Gratification; Learning From Mistakes; Escaping the Trap

WoSG Results Reveal Hodinkee's £11m Price Tag

SDC Weekly 77; Resonance Riddles; Watch Etiquette; Narcissistic Collectors; Lessons from the Airline Industry

To Hell With It, We’re Making the Cubitus Even Bigger

SDC Weekly 76; Women & Watches; Lessons for the Watch-Obsessed Mind; The Vertical Divide

Audemars Piguet's KAWS Collaboration

SDC Weekly 75; John Lennon's Patek Saga, How Real Journalism Works, & The Psychology of Collector Self-Talk

Inside a Collector's Mind - The Psychology of Watch Collecting

Swiss Made or Swiss Charade?

SDC Weekly 74; Swiss Made vs Global Trade; Where Ultra-Luxury Actually Sells

SDC Weekly 73; Influencer Economics, Media Integrity & How Watches Open Doors

The Porsche Legacy: Engineering Dreams Since 1931

SDC Weekly 72; Cubitus Rant, Time Psychology, Storytelling, and Watchmaking Talent

Why We Ignore Good Advice and Buy the Watch Anyway

Is Thierry Stern Driving Patek Philippe Into Irrelevance?

SDC Weekly 71; Patek Cubitus Wrap; Originality in Design; Social Status Again

A Radical Honesty Experiment in the Watch World

SDC Weekly 70; Patek Philippe Cubitus; Is Gerald Charles a Scam?

Morgan Stanley's Q3 2024 Swiss Watch Market Report

SDC Weekly 69; More on the Hodinkee Acquisition; Status Games; Pricing and Economic Realities

The Hodinkee Saga

Luxury Watch Smuggling Ring Uncovered at Malpensa

SDC Weekly 68; More on Watch Collector Types; Tribalism Revisited; More on Journalling

Adverse Selection & Watch Collecting

SDC Weekly 67; Emotions & Lessons from Watch Collecting

The Guilloché Deception

SDC Weekly 66; Richemont Update; The Cost of Cynicism; Correlation vs Causation

Understanding Collector Personalities

SDC Weekly 65; Watch Allocation; Journalling; Market Swings

The Luxury Paradox

SDC Weekly 64; Geneva Watch Days; H. Moserdog’s Passion Project

Sylvain Supposedly Snapped

The Spectrum of Independence in Watchmaking

SDC Weekly 63; GPHG Nominations; Dostoevsky’s Principles for Watch Collectors

The Garden of Horology

Chanel takes a 25% ownership stake in MB&F

SDC Weekly 62; Let's talk about China; Science of Motivation

The Cusp of Collecting

SDC Weekly 61; Where Do Culture Wars Take Us?; The Monty Hall Problem

Entropy, Time, and the Art of Watchmaking

Timeless Treasures: Exploring the Rich History of Horology Pt. 1

Asinine Things

SDC Weekly 60; AI Revolution; Moral Decline

The Cherry Creek Caper: Hyde Park Jewellers' Worst Nightmare

The Horological Identity Crisis: What Makes a Watch Collector Tick?

SDC Weekly 59; GPHG 2024 Nominees; Philosophy Wisdom

The Decay of Luxury Watchmaking

SDC Weekly 58; The Einstellung Effect; Tom Wolfe Returns

Morgan Stanley's Q2 2024 Swiss Watch Market Report

How Pleasure Works

SDC Weekly 57; Dior Exploits People; Tom Wolfe on Status; Dickens' Great Expectations

A Watch Collector's Ramblings

SDC Weekly 56; Kurt Klaus; Independent Journalism

The Hermès Empire: A 187-Year Journey from Harness Shop to Luxury Icon

SDC Weekly 55; On Quartz Revival; Features vs Products

A few things to know before stealing my Patek Philippe 5004P

Intelligence, Moral Worth, and the Value of Luxury Watches

The Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report 2024: Key Insights and Trends

SDC Weekly 54; The Mandela Effect; Lessons from Bernard Baruch

The Incredible Story of Hans Wilsdorf, the Visionary Founder of Rolex

The Future of Watches in a Virtual Reality World

SDC Weekly 53; Anoma, Escale and Innovation in Design; The Role of Serendipity in Watch Collecting

Doing the work required to have an opinion

A Horological Trip Through Switzerland

SDC Weekly 52; One year of SDC Weekly; Die With Zero; The Prix Gaïa

The Emotional Bonds Between Watch Collectors and Their Timepieces

SDC Weekly 51; Art Market Insights; Envy revisited

The Swatch Group's Remarkable Transformation

SDC Weekly 50; Kierkegaard & Watch Collecting; Behavioural Insights in Watchmaking

The Utility of Money: Navigating Wealth, Watches, and Wise Decisions

SDC Weekly 49; OnlyWatch 2024; The Narcissism of Small Differences

John Harrison: The Carpenter Who Solved the Longitude Problem

SDC Weekly 48; What is Luxury; Kahneman on Judgement and Decision-Making

The Wolf in Cashmere: How Bernard Arnault Built LVMH into the World's Largest Luxury Empire

SDC Weekly 47; Timeless Principles; Pursuit of Status

The French Revolutionary Calendar

SDC Weekly 46; Psychological Pitfalls; Brain Hemispheres

Horology and Human Nature

SDC Weekly 45; Water Resistance; Atomic Habits

Morgan Stanley's Q1 2024 Swiss Watch Market Report

SDC Weekly 44; Inside Rolex; Common Knowledge

The Artisans of Deceit

SDC Weekly 43; Optionality; Construal Level Theory

Let's talk about envy

SDC Weekly 42; Hodinkee update; Remy Cools at it again; Smart Rings

No regrets

SDC Weekly 41; Status Quo Bias; Watch Pricing Deep Dive

50 Guiding Principles

My 8 Best Techniques for Evaluating Character

SDC Weekly 40; Watch auctions; Daylight Saving

Friendship & Watch Collecting

Pierre Bourdieu on Taste

SDC Weekly 39; Vaucher revisited; Monaco scandals; 007 trivia

Swiss watch industry’s top 50 brands for 2023

SDC Weekly 38; Journe's Élégante; Low down on Parmigiani & Vaucher

SDC Weekly 37; Swiss Watch Industry Update; Simplification; Piaget Polo 79

Unveiling Deception: The Rolex Albino Daytona

SDC Weekly 36; Établissage

SDC Weekly 35; Less is more; A Pagan Project

Do you really know what you know?

SDC Weekly 34; Signalling value of watches; Supply & Demand with Moser, Roth et al.; Quartz crisis revisited

Agency for watch collectors

SDC Weekly 33; Morgan Stanley Report on Swiss Watches; Rolex Pricing; External exposure

What is collecting?

SDC Weekly 32; AI; How to get poor; The XY Problem

Start with what you know

SDC Weekly 31; Facts vs opinions; AP scandal in Spain

Behavioural Economics and watch collecting

SDC Weekly 30; Rolex 1Q2024 price list; F.P. Journe rumours, Vintage watch guides