Not quite the answer to your question...

...but the major luxury car retailer in this neck of the woods is something of a family dynasty. The first generation builds, the second generation consolidates and the third generation spends, right? Well, the second generation has found a way to fuel his watch passion without breaking that mantra: he's gone into watch retailing and is also the new high-end watch retailer in town! We don't see many decent watches at all 'in the wild' here, but he can always be counted on to be wearing two any time you bump into him, each different to the last two you saw. He's a one-man game reserve, to borrow Art's term. The challenge is getting him to part with his favourites, of which there seem to be many. "T", if you're reading: "G'day! Now let go of that AP!"

Cheers,

pplater.

Corporate / industry watch culture

By: KMII : April 26th, 2015-21:13

Regularly reading the forum has made me perhaps somewhat more observant of what is going on around me watch wise. And as quite some of us - myself definitely included - spend a good portion of our time at work, this has become the prime hunting ground in ...

Well, I haven't worked for a while . . .

By: Dr No : April 29th, 2015-01:27

. . . and, back when I was, it was in that horological desert better known as Southern California. :-) Be that as it may, the execs (and this was at a double-digit entry on the Fortune 500) were either clueless (Rolex) or eccentric (Frank Muller[!]). Ther...

I was in automotive too; few watches!

By: cazalea : April 29th, 2015-15:19

I seldom see a watch that's interesting. I can think of only one of the directors of our company, based in Amsterdam, who is a watch collector and has lots of interesting, middle-level Swiss watches. It seems each time he makes a trip in/out of the EU he ...

Not quite the answer to your question...

By: pplater : May 1st, 2015-19:48

A very interesting case study

By: Brandon Skinner : May 2nd, 2015-00:03

In your opinion, does the OE side choose to neglect the Joneses, or are they unaware or refuse to acknowledge that anything but Rolex exists? (I know way too many people like this). The replacement side on the other hand seem to choose the other ubiquitou...

So it is not only the Germanic countries, where interesting watches are rare

By: KMII : May 3rd, 2015-02:55

Thank you for the responses, they did provide some interesting insights. For instance, it is not only Germany and Austria, where interesting watches are few and far between. Since the first post, I actually managed to observe another first - a colleague w...