Occasional and opinionated. What the trade looks like from close up, written by someone who buys and sells in it.
America’s blanket tariff expires on 24 July. The prices it justified are not going anywhere.
Read →Seven references, the boutique price, and one honest range each. The first edition of the quarterly numbers, with the method on the table.
Read →My watch and the turquoise one share a case, a movement, and a name. One you can buy this afternoon. The other once sold for seventy thousand dollars. The difference is paint.
Read →The most hated figure in watches did not create the gap between retail and reality. The brands did. He just refuses to pretend it is not there.
Read →The Rolex Land-Dweller went from fifteen thousand dollars to nearly forty and back to twenty-six, while the watch stayed exactly the same.
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