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Your Biggest Gripes about Watches
From 4:30 date windows to fake connoisseurship—your most petty (and profound) complaints.
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Tony Traina
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Buying A Watch Is Mostly Vibes—Here’s the Actual Data | Auction Report
A data-driven look at auctions: Which brands beat expectations, which didn’t, and where collectors can find value.
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Tony Traina
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Watches Prices Are Insane
A survival guide for collecting watches when watch prices don’t make sense.
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Tony Traina
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Live Chat + Q&A with Max Braun (Dealer, Hairspring Podcast)
Talking vintage deals right now, Rolex Submariners, Heuer, and more in our May paid-subscriber livestream.
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Tony Traina
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Let's Spot the Redial | The Watchlist
And why watch brands are the new sports teams.
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Tony Traina
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Livestream Link + Q&A Friday
Leave a question and see you Friday at 3pm ET.
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Tony Traina
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Stop Waking Up to Your iPhone Alarm
Cool alarm clocks for collectors—a guide for the design-obsessed.
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Tony Traina
21
A First Look at the Berneron Annual Calendar
The Watchlist features a pair of Universal Genèves and a Cartier Tank by any other name—and Berneron's second act.
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Tony Traina
23
Under the Hammer: Watch Auctions in a Changing World
An auction vet reports from inside a changing Geneva landscape
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Beyond Unpolished: Let's Talk About Restoration
Eric Ku on why he 'f*cking hates' that word—and what collectors get wrong.
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Tony Traina
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Auctions, Formula 1, and What’s Wrong with Breguet? Your Questions Answered | Mailbag
All the random stuff you guys send me.
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Tony Traina
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The Last Watch I Bought; Or, In Defense of Worse Watches
'Italians seem to love cooking them to a piss-colored yellow that’s uglier than a steamrolled Invicta.'
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Tony Traina
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