The Index sounds promising. Since subscribing I look forward to the weekly newsletter in my email. So much of You Tube has become mediocre watch blab for want of a better word. My subscription to Unpolished was money well spent.
I love this concept! What a great idea… Excellent way to ensure a level of consistency and objectivity when comparing watches. A couple of initial reactions:
1) Is there a level of double counting? For example, we might consistently expect an inverse correlation between “chase factor” and “value”. Similarly, I would imagine you might see overlap between design (proportion) and wearability.
2) should all 10 categories be weighted equally? For example, it feels like technical watchmaking, even if scored a 10/10, is being sold short at only 10% of the score. Then again, the relative importance of each dimensions is highly subjective.
yea, definitely some correlation (or inverse) between some of these. On those two, I'm trying to get at two slightly different things. The first is a pure look at the market. The second is more a measure of value, i.e., quality to price (then you have the question: what price--secondary vs. primary? which does tie into the first market). But surely there's some interplay between quality/comfort, perhaps others. It's not perfect and I'm fine with that.
The weighting question is interesting, but I don't want it to be too complicated, ratings quickly start to lose their usefulness if you can't even understand them. I think you're right, weighting is highly subjective anyway and if we break out a rating in each category, people can make judgments about what's most important to them (and if they even agree with a specific rating in the first place).
Like a Doug Demuro Doug Score - will we be calling this the Tony Score? the Traina score? The T Squared Score? To be determined…
haha...i'll bring in other reviewers eventually, so not tony-centric!
Thank you! This is awesome!
The Index sounds promising. Since subscribing I look forward to the weekly newsletter in my email. So much of You Tube has become mediocre watch blab for want of a better word. My subscription to Unpolished was money well spent.
So Madden/FIFA Player Ratings for Watches…. Excellent
Can’t wait
Looking forward to the ratings and more things to argue about. 🤣
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I love this concept! What a great idea… Excellent way to ensure a level of consistency and objectivity when comparing watches. A couple of initial reactions:
1) Is there a level of double counting? For example, we might consistently expect an inverse correlation between “chase factor” and “value”. Similarly, I would imagine you might see overlap between design (proportion) and wearability.
2) should all 10 categories be weighted equally? For example, it feels like technical watchmaking, even if scored a 10/10, is being sold short at only 10% of the score. Then again, the relative importance of each dimensions is highly subjective.
yea, definitely some correlation (or inverse) between some of these. On those two, I'm trying to get at two slightly different things. The first is a pure look at the market. The second is more a measure of value, i.e., quality to price (then you have the question: what price--secondary vs. primary? which does tie into the first market). But surely there's some interplay between quality/comfort, perhaps others. It's not perfect and I'm fine with that.
The weighting question is interesting, but I don't want it to be too complicated, ratings quickly start to lose their usefulness if you can't even understand them. I think you're right, weighting is highly subjective anyway and if we break out a rating in each category, people can make judgments about what's most important to them (and if they even agree with a specific rating in the first place).