Bekenntnisse eines Uhren"geeks" (englisch)

[kochsmichel]

Lang aber lohnend:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/ ... watch-geek



M.B.A´d gefällt mir

“Too many Swiss watch companies have become M.B.A.’d and are run like Procter & Gamble,” the watch collector Kiran Shekar had told me in New York.

[alinghi74]

Danke für den LInk!

[kochsmichel]

Gerne

[MCG]

A German man or woman with real German problems had constructed this piece, blue screw by blue screw.

Swiss luxury watches may be made with the one per cent in mind, but true aficionados know that the hegemony of the Swiss is over; some of the most interesting watches now come from German brands like Nomos and A. Lange and Japan’s Grand Seiko. I missed out on the culmination of the evening, when all the watches

Nun ja, ganz nett. Der Junge wird glaub anhand der Anzahl Wörter bezahlt, er erzählt auch, dass er ~1000$/writing day verdiene ... Ähm, ja. Merkt man... Ach ja, Platzangst hat er auch...

[kochsmichel]

https://forum.watchtime.ch/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=67212

[Wolke]

Danke für den Link, die erste Hälfte ist geradezu köstlich!

I ran over to introduce myself and a few moments later he gave me his watch to hold, and a few weeks later he arranged for me to attend the secret RedBar, a meeting of the watch elect, at a bar in Koreatown. You need a regular to invite you to a meeting, and the idea that I could be welcomed into this exclusive world kept me from sleeping. I lay in bed practicing what I might say about “perlage,” “three-quarter plates,” and the rare lapis-lazuli dials on some seventies Rolex Datejusts.

At the gathering of the RedBar Crew, there was a Brooklyn watchmaker’s apprentice from Australia, a woman from Latin America carefully taking pictures of a prized Rolex Daytona, a guy from Helsinki with his own brand of massive watches, and a young man with a hundred-and-fifty-dollar Citizen. No watch is rejected here, and there is no hierarchy. Just as at the Horological Society, the attendees skew young, a surprise considering youth’s supposed slavishness to all things digital, and there are a growing number of women—

Es ist nur eine Frage der Zeit.... der Uhrenmarkt wird für Frauen wie mich attraktiver werden.......