Highlights of Watches & Wonders 2024 

Très bon résumé ! Merci !

Finally a proper, honest, review of this year's w&w

Those last few independents looked pretty amazing.

Thanks for another really good video. Keep up the great work. Any chance of a monthly "Hong Kong Secondhand Watch Shops" walkaround? I do love those videos.

JLC - just exquisite !

I like several of the watches you highlighted, including the Chopard line. The VC dual time looked very interesting to me. I see the market softening for at least a few years. The biggest combined market in the world for Swiss watches, HK+CN, has quite a few financial headwinds, and other past big spenders, like Russian oligarchs, also have challenges. So luxury spending won’t be booming as much as in the past few years.

thx for your take, always cool to listen to it.

Great highlights summary..👍

The Rolex dial is definitely made by CNC-machine. It's better than pressed though.

That JLC is a must have for me, Rolex was a joke, Tudor was decent but not really interesting enough, Cartier hmmmm...yawn! I was at the salon and only JLC caught my attention, crazy timepieces, Duometres and all!!! WOW

I want to like the Duometre but the salmon dial kept the power reserve cut outs from last generation and all models have a new slimmer crown which looks to me to be a downgrade, especially when you wind the watch in both directions.

Agree the indies stole the show. Bloody pirates..! But the big boys? Dude, Dad denim at Patek? No. $50-100k JLC complications? C'mon. A tasteless exhibition of tone-deaf vulgarity. Zero excitement into a flagging market. Only the Swiss watch industry could have met a global downturn with the strategy 'let them eat cake.' I've spoken to 2 relevant ADs who are... concerned. Double denim, digga gold and gouging was not what they wanted.

05:53: Error detected: IWC is Swiss made, don't you remember?.

IWC is Swiss and not German.