Philippe Dufour
High End Watch, Independents, CollectingSpazzHYT, Parmigiani, URWerk, MB&F, Linde Werdelin, Kari Voutilainen, Greubel Forsey, Habring, Philippe Dufour, RGM

Buy Or Not To Buy: Young Independents

If you ask me, I would recommend against buying a watch from a young independent company. This is my general rule, and this has nothing to do with the quality of the watches, because young independents make some amazing watches, and I do mean amazing! My recommendation is simply based on the economics of the watch industry itself.

Currently, buying a watch brand new has never been a bigger ripoff. If one compares prices of watches today to even 20 or 30 years ago, factoring for inflation, watches are one of the few things in our world that are actually much more expensive.

High End Watch, Independents, CollectingSpazzHYT, Parmigiani, URWerk, MB&F, Linde Werdelin, Kari Voutilainen, Greubel Forsey, Habring, Philippe Dufour, RGM
Buy Or Not To Buy: Young Independents
American Watch Industry, Auction, Automatic, Bang-For-Your-Buck, Chronograph, Collecting, Grand Complication, High End Watch, Luxury Sport Watch, Most Overrated, Perpetual Calendar, Movements, Originality, Selling Watches, Sotheby's, Ultimate Watch Collection, VintageSpazzA. Lange and Sohne, Laurent Ferrier, Parmigiani, Patek Philippe, Waltham, Audemars Piguet, Hamilton, Jaeger LeCoultre, Breitling, IWC, Vacheron Constantin, Jean Richard, Tudor, Frederique Constant, Girard Perregaux, Philippe Dufour, Heuer, Seiko, Zenith, Gerald Genta, Omega, Rolex, Roger Smith, Glashutte Original, RGM, Nomos, Kari Voutilainen

Happy New Year! And Materialism As We Enter 2017

Every year we have our "new year's resolutions", but given the holiday season has just ended, which is always filled with the standard commercialism and retail therapy, I thought it might be worthwhile to give my perspective on the subject. Specifically when we refer to a certain type of spending as "materialism" - this ties in nicely with the watch world, since 2016 was officially the worst year on record since the early 80's!

First, what is materialism?

American Watch Industry, Auction, Automatic, Bang-For-Your-Buck, Chronograph, Collecting, Grand Complication, High End Watch, Luxury Sport Watch, Most Overrated, Perpetual Calendar, Movements, Originality, Selling Watches, Sotheby's, Ultimate Watch Collection, VintageSpazzA. Lange and Sohne, Laurent Ferrier, Parmigiani, Patek Philippe, Waltham, Audemars Piguet, Hamilton, Jaeger LeCoultre, Breitling, IWC, Vacheron Constantin, Jean Richard, Tudor, Frederique Constant, Girard Perregaux, Philippe Dufour, Heuer, Seiko, Zenith, Gerald Genta, Omega, Rolex, Roger Smith, Glashutte Original, RGM, Nomos, Kari Voutilainen
Happy New Year! And Materialism As We Enter 2017
SpazzRolex, Jaeger LeCoultre, Zenith, Laurent Ferrier, Roger Smith, Philippe Dufour, Kari Voutilainen, Parmigiani, Nomos

Watch under $10,000

For those who haven't read or seen the article, back in March-ish 2014 Roger Smith, Kari Voutilainen, Laurent Ferrier, and Philippe Dufour were asked what watch they'd recommend buying if the budget was less than $10,000. 

This is an interesting question because these are four of the brightest minds in modern watchmaking, and because it was for a watch under $10,000 not any watch in general regardless of price.  

Let's go through each reply one at a time:

SpazzRolex, Jaeger LeCoultre, Zenith, Laurent Ferrier, Roger Smith, Philippe Dufour, Kari Voutilainen, Parmigiani, Nomos
Watch under $10,000