This Week (in Watches) Today, 17 May 2022: 7 things you should know
Its auction season this week! In particular we have Royal Oak auctions galore, the latest Cartier Crash auction results, plus multiple releases from Seiko and...
Its auction season this week! In particular we have Royal Oak auctions galore, the latest Cartier Crash auction results, plus multiple releases from Seiko and...
This week has been a week for more affordable watch releases with Tissot taking its PRX line mechanical, Laco going the opposite direction with its...
It appears that watches now emulate blockbusters, with releases now in full swing. This week we have new bronze releases from both Tudor and Hamilton,...
Greetings watchnerds! It’s the beginning of the week and my turn’s up to do the news. Oddly enough the pandemic isn’t stopping watch related information...
Scottish Watches Podcast #137 : Watch and LVMH Chat with Dan Muller from Fratello Watches This week a German and Two Scotsmans…walk into a……and no...
Exiting unions, agreements, and organizations has been all the rage in recent times and this phenomenon struck the watch industry on April 14, 2020 when...
What a day it has been. We have learned today just like all of you that the main big brands of Baselworld have decided to...
Vladimir Lenin allegedly once said that “there are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen”. Many decades ago, in February 2020,...
As our late-capitalist civilization teeters on the brink of economic collapse, the limitations of our global culture of endless growth and overwork are laid painfully...
This week, the world continues to struggle with the effects of the coronavirus with cases spiking in various parts of Europe and the...
Watches and Wonders Watches and Wonders Geneva (formerly SIHH) has been canceled. Given the increasing number of Coronavirus cases in Europe and the associated restrictions...
Extinction level events do happen the last was a few million years ago for humans, for the watch industry it was the 1970’s and came...
Scottish Watches Podcast #119 : G-SHOCK 25th Anniversary Pieces, Timex Batmex, Tock Shows and More We have reached out to Horology House again now that...
(Editors note: by way of a somewhat sarcastic response to the title of this Article instagrams most famous Milgauss supporter has something to say, so...
A brand is a name with the power to influence. And Hodinkee is the most powerful non-watch brand of the watch world. They influence more...
We Did It! We hit 100 episodes and landed the guest we’ve been working on getting for over half a year! Here is our interview...
Omega Boutique Launch and We Get Cybersquatted and we made it to 99, although this should be episode 100, but we will cover that on...
On Seiko and the Future of Baselworld Seiko’s departure from Basel 2020 is a sad but unsurprising development in the show’s struggle for survival. On...
May he rest in peace….hold on….nope…definitely still here, at least for the show notes at any rate. Ben joins Rikki this week, while I get...
Celebrity Watch Deathmatch Rolex Jujitsu v MontBlanc Taekwondo We welcome Harlan and our new best friend Paul to the latest episode. Listening via a podcast...
Having never been to BaselWorld I’m sure as with all of us mad watch community we can’t wait for the hype around each show. The...
I think you can probably hear the sounds of relief in the HQ of MCH Group from Glasgow if you listen really hard as the...
After getting pride of place in the main plaza at this year’s Baselworld, I thought Breitling would have lapped up the additional attention and exposure,...
Listening via a podcast player? Well click here – http://www.scottishwatches.co.uk/2019/03/31/scottish-watches-podcast-25-baselworld-roundup-part-2-plus-the-hardest-worker-at-the-show/ – to read the show notes with all the photos, links and video stuff on show! If...
BaselWorld has always excited. I’m usually glued to social media with post after post washing over me as the press folk we follow so avidly,...
We’d like to extend our thanks and gratitude to the hardest working person we met at this year’s Baselworld show! This lady worked her behind...
…and we all stood back and watched the world burn…. Sorry for the melodrama, but the world of watches has officially lost it. Basel is now...
Listening via a podcast player? Well click here – http://www.scottishwatches.co.uk/2019/03/24/scottish-watches-podcast-23-live-from-baselworld-2019-with-adrian-of-bark-and-jack/ – to read the show notes with all the photos, links and video stuff on show!...
Listening via a podcast player? Well click here – http://www.scottishwatches.co.uk/2019/03/20/scottish-watches-podcast-22-baselworld-2019-as-it-unfolded-with-rolex-tudor-patek-and-breitling/ – to read the show notes with all the photos, links and video stuff on show!...
So there we have it! In our little bubble of watch heaven the biggest news of the year is always “What’s Rolex releasing at Basel?”...
Tick tock! Times almost up and Baselworld is just around the corner, so before the big names drop their releases on Wednesday here is something...
Listening via a podcast player? Well click here – http://www.scottishwatches.co.uk/2019/03/18/scottish-watches-podcast-21-the-one-where-we-try-to-talk-about-the-new-omega-50th-anniversary-moon-watch – to read the show notes with all the photos, links and video stuff on show!...
The pre-Baselworld hype train is leaving the station and in the first carriage we have Breitling with a 60th anniversary reimagining of their 1959 Navitimier....
Although The Scottish Watches website has only been around a short time life did exist before it! It was only two short years ago I...
It’s only a week to go (ish) till this year’s Baselworld but there is still time to get involved and come along to check things...
Timing Is Everything As the clock ticks down towards the opening ceremony at Baselworld 2019 in Switzerland, a lot of people are thinking “should I...
Listening via a podcast player? Well click HERE to read the show notes with all the photos, links and video stuff on show! If you want to...
Listening via a podcast player? Well click HERE to read the show notes with all the photos, links and video stuff on show! If you...
We made it to episode 15. So what you ask is on it? Well… click here if you are reading these shownotes on your podcatcher...
Welcome to the Scottish Watches Podcast, this episode we mess everything up – have mercy! We talk Horologicon, Baselworld, Hodinkee, Gerald Genta and good news...
What’s this Baselworld thing all about anyway? If you’re not familiar already, Baselworld is an annual show that’s been running for just over 100 years...
We spend 45 minutes with Simon at James Porter & Son Watch Dealers in Glasgow’s Argyle Arcade. It’s a big year for 50th anniversary celebrations...
There is no doubt that Basel World and SIHH, the two largest Watch shows in the world are very different in tone. SIHH is definitely...