Behind the Scenes of the 2025 Charity Watch Sale
To use a seasonal metaphor, the Charity Sale we held earlier this month for Terre des hommes was a perfect example of the snowball effect. What spruced last year from a random conversation with my friend Luigi Bonifacio turned into a successful first
50 Things We’ve All Done As Watch Nuts
Ever since I got into watches, eleven years ago, I repeatedly caught myself doing things I never imagined anyone – let alone myself – would be up to. Not only taking constant photos of my wrist, but doing so at the most inappropriate
Why I Never Kept My GMT Watches
My boss is on the American West Coast, 9 hours behind. I travel fairly frequently for work, to his timezone, and others. I have a bit of a watch obsession and the GMT complication is fun and pretty fascinating. Basically, a perfect storm
Before You Buy: the Real Costs of Owning a Watch
While I hope you find it useful, this as much as anything a note-to-self. A place I can easily go back to when the next temptation hits me. As we know, there are always “good” reasons to buy a watch. And at least
A Psychiatrist’s Take on Watch Addiction – Interview with Dr Jean-Marie Sengelen
Attempting to grasp why watches are so powerful at – literally – capturing our minds has led me to read a bunch of books, and even writing one. Among the missing pieces of my ongoing puzzle is a truly scientific approach to understand
The Best Investment You Can Make In A Watch? Time.
Watches are like human faces. They all share the same basic features and yet come in an infinity of variations. From the enthusiast’s perspective, that makes them both wonderful and equally frustrating. You can love them all but not own them all. And
WristTrack, the App for Watch Nerds You Didn’t Know You Needed
As someone who works in “tech” and is obsessed with watches, the Instagram Story Robert-Jan Broer posted about the WristTrack app last month immediately caught my attention. The notion that other people are both down the watch rabbit hole and geeky enough to
Five Years Ago, Covid Changed the Watch Game
As always, when I write about watches, it’s meant as a break. For myself and hopefully for you. I was reflecting this morning, after hearing horrible news about Gaza, about how my mind seems to go back to watches as a refuge, a
A Peek Inside A Twisted Collector’s Mind (Mine)
Every collector has their quirks. I have many. More than most? I’ll let you decide. For one, I don’t like to call myself a collector. I typically consider myself a “user”, and refer to my accumulation of watches not as my collection but
Interview: Marc Montagne, Author of “Invest in Watches: the Art of Watch Collecting”
While Marc Montagne has become a close friend over the years, I am first and foremost a fan of his (although please don't tell him). We met in 2015 after I reached out as a reader of his fantastic Quora contributions and as
