On this episode of aBlogtoWatch Weekly, Ariel, Rick, and David are joined by birds tweeting throughout the show as they discuss the latest in watches. Ariel shares his experience seeing the new Indiana Jones film and how it's a true watch lover's movie, Rick tells us about a disgruntled customer suing over the waitlist, and David confirms how hot Ariel is (according to WatchPro, at least). Then, it's on the upcoming Dubai Watch Week 2023, a Roger Dubuis Lamborghini watch, a new MB&am...
Jun 23, 2023•54 min•Season 2Ep. 76
For this episode of aBlogtoWatch Weekly, Ariel, Rick, and David are joined by Jose Pereztroika of Perezcope. After quickly talking about the role that watches play in the most recent Spiderman movie, our hosts dive into a deep discussion about the latest auction scandal that has captivated the industry, which concerns a rare Omega Speedmaster that sold for a record-breaking sum before it was ultimately discovered that the watch was not entirely authentic. From there, the conversation moves on to...
Jun 18, 2023•58 min•Season 2Ep. 75
This week on aBlogtoWatch Weekly David is in Paris with Breguet, leaving Rick and Ariel alone for a dinner date instead of the dinner party for which they so badly long. Ariel starts off with the full rundown of this year's Couture show in Las Vegas, from which he's just returned. The discussion focuses mostly on Citizen, Oris, and Bell & Ross, three brands that showed up in force at the show. Ariel especially dives into an analysis of Citizen and its product strategy. They also wade into the mu...
Jun 08, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Season 2Ep. 74
This week on aBlogtoWatch Weekly, join Rick, Ariel, and David for another rousing horological huddle. Ariel shares about a few things upcoming for the ABTW team, and then they get into the scorching-hot-button topic of watch sizes (hint: buy what you like and stop complaining). Then, the team jumps on a Seiko press announcement with another round of Guess the Price, followed by random eBay finds including what David describes as a "Montegrappa that made love to an alien with indigestion." Seiko ...
Jun 01, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 73
This week on aBlogtoWatch Weekly, Rick, Ariel, and David put their heads together to give you more of what you love: insightful watch banter! Things get started with a discussion of the fundamental shift in power away from traditional retailers, how that's changed the watch buying experience, and what's next. Then, the gents dissect the recent appointment of Ilaria Resta as CEO of Audemars Piguet. Then it's on to a string of new releases, including watches from Doxa, Ulysse Nardin, and an Omega ...
May 27, 2023•56 min•Season 2Ep. 72
This week on aBlogtoWatch Weekly, Rick, Ariel, and David are back for another episode filled with horological wonder. First up is David's recent featured article, as our hosts trace the history of ETA and connect it to the recent in-house movement craze. After parsing the movement market to near death, it's on to a bit of industry news, and another shedload of new watches from Bremont, Parmigiani, Hublot, Chopard, Zenith, and Bulgari. Listen below or on the player of your choice. Highlig...
May 18, 2023•58 min•Season 2Ep. 71
This week on aBlogtoWatch Weekly, Rick, Ariel, and David are at it again. They dive right into Ariel's recent conversation with author Brendan Cunningham with a discussion on Rolex's business model and marketing. Then Rick shares some updates about Rolex CPO and eBay's expansion to new watches. And did you know Casio finally delivered a real fitness watch? They did and everyone's got an opinion. Plus, questioning what Montblanc is doing with Minerva, Star Wars watches, and Cartie...
May 11, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 70
This week on aBlogtoWatch Weekly, it's a proper trio with Rick, Ariel, and David back at it again! Ariel shares his Northern California adventures, including thousand-mile car rides and the WindUp Watch Fair. Then, the guys touch on a pink watch from Nodus, a Bremont shakeup, David gives his take on the new Daytona, and revisit the all-new Christopher Ward The Twelve. Finally, another round of Guess the Seiko (Price)! • 2:35 Ariel's Northern California Adventures! • 13:24 Hands-On Debut:...
May 05, 2023•42 min•Season 2Ep. 69
This week on aBlogtoWatch Weekly, Simon from Escapement24 rounds out the cast! It's back to last week as Ariel is crowned the winner of another round of Guess the Seiko (Price), which evolves into a discussion on video games. Then, the gents chat about our recent Featured Article about the trademark troll that's preventing brands big and small from using the term NATO (for just about everything). With an eye to the upcoming Dubai Watch Week, Rick then has a short chat with Director General of th...
Apr 27, 2023•56 min•Season 2Ep. 68
This week on aBlogtoWatch Weekly, it's a full house as Ariel, David, and Rick hunker down for some more excellent watch talk with returning guest Sylvain Berneron. Sylvain gives his take on Watches and Wonders 2023 and then shares about his own watch project that he's undertaking as a side project. Then the guys explore the expansion of color use in watches, with insider insight from Sylvain. Rick gets Ariel to talk about a Watches and Wonders 2023 debacle. The team wraps things up with ...
Apr 20, 2023•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 67
This week on aBlogtoWatch Weekly, Rick and David are rejoined by a still-jetlagged Ariel! The gang start out with a brief bout of aBlogtoWatch Watches Watches, then dive straight into David's featured article on manipulative watch advertising. Then, it's a rundown of the aBlogtoWatch team's top 10 watches from Watches and Wonders 2023, including the trio's honorable mentions. Finally, a discussion of Ariel's Letter from the Editor addressing AI and aBlogtoWatch's commitme...
Apr 13, 2023•58 min•Season 2Ep. 66
This week on aBlogtoWatch Weekly, Ariel is missing but Rick and David are joined by none other than aBlogtoWatch Associate Editor Ripley Sellers! It's all about Watches and Wonders 2023 this episode, with Rick and David discussing their experiences onsite at Palexpo and Ripley sharing about running around the rest of the city for all the sideshows. The team shares their favorite watches and talks about the brands that blew them away. Then, they get into some news, including assessing AP'...
Apr 06, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 65
Listen to further Watches and Wonders coverage. Rick and Ariel take a tour of the Patek releases David, Ariel, and Rick have a sit-down chat at the show to mull over what Rolex and others are upto Ed joins Rick and David at the Bulgari suite to view their latest novelties and talk about which watches would ruin which movies Enjoy the show
Apr 04, 2023•40 min•Season 2Ep. 64
Recorded live at Watches And Wonders 2023, Dave and Rick give some hot takes on the new releases from Rolex. What do you think? Send us your thoughts now.
Mar 28, 2023•19 min•Season 2Ep. 63
This week on aBlogtoWatch Weekly, the team is getting ready for Watches and Wonders 2023! To alleviate David's disappointment at no new Seikos, the guys play Guess the Imaginary Seiko! Then, Ariel chats with Louis Vuitton Watches CEO Jean Arnault about the LV Watch Prize, plus a string of other chats about some pre-Watches and Wonders releases. Rick also shares his final interview with Mathieu Humair ahead of next week's big show. The team also offers their candidates for what to wear on the fir...
Mar 23, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 62
This week on aBlogtoWatch Weekly , Ariel has returned from his travels (barely), so the gang's back together again! Since Ariel had a bumpy return from his European escapade, the show starts out with another spot of aBlogtoWatch Watches Watches and a bit of story time about the terror of thinking you've lost a watch. Then it's time for another round (or three) of Guess the Price of the Seiko! Circling back to Ariel's recent trip, he gives us a briefing on the lovely things he saw and learned abo...
Mar 16, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Season 2Ep. 61
On this week’s episode of aBlogtoWatch Weekly , Ariel is trapped in an airplane over the ocean, so Rick and David are joined once again by Alex from Fifth Wrist Radio. The gents get cracking with a discussion of Jake's recent article on microbrands, finally putting to bed the debate over how to define the word! An hour or so before it was released, the team makes predictions about what the MoonSwatch Moonshine Gold will be, and then follow that up with their reactions to what it actually is. Spo...
Mar 09, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 60
On this week’s episode of aBlogtoWatch Weekly, Ariel, Rick, and David are joined by Sylvain Berneron from Breitling. To kick off the show, it’s a discussion about whether or not watch collecting advice is actually intended to benefit consumers, or if people would just be better off ignoring all of it, and simply buying whatever timepieces they actually enjoy. From there, it’s a discussion of what our hosts think might be unveiled at Watches & Wonders Geneva 2023 from Parmigiani Fleurier, Rog...
Mar 02, 2023•57 min•Season 2Ep. 59
This week on the aBlogtoWatch Weekly podcast, Rick and David replace Ariel with Simon from Escapement24 and Alex from Fifth Wrist Radio. The team dive right in with a discussion of IYKYK watches, and everyone takes issue with the celebration of brands making small changes to existing models and charging an outrageous premium. Then, it's on to another round of Watches and Wonders 2023 prognostication, with three more exhibiting brands. Of course, there's a discussion of new releases and at the to...
Feb 23, 2023•58 min•Season 2Ep. 58
This week on the aBlogtoWatch Weekly podcast, Ariel, Rick, and David are joined by inboxes filled with unsolicited email from watch brands. After a brief discussion about princely double wristing, the guys have a discussion about the best way watch brands can and should communicate with its customers (and potential customers), including how brands have shifted marketing tactics and why. Then they dive into another round of predictions for a few of the brands exhibiting at Watches and Wonders 202...
Feb 16, 2023•56 min•Season 2Ep. 57
This week on the aBlogtoWatch Weekly podcast, Ariel, Rick, and David keep it simple with no guests and but no less lively discussion than you're used to! To kick things off by looking ahead to Watches and Wonders 2023, with predictions for some of the biggest brands and a discussion on how brands decided what to release and when. The gang muses about the comeback of the dress watch, and then gets into the bevy of new releases that have been released in the past week, including a shedload of Aude...
Feb 09, 2023•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 56
This week on the aBlogtoWatch Weekly podcast, Ariel, Rick, and David are joined by Alex , a watchmaker and co-founder of the Fifth Wrist website and co-host of its companion podcast. The group wastes no time and starts off with a discussion of the perpetual dissatisfaction of watch enthusiasts by asking whether there's such thing an "Exit Watch," which inevitably evolves into a conversation about the guys' favorite personal watches and Ariel disclosing that he has so many watches, he forgets he ...
Feb 02, 2023•59 min•Season 2Ep. 55
This week on the aBlogtoWatch Weekly podcast, Ariel, Rick, and David are joined by Pete McConvill of the eponymous YouTube channel ! Things start out with Ariel seeming to have broken his own rules and made a list; he's quick to reframe the situation as a simple collection of thoughts, not to the exclusion of other thoughts. The conversation touches on why the current market favors wild colors, the merits of reporting movement accuracy, and superfluous complications (plus David discusses samples...
Jan 26, 2023•58 min•Season 2Ep. 54
This week on the aBlogtoWatch Weekly podcast, Ariel, David, and Rick are joined by Jose Pereztroika of Perezcope ! The team talks about three races they hope will stop before they finish: the race to the top (of the grey market), the race to the archives (for reissues), and the race to the bottom (of the ocean). That discussion branches off into vintage watches, auctions, and Jose's favorite release of 2022. Of course, how could Shakira not come up in a watch podcast, so the guys weigh in on whe...
Jan 19, 2023•58 min•Season 2Ep. 53
This week on the aBlogtoWatch Weekly podcast, the venerable Rick, Ariel, and David are back with a full agenda! The team starts off by spending over 12 minutes discussing how Rolex bungled its first titanium production watch, then segues into discussing two other watch materials, bronze and alumin(i)um. The guys then discuss Omega's cryptic announcement on Instagram, suggesting that whatever it is, it will likely be disappointing and too expensive. Moving along, the staggering number of Seiko re...
Jan 12, 2023•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 52
This special edition of the aBlogtoWatch Weeklypodcast is brought to you by Ulysse Nardin. Rick and David sit down with Jean-Christophe Sabatier, Chief Product Officer at Ulysse Nardin, to talk about the incredible Ulysse Nardin Freak family of watches, how they came to be, and how they changed the watch industry forever. Listen below or on the player of your choice. Ulysse Nardin is a historic, technologically advanced producer of mechanical luxury watches, headquartered in Le Locle and Neuchat...
Jan 08, 2023•43 min•Season 2Ep. 51
This week on the aBlogtoWatch Weekly podcast, your favorite horological trio is back together to ring in 2023 with the first episode of Season 2! First and foremost, Rick admits to losing track of Ryan Reynolds. The team talks about recent movies and tries to figure out whether some watches they've seen on TV and in movies were paid placements or not, discuss the financial realities of owning a large watch brand, and heap criticism on the idea of buying vintage watches while praising the brands ...
Jan 05, 2023•57 min•Season 2Ep. 50
This week on the aBlogtoWatch Weekly podcast, the gang is back together with a renewed exuberance! After a reminder that yes, aBlogtoWatch does have a Twitter account , they talk about next year's watch shows, gimmicky watch collaborations, and the games brands play games with consumers. If that weren't enough, they try to dissect the logic behind Moser's latest release, play more pricing games with new Seikos while trying to figure out what the heck the brand is doing, and make their picks for ...
Dec 22, 2022•54 min•Season 1Ep. 49
To Follow This week on the aBlogtoWatch Weekly podcast, it's Ariel who's missing, but David has found his way back to the podcasting booth and rejoins Rick for another raucous chat about the latest in watches. The two are joined by Andrew Morgan from WatchFinder & Co. , who immediately disappoints Rick when he shares that he is not a soccer/football fan. The trio dissects the murkiness of calling watches "iconic," has a go at a new brand peddling overpriced watches, and humbly predicts what ...
Dec 16, 2022•56 min•Season 1Ep. 48
For this week's episode of the aBlogtoWatch Weekly podcast, David got lost on the way to his recording studio, so it's just Ariel and Rick---but they're joined by Simon from Escapement24 and Rob Corder of WatchPro! The horological quartet exhaustively unpack Rolex's pre-owned announcement, lament another massive watch heist, and fret about dropping ceramic watches. Plus, the future of Oris and Chopard's new 5th Avenue boutique! Highlights 3:34 Rolex Launches Its "Rolex Certified Pre-Owned" Watch...
Dec 08, 2022•56 min•Season 1Ep. 47
