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Horloge-insider Wijt over liefde voor horloges, Carl F. Bucherer, Omega en… de Seiko Message watch (0024 horloge podcast #3)

by Gandor Bronkhorst on
Onze gast in de 0024 horloge podcast deze week is een van de langst dienende insiders uit de horlogerie en liefhebber pur sang: Alexander Wijt, eigenaar van Hourlux. Zijn carrière in de horlogerie gaat langs een aantal indrukwekkende merken, waaronder IWC, Omega en Seiko. Als zelfstandig ondernemer voert hij nu
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Shared joy and concerns: passion and professionalism in the watch world

by Lex Stolk on
In the watch industry there is a direct link between emotion and value. That link is invisible, vulnerable and dynamic and must be treated with the utmost care. If that emotion, the story of the maison, is no longer enthusiastically being told by enough passionate people the history that has been passed on for centuries without ever becoming boring will start to fade away.
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Just like tulips from Amsterdam

by Lex Stolk on
No one takes a Patek Philippe Nautilus for sale on eBay for a few thousand euro seriously: it’s either fake or stolen. But economic bubbles are something we can only see afterwards. Strange, that. Year after year the Swiss watch industry has been realising record turnovers. The big groups took the lead and new, small watch brands followed in their wake and the prices went up and up. No one, including myself, noticed the fact that slowly but surely a bubble was being created that strongly resembled the Dutch tulip mania.
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