This is a blog exploring why collectors of luxury items (mainly watches) believe and do what we do, why we pretend otherwise, and how we might do better.
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What you pay for when you buy a watch
Price is a bet on a story you can't question; Why the Laureato's steak is invisible and Naoya Hida's sizzle is not; What's really holding up F.P. Journe?
Many watch writers have published something on the value question in the past few wee...
Trophies You Didn’t Earn
A conversation with explorer David Concannon... on watches that work for a living, the bootleg Explorers Club Flag, and sitting alone with Apollo rocket engines!
Our industry typically markets ‘exploration’ the way car adverts sell empty m...
Unpacking MB&F’s HM12
Complexity as theatre, succession planning, and the genius of a $384,000 action figure.
About a year ago, I wrote a pointed critique of the MB&F SP One, and to my surprise, MB&F responded. In that exchange, they teased the next Horological...
Where did the time go?
You spend so much time on watches and remember almost none of it. This is about how the decades disappear, what your brain keeps, and why watches can help.
At the end of last year I went down a bit of a rabbit hole with the German philosop...
Thinking, Fast and Slow... Again.
Turns out your gut might be smarter than a spreadsheet. A new study suggests good collectors don't out-think their instincts, they just build better ones.
It felt appropriate to kick this essay off with an XKCD comic…
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I enjoy watches, and write about the intersection of watch collecting, philosophy and psychology. ‘SDC Weekly’ (separate section, same Substack) is a newsletter published every week. See “links” in my profile to find the newsletter!
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