Comments on: What Is It Like To Visit Watches And Wonders?

By: Danny Simenauer

Danny Simenauer — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 01:53:49 +0000

Attending a watch show like Watches & Wonders is a dream come true for any watch enthusiast. Imagine seeing & trying on watches that are in stock! For the press, vendors, and manufacturers that are attending to do their job, it is a lot of work, but it should be a labor of love.

But is it really work if you get to meet phenomenal people in the watch industry, build a network of contacts in the industry, and attend meetings with great food & wine? A true watch collectors dream week!

I look forward to seeing up-to-date articles each day of the show from WatchTime and getting the real scoop on what manufacturers are really doing to feed our passion.

Danny S.

By: Humberto Pacheco

Humberto Pacheco — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 23:30:59 +0000

In May 2005 WatchTime sent a reporter to Costa Rica to write about my large collection of top Swiss timepieces. Watches like my Lange One Platinum with blue dial…only it did not come with a blue dial. The factory obliged for me. As did Ulysse Nardin with my first Astrolabium with the band arms. Jean Claude Biver, then my peer at the YPO, gave me a tour of Blancpain Genève and Le Brassus and Federica Piguet, when I REACHED 50 years and had to leave YPO. From that trip I came out with a Marvelous Blancpain 8 day Tourbillon.

By: Peter Edwin Sunga

Peter Edwin Sunga — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 23:27:30 +0000

I have only attended one..the first watches and wonders in HK held many years ago. It’s an experience and I hope to go again when this pandemic is over.

By: Humberto Pacheco

Humberto Pacheco — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 23:03:58 +0000

I was graced by two friends who got me wonderful watches from their factories: Phillipe Stern and Rolf Snyder. Both would receive me at their “tents” in Basel and I managed to get exclusives no longer in the market. I managed to get two Patel Philippe Russians, one in white dial and the other dark. I got two Trilogies of Time, the first with the Astrolabium’s “original” band holders, a feature that I loved but had been abandoned. My 2001 Freak, worked upon by the factory during two years to correct design flaws. I turned down Mr. Schnyder’s offer for a more expensive watch, against his commitment to make the Freak perfect. Needless to say he did. And there are many more stories of other great watchmakers from where this come.