This post is a companion to the latest 3DLANES podcast episode, and derived from its transcript. Consolidation in the watch industry has been predicted for a while. This time it showed up: Breitling is adding Universal Genève and Gallet to the family. It is not the subject of the week, but it is one of
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This post is a companion to the latest 3DLANES podcast episode, and derived from its transcript. We’re back with what was the talk of the town when this watch released. Last time it was Louis Vuitton and the Porsche, then I took the liberty to discuss the Rolex Land-Dweller piggybacking on that. Honestly, if I’d
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This post is a companion to the latest 3DLANES podcast episode, and derived from its transcript. Every time a heritage brand does something even slightly different, the internet loses its mind. We saw it with the Ferrari Luce. We saw it with the Singer and Louis Vuitton collaboration. And we saw it, in a big
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This post is a companion to the latest 3DLANES podcast episode, and derived from its transcript. Last episode was Volkswagen. This one is Zodiac. Different industries, different scale of disaster, but the same underlying exercise: pull apart the timeline, listen to what leadership actually said versus what the analysts and the enthusiast community said after
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This post is a companion to the latest 3DLANES podcast episode. This is the second half of a topic discussed on the last post. The first half was about manufacturers who built things for other brands and eventually decided to build their own. This half is different. This is about brands that actually died, but
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This post is a companion to the latest 3DLANES podcast episode. This topic made sense for a single podcast episode but not for a single website article. This is one half of it: manufacturers who spent decades building things for somebody else’s name, then decided they wanted their name on the dial, the hood, or
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This post is a companion to the latest 3DLANES podcast episode. I picked three brands for this one: Rolex, Omega, and Ming. Not because they’re my favorites, not because they’re more interesting than anyone else out there, they just happened to be the three that popped into my head when I started thinking about the
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How Luxury Brands Change You For Better or For Worse The term “luxury” can of be interpreted very differently and can vary person to person, even its definition being vague in and of itself, and for each of us ever changing. In my own journey, I believe luxury can be found in watches of over
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This post is a companion to the latest 3DLANES podcast episode. This was supposed to be a Collective Horology weekend. I had the trip planned with my wife, hotel booked and everything, and Sunday morning was going to be Morning Motors, the Cars and Coffee that Driving While Awesome puts together. Instead I spent the
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This post is a companion to the latest 3DLANES podcast episode. The camera started as a precision artifact. German. Exclusive. Built by hand in the same tradition as Swiss watchmaking, meaning it was expensive, it was serious, and most people couldn’t touch it. Leica, Zeiss, Rollei. That was the holy trinity. And like a fine
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