A Blog To Watch Weekly

This week on aBlogtoWatch Weekly , Rick is out sick (but he is listening). David and Ripley are present and accounted for, and Ariel jumps right in with a discussion of some of his predictions for 2025 . He thinks the theme song from The Rocky Horror Picture Show is the best background for this discussion because we're in somewhat of a time warp. His top five trends? Listen in to find out. Hint: T...

This week on aBlogtoWatch Weekly , Rick is virtually flanked not only by Ripley, David, and Ariel, but he's also got three guests on board for this week: Kevin Roberts, Alon Ben Joseph, and Simon Ryan. They begin by doing a round-robin of "Where are you, and what are you wearing?" meaning "What watch are you wearing." This greases the wheels for Rick's Rules of Order, in which Rick discusses how t...

This week on aBlogtoWatch Weekly, Rick is once again lost in the Scottish countryside as Ariel, David, and Ripley hold down the holiday podcast fort. Things start off with a  deep dive into Seiko's Incredibly Specialized Watch Exhibition 2, including watches for Santa, ninjas, and DJs. Then they get down to brass tacks with the ABTW team's favorite releases from 2024 and a discussion of how the te...

This week on   aBlogtoWatch Weekly , Brother Rick is conspicuously absent, so it's Ariel running the show alongside Ripley and David, who all know that to take a podcast vacation now would be to deprive listeners of the comfort of a discussion of their watch hobby straight to their ears. The guys get right to it with a look the new Venezianico Arsenale . Ariel proposes that when glasses take over...

This week on   aBlogtoWatch Weekly , Rick is back in the proverbial saddle, and the laughs are on high volume again. Ripley is adorned in Tudor cycling gear from head to toe, and Rick admonishes the team by noting their "rubbishment" of Panerai from last week's show, which David wholeheartedly defends. When they get down to business, the "JaGUar" (stet) rebrand is the first item on the docket. (Ri...

This week on  aBlogtoWatch Weekly , the opening question is: Where's Rick? Ariel, David, and Ripley ponder Rick's potential whereabouts, with guesses from something related to farming to simply taking a good old-fashioned vacation. The working proletariat goes on without him. Ariel takes the wheel and shares his astonishment at just how many new watch brands are out there; Ripley concurs. If these...

This week on  aBlogtoWatch Weekly ,Rick and David are both back, so the happy regulars are all reunited. "Who touched whose Cubitus?" is the first question right off the bat, and hilarity ensues. Next up is a look at a WatchPro article regarding Rolex's exit from the Formula 1 stage . They pause for a moment to ponder a lovely and well-photographed visit to Louis Vuitton's Les Fabriques des Arts W...

This week on  aBlogtoWatch Weekly , two of the usual suspects, host Rick and regular commentator David are MIA, either gallivanting or recuperating — or both. So, to mix it up, we have Ariel, Sean, and Ripley, kicking things off with Sean's observation that the news cycle, which usually slows around now each year, is still busily speeding forward in surprising and compelling ways. Ripley is sippin...

This week on  aBlogtoWatch Weekly , Ariel is traveling, so Rick is joined by David and Ripley, and guests Kevin and Matt. They start off with a 69k Omega X Swatch — say what? — That's a $300 watch. But it's for charity. Next up in the queue is talk of the end of the Only Watch auction, which would be the end of an era if it had actually been an era. Talk then turns to the GHPG Awards, and Ripley t...

This week on aBlogtoWatch Weekly, Rick is joined by Ariel, David, and Ripley (is Ripley sipping Scotch?) on U.S. Election Day. The subject of watches is more of a balm than surveying the political landscape, alas. Ripley is happy that he can now wear his Mondaine Stop-to-Go watch since most U.S. states have "fallen back" to standard time. Surprisingly, no one extended the metaphor to politics, but...

Here are the show notes. Do you have a title yet? This week on aBlogtoWatch Weekly, Rick is joined by Ariel, David, and Ripley, as per usual, and they start things off by discussing, um, time. How unusual! Well, the subject is the time changes in Europe and the U.S., which marginally has to do with watches, although, honestly, there's no segue except for a brief foray into those rare parts of the...

Recorded during Geneva Watch Days 2024, David sits down with Breitling Global Head Of Heritage Gianfranco Gentile and Breitling Historian Fred Mandelbaum

Show Notes To Follow. 0:00 Introduction 4:14 https://www.ablogtowatch.com/ariels-thoughts-ebays-removal-of-uk-and-germany-private-seller-fees-and-how-it-affects-the-market/ 15:19 https://www.ablogtowatch.com/new-release-breitling-navitimer-b01-chronograph-46-north-american-limited-edition-watch/ 22:30 Patek Cubitus 35:48 https://www.ablogtowatch.com/hands-on-debut-march-la-b-am2-gmt-watches/ 36:47...

This week on  aBlogtoWatch Weekly , Rick is joined by Ariel and David, while Ripley is conspicuously absent, and the three muse about his whereabouts. He's visiting a brand we've never worked with, in a country he's never visited. Maybe the mystery will be solved next week. Meanwhile, the remaining trio gets right to it with a discussion of the news that Rolex is out and LVMH is in with Formula 1....

Richard is back to host this week's aBlogtoWatch Weekly  show — sadly, he needs a vacation from his vacation —  and the team starts right off on its usual quirky path by asking ChatGPT the price of a rhino. What does this have to do with watches? It all comes back to Hublot. (You'll have to listen to decode all this.) Then Rick chastises Ariel and Ripley for talking about too many watches last wee...

With Richard on the lam (or perhaps, as the team muses, at a Scottish day spa with the family and farm animals), Ariel hosts this week's aBlogtoWatch Weekly  show, flanked, as always by David and Ripley. They get right down to it with a discussion of a trend in watch world: coffee table books. They flip through the pages of several new releases and ponder their respective audiences. Switching gear...

This week on  aBlogtoWatch Weekly , Rick is joined not only by Ariel, Ripley, and David but also by Richard Benc from Studio Underd0g. After some chitchat about how expensive it is for brands to attend Watches and Wonders, the guys jump right into a day in the life of Benc, who's starting his day with this podcast and then heading off to launch a new watch! He gives us some of the backstory of...

This week on aBlogtoWatch Weekly, Rick is joined by Ariel, Ripley, and David, as per usual. After some chat about Jeff Goldblum's new show, Chaos, in which a certain Casio timepiece figures prominently, Ariel and Ripley explain why they're exhausted. They've just returned from Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California, where the brand debuted two new Apple Watch models. Because they...

This week on aBlogtoWatch Weekly, Rick is joined by Ariel, Ripley, and David, the latter of whom is in an automotive showroom eating tiramisu and waiting for his car to be repaired. Ariel muses about why watch repair shops don't have waiting rooms, to which Ripley replies, "That would be a six-month rental." It's been a busy week in watch world, particularly for Ariel and David,...

This week on  aBlogtoWatch Weekly , Rick is joined by Ariel and Ripley, along with Kevin Roberts (@kevin_roberts100) Azad Zangana (@aztime), and Will Charlesworth (@inquisitivepheasants). The show begins with banter about bequeathing watches, and Kevin decides, impromptu, who's getting what when he kicks the bucket. When the guys get down to business, the first topic up is Chanel's purchas...

This week on aBlogtoWatch Weekly, Rick is joined by the usual suspects, Ripley, David, and Ariel. After a brief foray into the scorching weather in Los Angeles and Budapest vs. Scotland, the quadrangle dives into a discussion about why luxury watch brands shouldn't raise prices on a set schedule. Next up, it's Guess the Price of the Seiko (spoiler alert: David won), and then the team scrut...

This week on  aBlogtoWatch Weekly , Ripley, Rick, and David join from their usual spots while Ariel joins from Banff in Canada! Things kick off with Banff Bear Banter, as Ripley dispenses a surprising breadth of ursine knowledge. Talk gets back on track with Ariel's recent article on watch brand's servicing business, with a particular eye towards those brands that limit access to parts. Th...

This week on  aBlogtoWatch Weekly , Ripley, Rick, David, and Ariel reunite for another round of horological hoopla. Ariel shares about his Disney desert march, the guys go over some Olympic watch spotting, and then things get properly started. David discusses his recent article about escalating watch prices, everyone chimes in on Christopher Ward and GMTs, Ariel defends a gaudy Apple Watch mod, an...

This week on  aBlogtoWatch Weekly , Ripley, Rick, David, and Ariel are back at it again and waste no time, getting right into the Olympics and creating new mandates for wearing watches during events. Then Ripley recaps Citizen's 100th anniversary event, dispenses on Bremont, and chimes in on Rolex's new wrist measurement contraption. Then it's on to a few new releases and a round of  H...

This week on aBlogtoWatch Weekly, Rick is joined by Ripley, David, and Ariel, all of whom are present in their areas of residence! After Ripley shares his brand-blasting ensemble, the discussion gets into Ariel and David's trip to Vienna, Austria. Then, there's some F1 watch sponsor news, a trio of dual-crown watches, and another round of Hit, Miss, Maybe (including a round of Guess the Price of t...