Superlative

 This is Superlative: A Podcast about watches, the people behind them, and the worlds that inspire them. This week our host and aBlogtoWatch Founder Ariel Adams is joined by Peter Cho, the Creative Director and Co-Owner of Jack Mason Watches. The two start the show trying to define the company and brand, and also why so many successful brands today are actually names of people. Ariel and Peter div...

 This is Superlative: A Podcast about watches, the people behind them, and the worlds that inspire them. This week our host and aBlogtoWatch Founder Ariel Adams is joined by Crispin Jones, Founder of Mr. Jones Watches. To start the show Ariel dives into their first meetings, and he has Crispin go into some of the good and bad advice that he has received over the years on running the business. Arie...

 This is Superlative: A Podcast about watches, the people behind them, and the worlds that inspire them. This week our host and aBlogtoWatch Founder Ariel Adams is joined by Alexander Schmiedt, the President of the Americas at Vacheron Constantin. To start the show Ariel reminisces about meeting Alexander when he worked at Mont Blanc, and Ariel asks about what drew him to go into the watch industr...

 This is Superlative: A Podcast about watches, the people behind them, and the worlds that inspire them. This week our host and aBlogtoWatch Founder Ariel Adams is joined by Jean-Francois Sberro, the President of Hublot North America. To start the show Ariel asks Jean-Francois to talk about what it was like leading up to the LVMH purchase of Hublot that resulted in his current position there. They...

This week on Superlative our host and aBlogtoWatch Founder Ariel Adams is joined by Barry Cohen, the Founder of Luminox and the Managing Partner of Time Concepts LLC, brought to you by aBlogtoWatch.

 This is Superlative: A Podcast about watches, the people behind them, and the worlds that inspire them. This week our host and aBlogtoWatch Founder Ariel Adams is joined by Scott Lenga, Co-Author of “The Watchmakers: A Powerful WW2 Story of Brotherhood, Survival, and Hope Amid the Holocaust”. The two start the show talking about how the book based off his fathers recordings connects with the watc...

This is Superlative: A Podcast about watches, the people behind them, and the worlds that inspire them. This week our host and aBlogtoWatch Founder Ariel Adams is joined by Pietro Tomajer, Co-founder of The Limited Edition online luxury watch store. Pietro talks about how his business model began in 2015 where he gave a place for alternative and underground watch makers to be found. Ariel brings u...

This week on Superlative our host Ariel Adams is joined by Patrick Long, the Co-founder of Luftgekühlt, brought to you by aBlogtoWatch.

This is Superlative: A Podcast about watches, the people behind them, and the worlds that inspire them. This week our host and aBlogtoWatch Founder Ariel Adams is joined for a second time on the show by George Bamford, Founder of the Bamford Watch Department. This episode has a unique format where Ariel and George decided to do two podcasts in one. The first half of the show is George interviewing...

This is Superlative: A Podcast about watches, the people behind them, and the worlds that inspire them. This week our host and aBlogtoWatch Founder Ariel Adams is joined by Patrick Getreide, owner of The Oak Collection. The two are in London and sit down together for a casual conversation about their lives around watches, and the incredible Oak Collection. The Oak Collection is a collection of 168...

This is Superlative: A Podcast about watches, the people behind them, and the worlds that inspire them. This week our host Ariel Adams is joined again by his long time friend and Watch Specialist & Media Director for Watchbox, Tim Mosso. Starting the show our pair find themselves continuing a conversation about car ownership vs watch ownership, and talking about the luxury space in general bei...

This is Superlative: A Podcast about watches, the people behind them, and the worlds that inspire them. This week our host and aBlogtoWatch Founder Ariel Adams is joined by the Creative Director at Breitling, Sylvain Berneron. To start the show our host Ariel asks Sylvain about some of the unknown complexities in watch design that people may not think of, and how many people may be responsible for...

This is Superlative: A Podcast about watches, the people behind them, and the worlds that inspire them. This week our host and aBlogtoWatch Founder Ariel Adams is joined by the Head of Watches at Louis Vuitton, Jean Arnault. Ariel starts the show asking about the exclusivity and somewhat secrecy behind the brands luxury watches. Jean elaborates on how they are only distributed through their own LV...

This is Superlative: A Podcast about watches, the people behind them, and the worlds that inspire them. This week our host Ariel Adams is joined by Nick English, the Co-Founder of Bremont Watches. The pair dive into the culture of image and how personal representation matters in the luxury world, and how important it was for Bremont to be a British brand in addition to being a luxury brand. Ariel...

This is Superlative: A Podcast about watches, the people behind them, and the worlds that inspire them. This week our host Ariel Adams is joined by Nico Leonard van der Horst from the Belfast Watch Retailer, “Pride and Pinion”. Ariel asks Nico about being a personality in the watch space today and how that has allowed him to be himself in the eye of the industry. Nico proposes the question “Who ha...

This is Superlative: A Podcast about watches, the people behind them, and the worlds that inspire them. This week our host Ariel Adams is joined by a long time friend of his in the industry, Hampton Carney, CEO and Owner of Paul Wilmot Communications. To start the show our pair today talk about what a PR Firm like Paul Wilmot Communications really does today, and the value that they bring to the t...

This is Superlative: A Podcast about watches, the people behind them, and the worlds that inspire them. This week our host Ariel Adams is joined by Stephane Waser, the Managing Director at Maurice Lacroix Watches. They start the show talking about the nostalgia of the brand for Ariel, Stephane reflects on Maurice Lacroix’s brand history, and what its like being a part of a brand that is a mainstre...

This is Superlative: A Podcast about watches, the people behind them, and the worlds that inspire them. This week our host Ariel Adams is joined by lifestyle journalist Steve Lundin. The pair really dive into modern Watch Journalism during this episode. Touching on such things as how many watch covering journalists make a living doing so today, the integrity of the journalistic industry, and some...

This is Superlative: A Podcast about watches, the people behind them, and the worlds that inspire them. This week our host Ariel Adams is joined live in person by Matthias Breschan, the CEO of Longines. They start the show talking about what Covid showed Matthias about the importance of the internet and the digital space in the watch industry, and how brick and mortar is still important today as w...

This is Superlative: A Podcast about watches, the people behind them, and the worlds that inspire them. This week our host Ariel Adams is joined by our first father and son duo to appear on the show, Jean-Claude and Pierre Biver. Before they dive into the details of their new watch brand they have launched, “JC Biver”, Jean-Claude talks about how you can’t retire from a passion, and how that passi...

This is Superlative: A Podcast about watches, the people behind them, and the worlds that inspire them. This week our host Ariel Adams is joined by Steven Holtzman, Vice Chairman of the Chicago based retailer, C.D. Peacock. The two start the show talking about the challenges people working in the industry might face, and being honest about covering the good and bad sides about it. Ariel asks Steve...

This is Superlative: A Podcast about watches, the people behind them, and the worlds that inspire them. This week our host Ariel Adams is joined by Eugene Tutunikov, CEO of Swiss Watch Expo. To start the show Ariel and Eugene talk about enthusiast media coverage in general, and how it impacts the watch industry as a whole when it comes to consumer education and interest into the industry. They div...

*AUDIO NOTE* - There was a small issue with the guests mic during this interview, but we wanted to make sure everyone was able to get the great information in this episode, and enjoy the great conversation that Ariel and James had, so we did the best we can with the audio. Thank you for listening through!* This is Superlative: A Podcast about watches, the people behind them, and the worlds that in...

This is Superlative: A Podcast about watches, the people behind them, and the worlds that inspire them. This week our host Ariel Adams is joined by Aaron Sigmond, author of the book “Drive Time Deluxe Edition: Watches Inspired by Automobiles, Motorcycles, and Racing”. The two start the show talking about how purchasing a luxury watch for many people is a reward they are giving themselves, and the...

This is Superlative: A Podcast about watches, the people behind them, and the worlds that inspire them. This week our host Ariel Adams is joined by Sebastien Chaulmontet, Head of Innovation at Sellita, where they develop more mainstream movements for a large number of brands. They start the show talking about how he came into the industry in a non traditional way, and how having patents played a p...