Insights E29 - The Watch Collector / Enthusiast Dichotomy & Its Discontents

Beyond The Dial

English - May 02, 2022 17:58 - 43 minutes - 101 MB - ★★★★★ - 38 ratings
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Allen upends our current way of diving up the watch community into collectors, enthusiasts and consumers and suggests that we'd be far better off describing different levels of horological experience. Not to be missed for the die-hards, in this episode Allen's "phenomenology of watches" finally pays some dividends.