This week, I am joined by Ben Clymer and Malaika Crawford. We’re having a look at one celeb’s watch assortment, however we’re utilizing it to zoom out to speak extra broadly about developments, tastes, and the way they alter over time.
The celeb is the one and solely Sir Elton John. Almost 1,000 items of his property are at public sale at Christie’s this month, together with greater than 30 watches. Malaika and I went to preview these watches a few weeks in the past, and we each had a ton of enjoyable. The gathering is completely Elton – tremendous loud, but in addition consultant of basic watchmaking. It additionally in some way completely displays the place watch amassing is at in 2024. I could not assist however really feel that if his assortment had appeared 5 years in the past, watch nerds won’t have cared as a lot. So, it bought me fascinated with how developments and tastes change, and the way they’re altering proper now.
In fact, our personal Ben Clymer has been on the entrance traces observing, and, dare I say, even shaping these developments over the previous 15 years. So Ben joins us to debate tastes, developments, and Elton John.