Sorry listeners! Been a while since our last episode but we're going back to basics and hopefully will get more regular with episodes!

In this episode, Pete and John talk about the Watches and Wonders event 2024, and what our thoughts are. Spoiler: Not our favourite W&W year but still plenty to talk about.

Catch Pete and John talking about our watch predictions for 2024 - also for the first time this will also be in video format on Youtube! Quite a few tangents along the way though (what else can you expect from us really). A meandering journey that we hope you enjoy!

In the spirit of ever being the professionals that we are, here's an episode that we actually recorded a few months ago but have been too busy to upload (sorry everyone!). Hopefully will be back to regular programming shortly but this is a good one. Our first ever episode with a guest and our first ever episode done remotely. A few technical challenges (it wouldn't be a HTT episode without them).

Join us as we chat with our good friend and local watch collector Anthony (give him a follow on insta @watch_lover_au). We talk all things watches, how he got started in the hobby and his particular love for a brand that a few of us probably write off sometimes and probably shouldn't!

We are back - after a little break. The break was not planned or intended - you can blame my new found obsession with Baldurs Gate 3 more than anything.

This week we are discussing the latest Swatch x Blancpain collab - because? well because its kind of compulsory.

Today we talk about a few brands that we reckon, rightly or wrongly, are underrated by the watch world. Whats really interesting is perhaps why we think they are underrated - perhaps its because they also make other things, or focus on women or are just trying to make us happy (yeah I know, obviously we'll hate someone trying to make us happy).

We also chats about the recent trend to revive long-dead brands. Is that a legitimate path to success or a cop out? And also what does the future hold for these brands? Should they stick to their historic catalogs or do we expect more?

Watch companies may as well make up whole new units of measure for water resistance (I vote squeezal) because it seems that neither meters or atmospheres mean what we think they mean when it comes to a watches water resistance. Why is that? Does it have to be that way?

Then we finish up with a quick chat on how we decide what to wear each day.

So often the watch hobby requires us to wait. Maybe its trying to save for that new Omega or waiting for "the call" from your Rolex AD or twidling your thumbs while an indie watchmaker builds your watch - often we are kept waiting. Is this a good thing? Or would we skip the wait and jump to the buying process if we could. We chat about this a bit and go off on many tangents.

Also the 75th anniversary Omega Speedmasters dropped and some interesting Tudor Pelagos' (Pelagai??) arrived. We rabbit on about those for a bit too.

Want to listen to two random guys chatting away in a spare bedroom critiquing incredibly successful professional media folks and telling them how to improve? Well you are in the right place because thats what we are up to this episode.

There are some moments of insight but it also feels like there's quite a few places where we appear to backflip on what we'd said earlier. That said, we still think its worth us putting out and you guys having a listen.

As always we'd love to hear your thoughts on all this so please leave a comment on whatever podcast player you are using. Thanks.

Today Pete and John chat about transparency and discover, like always, that nothing is as simple as you imagine.

We talk about transparency in watches including movements, swiss made but then wonder why not cases, or dials or even watch design.  

We then talk about transparency in the watch media and get right down to the important question - does the media lie to us to make the brands happy or do they lie to us to make us happy?

The retail experience for watches is changing - fast. Perhaps the biggest change happening right now are the watch brands taking more control (and a bigger slice of the pie) though the ever increasing use of single brand boutiques either operated directly by the brand or on their behalf by a third party.

Is this a good thing? It certainly makes discounts (or at least big discounts) pretty rare.  But on the other hand, we've both found boutiques seem to provide a uniquely satisfying - dare I say, luxury - experience.  Also what does this mean for the multi-brand AD?  All this and more in the podcast, so stop reading and get listening.

Watch pricing is one of the most contentious aspects of the watch hobby.  As enthusiasts we think we all know better than brands what their watches "should" cost and get pretty vocal about it.  Today we talk around this issue for an hour or so and find that its not so easy.  Oh, its definitely the movement that sets the price, until we are actually asked to pay up then its brand power, or design, or rarity.  

What we really find is that like most topics, when you slow down, question your 'easy' thoughts and test yourself against different scenarios watch pricing, what a watch "should" cost and what we are prepared to pay is anything but straightforward.

Join Pete and John discussing a load of watches released in Jan 2023 including the revolutionary (and baffling) Omega Speedmaster Super Racing Spirate, Zenith Defy Revival, a couple of TAGs and.....whatever else came to mind