How many shonky pseudo dealers have we seen here over the years get booted when their $$s interfered with their ethics and passion for watches. 😗
This is just on a bigger scale.
Maybe there wasn’t enough people with a Masters degree or higher earning $200K buying three $7k watches a year
I understand your cold water on the party, Larry. It is sad to see the loss of gainful employment for anyone in our niche hobby/industry. Building a business is incredibly difficult and seachanges in an industry can be catastrophic if the company isn’t prepared (Kodak as a cautionary tale).
As for Dinky as the puppy…hmm
As for Dinky as the puppy…hmm
My education and earnings certainly lift this forum averages well beyond those of the average plebian Hodinkee subscriber. You are all welcome.
That puppy died here
https://omegaforums.net/threads/hodinkee-eight-day-travel-clock-le.117157/
WTF!!!! $5900
Interesting to read that now and note how quickly commenters arrived with the “Hodinkee’s laughing all the way to the bank, this is a brilliant move that you just can’t appreciate” thing. I wonder if anyone from that thread will venture to apply the Clever Jujitsu Marketing theory to this recent development, or if they’ll just point and laugh at Hodinkee with the rest of us rubes.
What ya’ll don’t realize is that travel clock will be worth triple its retail in 5 years becuase it’s become lore…I bought 5 of them, who’s laughing now!!
This thread is starting to feel like a game of “kick the puppy”. Schadenfreude is bad karma. I do feel sorry for the employees at C&C and regret the loss of the original Hodinkee site as I read it a lot in my early days.
I wouldn’t call observing karma in action a thing that generates bad karma...
Schadenfreude is taking pleasure in the discomfort of others. I try not to as it is indeed bad karma. So, to observe karma being served and not be amused is indeed ok. Sadly the Karma was also applied to folks who probably did not deserve it.
I’m really not seeing much Schadenfreude here, unless I’m missing it. Anyone who’s mentioned Crown & Caliber has lamented what happened to the business and, especially, deplored the real damage the Hodinkee deal did to the livelihoods of their employees and watchmaker contractors.
The deplorable thing about Hodinkee’s failure is that the architects of it certainly insulated themselves from any discomfort. Rather, they seem to have ensured that it would be people way down in the corporate food chain who would suffer if the deal ended up the way it did.
I think Ben Clymer is a bad writer but I wouldn’t say that makes him a bad person. I do think that identifying oneself as the “emotional leader” of a company when you have the title of executive chairman or whatever doesn’t look good. (Maybe he gave a precise answer that the reporter cruelly left out to make Clymer look like an asshole, sure, but consider how often Clymer made himself look like an asshole purely by things he freely wrote and said about himself.)
