Friday Watches - June 2021 Plus Half Time Analysis
Well wasn't June full of surprises? Not only did England beat Germany in the knock out stages of a football tournament (without resorting to penalties either) but Carlton-Brown was seen sporting a Citizen. Both surprising and disturbing in equal measure, our resident Earl was seen parading around in fishnets. Moving swiftly on.....
Numbers continued to decrease as the membership found other things to keep them busy on a Friday. Some 583 watches were posted in June which was one less than even last year's record low. The decline was echoed in the number of different brands shown, down to 121 which is the lowest this year. Despite that eighteen new brands were posted, seven of which were new to the year and a further eleven were new to the Friday Thread.
Having said all of that Rolex did try to buck the trend. They started strongly, winning the first three weeks of the month and even threatening to wrestle the weekly high from Seiko on the 18th, eventually falling one short with thirty watches. However this was still a new weekly high for Rolex this year. Seiko started well, only just behind Rolex until the 18th when they plummeted to twelve in a week (a record low for them) however they came back strongly on the 25th and beat Rolex by three. Omega, on the other hand, had a sordid month. Failing to break into double figures on the 4th (beaten into fourth place by Timefactors) and never scoring more than fifteen. Omega's struggles in June led to a new all time low of forty four.
Elsewhere there were brands that did well and there are those that did not so well. CWC are still going strong and hit a new weekly high for the year. Ming are also seeing weekly highs, hitting a new all time weekly high of four but not managing to top their current monthly high of seven. Even Patek have hit a new weekly high of three this year. On the other side of the coin Damasko, Hamilton and JLC have had their worst month this year (six, four and three respectively). For Hamilton this translated to their lowest monthly score since I started counting.
Brands making their first appearances this year include Geckota and Nixon and Gav's lovely Olma was their first example this year. New additions to the ever lengthening list of brands to appear on the Friday thread include Saga, Quinting, Benzinger and one that was well Out of Order.
As ever there were some fine examples of wrist bourne timepieces. Yokel's fine Benzinger Subskription, Verv's Avia Marino and Itsguy's beautiful vintage Seiko Skyliner all caught my eye.
In general exceptions to rules tend to make life interesting. In terms of watches, as a rule, I generally don't like either Panerai (large and often too similar) and fliegers (perhaps too stark and again too similar) however this month has seen the appearance of two exceptions. ASW1's Equation of Time (PAM00670?) is unusual and has a lovely blue sunburst dial. Zelig's LE pvd Fortis B-42 is a very elegant iteration of the traditional flieger. They are regulars on the Friday Thread and they never fail to make me smile when they appear.
And now for the results for June:
1 Rolex 92
2 Seiko 71
3 Omega 44
4 Timefactors 33
5 Tudor 25
6 Panerai 17
7 G Shock 16
8 Sinn 15
9 Grand Seiko 14
10 Breitling 13
11 Citizen 12
12 CWC 12
13 IWC 9
14 Zenith 8
15 Heuer 7
16 Ming 7
17 Damasko 6
18 Fortis 6
19 Oris 6
20 Vostok 5
21 Nomos 4
22 Hamilton 4
23 Ebel 4
24 KMK 4
25 Garmin 4
26 Longines 4
27 Eterna 4
28 Blancpain 4
29 Patek Philippe 4
30 Christopher Ward 3
31 Steinhart 3
32 Doxa (modern) 3
33 Jaeger-LeCoultre 3
34 Linde Werdelin 3
35 Bell & Ross 3
36 Ollech & Wajs 3
37 Tag Heuer 3
38 Dan Henry 2
39 Moser 2
40 Offshore Professional 2
41 Artya 2
42 Helvetia 2
43 Poljot 2
44 Tissot 2
45 Bremont 2
46 Chronos 2
47 Corum 2
48 Geckota 2
49 Helson 2
50 Synchron 2
51 Timex 2
52 Cartier 2
53 Ulysse Nardin 2
54 Bulova 2
55 Audemars Piguet 2
56 Glaschutte Original 2
57 Suunto 2
58 Scurfa 2
59 Alpina 1
60 Animal 1
61 Anonimo 1
62 Apple 1
63 Columbia 1
64 Dailos 1
65 Dornbluth & Sohn 1
66 Jean Richard 1
67 Lorier 1
68 NTH 1
69 Olma 1
70 Panzera 1
71 Safari 1
72 6B 1
73 Aerowatch 1
74 Archimede 1
75 Avia 1
76 Benzinger 1
77 Hemel 1
78 Ingersoll 1
79 Jean Marcel 1
80 Marathon 1
81 Meister Singer 1
82 Minase 1
83 MkII 1
84 MWC 1
85 Nixon 1
86 Q & Q 1
87 Quinting 1
88 Saga 1
89 Sterile 1
90 Stowa 1
91 Vacheron Constantin 1
92 Zodiac 1
93 A. Lange & Sohne 1
94 Carvel 1
95 Casio 1
96 Dekla 1
97 Enicar 1
98 Girard Perigeaux 1
99 Junghans 1
100 Lemania 1
101 Marvin 1
102 Monta 1
103 Muhle 1
104 Oceanx 1
105 Out of Order 1
106 San Martin 1
107 Stanley 1
108 Swiss Military Hanowa 1
109 Technos 1
110 Zelos 1
111 Anicorn 1
112 Certina 1
113 Franck Muller 1
114 Hanhart 1
115 Helm 1
116 Mido 1
117 Newmark (Modern) 1
118 Swatch 1
119 Universal Geneve 1
120 Victorinox 1
121 Zeno 1
At some point over the weekend I will post the half time analysis but for now I will leave you with June's stats.
