March. It was a looooong time ago. So long ago I only have vague memories of what happened. All I will say about it is that March hares appear remarkably sane when compared to WIS/Scalpers/Instagrammers on release day of a non LE, plastic in house homage.
The overwhelming clamour for March's results necessitates that I try (yet again) to keep it brief so that you can get your long overdue fix.
March was a month of four Fridays, over which a total of 563 watches were shown from a diverse 126 brands.The low numbers caused the weekly average to fall fifteen down to 140.75.
The battle for supremacy was a bit of a one sided affair with Rolex coming top each week and, apart from on the 11th, by some margin. They reached a weekly record for the year of twenty eight on the 25th. Omega and Seiko were left to scrap over second and third spots except for the 18th when Timefactors sneaked in to second with a new record weekly high of fifteen. Seiko had a shocker on the 25th only reaching eight, one off their record weekly low.
Another poor performer were Sinn who scored their record monthly low of nine, only just holding on to tenth place in March's leader board. I had got the impression that, recently, there were fewer Sinn and this goes to re-enforce that impression. I might try to do some analysis next month to see what the numbers say. Conversely Marathon had a good month breaking their monthly record with four watches being shown in March.
As already mentioned we saw 126 brands which is only a couple fewer than in February. Of these twenty nine were new to the thread this year (including A-13A, Ball, Davosa, and Linde-Werdelin which surprised me a little). Seven brands were new to the Friday thread with our first Prim in the form of Vekslak's nice example, our first Mathey-Tissot and even Christ made an appearance.
paw3001 opened his account to regain the WCWOTY award with his lovely salmon dialed Kurono-Tokyo. Redwolf's Favre Leuba Memo Raider ought to have been the top seventies watch but was out gunned by snowman's outrageously seventies MOD complete with asymmetrical case, chunky indices and brown fumee dial. Tetlee's grey dilled Airking 5700 wasn't the only Rolex to catch my eye as 100thmonkey's exceedingly rare purple GMT Master II, thought to be a one of a kind factory concept that was never put into production. One of the prettiest watches was bowithabubblegun's lovely Tissot Navigator. Last but not least, Carton-Browne'sCroton which he had recently had overhauled.
And there you have it.
1Rolex90
2Seiko52
3Omega52
4Timefactors39
5Tudor23
6CWC16
7Grand Seiko15
8Panerai12
9Breitling9
10Sinn9
11IWC8
12Zenith8
13Christopher Ward7
14Citizen7
15G Shock7
16Heuer7
17Oris7
18Longines6
19Blancpain6
20Bremont6
21Damasko5
22Bell & Ross4
23Tag Heuer4
24Glycine4
25Marathon4
26Patek Philippe4
27Bulova4
28Glaschutte Original4
29Squale3
30Tutima3
31KMK3
32Tauchmeister3
33Wolbrook3
34Davosa3
35Garmin3
36Linde Werdelin3
37Orient3
38Smiths3
39Timex3
40Cartier2
41Certina2
42L U Chopard2
43Muhle2
44Precista2
45Seestern2
46Unimatic2
47Anonimo2
48Anordain2
49Apple2
50Audemars Piguet2
51Croton2
52Doxa (modern)2
53Geckota2
54Hamilton2
55Helm2
56Helson2
57Jaeger-LeCoultre2
58Junghans2
59Lorier2
60Nomos2
61Suunto2
62Tissot2
63Wempe2
64A-13A1
65Aerowatch1
66Astro1
67Calvi Klein1
68Corum1
69Elliot Brown1
70Farer1
71Heimdallr1
72Olma1
73San Martin1
74Scurfa1
75Steeldive1
76Ulysse Nardin1
77Ventura1
78Vostok1
796B1
80Ball1
81Boldr1
82Bulgari1
83Bund1
84Carvel1
85Casio1
86Christ1
87Chronoswiss1
88Credor1
89Crepas1
90Cyma1
91Dietrich1
92Dubey and Schaldenbrand1
93Eterna1
94Evant1
95Favre Leuba1
96GWS1
97Halios1
98Hanhart1
99Konstantin Chaykin1
100Kurono Tokyo1
101Laco1
102Marnaut1
103Mathey-Tissot1
104Maurice La Croix1
105Ming1
106MkII1
107MOD1
108Moser1
109Movado1
110MWC1
111Newmark (Modern)1
112Nodus1
113Ollech & Wajs1
114Oscar1
115Pablo1
116Perpetual1
117Prim1
118Roamer1
119Schofield1
120Stowa1
121Synchron1
122Traser1
123UW1
124Vacheron Constantin1
125Victorinox1
126Zodiac1
Just before you go I thought I would reward your patience with a new type of graphic. Our very first swingometer. You may vaguely remember that I am recording which complications the Friday watches have. As the changes are slight the monthly doughnuts generally look very similar so I thought I would see how the proportion of each complication varied when comparing January to March. It has come out quite well. I am not sure how I would measure this over the whole year but it might be something I will think about at some point.
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Enough of that lot, I'd better jump on to April....
Last edited by Wimm; 2nd June 2022 at 20:14.
In the Sotadic Zone, apparently.
Insightful as always.
Great showing from CWC, is it only me or are CWC going from strength to strength in the Friday rankings?
Always nice bonus to get a mention, really happy you liked my Rolex 5700 and well done on knowing the ref. A special watch for me, and not from a brand standpoint.
Thank you for your effort as always, always look forward to these threads and you put do much effort into them, TZUK MVP.
Excellent analysis! I love graphs / diagrams
“ Ford... you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.” HHGTTG
I always look forward to the monthly summary, excellent work Wimm and really appreciated............
Fantastic data as always, I have to admit I have tried to skew the data for March, April, May, we will see!
Great stuff as always, many thanks for taking this on.
Best Regards - Peter
I'd hate to be with you when you're on your own.
Thanks Wimm!
Superb. Thank you.
That's a very large Pepsi GMT behind him.Originally Posted by Carlton-Browne
Thanks
Always an interesting read, thanks for your time on this.
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What a top man you are, excellent as always.
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Fascinating. Very surprised given that there are dozens of owners on here that not a single Steinhart.
Thanks Wimm for the time and trouble you put into compiling these figures. Always a good read
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Awesome as usual. Thank you!
It's just a matter of time...
The names in the table and missing are often surprising to my mind.
I get the impression that Steinhart had its rise to stardom and is no longer the exciting 'new' brand so it fades from appearances.
The same thing happened to Temption, once, from what I remember.
P.S. Although I still like this...
Temption CGK205
Last edited by markrlondon; 4th June 2022 at 16:49.
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