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    Friday Watches - September 2022

    As fears about returns on the secondary watch market played out center stage, we saw one Liz enter upstage right while, shortly afterwards, another exited upstage left, borne on a gun carriage. The death of the nation's Grandmother cruelly robbed us of seemingly the only adult in the room in which our ruling "elite" reside. This departure seemed to trigger chaos as a simple fiscal event unleashed a chain reaction of other fiscal events and even resignation events.

    On the Friday watch front things were not quite as dramatic. This September had a rare fifth Friday as one managed to sneak in on the 30th. It was a month of patina, kicked off by Sish101 demonstrating that he has no fear of extreme patina with his Citizen 7Star Deluxe. In terms of the overall numbers we hit the second highest total this year of 680, although this averaged down to 136 which is towards the bottom of the table for the year. Brand numbers were looking up with 127, the highest number since April.

    Delving into the fray at the top of the chart we saw Rolex picking up where they left off in August, being beaten into third place and tying with stable mate Tudor on ten. Remarkable Rolex only managed to catch up in the dying minutes of the day. On the ninth all three of the usual suspects tied on fourteen. Rolex finally woke up and smelt the music of pending defeat and stormed into first place, being the first brand to score more than twenty (three more) since July. Things were a little closer on the twenty third but the results had a familiar order to them. The cheeky extra Friday was not enough for Seiko or Omega to overhaul the eventual winners.

    Elsewhere plenty of other brands had good months. Both Tissot and Junghans hit all time highs of eight and four respectively. Patek, with six, had their best month since April as did Omega with sixty six. Heuer did one better with their best month this year breaking into double figures for the first time since December last year with ten. Zenith bounced back from their worst ever month by scoring their best month this year (fifteen) and even exceeded last months score in one week, achieving their best ever week of seven. As it has been difficult to spot which brands have done badly, having had enough negative news recently, I have decided to and will not look for the poor performers.

    As mentioned previously 127 brands were represented this month. Twelve of the the 127 made their first appearances this year and a further nine made their first appearances on the Friday Thread. Among the debutantes were Heritor, Hrudoland and Kubold. Those returning to the thread included Buren, J W Benson, M B & F and Lorus. We also saw our first Draken since the twelfth of June 2020.

    Patina, did I mention patina earlier? Sish101 must have struck a chord with some members as, before the patina vs grot debate re-ignited, various other patinated watches appeared. Including JackW's Movado Calendar, Slevin Kelevra's Seiko 6309 and Snoodles' old Sub. At the other end of the spectrum we had Walkerwek1958's black dialled Omega Constellation "pie pan" and Toshi's Aquastar Benthos. Two final watches that are worth of a mention due to their uniqueness are Zen123's Boldr Venure Singularity and Wileey's MAD 1 Red. And a question for all to ponder, how many functions have Zenith squeezed into joe narvey's Doublematic?

    Right, before I head off to finish digesting today's pub lunch (a rather tasty Steak and Kidney pudding), I had better give you the numbers.

    1 Rolex 81
    2 Seiko 73
    3 Omega 66
    4 Timefactors 43
    5 Tudor 34
    6 Panerai 27
    7 Sinn 23
    8 Grand Seiko 23
    9 Zenith 15
    10 CWC 14
    11 G Shock 14
    12 Breitling 12
    13 IWC 12
    14 Heuer 10
    15 Damasko 10
    16 Citizen 9
    17 Tissot 8
    18 Longines 7
    19 Christopher Ward 6
    20 Patek Philippe 6
    21 Yema 6
    22 Squale 5
    23 Newmark (Modern) 4
    24 Hamilton 4
    25 Vacheron Constantin 4
    26 KMK 4
    27 Blancpain 4
    28 Junghans 4
    29 Certina 4
    30 Jaeger-LeCoultre 4
    31 Bulova 4
    32 Doxa (modern) 3
    33 Stowa 3
    34 Casio 3
    35 Fortis 3
    36 Tag Heuer 3
    37 Bremont 3
    38 Ebel 3
    39 Nomos 3
    40 Glycine 3
    41 Helm 3
    42 Oris 3
    43 Audemars Piguet 2
    44 Maranez 2
    45 Unidentifiable 2
    46 Yobokies 2
    47 Airain 2
    48 Bell & Ross 2
    49 Cartier 2
    50 Dubey and Schaldenbrand 2
    51 Ollech & Wajs 2
    52 Swatch 2
    53 Animal 2
    54 Caravelle 2
    55 Laco 2
    56 Vostok 2
    57 A. Lange & Sohne 2
    58 Aevig 2
    59 Doxa (Vintage) 2
    60 Helson 2
    61 Orient 2
    62 Rado 2
    63 Wolbrook 2
    64 A-13A 1
    65 Beuchat 1
    66 Borealis 1
    67 Buren 1
    68 Galeno 1
    69 Garmin 1
    70 Glaschutte Original 1
    71 H2O 1
    72 Kobold 1
    73 Kurono Tokyo 1
    74 Lorus 1
    75 Schofield 1
    76 Sekonda 1
    77 Spinnaker 1
    78 Universal Geneve 1
    79 Zeno 1
    80 Alexander Shorokhoff 1
    81 Breguet 1
    82 Chronoswiss 1
    83 Dekla 1
    84 Dietrich 1
    85 Draken 1
    86 Enicar 1
    87 Heritor 1
    88 Hrudoland 1
    89 J W Benson 1
    90 Maen 1
    91 Ming 1
    92 Phantasos 1
    93 Raymond Weil 1
    94 Seestern 1
    95 Steinhart 1
    96 WMT 1
    97 Alfex 1
    98 Apple 1
    99 Aquastar 1
    100 Ball 1
    101 Baume et Mercier 1
    102 Breil 1
    103 Buran 1
    104 Corum 1
    105 Croton 1
    106 Dailos 1
    107 Eterna 1
    108 Farer 1
    109 Fonderia Navale 1
    110 L U Chopard 1
    111 M B & F 1
    112 Majestyk 1
    113 Marloe 1
    114 Movado 1
    115 Muhle 1
    116 Nike 1
    117 Nodus 1
    118 Parmigiani 1
    119 Paul Smith 1
    120 Pequignet 1
    121 Pulsar 1
    122 Roamer 1
    123 Samsung 1
    124 Suunto 1
    125 Swiss Military Hanowa 1
    126 Timor 1
    127 Tutima 1
    128 Zodiac 1

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    Fantastic intro and another very interesting post.
    I really look forward to these updates
    Thanks once again.

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    Thanks Wim, always appreciated. P.S. Sounds like you might need to wear a watch though - lunch at 19:30?!

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    Thanks! Very entertaining. Goodness - September seems an age ago!
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    Top stuff.

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    Excellently put together as usual Wimm, thanks for taking the time to compile it all.
    Best Regards - Peter

    I'd hate to be with you when you're on your own.

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    Excellent


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    Quote Originally Posted by jukeboxs View Post
    Thanks Wim, always appreciated. P.S. Sounds like you might need to wear a watch though - lunch at 19:30?!
    You've made an alimentary error, I believe.



    Top notch Wimmsical post, as ever, OP.

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    thanks Wimm,always an enjoyable read.

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    I always enjoy this : many thanks!

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    Excellent, as always.


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    Thanks for a characteristically amusing write-up, Wimm

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr Curta View Post
    You've made an alimentary error, I believe.

    ...
    Very good. (o; Indeed, I completely overlooked "digesting" (not a mistake one makes for very long).

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    What a brilliant introduction and furthermore the detail and analysis are first class. Thanks for the humour and detail Wimm

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    This is great!

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    A great read with my mid-morning coffee.

    Fame at last for the Seven Star. Here it is again, in all its patina'd glory.

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