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Moving swiftly on. To try an keep a positive vibe against all the negativity currently swirling around the world like a malevolent miasma, I will charitably say the year started slowly. January was a five week month and we ended up with 489 watches (at a very low average of 97.8 watches per week). A reasonable 114 brands were represented at a handy diversity of 0.233 BpW.
The first Friday was the 3rd with a frankly terrible seventy nine watches. Sorry, I am supposed to be putting a positive spin on this. Lets say we started the new year with plenty of room for improvement. And we showed a bit of that as numbers slowly edged up to a peak of 110 on the seventeenth before dropping back over the following two weeks. Rolex was the only brand to reach double figures in the first three weeks (while Seiko, Panerai and Omega scrapped it out for the next three spots). On the 24th only five Rolex were worn which dropped them down to joint fourth with Tudor and Sinn. Seiko and Panerai shared top spot with ten apiece. The final week saw first place shared again, this time between Omega and Rolex, each with twelve.
Seeing as it is only January I’ll skip the winners and losers and move straight on to brands. 114 different brands isn’t too bad but plenty of opportunity to improve. We had a couple of brands appear (Maurice Lacroix and Lorenz) which didn’t appear at all last year. We also had three new brands joining the list, Kendal and Dent, Issey Miyake and Vega.
There were plenty of watches which got my horological juices flowing. Bootsy did the double with rather nice vintage Le Coultre Memovox and then his superb Kendal and Dent chronograph from the 1940’s. Skip went big and green with his Zenith El Primero. There was also twhp101’s striking turquoise Vega dive watch. Saving the best for last we have kaffe’s gorgeous Citizen NB1060-12L. Those clever people at Citizen have somehow managed to cobble together silver leaf and lacquer to produce a stunning dial.
Anyways, here are the numbers for January
1 Rolex 47
2 Seiko 42
3 Omega 40
4 Panerai 32
5 Sinn 19
6 Tudor 16
7 Breitling 13
8 Grand Seiko 13
9 Citizen 12
10 IWC 12
11 CWC 11
12 Hamilton 11
13 Heuer 10
14 Zenith 10
15 Timefactors 9
16 Longines 8
17 Squale 8
18 Doxa (modern) 7
19 Casio 5
20 Christopher Ward 5
21 Damasko 5
22 G Shock 5
23 KMK 5
24 Universal Geneve 5
25 Vertex (Modern) 5
26 Audemars Piguet 4
27 Farer 4
28 Fortis 4
29 Glycine 4
30 Jaeger LeCoultre 4
31 Eterna 3
32 Garmin 3
33 Glaschutte Original 3
34 Nomos 3
35 Sterile 3
36 Addiesdive 2
37 Blancpain 2
38 Boldr 2
39 Iaxa 2
40 L U Chopard 2
41 Marathon 2
42 Maurice La Croix 2
43 MkII 2
44 Orient 2
45 Oris 2
46 Patek Philippe 2
47 Pulsar 2
48 Rado 2
49 Steinhart 2
50 Timex 2
51 Tissot 2
52 Tutima 2
53 Vega 2
54 Yema 2
55 Zodiac 2
56 A. Lange & Sohne 1
57 Aerowatch 1
58 Anonimo 1
59 Bell & Ross 1
60 Berny 1
61 Boccia 1
62 Boderry 1
63 Bremont 1
64 Cardinet 1
65 Cartier 1
66 Crepas 1
67 Deep Blue 1
68 Ebel 1
69 Ginault 1
70 Girard Perregeaux 1
71 Glorys 1
72 Halios 1
73 Hublot 1
74 Isotope 1
75 Issey Miyake 1
76 Kendal and Dent 1
77 Kurono Tokyo 1
78 L L Bean 1
79 Le Phare 1
80 Linde Werdelin 1
81 Lip 1
82 Lorenz 1
83 Maen 1
84 Majex 1
85 Mappin and Webb 1
86 Meraud 1
87 Minase 1
88 Momentum 1
89 Muhle 1
90 MWC 1
91 Nivada 1
92 Olma 1
93 Pequignet 1
94 Poljot 1
95 Porsche Design 1
96 Precista 1
97 Record 1
98 Ryte Time 1
99 San Martin 1
100 Schofield 1
101 Seizenn 1
102 Smiths 1
103 Steeldive 1
104 Stowa 1
105 Studio Underd0g 1
106 Swatch 1
107 Tag Heuer 1
108 Unimatic 1
109 Vacheron Constantin 1
110 Vostok 1
111 Wise 1
112 Wolbrook 1
113 Zixen 1
114 ZRC 1
