Friday Watches – November 2024

Here, in no particular order, are some names that made the headlines in November 2024. Umm el-Marra, Cassius, Bert, Lewtobi Laki-laki, LignoSat, Anne-Genevieve and Maurizio. There are probably others I could add to the list but I seem to have forgotten who they could be. Anyway, you are probably wondering about the names on the dials of the watches that were worn during November’s Friday’s and so, as is my duty, I shall satisfy your curiosity.

November contained five Fridays this year, over which we managed to scrape together 554 watches at an average of 110.8 per month. A healthy 119 brands were represented, but due to the high numbers, diversity was down a little at 0.215 bpw.

The month started off with both Omega and Rolex tied on thirteen apiece and Seiko third with nine. The following week Rolex topped the table with sixteen, Omega came second with twelve and Seiko third again with eleven. On the fifteenth the order was repeated but the numbers being fifteen, ten and nine respectively. Rolex topped the table again on the twenty second this time it was Seiko and Omega’s time to tie on eleven each. Finally a change in the order with Seiko edging past Omega to take second with thirteen. Omega and Timefactors drew for third on eight.

November seemed to have been a good month for many brands. Timefactors had their best month of the year with thirty one. Squale also succeed in the same feat with ten watches shown. Rolex have had a bit of resurgence, their seventy two being the highest since March. JLC maxed out on seven, helped by a weekly high for the year of four recorded on the twenty second. Precista (the non-TF versions) had a good month too. The three appearances were a new overall record for them, which isn’t bad going considering none appeared last year.

The march towards the fabled 400 brands continued but, unless December adds an incredible forty five new brands we are going to fall short again. We still did well hitting a total of 119 brands (the most since May) aided by adding eleven brands which had previously graced the pages and yet another five new starters. The former group included Schofield, Habring and Philip Watch (the first one since December 2021). New starters included Otsuka Lo-Tec, Tandorio and Aragon.

As ever there were a few watches which stood out from the crowd of black dialed dive watches. First up we have j111dja’s lovely Seiko Ashtray. Bringing a whole lot more colour to the proceedings was s yellow dialed dive watch in the form of ed335d’s fine example of a Philip Watch Caribbean. Sticking with the yellow theme there was snowman’s Omega Seamaster with yellow chapter ring. I can’t let 50kopek’s Seiko Blue Yacht pass with a mention as they are beautiful watches. And finally, up for Misnomer of the year award, is Quality Man’s "luxury" field watch from L.L. Bean and Hamilton.

The scores on the doors are:

1 Rolex 72
2 Omega 54
3 Seiko 53
4 Timefactors 31
5 Panerai 24
6 Grand Seiko 21
7 Sinn 14
8 IWC 13
9 Tudor 13
10 G Shock 13
11 Citizen 10
12 Squale 10
13 Breitling 10
14 CWC 9
15 Zenith 8
16 Tag Heuer 7
17 Jaeger LeCoultre 7
18 Hamilton 6
19 Casio 6
20 Bell & Ross 6
21 Heuer 6
22 KMK 5
23 Universal Geneve 5
24 Christopher Ward 5
25 Apple 5
26 San Martin 4
27 Oris 4
28 Nomos 4
29 Longines 4
30 Swatch 4
31 Tissot 3
32 Blancpain 3
33 Marathon 3
34 Traser 3
35 Fortis 3
36 Audemars Piguet 3
37 Damasko 3
38 Smiths 3
39 Meraud 2
40 Ming 2
41 Glaschutte Original 2
42 Farer 2
43 Newmark (Modern) 2
44 Autodromo 2
45 Garmin 2
46 Nivada 2
47 Sterile 2
48 Cronos 2
49 Junghans 2
50 Stowa 2
51 Glycine 2
52 Porsche Design 2
53 Wolbrook 2
54 Baltany 1
55 Beaucroft 1
56 Boldr 1
57 Cyma 1
58 Evant 1
59 Hanhart 1
60 J Springs 1
61 Linde Werdelin 1
62 Muhle 1
63 Otsuka-Lotec 1
64 Pagani Design 1
65 Rdunae 1
66 Schaffen 1
67 Tandorio 1
68 ZRC 1
69 Ancre 1
70 Cartier 1
71 Glorys 1
72 Helvetia 1
73 Heritor 1
74 L L Bean 1
75 Laco 1
76 Militado 1
77 Monro Design 1
78 Orient 1
79 Riehl 1
80 Schofield 1
81 Unimatic 1
82 Girard Perregeaux 1
83 Habring 1
84 Heimdallr 1
85 HGP 1
86 Moser 1
87 Pellikaan Timing 1
88 Safari 1
89 Timex 1
90 Unidentifiable 1
91 Vacheron Constantin 1
92 Vaer 1
93 Zeno 1
94 Buran 1
95 Cortebert 1
96 E M G 1
97 Erebus 1
98 Le Phare 1
99 Luminox 1
100 Merkur 1
101 Philip Watch 1
102 Pierre Cardin 1
103 Ricoh 1
104 Ulysse Nardin 1
105 Airain 1
106 Aragon 1
107 Bremont 1
108 Chronoswiss 1
109 Corum 1
110 Doxa (modern) 1
111 Eberhard 1
112 Elliot Brown 1
113 Fit Bit 1
114 Hublot 1
115 Maen 1
116 Mappin and Webb 1
117 Nodus 1
118 Seagull 1
119 Seals Watch Co. 1
120 Vostok 1