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December’s Friday watches summed up the year. A bit pants. We couldn’t even scrape together 400 (399 to be precise, a new low by a massive margin with the weekly average dropping below 100 for the first time). It had started out fairly average but on the twenty seventh we must have been too busy idling on sofas as we scoffed down Christmas leftovers to remember to post. Only eighty five watches were posted, ten fewer than the previous weekly low. On the up side 119 brands were represented over December which equated to a diversity of 0.298 which is a new high. Because of the low numbers on the twenty seventh the fifty one brands posted that day resulted in a weekly diversity of 0.6, another new record. These numbers were boosted by some bending of the rules in a last minute push to reach 400 brands in the year. Did we make it? You’ll have to wait until the annual awards ceremony to find out.
It all started as you could imagine, with Rolex, Seiko and Omega taking up the top three spots in that order. Then on the twentieth an imposter crept into third place. Hamilton. Having not scored higher than twelfth (and as low as 114th) this year this was a surprise. We’ll look into their fortunes later on. And now to the twenty seventh. Although the old order was restored, no brand broke into double figures and the top three flirted with their lowest weekly figures.
Despite the poor showing at the top end of the table, somewhat unbelievably, a number of brands achieved their best results of the year in its dying gasps. We had four Eterna, nine Heuer, three Linde Werdelin and eight Nomos, Then we come to Hamilton who achieved a stonking twelve, a new all time monthly high. This was aided by a weekly record of seven on the twentieth. I’ll share the worms for Hamilton at the end but it seems that every year the potter around in the high single digits and then once a year they breach that ceiling before dropping back down. We’ll see what January has in store for them.
We equaled November’s 119 brands (by a little jiggery-pokery by a couple of members but I will let it go otherwise numbers would have been terrible). We added twenty brands to this year’s tally, eleven returned to the thread and a whole nine new brands. Returning brands included modern Vertex, Kobold, Bulgari and Geckota. New brands included Crafter Blue, BBC World, Manager and Ogmios.
As it was Christmas I kept my eyes out for notable watches with a Christmas feel. Due to the lack of watches including Frankincense and Myrrh ( I wouldn’t have put it past Bremont of old putting a portion of on or t’other in a Limited Edition) I was limited to gold watches but there were plenty out there. bmpf’s rose gold Dornbluth 04.0 was a beautiful as was Griswold’s gold Omega Constellation. RAJEN brought the big guns out with his gold Daytona and there was twhp101’s gold Seiko Lord Marvel and finally, the star on the top of of the tree, walkerwek1958’s gold Omega Constellation "piepan".
Right I have a date with a swimming pool as I try and work myself into some sort of shape. Here are the numbers:
1 Rolex 38
2 Seiko 31
3 Omega 30
4 Panerai 19
5 Tudor 18
6 Hamilton 12
7 Timefactors 12
8 Citizen 11
9 CWC 10
10 Sinn 10
11 Breitling 9
12 Grand Seiko 9
13 Heuer 9
14 IWC 9
15 Nomos 8
16 G Shock 6
17 Blancpain 5
18 Jaeger LeCoultre 5
19 Zenith 5
20 Eterna 4
21 KMK 4
22 Squale 4
23 Universal Geneve 4
24 Audemars Piguet 3
25 Damasko 3
26 Doxa (modern) 3
27 Glaschutte Original 3
28 Linde Werdelin 3
29 Longines 3
30 Rotary 3
31 San Martin 3
32 A. Lange & Sohne 2
33 Christopher Ward 2
34 Crafter Blue 2
35 Credor 2
36 Cronos 2
37 Garmin 2
38 Geckota 2
39 Junghans 2
40 Oris 2
41 Pulsar 2
42 Timex 2
43 Tissot 2
44 Tutima 2
45 Unidentifiable 2
46 About Vintage 1
47 Accurist 1
48 Addiesdive 1
49 Baltany 1
50 Baltic 1
51 BBC World 1
52 Bell & Ross 1
53 Berthoud 1
54 Boccia 1
55 Borealis 1
56 Breguet 1
57 Bulgari 1
58 Bulova 1
59 Bund 1
60 Cartier 1
61 Ciga Design 1
62 Clebar 1
63 Dornbluth & Sohn 1
64 Doxa (Vintage) 1
65 Dunhill 1
66 Farer 1
67 Fifty Four 1
68 Fortis 1
69 Ginault 1
70 Halios 1
71 Heimdallr 1
72 Helgray 1
73 Heron 1
74 Hublot 1
75 Iaxa 1
76 Imado 1
77 Kahuna 1
78 King Quartz 1
79 Kobold 1
80 Kurono Tokyo 1
81 Le Monde 1
82 Lige 1
83 Luminox 1
84 Maen 1
85 Manager 1
86 Ming 1
87 MkII 1
88 Muhle 1
89 MWC 1
90 Nivada Grenchen 1
91 Ogmios 1
92 Orient 1
93 Pagani Design 1
94 Patek Philippe 1
95 Philippe Biguet 1
96 Porsche Design 1
97 Q & Q 1
98 Rdunae 1
99 Record 1
100 Revue Thommen 1
101 Ricoh 1
102 Roamer 1
103 Spinnaker 1
104 Steeldive 1
105 Sterile 1
106 Studio Underd0g 1
107 Swatch 1
108 Tag Heuer 1
109 Timor 1
110 Ulysse Nardin 1
111 Vacheron Constantin 1
112 Vaer 1
113 Vertex (Modern) 1
114 Watchdives 1
115 Wenger 1
116 Wise 1
117 Yema 1
118 Zodiac 1
119 Zoretto 1
120 ZRC 1
