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This post has appeared elsewhere in the past. These are just some things that I observed over the eleven years of selling watches in a high-end boutique. I started in the industry in late 1999 and worked in one particular store for about six months before returning to work at a Borders Bookstore where I had previously been the Genre Fiction Supervisor.
About a year later (August 2001), I took a position at another watch store, becoming the Senior Sales Consultant.
I stayed ...

This here is the second part of an article about what I learned during my years in the watch industry.

For those of you just tuning in, here's a link to the first part;

http://www.intlwatchleague.com/entry...Watches-Part-1

Okay, where was I? Right.



Sales Training

I hate this crap. I’ve sat through a few of these over the years where some dude shows ...

And here is the final part of this long and sprawling post.

Here's what you may have missed if you're just joining us now;

http://www.intlwatchleague.com/entry...Watches-Part-1

http://www.intlwatchleague.com/entry...Watches-Part-2

Right, now you're up to speed. Here's the rest of it.

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​We began creating this list of our favourite watches with a limit of 10. No categories, just 10 watches that we like that have been released in 2014. We couldn't keep to 10 so we had to make it a top 12, as you can tell, we liked a lot of watches from 2014 and even narrowing it down to 12 was tough.

We are fully aware of some of the works of art that incredibly talented watchmakers are producing but costing 6 figures, they are not realistically obtainable by the average Joe. I mean,

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One need not look far to find contemporary wristwatches that were influenced by the styles of their predecessors from the 1970s. The very popularity of two iconic Gerald Genta pieces from the seventies, the Patek Philippe Nautilus (the 5711 flies off shelves with legendary abandon) and the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak (in its infinitesimal iterations), proves the spirit of the seventies to be alive and well in 2015. Glashutte Original even released their own homage to the decade when they introduced ...