IWC CEO Chris Grainger on the Portugieser and the partnership with Mercedes

One of OT:’s very favourite people is Chris Hall, the guy behind The Fourth Wheel Substack — which bills itself as an honest, opinionated and informative insight into watches and the business around them. Given that every week or so we’re Chris’ newsletter on the pod, we thought it was high time to get him back on and talk about his approach to reporting on watches and what his plans are for the Substack in the months ahead. Show Notes: https://www.otpodcast.com.au/show-notes OT: Discord - https://discord.com/invite/X3Vvc9z7aV The Fourth Wheel The Fourth Wheel on Instagram Horological Dictionary on the Fourth Wheel (10:00) Felix’s brutal burn on geezer watches (15:35) Chris Hall on the business of Bremont (24:25) Mark Cho’s 12 rules for watch collecting (32:40) The Bear (35:50) How to follow us: https://www.instagram.com/ot.podcast https://www.facebook.com/otpodcastau https://instagram.com/andygreenlive https://instagram.com/fkscholz Send us an email: [email protected] If you liked our podcast - please remember to like/share and subscribe.

  In this episode, we chat with the man behind one of 2024’s most-discussed watch brands, Anoma. Matteo Violet-Vianello developed his love of free-form vintage watch aesthetics while working at A Collected Man, and decided he wanted to create his own watch. Despite having no formal design training, Anoma’s debut watch, the A1, is an assured and sophisticated design that tackles the seldom-seen triangular case. Matteo explains his design choices, the production process and the philosophical underpinnings of this exciting new brand. Before that, Andy and Felix try and get some watch ambassador deals for Olympians.  Like watches? Join our Discord. Show Notes: https://www.otpodcast.com.au/show-notes Unpolished Please (1:02) Wristcheck’s Olympic Watches Guide (6:30) Matteo Violet Vionallo Interview (12:00) Anoma Watches Anoma Watches on Instagram  Perfect Days Trailer  (57:20) PLEASE - be sure to check out our YouTube channel. How to follow us: Instagram: @ot.podcast Facebook: @OTPODCASTAU Follow hosts: @fkscholz + @andygreenlive on Instagram. Send us an email: [email protected] If you liked our podcast - please remember to like/share and subscribe.

Today’s guest is Arthur Touchot, an incredibly knowledgable (and unfailingly charming) individual who’s worked at watch titles like Hodinkee and others before ending up in Phillips Watch Department as Head of Digital Strategy and Watch Specialist. Arthur takes the time to educate Felix and Andy on what goes on behind the scenes of an auction, from sourcing watches to marketing and the importance of storytelling in watch sales. This episode is sponsored by IWC. Find out more about the brand and it's watches here.  Like watches? Join our Discord. Show Notes: https://www.otpodcast.com.au/show-notes Kennedy Event in Perth IWC Manufacture Arthur Touchot on Instagram Phillips Watches on Instagram Phillips Watches Mark Cho’s The Beauty in Everything Sale IWC IWC on Instagram IWC Australia New Zealand on Instagram Show Notes: https://www.otpodcast.com.au/show-notes OT: Discord - https://discord.com/invite/X3Vvc9z7aV How to follow us: https://www.instagram.com/ot.podcast https://www.facebook.com/otpodcastau https://instagram.com/andygreenlive https://instagram.com/fkscholz Send us an email: [email protected]   If you liked our podcast - please remember to like/share and subscribe.  

  This week, Andy continues his chat with IWC’s MVPs, and this time, he chats with Markus Bühler, Associate Director of Watch and Movement Assembly. From job satisfaction to having a tourbillon  (or two) with bearing his name, Bühler provides insights into IWC’s meticulous approach to watchmaking. Before this chat, however, Felix goes wildly off-topic with an impassioned defence of one of the greatest works of cinema of the 21st century.  This episode is sponsored by IWC. Find out more about the brand and it's watches here.  Like watches? Join our Discord. Show Notes: Mamma Mia - 2:23 Christopher Ward C65 Super Compressor - 7:21 Felix’s Troubled and Problematic Accutron Bulova Snorkel (or at least one like it) - 7:37 Porsche Design Hodinkee Collab - 9:07 Markus Bühler Interview begins - 15:10 IWC IWC on Instagram IWC Australia New Zealand on Instagram Show Notes: https://www.otpodcast.com.au/show-notes OT: Discord - https://discord.com/invite/X3Vvc9z7aV How to follow us: https://www.instagram.com/ot.podcast https://www.facebook.com/otpodcastau https://instagram.com/andygreenlive https://instagram.com/fkscholz   Send us an email: [email protected] If you liked our podcast - please remember to like/share and subscribe.

Andy is still time travelling back to Watches & Wonders with IWC, and this week, he’s chatting to the charming Lorenz Brunner, who talks about the brand’s most important innovations, as well as the importance of ‘silent’ innovation. Before that, Felix and Andy chatted about IWC’s involvement in an exciting new F1 film, the 2024 edition of the Richemont shuffle, and why Nickelback deserves rehabilitation.  This episode is sponsored by IWC. Find out more about the brand and it's watches here.  Like watches? Join our Discord. Show Notes: F1 Official Trailer IWC’s role in the new F1 movie The Innioasis Y1 MP3 player Hate to Love: The nickel back Documentary IWC IWC on Instagram IWC Australia New Zealand on Instagram   Show Notes: https://www.otpodcast.com.au/show-notes OT: Discord - https://discord.com/invite/X3Vvc9z7aV How to follow us: https://www.instagram.com/ot.podcast https://www.facebook.com/otpodcastau https://instagram.com/andygreenlive https://instagram.com/fkscholz Send us an email: [email protected]   If you liked our podcast - please remember to like/share and subscribe.

This week, we get to see Andy in his natural environment of Watches & Wonders as he chats to IWC CEO Chris Grainger in the middle of the packed IWC booth to discuss everything that makes the Schaffhausen-based manufacturer such a force to be reckoned with. From the ongoing evolution of the Portugieser to the future of the brand’s partnership with Mercedes and even the very nature of time itself. Before the headline act, Felix and Andy chat about some of the interesting developments in the world of watches, including Bernard Arnault’s investment in Richemont and LVMH’s acquisition of L’Epee. This episode is sponsored by IWC. Find out more about the brand and it's watches here.  Like watches? Join our Discord.   Show Notes: https://www.otpodcast.com.au/show-notes OT: Discord - https://discord.com/invite/X3Vvc9z7aV How to follow us: https://www.instagram.com/ot.podcast https://www.facebook.com/otpodcastau https://instagram.com/andygreenlive https://instagram.com/fkscholz   Send us an email: [email protected] If you liked our podcast - please remember to like/share and subscribe.

Cornell Watch Company is an old name but a new brand. Chicago native John Warren has long had a fascination with the historic American brand founded in his home city. Most people would be content with collecting old pocket watches and letting history stay in the past, but Warren isn’t most people. He’s taken the steps to revive the defunct brand and, with the help of American watchmaking legend Roland Murphy of RGM, bring it into the 21st century. We chat with Warren about the ins and outs of bringing an old brand back, why he thinks American watchmaking is important, and why his debut model, the 1870 CE, is special. Like watches? Join our Discord. Show Notes: Danny Milton Leaves Hodinkee Chris Hall’s The Fourth Wheel  The New York Times explore sexual assault allegations against Nirmal Purja The Bremont x Brompton x Cheaney Cornell Watch Company Cornell Watch Company on Instagram Roland Murphy and RGM How to follow us: Instagram: @ot.podcast Facebook: @OTPODCASTAU Follow hosts: @fkscholz + @andygreenlive on Instagram. Send us an email: [email protected] If you liked our podcast - please remember to like/share and subscribe.

Fresh from the flash sale of his debut watch, we chat with Phil Toledano, one-half of Toledano & Chan, and a man who’s gone from watch enthusiast to professional over the last few years. Phil talks about the hope and fears he had developing the B1, and how it feels to be memefied alongside Audemars Piguet (who happened to release the inspired-by-brutalism Remaster02 recently. Andy also gives Phil some handy business advice, and we get some old-school video game recs. You don’t miss this slightly off-the-rails chat with the one and only Mister Enthusiast. Phil Toledano is still not in our Discord. Don’t be like Phil. Show Notes:  https://www.otpodcast.com.au/show-notes OT: Discord - https://discord.com/invite/X3Vvc9z7aV Masaharu Wada’s pics of the AP Remaster02 on Instagram Audemars Piguet’s Polychrome Camouflage Gold Rolex making polychromatic metals 90 years ago Mister Enthusiast on Instagram Toledano and Chan The B1 piece unique sold at Sotheby’s for 24,000 USD How to follow us: https://www.instagram.com/ot.podcast https://www.facebook.com/otpodcastau https://instagram.com/andygreenlive https://instagram.com/fkscholz   Send us an email: [email protected] If you liked our podcast - please remember to like/share and subscribe.

This week we talk about the 10th edition of the Only Watch charity auction, originally shcedule for 2023, but after drama and allegations of fiscal impropriety plagued the auction, it was delayed until the other week. Sadly, problems of a whole other nature marred its return, courtesy of some security issues with Christie’s online platform taking online voting off the table. Still, they managed to raise a tidy 28.3 million CHF, thanks largely to Patek Philippe. We chat about some of the high (and low) lights of the auction, as well as its place in the industry, On top of that, Van Cleef & Arpels CEO Nicolas Bos has been appointed Richemont group CEO, and we make a strong case for the fact that the only watch you truly need is a quartz Seiko. There’s only watches in our Discord. Show Notes: https://www.otpodcast.com.au/show-notes The Seiko SNXS Loupe This sold a Tiffany Nautilus Nicolas Bos appointed as Richemont CEO The last time we talked about Only Watch Only Watch Only Watch Livestream Chris Hall’s Fourth Wheel Zachery Lu on Instagram Thierry Stern in full dad spec OT: Discord - https://discord.com/invite/X3Vvc9z7aV How to follow us: https://www.instagram.com/ot.podcast https://www.facebook.com/otpodcastau https://instagram.com/andygreenlive https://instagram.com/fkscholz   Send us an email: [email protected] If you liked our podcast - please remember to like/share and subscribe.

This week, we catch up with Matt Smith Johnson, AKA Teenage Grandpa, and his work in watches and watch design, including brands like Vero, Laco, and others. Beyond the expected chat around dial text and case proportions, our chat with Matt goes in some less expected directions, specifically around metal band t-shirt design and which metal groups need a watch sponsorship deal, stat.  Before all that, Andy and Felix chat about Andy’s recent trip to the Cartier Manufacture in La Chaux-de-Fonds, the recent TAG Heuer X Kith Formula One reissue, and what other brands might be looking for a ‘Moonswatch Moment’ in the near future.  This episode of OT: The Podcast is in partnership with Cartier, find out more about their latest watches at cartier.com.au Love Cartier? Join our Discord. Show Notes: Cartier Cartierwatchcommunity on Instagram TAG Heuer x Kith Toledano X Chan Teenage Grandpa on Instagram   OT: Discord - https://discord.com/invite/X3Vvc9z7aV How to follow us: https://www.instagram.com/ot.podcast https://www.facebook.com/otpodcastau https://instagram.com/andygreenlive https://instagram.com/fkscholz   Send us an email: [email protected]   If you liked our podcast - please remember to like/share and subscribe.