A Holy Trinity of Watch Brands for Non-Billionaires: Dispatch

Almost 10 years ago, I fell victim to a terrible affliction. In desperation over the state of the world, I waded, first gingerly then frantically then pathologically, into the vast sea of my first and only hobby: watch collecting. Over the years, as the world continued to disintegrate, as Trump One morphed into Covid then into January 6th and finally into Trump Two, the hobby consumed me. Whenever my phone pinged with the latest disaster, I typed in www.hodinkee.com, the foremost site for watch nerds, and was instantly summoned into a private, strangely ordered world. Stone dials ...