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The Watch Enquiry is a new podcast for watch enthusiasts, designed to inform, entertain and educate. Presented by the experienced British journalists Timothy Barber and Chris Hall, it peers into unexplored watch world topics, turning up rich narratives, fascinating questions and new perspectives. It is rigorously researched, making use of a wide range of authoritative sources, with a focus on original reporting, critical thinking, entertaining repartee and an independent, expert tone of voice.
Update frequency:
every 40 days
Average audio length:
43 minutes
Video podcast
English
United States
9 episodes
since April 8, 2025
serial
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Introducing The Watch Enquiry, a journalistic take on the luxury watch industry. Hosted by Tim Barber and Chris Hall, two experienced writers and editors who love getting stuck in and answering the kinds of questions that really matter. Every episode tackles a new enquiry, be it historical, hypothe…
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Welcome to the first episode of The Watch Enquiry! Hosted by journalists Timothy Barber and Chris Hall, The Watch Enquiry delves into areas of watch culture and history that are often overlooked, asking questions that promise to inform, entertain and educate.
In this episode, we ask what happened …
Patek Philippe's supremacy among volume watch brands today is almost unarguable, strengthened by its unassailable position in the vintage market. But when were the seeds of this dominance sown? In this episode, Tim Barber advances the argument that of all its 186-year history, one year in particula…
Watch brands have been collaborating with outside designers - and with each other - for the last decade, and what was once a radical, diverting tactic for developing interest in a product has become Plan A for every mainstream watchmaker. We wanted to ask " If collab culture has become the default …
What can your watch do? If it can't measure wind speed, host a hand of poker or display an animation of a galloping horse, it's not going to trouble our list of the craziest complications ever made. Imaginative - and incredibly clever - watchmakers have given us dozens of outlandish mechanical crea…
Some watches break records; some watches sell millions, and some watches steal our hearts. But very few truly, substantially alter the world around them forever. This is our attempt at making a list of those that do: the watches that have changed the game in the last 15 years. The timeframe, while …
What are the watches that really change the industry around them? In this episode, Tim and Chris tackle a question that sounds overwhelming in its simplicity: when you strip away the hyperbole and adjust, as much as possible, for passionate fandom, which watches really made the biggest difference? …
We almost didn't publish this podcast. Full disclaimer: it was recorded in summer 2025, and once we had overcome some delays in our production process, it was starting to feel out-of-date. But then, unexpectedly, we started to hear rumours that what we discussed might actually be closer to reality …
In this mini-series, we bring you three episodes recorded live at London Watch Week 2026. In this episode, Chris Hall sits down with Davide Cerrato to ask what exactly is going on at Bremont? Three years after hiring Cerrato as CEO and a year after financier Bill Ackman took control of the business…
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