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A new year, a new start. Are you a model watch get-together attendee? If not, you might want to heed these words! A watch get-together – better known as a GTG – is unlike any other get-togethers. Because unlike other get-togethers, this one potentially has hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of people’s most prized possessions crammed within a relatively small area. Attend a few watch GTGs and you will soon pick up its unspoken rules. That said, many still fail to self-impose the behavioural constraints expected during a GTG, and so we are here to make it clear once and for all. Here are 5 etiquette tips for successful, drama-free watch GTGs in 2018:
1. Always get permission first
Asking for permission is something you teach your kids to do before borrowing other kids’ toys. Now imagine if that toy is a $ 100,000 Laurent Ferrier – all the more reason to ask for permission, right? You’d think that was common sense, yet many watch GTG attendees still neglect to do so. This normally occurs when a watch is being passed around which gives the owner enough anxiety as is. Asking for permission before handling or trying on another person’s precious timepiece, as well as fiddling with its functions, is common courtesy and the first step to watch GTG nirvana.
You should ask before borrowing someone else’s Game Boy for Donkey Kong, or borrowing someone else’s EUR17,500 RJ x Donkey Kong watch.
2. Never touch a watch with unclean hands
So you’ve acquired permission to handle a fellow GTG attendee’s $ 175,000 Breguet Tradition Fusée Tourbillon. You just had some spring rolls with your hands because the Vietnamese restaurant where the GTG is held makes the best darn spring rolls in town. Do you a) promptly perform a surgical hand scrub to ensure your hands are clean before touching the grail Breguet, or b) grease that Breguet up, box-form sapphire crystal and all with your filthy paws? If you answered b), then you need to reevaluate your life. Too many times have I had to give my watch a thorough wipe-down (and a PTSD counselling session) after a GTG because it was caked in food grease. Nobody likes their watch returned all greasy. Because watch gatherings more often than not occur in the presence of food, dirty hands are almost a given. You owe it to your fellow watch enthusiasts to make sure that your hands are clean.
Nobody wants their beloved timepiece to be oiled up… unless that timepiece is the Ressence Type 3.
3. Handle with care
We all have a heavy-handed dude/dudette in our GTG-attending lives. It could be Bob who last time slammed your gold watch onto the table like it was a mahjong tile, or Jane who spins the bezel of your Rolex diver like a potter’s wheel, or Irwin who pushes every damn button on your split-seconds chronograph without a care in the world for the right sequence. If you don’t know a heavy-handed person, then you may be it! It’s important […]
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