W&W - my quick retrospective - including some close encounters with VC

Last Saturday, a friends and I were at the Meccha of watches, aka Watches & Wonders 2023. What an experience it was. Expectations were high but they were clearly met for you. If you get a chance to go, do not hesitate. The most impressive for me were the various brand stands themselves. It took around 2 months for Rolex to built its 3000 sq meter space, just to give you an idea. Below is a selection of pictures which I hope will give you a bit of a taste of what it was. Feel free to follow my IG account as well (timetogauth) should you want to see more as I will continue sharing some there.

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There were of course amazing watches, as these were the public days, you had less chance to handle timepieces directly. Especially in the most popular spots

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One of our friend working for VC, we were able to get a very good look at some incredible pieces there. This was clearly the highlight for me as we got close with some very special beasts

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Finally, W&W is also of course about our crazy community. You could feel an amazing energy in the place. Although this was the public day, there were still quite some press and watches celebrities around. Randomly ran into this two lovely fellows :)

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Next year, I have already arranged the go during the week to get more access to watches. Cannot wait to be there. Thanks W&W 2023, you have been a blast :)

@timetogauth

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Thanks for some great watch shots

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Thank you so much for this collection of pictures. It’s actually really cool to see the other aspects of the event, outside of just the watches themselves.

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Too cool! lucky bum you. Even an Adrian and MWC sighting and pic. Did you ask Adrian why he looking like a janitor?

It looks like you rocked a Cartier for the event? That'd be my biggest most tortured decision - what to wear to W&W - what is wonderful enough??!!

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Thats awesome , my goal is to try enough that I can go next year with my friend.

its epic that you got to see the guys , I watched them for a while on ye old tube.

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Fieldwalker

Too cool! lucky bum you. Even an Adrian and MWC sighting and pic. Did you ask Adrian why he looking like a janitor?

It looks like you rocked a Cartier for the event? That'd be my biggest most tortured decision - what to wear to W&W - what is wonderful enough??!!

I indeed asked Adrian why the jump suit 😂 I would honestly not have expected him to still be there on the weekend after a full week already. Must be quite exhausting!

Very hard to chose which watch to wear indeed. You are correct, this was my newly acquired neo vintage Tank hence it made sense to bring her along 🙂 the watch spotting alone was worth the trip!

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catfancy

Thats awesome , my goal is to try enough that I can go next year with my friend.

its epic that you got to see the guys , I watched them for a while on ye old tube.

The best is to go during the week of you can but the weekend was already great frankly. For me, Geneva is a 1h flight away and I got plenty of friends/work to do in Switzerland so the trip is a no brainer. To be frank, I am not sure I would travel from overseas just for one or two day there…

Great to see both them live indeed, both very nice. I got to chat for a few minutes with MWC, he was lovely.

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Rich_P

Thank you so much for this collection of pictures. It’s actually really cool to see the other aspects of the event, outside of just the watches themselves.

My pleasure! This few shots only scratch the surface :)