Talking Watches With John Goldberger, Part 2

One week in Geneva (of the hundreds I've spent there) stands out for me above the rest. The year was 2013, I'd been asked to be a sitting member of the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Geneve for the first time – the first digital journalist, the sole American, and certainly the youngest at the time. That same week, a young Aurel Bacs would be putting on the first thematic watch auction called Daytona, Lesson One. It would be the first time we'd see crazy results of Rolex watches, including the first time a Daytona would crack $1 million (it was an Oyster Sotto – remember when those were cool?). As an aside, our dek on that recap story was "50 Watches Sold, 50 Records Set" – yeah, those were heady times.

It would also mark the first of probably – nay, decidedly – too many birthdays that I spent in Geneva instead of at home. And also my first visit to the Geneva Freeport (to see Alfredo Paramico's "Precious Time" collection, which was truly mind-altering). And finally the weekend we would film Talking Watches with a particular tall, dapper Italian collector who was relatively unknown to the watch collecting public: John Goldberger. We actually filmed on my birthday at a cafe next to the Hotel des Bergues where the Christie's sale was taking place – we put it out a few weeks later, and well, the watch collecting world has never been the same.

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