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Junghans Meister Kalendar Watch
If you need just one reason to love Germans today let it be this watch by German watch maker Junghans. The Meister Kalendar is one of their more retro-looking pieces embodying the spirit of Bauhaus design’s beautiful functionality and the graceful lines of a dress watch. Masterfully composed, the Meister Kalendar hides a few design secrets that make it so lovely to look at. It isn’t terribly expensive either, and this is a brand that you’ll be happy to check out – though it isn’t without its quirks.Pretty much all good German stuff has quirks right? Well, that probably goes for all things. As an avid driver of German cars and wearer of German underpants (joke! only if…) I find an endearing quality to Germanic design. The Mesiter Kalendar watch isn’t over-designed, which is good. Germans are excellent at minimalist design when they wish to be. Though as a brand Junghans has taken the production of retro-themed timepieces quite seriously. They wa
Is Luxury Watch Marketing Failing?
It is a hot late-Summer day in the Lower East Side of people-busy Manhattan, and strolling down the street, I notice the side of a brick building painted with a 12-foot tall advertisement for a luxury watch company. It would actually be easy to miss noticing it above the corner market below, situated at the ground floor of the aging residential structure, and the ad-like so many of its kin-simply has the name of a brand and the picture of a watch, with an arguably tantalizing, yet ambiguous, slogan.Around the planet, in Hong Kong, watch ads litter the streets, buses, and billboards. It is difficult to travel more than a few steps in any commercial area and remove yourself from a line-of-sight view with a poster or sign marketing a watch maker-often with a regional or international celebrity wearing the product. In a dark, dirty, and ill-smelling alley behind the main thoroughfare, the walls are lined with evenly spaced posters for some of the world’s top luxury watch makers.