There’s a quote I haven’t been able to get out of my head this year. It’s “Never waste a good crisis”. I’m not sure what it was intended to mean, or who said it in the first place. But I am sure as hell of one thing. We have not wasted 2020. And by “we”, I mean the team at Time+Tide. And I mean “we” the watch industry, that have fought to survive; to find ways forward when every path seemed blocked, and also to do more good for the world than in any other year. These are the “better angels”, to pinch a phrase from the US President-elect Joe Biden, that I refer to throughout this column. But let’s not be cavalier. At many times, the last 12-months has felt like a tightrope walk above intensifying flames. Which begs the first question – which of 2020’s multiple crises might we have wasted? The first crisis was in January When those figurative flames were very real, very hot, and responsible for torching great tracts of Australian flora, fauna and dreams. Countless houses, properties, businesses, and, yes, animals, were destroyed. At its peak, I flew to Sydney for an event. The…
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