FRIDAY WIND DOWN: SIHH 2021 is already cancelled, Cartier is feeling very generous and it’s a special birthday for Jack Heuer

Well, with the sense of a big black limousine passing through the neighbourhood in the middle of the night, there goes 2021 watch fairs. It’s November 2020, and the two biggest fairs of the coming year are already cancelled. So, as watch lovers, we face yet another year of digital attempts to re-create the magic, the moment, the madness of Baselworld and SIHH. As watch media people, we face the prospect of another year of infrequent flying and not handling watches in the metal very often. What a shake-up to a routine that had many of us lulled into a sense of inevitability, of security – there is none of this anymore. We will cherish the chances to be together with our colleagues in the years to come like never before. We will cherish the events, held locally, where we can connect in person. We will pore like visually challenged fanatics over new watches when – if – they are presented to us. Everything that was old, and routine, will be new again. To commiserate, we featured some of our favourite affordables from the second last multi-brand fair we went to, in January 2019. What else is happening? Lots. Lots and lots.…

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