Openwork: Inside the Watch Industry Collective Horology

We’re lifting the veil on selling and trading your watches. We cover the options available when you’re ready to move on from a watch, the trade-offs of those options, as well as why there are different cost structures depending on how you sell or trade your watch. In particular, we share how we as dealers look at buying and trading for watches, which will hopefully demystify things and more importantly help the next time you approach a dealer about selling or trading your watch.
Hosted by Asher Rapkin and Gabe Reilly, co-founders of Collective Horology, Openwork goes inside the watch industry.
You can find us online at collectivehorology.com. To get in touch with suggestions, feedback or questions, email podcast@collectivehorology.com.

We're live from the floor of Watches & Wonders 2024 to provide an insider take on this week’s goings on in Geneva – the mood of the fair, industry scuttlebutt, and how we see it all impacting the watch industry and collectors.
Hosted by Asher Rapkin and Gabe Reilly, co-founders of Collective Horology, Openwork goes inside the watch industry.
You can find us online at collectivehorology.com. To get in touch with suggestions, feedback or questions, email podcast@collectivehorology.com.

On this episode, we pull back the curtain on one of the biggest weeks in the world of watches: Watches & Wonders. Together with Zach Kazan (Managing Editor of Worn & Wound), we talk about what it’s like to be retailers and journalists respectively at this industry event, what really goes on in all those meetings, and what we hope to see from the industry this year.
Hosted by Asher Rapkin and Gabe Reilly, co-founders of Collective Horology, Openwork goes inside the watch industry.
You can find us online at collectivehorology.com. To get in touch with suggestions, feedback or questions, email podcast@collectivehorology.com.

We discuss the tradeoffs involved in managing a fast-growing watch brand – in particular, how independent watch brand Czapek is navigating a period of intense growth and demand. Together with Xavier de Roquemaurel (CEO of Czapek & Cie.), we look at what’s going on behind the scenes to expand their operations, manage customer relationships, and plan sustainably for the long term.
Hosted by Asher Rapkin and Gabe Reilly, co-founders of Collective Horology, Openwork goes inside the watch industry.
You can find us online at collectivehorology.com. To get in touch with suggestions, feedback or questions, email podcast@collectivehorology.com.

On this episode, we look at something both intangible and very consequential, and that’s the power of brands – what they are, why they matter, whether they should matter, and how they impact the watch industry and watch collectors.
Hosted by Asher Rapkin and Gabe Reilly, co-founders of Collective Horology, Openwork goes inside the watch industry.
You can find us online at collectivehorology.com. To get in touch with suggestions, feedback or questions, email podcast@collectivehorology.com.

This week, we go inside watch pricing with Michael Margolis, owner of Horology Works – the US representative for Czapek, Singer Reimagined and Speake-Marin. Mike was also previously the North America President for Girard-Perregaux as well as North America Sales Director for Hublot.
Together we look at the inputs that go into pricing watches, everything from labor and supply costs to marketing and currency exchange rates.
Hosted by Asher Rapkin and Gabe Reilly, co-founders of Collective Horology, Openwork goes inside the watch industry.
You can find us online at collectivehorology.com. To get in touch with suggestions, feedback or questions, email podcast@collectivehorology.com.