This Watch Life
Lydia Winters and Vu Bui
Join us weekly for a podcast about all things watches... from watch releases to the industry to brands to the culture of watches and everything in-between. Join Lydia Winters (@lydiaswatches) and Vu Bui (@vubui.watches) as we discuss this watch life that we all enjoy!
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Episodes (217)
117: Should open case backs be standard? Which is the best size Black Bay?
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116: Playing with case shapes and dial shapes - a new trend?
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115: Are some watch features just afterthoughts?
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114: Vu meets his dream watch - Grand Seiko takes over a museum!
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113: What's a good excuse to buy a watch? New watch alert - King Seiko SPB281
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112: Tudor is suddenly everywhere! Or is it??
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111: (fixed) Week on the Golden Wrist - Rolex Submariner Date 116618LB
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110: The 3-watch collection for $10,000, head-to-head battle!
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109: Don't call it a dress watch! Special occasion watches.
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108: Fun watches, can watches even be fun?
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107: The everyday watch, daily watch, GADA watch. Which ones do we wear?
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106: The best types of watches for a three watch collection
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105: Vu bids on his first ever watch auction, for a vintage watch!
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104: How do you deal with scratches and dings on your watch?
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103: How do you determine what a watch is worth to you?
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102: Should quartz still be considered inferior to mechanical watches?
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101: Wearing watches upside down? New trend or just a few mistakes?
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100: Where we've been and where we're going!
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99: Wanting more watches right after getting new watches
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98: When a watch advertisement is actually enjoyable!
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97: How to shop for a watch like an interview or a first date?
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96: Lydia sees the entire Naoya Hida & Co collection in NYC!
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95: NWA! Lydia's new AP Royal Oak - and which Rolex she traded to get it.
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94: The journey from seeing a watch to buying it
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93: Watch engravings - do they change the value of your watch?
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92: What do watch boutiques and ADs do wrong, and right?
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91: Why are dive watches so popular? And the Tudor FXD Chrono Cycling Edition!
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90: How do you save for a watch without getting distracted by more affordables?
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89: Are GMTs even useful? Can a GADA watch work in a specialized collection?
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88: New Watch! The pink Tudor Black Bay Chrono and why Vu traded the Explorer II...
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87: Rising watch prices and our favorite micro brands
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86: How do you take service costs into account? And our favorites from Glashutte...
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85: Weird Personal Watch Habits and Rules
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84: Atelier Wen, Baltic, and Sartory Billard - hands on with three brands new to...
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83: Lydia gives a Rolex OP to her dad and gets her first caseback engraving
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82: Some of our favorite watches we tried on at Watches and Wonders
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81: The Joys of Watch Collecting - birthday edition
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80: Awesome watches we saw at the Beau Rivage Hotel
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79: We went to an Important Timepieces Auction preview
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78: Buying too many watches without selling any - Lydia's dilemma
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77: The power of the Naoya Hida & Co Type 4A-1 - rethinking the collection part...
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76: Rethinking the entire watch collection - part 1
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75: Live from Watches and Wonders
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74: Watches and true WONDERS? Some of the stranger novelties.
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73: The Most Wondrous Watches of Watches and Wonders!
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72: Our favorite watches from Watches and Wonders announcements!
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71: Lydia's Rolex Collection - part 2
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70: Lydia's Rolex Collection - part 1: how did she get here?
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69: Choosing a new watch - how do you decide?
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68: Selling watches out of love? Can culling your collection make you happy?
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