Watchmaking and the pandemic: #Resilience

Talking resilience with Ariel Adams

INTERVIEW

By Serge Maillard

June 2020

America has been the country to suffer the biggest blow from the pandemic. Before it struck, the country was on the way to reclaim its spot as the number one market for the Swiss watch industry. We asked the Los Angeles-based founder of ABlogToWatch, Ariel Adams, how he thought the Covid-19 crisis would impact the watch world, and what the future landscape of timekeeping may look like.

Talking resilience with Ariel Adams

INTERVIEW

By Serge Maillard

June 2020

Talking resilience with Ariel Adams

America has been the country to suffer the biggest blow from the pandemic. Before it struck, the country was on the way to reclaim its spot as the number one market for the Swiss watch industry. We asked the Los Angeles-based founder of ABlogToWatch, Ariel Adams, how he thought the Covid-19 crisis would impact the watch world, and what the future landscape of timekeeping may look like.

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merica has been the country to suffer the biggest blow from the pandemic. Before it struck, the country was on the way to reclaim its spot as the number one market for the Swiss watch industry.

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