Issue #342 | A Watch-World Exec on Collecting and the Rise of Superfakes

A Watch-World Exec on His New Book, Collecting, and the Rise of Superfakes

“It doesn’t matter if they sell,”Joshua Ganjei tells his sales people. This is not an attitude you’d expect from a seasoned watch reseller, but in a way, it’s a pillar of Ganjei’s business. European Watch Company, which has operated in Boston since opening in 1993, indeed sells watches, but what they really provide is a white glove service. And it’s highly sought after. Here, Ganjei gives Robb Report an inside look at how his company operates within the world of luxury watches—which, more and more, includes being able to tell really good fakes from the real deal.

Robb Report

Spend Less and Get More Out of Summer

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Men’s Shorts Are Getting Very Wide. Discuss.

These days, if it ain’t a five-inch inseam, or something super roomy, they aren’t shorts. The latter in particular has turned into a third rail of sorts over at the Wall Street Journal, where two editors—one Dale Hrabi, a boomer, and another Jamie Waters, of the millennial set—are getting to the bottom of whether these wide legs have merit, or at least any style about them. As Waters points out in this repartee, the look can be super casual, or elegant depending on the pair you wear. Or, says Hrabi, they can turn you into a little boy.

Wall Street Journal

Have We Reached Peak Cartier Crash?

To the untrained eye, the Cartier Crash is outré. Its melting, Dali-esque silhouette doesn’t align with the classic menswear canon like the squared up, safe-looking Tank. Yet as daring as it might feel to some to put on a watch that shares an outline with a fried egg, at this moment, Cam Wolf at GQ is convinced that the Cartier Crash has been burned to a crisp. You could blame it on Tom Brady, who wore one at his recent roast, but it’d be too easy to give the retired QB all the credit for running the beloved Cartier into the ground.

GQ

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