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WHO ARE WE?
WatchTime is an award-winning luxury watch media platform based in New York City, and a founding member of the Watch Experts Excellence Network:
WatchTime’s watch magazine products reach a monthly audience of almost 800,000 watch collectors. WatchTime is the most successful watch magazine in North America and one of the leading watch magazines globally. WatchTime is the world’s only watch magazine with two FOLIO Fame Awards for excellence in media events, seven Digital Magazine Award nominations, a SmartCEO Future 50 Award as well as two Mequoda Rocket Award nominations for outstanding digital audience growth and an Apex Award for excellence in electronic media.
WatchTime New York is the biggest watch collector event in North America. WatchTime invites the top watch brands and top luxury partners to assemble in New York City and present their timepieces to the largest audience of watch collectors in North America. WatchTime has a long, established event history. For 10 years. we have been bringing luxury timepieces to collectors across the country with our watch event: Inside Basel Geneva (IBG). Join us October 14-15, 2016, see you in New York!
ANISH BHATT is the Founder and CEO of WatchAnish.com, an online luxury lifestyle publication he founded in London in 2012 after spending several years working as a brand consultant and specializing in the fashion industry. Fascinated with fashion and luxury from an early age,in particular high-end watches, Anish began to style and direct photo-shoots that reflected his unique tastes. His idea was to not only shoot the products individually, but to also create eye-catching imagery that reflected the often over-the-top lifestyles these products were intended to be part of, focusing on creating a method of communication that would be well received by non-traditional watch enthusiasts and the new generation of young entrepreneurs. He began to distribute these distinctive images and videos via photo sharing sites such as Tumblr and Instagram, quickly gaining a loyal and vocal following of well-heeled and targeted admirers. The site’s popularity, along with its social media accounts, has grown rapidly in the last two years, leading WatchAnish to open additional offices in both New York and Geneva, as well as forge new partnerships around the world. Anish consults to a number of a high-end luxury watch and fashion brands, and is often invited to give presentations about the importance of social media and strategies for successfully growing and nurturing an engaged community of followers.
JOE THOMPSON, editor-in-chief of WatchTime magazine, has written about watches and the global watch market for 38 years. A frequent visitor to watch production centers in Europe and Asia, Thompson specializes in in-depth, analytical articles on watches and the watch industry.
He is frequently consulted by the mainstream media on watches and watch market developments. He has been quoted in dozens of newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, BBC.com, Forbes, the International Herald Tribune, Sports Illustrated, and Switzerland’s Neue Züricher Zeitung. He has been interviewed about watches on CNBC, National Public Radio, WNBC New York, WABC New York and the Fashion News Channel. In addition, he has written articles about watches for Esquire, Town & Country, Golf Digest and Bilanz, Switzerland’s top business magazine.
JEFF KINGSTON, a former technological and IP lawyer, was lead council for Sun Microsystems in the historic case against Microsoft at the European Commission in Brussels. His victory in that case remains the single most important competition case in EU history.
Since retiring he has become one of the world's most foremost watch collectors and historians.
He has partnered with prestigious houses (inc. Blancpain, Breguet, Montblanc, Cartier, Lange & Soehne, Jaeger LeCoultre, IWC, Piaget, Audemars Piguet, Hublot, Zenith and TAG Heuer) on an international scale that often sees him producing, directing
and narrating educational videos for brands; lecturing large gatherings of watch collectors throughout the US and in China, and writing extensively about watches.
