Sumary of Graduation Watches: How, Where and What To Buy in 2022:
- At their tips (and on their wrists), obsess over old-school timepieces’ mechanical workings and supreme style.
- Young consumers come in having been up all dark-hour studying on YouTube, said Ruediger Albers, U.S. president of watch retailer Wempe.
- Mind you, Mr. Shear is a vintage watch merchant through his company Sheartime, so he’s professionally obligated to believe mechanical timepieces will still be covetable in 2040.