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EDITOR´S Letter The scene at last year's IBG New York event Jeff Kingston (center) talks watches with attendees at the New York IBG. 8 WatchTime August 2012 New and Improved: Our IBG Events Here’s a heads-up for anyone thinking of attending any of WatchTime’s “Inside Basel/ Geneva” events this year. Sign up soon! As I write this in early June, more than three months before the first event, tickets are selling well. For example, more than 100 people have already purchased tickets for the New York City event on Sept. 20. The New York event always sells out, but this year sales are brisker than usual. There are literally hundreds of excellent reasons not to miss an Inside Basel/Geneva (IBG) event: namely, the hundreds of new watches from the world’s top watch companies that are on display for you to behold and hold. But this year, there are a few more good reasons to join your fellow aficionados at one of our five events. That’s because Jeff Kingston, the wellknown watch expert who is the star of the shows, and Dominik Grau, WatchTime’s publisher, who organizes them, sat down at the end of last year’s show cycle and critically reviewed them. They decided to make some improvements in the events for 2012, our seventh show season. The first major change was to upgrade the event venues. The shows will be held over a four-week period starting in Chicago on Sept. 11 and ending in Los Angeles on Oct. 4. In between we’ll be in Philadelphia (Sept. 18), New York (Sept. 20), and San Francisco (Oct. 2). The Chicago, New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles events will be in new locations, all of them renowned fivestar hotels or private clubs. The event consists of two parts. It begins with a two-hour watch fair cum cocktail reception at which around 20 watch brands show their latest creations. Following that is a dinner at which Kingston offers a multi-media presentation of the top watches at the SIHH and Baselworld shows. There will be improvements to the cocktail reception, the dinner, and the presentation. The reception will feature live music. Kingston, a self-confessed foodie, will work with the head chef at each hotel to design the dinner menus specifically for the IBG event. The menus will be created solely for IBG and will not be available anywhere else. Wines, too, will get special attention, with Kingston and the hotel’s sommelier picking Champagnes and wines that best complement the meal. There will also be changes in Kingston’s presentation. He has revised the format to make it shorter, 75 minutes instead of the 90-minuteplus presentations of previous years. That’s because he has altered the video portion of the program. Instead of various watch company executives talking about their watches, the videos will be short mini-documentaries shot in the Vallée de Joux and La Chaux-de-Fonds showing Kingston exploring different aspects of Swiss watchmaking. One features Kingston talking about watchmaking with Philippe Dufour, one of the world’s most celebrated watchmakers. Another change is that Kingston will present the new watches by product category rather than by brand as in previous years. New, too, will be an interactive segment in the presentation with a discussion of the current watch scene between Kingston and yours truly. (Jimmy Durante was right: Everybody wants to get into the act!) One thing will not change, however: the goodie bags! At the end of the evening, each attendee will receive a bag containing gifts from the watch-company sponsors. We did not dare tamper with this tradition. To register for an IBG event, go to our website at watchtime.com and click on “Events.” Or call 1-800-596-5898. For questions about the events, please email event manager Rose Alonzo at ralonzo@watchtime.com. I’ll be at all the events. If you see me, please say hello. It is always a treat for me to meet our readers. Joe Thompson Editor-in-Chief
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