Collector Conversations: Jeff Kingston
There’s a reason the name Jeff Kingston might sound familiar to many of you. Longtime readers of WatchTime should recognize him from our IBG (Inside Basel-Geneva) days when the WatchTime staff and Kingston would tour the country each year leading lectures about the top watches and brands from SIHH and Baselworld. These days you will see him patrolling the aisles at our annual events on Rodeo Drive (see highlights from this year’s event here) and New York City (tickets on sale now), ready to lecture on brands from Breguet and Blancpain to Vacheron Constantin and Zenith. As a renowned antitrust and IP lawyer, author, historian, speaker, and, most importantly, a longtime collector and close friend and partner of WatchTime, we recently sat down with him for an extensive conversation on the industry as he sees it. Jeff Kingston at a WatchTime event on Rodeo Drive in 2017.
WT: What are you wearing today"
JK: A Breguet [Tradition 7047] Tourbillon [Fusée Or Rose].
WT: And there?s an Apple Watch on your other wrist.
JK: It?s not a watch; it?s a notification device! Everybody should really understand that. I think it is one of the most misunderstood products around. As a watch, it?s not terribly good; as an application platform, it?s particularly bad. By the time you get an application going on here, by pushing the small icon and then accessing the limited functionality, you might as well have pulled out your phone. It?s very good if you?re doing things while ...
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