My Favorite Watch: Britta Rossander, Watch Journalist
In our ongoing series, My Favorite Watch, WatchTime speaks to interesting personalities in the watch industry. The interviews revolve around the subject?s favorite watch model, their experience in the industry, and other topics. Today, in the series’ final installment, we talk with Swedish journalist Britta Rossander, editor at Robb Report Sweden, Granturismo, and Watches & Jewelry at the Royal Magazine, and freelance writer for various magazines.
Britta Rossander, Editor at Robb Report Sweden
What?s your favorite watch"
If I had the money, it would be the Breguet Reine de Naples – preferably in yellow gold, with a dial in mother-of-pearl, a black satin strap, with diamonds on the bezel and a big one in the crown. I also wouldn’t mind having a moon-phase. Why that one"
I love the story of Breguet, and I love the fact that the watch was made for a woman from the beginning and wasn’t just treated as a smaller version of a men’s watch. Also, I did know [late Swatch Group founder and Breguet CEO] Nicolas George Hayek quite well: he really opened all the doors for me as a woman in journalism back then. You know, almost no women were writing about watches 30 years ago. One day we discussed, among other things, the Nobel Prize in economics. He wanted to launch an award on his own but came to the conclusion that the Nobel Prize already was the best: ?So, if you can?t beat them; join them,? he said. He complained that he had contacted t...
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