Another Year, Another Basel World. We’re currently at Basel, Switzerland covering the watch world’s annual pilgrimage to the Swiss Mecca of Watches – Basel World 2006. Over the next 24 hours we will be posting images and news from the exhibition so stay tuned.
Ahoy Mates! If you’re a regular reader of Wrist Fashion and think we deserve a nomination at this year’s Weblog awards, then hop over to the bloggies website and nominate us.
I’m typing this entry from the business lounge of an airport with half hour to spare before I board my flight to Hong Kong for the Hong Kong Watch & Clock Exhibition (the second largest watch exhibition even though it isn’t as prolific as the Basel one), which means I’ll covering this year’s exhibition. Stay tuned.
It’s the end of the month and here are July’s top five posts in our RSS feed (This month’s total RSS requests are 47904) . We don’t have a similar post tracking system for regular web traffic to the site :
So my physiatrist stares at me, twirls his pen and finally says something. “You’re telling me that you went on this trip to .. “
“Basel”
“Yes, that, … the biggest watch exhibition and you say that you slept ate and drank watches non-stop for five days… and when you got back you were so overwhelmed with writing about it that you didn’t bother… in fact you pretty much stopped writing regularly and the post still hangs in your head haunting you…”
“Yeah”
“Did I get it all?”
“Yea”
“And you want me to help you..?”
“Get over the guilt and move on.”
“Well, you could finish it.”
“Right.”
(silence)
And then a few hundred dollars short, I finally sat up on my computer, cracked my knuckles and hammered away at my keyboard.
Wrist Fashion has been nominated as one of the finalists in the blog category (Sites that revolutionize the power of publishing by providing regularly updated content of a personal or professional nature) at this year’s SXSW Web Awards.
Nooka’s Matthew Waldman was nice enough to send in a model of his watch. While we hope this becomes the norm around here, what I didn’t expect, was to fall in love with it.
I’ve never been very big on Digital before, but you will currently find the Nooka adorning my left wrist, while the right sports my beloved Lange.
I know its strange to wear two watches, but eccentric editors of obsessive wrist watch websites do need to stand out while rigourously testing them for future writeups.
Also, Mister/Miss Reader, We’re toying with the idea of having a small online store to support our website and I wanted to put the idea out there so you could give us your two cents.
If we do, we’ll probably have a limited quantity of a few models that we adore instead of a store with a gigantic inventory.
As is customary by now, Sensory Impact is down yet again this week due to lack of bandwidth, and the hosting service just doesn’t have the system in place to respond to it.
UPDATE: This is very infuriating. I’ve been sending a ton of emails every day to our hosting service, and haven’t heard a word from them. Looks like the site might be down for a whole week.
If you’re mildly interested in watches, you might have heard about Basel, the premier show for watches, well, this is the other big one – The Hong Kong Watch & Clock Exhibition with up to 800 exhibitors from 15 countries or regions and we’ll be there to cover it blow by blow.
Its going to be from September 1st to the 5th so stay tuned for daily reports.
I’ve changed the permalinks on the site. So instead of every page ending in .html, it won’t need one. I had initially done it to help with the transition from our old blogger setup, however, because of it the archives were inaccessible.
So, please update your links if you were previously linking to a particular post.
