Acquired

Acquired is the number one show on Apple Podcasts across all categories. Holy.

Unbelievable shift in Switzerland's market share of watches globally. 1945: 85% 1985: 15%

In our episode, we mentioned Rolex's proprietary "Parachrom hairspring." Here it is in action. Blue because it is an alloy of niobium, zirconium and oxygen, anodized to prevent oxidization. And entirely insensitive to magnetic fields and temperature variations.

The Rolex perpetual rotor for automatic-winding. These videos!!

Did a little postgame interview with GQ Magazine on our ROLEX episode. Thanks for the conversation, Cameron Wolf! https://lnkd.in/gW4udQc5

How the oyster case seals to keep water + dust out:

Hokey? Yes. Ambiguous? Absolutely not.

"And then one day in 1984 his daughter Nell has her boyfriend over and Paul asks the boyfriend, does he know what time it is? And the boyfriend replies, I don't know, I don't have a watch. And Paul, on a whim says, here, take this one, it keeps good time. And gives the boyfriend the watch. The Paul Newman Daytona." – David Rosenthal, Co-host of Acquired That very watch now stands above all other Daytonas. Originally a gift from his wife, it bore the inscription: "Drive Carefully – Me." After spending years tucked away in a safety deposit box, it resurfaced at auction in 2017, selling for $17.8 million and setting a record as the most expensive wristwatch ever sold at the time. Yet, the "Paul Newman Daytona" wasn't a strong seller when it first hit the market in the 1960s. It took decades to transform into the legendary collector's piece it is today. How did that happen??Acquired's recent five-hour deep dive on Rolex unpacks the story.

The original ad for the Rolex Oyster with Mercedes Gleitze that started it all:

Amazing illustration of how the escapement works in a mechanical watch. The hairspring causes the balance wheel oscillate, which knocks the pallet fork back and forth. Tick tock. The pallet fork then releases the escape wheel to turn, driving the gear train.