Oct 26, 202648 min
Audemars Piguet is reportedly launching its own certified pre-owned program. This is the same brand that has spent years discouraging clients from reselling their watches. Gabe Reilly and Asher Rapkin of Collective...
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Openwork: Inside the Watch Industry
Hosted by Collective Horology · leisure · EN
About this Podcast:
Openwork is a weekly podcast about how the watch industry actually works. An unfiltered look behind the scenes — no press releases, no hype, and no sponsored takes. Hosted by Asher Rapkin and Gabe Reilly, co-founders of Collective Horology. Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube Music, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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What is Openwork: Inside the Watch Industry about?
Openwork is a weekly podcast about how the watch industry actually works. An unfiltered look behind the scenes, no press releases, no hype, and no sponsored takes. Hosted by Asher Rapkin and Gabe Reilly, co-founders of Collective Horology. Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube Music, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Who hosts Openwork: Inside the Watch Industry?
Openwork: Inside the Watch Industry is hosted by Collective Horology. The show has published 100 episodes to date.
What has Openwork: Inside the Watch Industry covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Second Lives, AP and Rolex CPO, Ebel Reboots, Bennahmias Returns, Episode 99" (26 October 2026, 48 minutes), "New York Watch Week 2026, Has It Gotten Too Big?, Episode 98" (19 October 2026, 40 minutes), and "The Business of Bond, Inside Omega’s 30-Year 007 Partnership, Episode 97" (12 October 2026, 55 minutes).
How often does Openwork: Inside the Watch Industry publish?
Openwork: Inside the Watch Industry publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 51 minutes across 100 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on Openwork: Inside the Watch Industry?
Booking probability for Openwork: Inside the Watch Industry is 42%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Openwork: Inside the Watch Industry requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Openwork: Inside the Watch Industry's contact route on record: verified email.
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Collective Horology hosts Openwork: Inside the Watch Industry, a leisure podcast with 100 episodes published.
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Oct 19, 202640 minOpenwork Episode 98 was recorded live at WatchTime New York in Gotham Hall, where Gabe Reilly and Blake Buettner of Collective Horology recap New York Watch Week 2026. They talk about how the week has grown from a...
Oct 12, 202655 minGabe and Asher break down one of the most successful marketing partnerships in watch history: Omega and James Bond. The story starts in the mid-’90s, when both franchises were trying to reboot. Omega was a struggling...
Oct 5, 20261h 7mWatch media looks nothing like it did ten years ago. Blake Buettner was one of Hodinkee's early writers, later managing editor at Worn & Wound, and built The Deep Track on his own. He joins Gabe Reilly and Asher Rapkin...
Episode #95
Dressed for Success? – Rolex's Padellone, Breguet's Retail Purge, and Swiss Exports – Episode 95
Sep 28, 20261h 3mEighteen months after Liberation Day, we look at where Swiss watch exports stand. Shipments to the U.S. are down 8.3% year to date but still up 8.8% versus 2024. Mainland China is down 23% from two years ago. Global...
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Sep 21, 202644 minRecorded live at Geneva Watch Days, this episode of Openwork sits down with Ming CEO Praneeth Raj Singh to unpack one of the strongest product runs in independent watchmaking: the Polymesh, Iris, Starfield, Lightning...
Sep 14, 20261h 4mGabe and Asher kick off Episode 93 with news: Collective is now an authorized Ressence retailer. Then they get into the week's biggest story out of Geneva Watch Days 2026: Breitling's Gallet relaunch, its inherited...
Sep 3, 202653 minGabe Reilly and Blake Buettner record live from Geneva Watch Days to discuss the show’s atmosphere, the growth of independent watchmaking, and what Blake’s new role at Collective means for future content. We break down...
Aug 24, 202651 minBreitling relaunches Gallet on September 3rd. Openwork hosts Gabe Reilly and Asher Rapkin unpack Georges Kern's play: chronographs at 3,000–5,000 CHF, an exploration story aimed at Bremont, Longines, and Tudor, sold in...
Aug 10, 202643 minIn Episode 90 of Openwork, Collective Horology co-founders Gabe Reilly and Asher Rapkin reveal that they've sued the U.S. federal government over the tariffs squeezing the watch industry and small businesses nationwide...
Jul 27, 20261h 2mA quick news note: On Friday, July 24, Collective, along with New York spice importer Burlap & Barrel, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of International Trade challenging the federal government's latest Section 301...
Jul 13, 202648 minHow did Tudor go from a brand you couldn't even buy in the United States to a half-billion-dollar powerhouse selling 300,000 watches a year? In this episode of Openwork, Gabe Reilly and Asher Rapkin trace the rise of...
Jul 6, 20261h 1mTo mark 250 years of American independence, we're revisiting one of our favorite conversations: our sit-down with Josh Shapiro, the American independent watchmaker behind the Resurgence — the only watch that currently...
Jun 29, 202651 minThis week we're proud to welcome Bamford London to the Collective line card. George Bamford is the OG of modern collaborative watchmaking, but it's his own designs — the D300 Ceramic Diver, the Monopushers, the GMTs —...
Episode #86
Bonus: The Watches of Armin Strom – Claude Greisler (Co-founder & Master Watchmaker) – Episode 86
Jun 22, 202635 minWe're on summer hours, but we wanted to keep something in your feed as much as we can — so this one comes from our Watches Of podcast , a conversation Gabe recorded in person with Claude Greisler of Armin Strom. Claude...
Jun 15, 202646 minGabe heads to Las Vegas for one of the largest trade shows in the watch and jewelry world — a B2B behemoth that's quietly making a bigger play for watches than ever before. He breaks down what the show gets right, where...
Jun 8, 202630 minMorning after Open House 2026 — the biggest event Collective Horology has ever thrown. Now in its third year at The Aster in Hollywood, the fair pulled 400+ people through the door, a line down the street, a closed...
Episode #83
Watch Retail Consolidates, Rapidly – What It Means for the Industry and Enthusiasts – Episode 83
Jun 1, 202649 minWhile preparing to speak on a panel about the rapidly changing state of American watch retail, Gabe stumbles onto an annual industry report that ranks the largest jewelry and watch retailers by revenue — and what he...
May 25, 202658 minSeiko, Citizen, and Casio each pulled in over a billion dollars in revenue last year — in most cases record-breaking, and all three landing neck and neck around $1.3 billion with healthy 9–14% net margins. That's...
May 18, 202658 minWe recorded today's episode on May 13, just a few days before the AP Swatch Royal Pop went on sale. We discuss the decision-making and implications of this project for both companies' brands and businesses, and for many...
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