Dave,
Everyone needs a watch right? What's global population?
Sad that mechanical production figures are low. Interesting info. Thanks!

Stephanie,
the latest Global population estimate stands at:

6,381,149,755

I.E. Approx. 6.38 Billion.

Really cool, Stephen!

Interesting, in 1970 population was half what it is today!

Thanks for the live interesting link Stephen!

WE participate in a Goldman Sachs study of wristwatches every year.

Take a guess who the number one and number 2 sellers of wristwatches are in retialers shops?

THat is the easy question.

The stunner is "Which watch would most retailers LIKE to stock that they curetnly do not have?

Jeff Hess

Jef,
Is it a trivia? , can you give us some options?
Walmart must be the largest retailer I guess, and about the watch is ..Rolex?, Seiko?, that one is hard.

Hi Jeff,

Good questions! Will be eagerly interested in knowing Goldman Sachs study results!

1. I'm with Carlos- Seiko?
2. Bulova?

3. Rolex or Concord?

Jeff,
are you talking about U.S. retailers or global retailers ?

Carlos, Walmart isn't everywhere ***

Probably the Swatch consortia has the largest gross sales.

Regarding the most sought over brand, possibly Tag Heuer is sought by a lot of US retailers. ( because of the Tiger Woods factor ). I don't know if this is true globally.

Much closer to home, within our IHC membership of 381:-
How many wristwatch folks do you think we have ?? ( let's hear from you !!! )

Mea Culpa...

The study is yearly and for luxury watches...

Rolex and Cartier are one/two and the number one watch that retailers wish they could carry or desire to carry is ...tada...Panerai!

And yes, it is worldwide..

Each year I order a couple of dozen of these...

I am in Canada now on vacation but when I get back I will post the address to get a copy...

Jeff Hess

Jeff,
I didn't know you were limiting your questions to just luxury watches, otherwise I would most likely have answered as you did.

Do we have any idea what the biggest sellers are in popular/lower cost wristwatches

I think this is a very interesting topic we can all learn from.

PS Hope you have a nice vaction in Canada where it's cool. We're getting set for temperatures around 98 degrees all week.

Regards

Like Carlos and Stephanie my bet is Seiko might be the top-selling popular-price watch. Those who use them speak highly of their "tough-as-nails" performance. To my mind Seiko is a slightly up-scale version of the old Timex in reliability and value.

Yo Jeff, we all wanna see the Panerai!



YIKES DAVE, AT LEAST THAT'S FARENHEIT!... I HOPE!!!

Lindell,
you're right about Seiko building some
rugged watches. For an every day watch, this Seiko Automatic, 200M Diver's watch shown below is a really great buy.

Even back in my Timex days in the 60's Seiko
was a company we measured ourselves against for delivering competitively priced watches which were reliable, rugged & above all quality products.