Scottish Watches Podcast #739 : Festive Chat With Mr Rolex, Xavier from Czapek and Cedric from Hautlence

2025-12-29

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Welcome to the Scottish Watches Podcast Episode 739! We continue our Dubai Watch Week interviews with another trio of conversations, spanning vintage scholarship, modern independents, and one of the most talked-about brands in contemporary watchmaking. We begin with the inimitable James Dowling, widely regarded as the world’s foremost Rolex historian, who joins us to discuss his latest book and share unfiltered thoughts on the brand’s past, present, and the mythology that surrounds it. From there, we catch up with Cédric Johner of Hautlence for a broader look at the brand’s direction, design philosophy, and how it continues to carve out a distinct identity within the Moser universe. We close with Xavier de Roquemaurel of Czapek, whose trademark storytelling brings context and colour to the brand’s latest releases and its ongoing evolution as it marks a decade of its modern renaissance.

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The Rolex Legacy: The history of Rolex through 120 seminal and rare watches by James Dowling.

Rolex Milgauss Reference 6541.

1957 Omega Railmaster.

Patek Philippe Amagnetic.

The IWC Ingenieur Ref. 666.

Rolex Ref. 6236

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