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    The Tastemakers Ben Clymer & Aurel Bacs

    by wei koh Dec 12, 2017 2 minutes
    Source: Aurel Bacs, left, wearing a shawl lapel dinner suit and bow tie from Hadleigh’s.

    I remember taking a train with Ben Clymer, the founder of , after a visit to the Patek Philippe dial factory. We discussed the idea of e-retailing watches. After all, what was the point of emotionalising, in championing their aesthetic and technical values, and then not being able to offer

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