I guess we forgot to introduce ourselves.
Just about the turn of the century, a bunch of us got together to create a car magazine. This is called C! Magazine, and is a continuing monthly print magazine (plus an annual issue, plus a few specials and custom work). It is based in the Philippines and written in English. We basically had to learn everything ourselves, and it was a rough but fun learning curve in just about every way. The magazine has been at different times distributed around Asia and has been translated into Korean at one point. Content from C! Magazine has appeared in other regional titles as well, though not always with our permission.
On the watch side, I was always a massive watch geek. I have the very first issue of International Wristwatch, and I used to constantly go to watch service centers to be able to read the Europa Star back issues they would keep in their small waiting rooms. I wasn’t alone, I had friends that were similarly afflicted. One of those friends said, when we had a big and not all that well thought out party for the inauguration of C! Magazine, that I would create a watch magazine next. I thought he was insane.
Calibre Magazine has celebrated its tenth year. It is a monthly print magazine, and it came about largely because I suddenly realized I had an excuse to go to Baselworld. We had been getting a lot of support in the car magazine from watches (it apparently helps when you assume readers are intelligent and don’t just want skin everywhere, which honestly was partly a function of several of us having young daughters and sons coming into our lives. No way were we going to produce something we couldn’t show our kids.) and when I mentioned it to some brands we worked with IWC and TAG Heuer, they basically said why the heck not! End result, I got to go to Baselworld and SIHH and 2017 was our tenth visit. It bugs the heck out of me by the way that Baselworld didn’t celebrate the fact that they have been around for a century. They should have made stickers and patches and stuff. They didn’t. We did our own.
So we do a lot of cool stuff, and we are insanely lucky to be able to do so. We are able to run events that let people go racing, or learn how to ride a motorcycle safely, or take apart and hopefully put back together a watch movement. Thanks again for that most recent one, Panerai, and for the very first one we did, IWC. I didnt get to join myself, all our slots were filled. It was even more wonderful to watch that than it was to sit down and participate. At least that’s what I keep telling myself.