This Ex-Judge Has Been Collecting Watches Longer Than I've Been in Business! | Dual Time Podcast #17

Martin Zilber breaks down what it was like sourcing watches out of catalogs and hotel hallways in the pre-internet era, the $14,000 Paul Newman Daytona that started it all, the watch he sold for $12K that later hammered for half a million dollars at auction, and why he thinks the entire hobby shifted after COVID. They get into whether watches are really "investments," what separates a true collector from someone who just owns expensive pieces, the rise of independent watchmaking as a blue-chip category, and how social media changed the flex game forever. Then it's rapid fire: Rolex or Patek, steel or precious metal, quality or quantity — and his single biggest regret after three decades of collecting.