IT'S ABOUT TIME PRESENTS: The Real Time Show / Discovering the Heart of German Watchmaking with the Glashütte Watch Club (GWC)

For more than a year now, this newsletter has actually been part of The Real Time Show network — I’ve just done a poor job of telling you that. The Real Time Show is a weekly watchmaking podcast founded by Alon Ben Joseph and Rob Nudds, now hosted by them along with Scarlett Baker and David Vaucher.

What they’ve built is genuinely impressive. Not only are we working together to grow this network — with me handling the newsletter side of things — but TRTS has also created a vibrant community of watchmaking enthusiasts.

More importantly, The Real Time Show has become a witness to a remarkably dynamic moment in watchmaking. They regularly speak with the most influential figures in the industry: people like Jean-Claude Biver, Sylvain Berneron, Phil Toledano, Andrew McUtchen, and CEOs from brands such as TAG Heuer, Oris, Greubel Forsey, Czapek, Ulysse Nardin, Frederique Constant, Fears, Bremont, MING, Doxa, Zenith, and many more. Honestly, it might be easier to list who they haven’t spoken to. It’s an invaluable resource for anyone who cares about the industry.

We’re tightening the integration with the network. If you’re a podcast person, I know you’ll enjoy this one. Starting now, every Sunday — when new episodes typically drop — you’ll receive a short email with the latest installment in your inbox.

I hope you end up loving it as much as I do.

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Discovering the Heart of German Watchmaking with the Glashütte Watch Club (GWC)

Glashütte is one of those places in the watch world that are just special. It’s a tiny town in Germany that houses an incredible amount of brands. Here’s a few that come to mind A. Lange & Söhne, Bruno Söhnle Uhrenatelier Glashütte, C. H. Wolf, Glashütte Original, NOMOS Glashütte, Wempe Chronometerwerke, Tutima, Union Glashütte, Moritz Grossmann and Mühle-Glashütte. And if you are a fan of German watchmaking, you should be listening to the new episode of The Real Time Show, Rob Nudds digs into it with collectors Billy Tse and Christopher Waluga. The two walk through the origins of the Glashütte Watch Club (GWC), a young, open community for anyone who owns, wants, or just obsesses over German watches, skipping the usual fees and formal membership hurdles in favor of a looser, more welcoming structure.

A lot of that community-building happens through writing and online interaction, with Chris’s reference-focused articles pulling new people into the orbit of German brands and giving them a place to stay once they fall down the rabbit hole. The next step is moving from screens to real life, with the GWC planning its first meetups in Hong Kong in January 2026 and aiming to build out a network of regular gatherings if interest continues to grow.​

Along the way, Billy and Chris unpack what pulls them toward German watches in the first place: the strict, almost architectural approach to design, the focus on function, and the particular character you get from Glashütte’s take on movement finishing. They cap the episode with a game of “build your perfect Saxon watch,” drafting a case, dial, hands, movement, and strap from different Glashütte brands, and invite listeners to send in their own builds and follow ongoing giveaways via @therealtime.show on Instagram.​

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Vuk