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Veteran watch journalist Joe Thompson, editor-in-chief of WatchTime, entertained attendees at the WatchTime New York show last weekend with stories about his 38 years covering the watch industry.In a presentation called On My Watch: Four Decades Covering the Watch World, Thompson said that he was fortunate to get to cover three revolutions: the quartz-watch revolution of the 1970s, the fashion-watch revolution that started with the Swatch watch in the 1980s, and, most importantly, the mechanical-watch counter-revolution, or renaissance, in the 1990s.Thompson began his presentation by declaring, The mechanical watch is doomed! After a pause, he went on: If you were a young watch reporter in the late 1970s, you didn't know much, but you did know one thing. You knew that the trusty tick-tock, which had had a good 400-year run, was doomed. You knew that because everybody in the industry told you so. Thompson said that for someone like him, the WTNY show, so full of mechanical watches

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