Basel World 2019 Visit Report

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Originally Posted by Mile121

Hi Guys

Like most of us Basel is a watch nuts holy grail. After many years talking about it, I finally went this year. It was only an hours flight from the UK, so why the heck not.

What was like? Big, Flash and completely unfriendly and a boring to be honest. They are not interested in us "end users". Most of it was out of bounds to mere mortals like me. With lots of security stopping you getting in anywhere, it was borderline intimidating.

So once you have looked in the windows, (which you can do anywhere). There wasn't much else to do. I appreciate it's a trade show, but there were lots of enthusiasts there who were shunned. But without guys like us, they wouldn't be there at all...

Been once wouldn't go again. Thought I would share as I appreciate most of you guys are in the US. That's a long way to come for not a lot.

Cheers

Thanks for your overview and sharing. Interesting! As a kind of a newbie to the WIS world myself , I was hoping to go there at least once sometime in future. I assumed it would be heaven for an end user, watch enthusiast like us. Your experience (and those of some others as mentioned here in this thread) makes me think twice.