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Welcome to Dialed In, Esquire s weekly column bringing you horological happenings and the most essential news from the watch world since March 2020.
Watch collectors come in all shapes and sizes and with budgets to match. It’s unusual to find a collector, however, with a fully fledged collection of the great and the good, at the tender age of 15. Yet, that was just how Etienne Malec got sucked into a passion that led to him founding his beloved micro brand, Baltic Watches, in 2017.
In horological terms, a mere stripling at 4 years old, Baltic has cachet amongst watch collectors and style guys alike. The brand regularly sells out new watches in minutes, and the resale value is reassuringly high often two to three times the original retail.