Who writes it

Every article carries a byline, and the byline is a person rather than a desk. The people who write here work in the trade: the founder, who deals watches himself, and dealers and specialists who contribute under their own name.

How a dealer profile is made

The dealer agrees to it first. Any figure that describes their business is read out of their own account and shown to them before it is published, and the quotations are theirs, in their words, approved in writing. A profile that cannot survive the dealer reading it is not published at all.

That order is slower than writing the page and asking afterwards. In a trade this small, the first invented number is the last one anybody believes.

How figures are checked

Where a number describes Worldwatch itself, the page says where it came from: how many dealers, over what period, and how it was measured. A figure a reader cannot check is a figure a journalist cannot quote.

Where automation is used

The English text is written and edited by people, and what is published is the responsibility of whoever is named on it. Automated tools assist with drafting, structure and checking, in the way most writing tools now do.

Translation is machine-assisted, and worth being specific about. This site is published in 34 locales. Those translations are produced from the English original by machine and are not individually reviewed by a native speaker, so the English version is the authoritative one. Where a page has not been translated at all it is served in English rather than machine-translated on the way to your browser, and it is not offered to search engines as a translation.

Corrections

If something here is wrong, tell us and it gets fixed. Write in through the contact page. A correction that changes the meaning of a piece is noted on the piece.