Pod#180 - Omer aka ThriftWatches - Watch culture in Pakistan!

Great episode this week, following up on an interest fast growing in the podcast family around wristwatches and their associated culture. Omer Ahmed, the guy behind the increasingly popular ThriftWatches Instagram account and business, joins the podcast to talk about his journey and we all talk about our new but fast developing appreciating for watch collecting.    Things discussed in this episode:   00:00 Intro 01:50 Quick chaotic intro and Nazar’s tale of travel turmoil  06:28 How Omer got the idea to start Thrift Watches  10:15 SHORT INTERLUDE ON INSANE INCOME STANDARDS  11:26 Watch shopping trends in Pakistan - people generally have bad taste  14:54 How has it been running his own business, time & effort, dealing with customers  21:19 The content creator aspect of the job, steadily dealing in more expensive watches  27:45 Future plans - selling watches abroad, opening his own location  31:00 Talking about FAKE watches - don’t do it  34:37 Watches as investments - the Rolex issue  38:00 Coffee break with Zarak Yusufzai  42:06 Going through some watches!  50:50 Outro   LINKS:  Thriftwatches Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thriftwatches/  Support the podcast by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/tprpod) or send a one-off token on Ko-fi (https://ko-fi.com/tprpod)!   Find all our previous episodes on SoundCloud, Spotify & Apple Podcasts and follow us all on Twitter! Links to everything below!  SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/tprpodSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6PvTahp... Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tprpod/Twitter: https://twitter.com/TPRPod Ali: https://twitter.com/themaholupperRizwan: https://twitter.com/RizwanTakkharSarkhail: https://twitter.com/Sarkhail7Khan