Recently, Kate Lacey, a London-based independent watch specialist with almost 20 years’ experience, had an epiphany at a female-led watch event. “I stood among female watch dealers, collectors, retail managers, auctioneers, senior museum curators, senior scientists, explorers, journalists, their stories all connected through watches … I feel like a few years back, there was a misconception among many women that watch collecting was such a singular nerdy subject, but if I took anything away from these events it was that watches bring together such interesting people,” she says. “Consequently, I think we will see more and more female watch collectors out there in the public.”
Lacey, who founded her own watch specialist company The Shrew in 2021, is one of several women shaking up the watch world, a space that once seemed overwhelmingly
