REGARIOUS, IMPECCABLY SUITED and always ready to offer an opinion about watches and watch collecting, Carson Chan, also known as Watch Professor on social media, is a walking horological encyclopaedia with fans the world over. With a career spanning over two decades in the watch trade, Chan's eyebrow-raising epithet is hard-earned. He has led the watch departments at the auction houses of Bonhams and Christie's; helped establish then-unknown independent brand Richard Mille's presence in Asia; and helmed the Asian chapter of Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie, a Swiss-based, industry-centric, not-for-profit organisation
