But with the popularity of smartphones and tablet devices burgeoning, the quality of what we watch, read and share next year is going to take centre stage.
Patek Philippe wisely reintroduced the Nautilus line in 2005, a year ahead of the watch's 30th anniversary.
The finals in Phoenix drew 1, 000 people in April to watch Shaq judge and crown the Dunkman of the Year, who will appear in an ad later this year.
ForbesLife's editors make the rounds every year of the top fashion, watch, and jewelry shows, from Florence to Geneva to New York to Las Vegas, looking for the best of what's new, and I've now done a couple of laps around the circuit myself.
And what could make them even more interesting is that they will likely have spent much of their development life without being under the watch of Steve Jobs, who died over a year ago.
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Viewers in a mountainous area near the coast of County Mayo have been unable to watch the series since New Year's Day when the state-backed RTE network lost the rights to the soap.
The rollout, which starts in the last quarter of the year, will let those bored in the back seats watch an equally free 200 hours' worth of QStreaming audio and video.
"I did indeed watch the second half of the Super Bowl at the beach house with our 14-year-old son because as a father I didn't think he should watch it alone, " Sanford said.
For example, he said the World Monuments Fund has placed a local 400-year-old church on its watch list because of the application sent by the resort.
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"What happens to AOL after the spinoff will be one of the most interesting things to watch next year, I imagine, " said MG Siegler, a technology and new-media writer for the online TechCrunch network.
According to the national waste charity, Waste Watch, each household in the UK throws away over a tonne of waste every year.
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Under Guardiola, Barcelona acquired the reputation of being the most attractive team in the world to watch, spearheaded by the sublime goalscoring exploits of three-time world player of the year Lionel Messi.
As for Mr Trojan, though untainted by the carelessness and petty scandals that dished the previous team of commissioners led by Jacques Santer last year, the collapse did happen on his watch.
The 12-year-old watch brand is an infant when it comes to the venerable world of the Swiss watch industry, but it has grown up at lightning speed with technical innovations and partnerships with athletes in sports ranging from track and field to soccer to auto racing.
And, notes Mr McGowin, in many places it tends to blow when demand is low, such as in the middle of the day, and dies down in the evening, when Americans watch television (400 kilowatt hours per year) and run dishwashers (1, 570).
They spend a couple of months a year in the house as they watch over their investment.
The daughter of founder Dave Thomas is keeping a close watch on this year's round of 16.
To get yourself prepared for marketing in a world of streaming TV and social participation, why not watch The Oscars differently this year and tune in via your tablet?
For my last zapovednik evening, another ranger, Kolya Solovev, invited our half-a-dozen-strong geyser valley community to his cabin to dine on smoked salmon and watch a slideshow of polar bear and musk oxen, whose company Solovev enjoyed the year before when rangering at the Arctic zapovednik that protects all of Wrangel Island.
The full edition of the WorldWatchReport, which this year will cover more than 60 watch brands in 20 markets worldwide, will be available in April.
The Italian company i'm hit a first incredible success last year with the world premiere presentation of i'm Watch, the world's first smartwatch that meanwhile has become a cult object for technophiles.
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One of Ms Pearson's subjects, a 27-year-old man, claimed to watch recorded television 90% of the time.
Last year mechanical watches accounted for 70% of the value of Swiss watch exports.
Late last year the International Press Institute put Sri Lanka on its watch-list of countries where the media's situation is precarious, along with Russia.
Every year, thousands of visitors travel to the Isle of Man to watch the TT races and to take the opportunity to ride around the world-famous circuit.
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The jewelry and watch division was among all categories of products that led to a successful year for LVMH, which owns luxury brands in fashion and leather goods, wine and spirits, perfumes and cosmetics, and Internet retailing.
By demolishing Kansas and Florida over the weekend, Michigan silenced a growing chorus of skepticism about the Big Ten conference, which had been hailed all year as the toughest conference in college basketball, only to watch six of its seven teams in the tournament bow out ahead of Sunday's action, including Indiana, the top seed in the East.
While working to return from his injury, Lewis watched them play on the same high school football team, and he intends to watch Ray Lewis III perform as a freshman next year for his alma mater, the University of Miami.
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