Throwaway because I’m a fairly well-known figure who works in the industry.

First of all, I’ve never talked to Nico so I don’t know for sure what he’s referring to. Like most other people who have been in the industry for a while, though, I’m acquainted with Journe socially and know many people who currently work or have worked for the brand - watchmaking is a small world. That said, I doubt this was a single event in particular or that it was a recent thing. Stories like this about Journe have been circulating for many years - I heard a variation of this story years ago from people who have worked for the brand, and it wasn’t on only one occasion. Journe can be charming when he wants to and abrasive when he doesn’t, and he can be more abrasive than most. There are also many stories of him out there behaving inappropriately with women.

Is he or the brand due for a reckoning like Nico seems to imply? Honestly, I doubt it - these stories aren’t anything new and are well-known to most people who have more than a surface-level interest in the brand, yet he still has more than enough devotees to sell out the brand’s annual production several times over.