“Everything Worth Fighting for Unbalances Your Life” With Roger Ruegger, Editor-in-Chief of WatchTime Magazine

“There is no such thing as work-life balance. Balance means compromise, or as Swiss-born British author Alain de Botton said during a speech at the Cannes Advertising Festival: ‘Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.’”

I had the pleasure of interviewing Roger Ruegger, Managing Director of Ebner Publishing International and Editor-in-Chief of WatchTime magazine. Roger has been writing for and about the watch industry since 1999 and was responsible for several award-winning projects for watch brands. He launched his own digital watch publication in 2000 and has been engaging with collectors and enthusiasts online long before the term ‘social media’ was coined. Having grown up in Switzerland, he benefits not only from being geographically close to the Swiss watch industry but also from an education in both the German and French parts of Switzerland. He has previously worked in Switzerland, Germany and the UK and is a registered journalist in Switzerland. He has contributed content mostly for special interest magazines and has been quoted in books, newspapers and magazines, including the New York…