WARO in Bucharest - Watches, Good Company and the Long Way Home

We travelled to Bucharest for WARO Watching Romania. The journey home took three days, following back roads, mountain tracks and a few detours that were too tempting to pass up while we were in Romania.

But first, the watches and the people who brought us there.

WARO - Thank You for Every Conversation

The Novotel Bucharest City Centre was busy, lively and welcoming. Bucharest welcomed us with 29°C - a little taste of summer in the middle of October, before we headed into the autumn mountains. Throughout the day, the Nadir stand was a place for conversations about watches, movements, travel and what we wear on our wrists every day.

Thank you to everyone who stopped by. For your questions, shared experiences, honest feedback and the many handshakes. It was a pleasure to show you the watches in person, tell the story behind the brand and meet the people behind online messages. Seeing watch enthusiasts arrive with a Nadir already on their wrist made it even more special.

A warm thank you also goes to the WARO organisers for their hospitality and for creating such a friendly atmosphere.

Romania has a special place in Nadir’s story

The idea of starting my own watch brand first took shape during a motorcycle trip through the country, over evening conversations in Vișeu de Sus. Returning to Romania with the watches, and meeting people who now own them, felt like coming back to where it all began.

Mulțumesc for everything.

For the welcome, the conversations and the time spent together.

The Way Home

We could have driven straight home from Bucharest. Instead, we set aside three days and deliberately took the longer route.The car carried our watches and stand to the event, then took us onto the mountain tracks afterwards.

We followed Strategica in the Carpathians before heading into the Apuseni Mountains, reaching two summits along the way. Overnight stops in Sibiu and Oradea broke up the journey.

These mountain routes are rarely crowded, but with the tourist season over, they were completely empty. There was time to stop for the views, make a coffee and enjoy the surroundings without seeing another person for quite a while.

The weather stayed on our side. Autumn colours, open landscapes and kilometres of gravel gave us plenty of reasons to stay off the main roads a little longer. Coffee on a mountain plateau tasted as good as ever. And papanași at a roadside inn gave us another good reason to stop.

This is the kind of combination I enjoy most: a trip with the brand, meeting fellow watch enthusiasts, followed by a few days on the road. A watch on the wrist, coffee somewhere in the mountains and a chance to see where the next turn leads.

We are back home now, getting ready for Micropraha. It is also time to restock the keyrings and stickers - you certainly kept us busy in Bucharest. :)