✦ Word on the street
“The Sabrina Carpenter of Watches”“After three years in the industry, you sound like you know your stuff.”“She has a lot of tattoos, which is uncommon in the Swiss watch industry”“The Sabrina Carpenter of Watches”“After three years in the industry, you sound like you know your stuff.”“She has a lot of tattoos, which is uncommon in the Swiss watch industry”
Watch writing from the bench upThursday, 15 October 2026Price: one good idea
Meighan's Watchtalk
A journal of watches, makers & the people who love them
What’s on the wrist?
About the writer

Meighan Nina Nurakhmetova Johnson

Watch Enthusiast

Hello, my name is Meighan. I was raised in Almaty, Kazakhstan. My mother is a strong soviet lady who swore none of her children would ever rely on their smartphones to tell the time. Growing up, I would roll my eyes, wondering which watch I would get for my birthday this year.

The watch bug hit me in 2023, after I graduated college with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Mass Communications with a double major in Film. I moved to Atlanta to start my career and got hired at the local TUDOR boutique as a quick way to pay rent while I figured stuff out. My passion for watches was ignited when I met a watchmaker who took the time to answer each and every question my ever curious brain could fathom. With that same sense of investigative journalistic, childlike wonder I used to employ within my school projects, I sought heart and soul to understand the industry I found myself in— and in doing so, I fell in love.

Join me in provocative, meandering thought, as I journey through the watch industry and jot my thoughts along, and please, never hesitate to answer the call and let me know your thoughts as well.

Write to Meighan

Or email directly: meighanjohnson24@gmail.com