Meet the SEVENFRIDAY Guy in Dhaka

Dan Niederer in Dhaka, and a community that turned up

In March, Dan Niederer, the founder of SEVENFRIDAY, came to Dhaka for two days.

No launch, no press line. Just a founder, a showroom, and whoever walked in. We called it Meet the SEVENFRIDAY Guy, and it ran at both our showrooms, Dhanmondi and Gulshan, for an hour to an hour and a half each. Around those sessions came private meetings, and the conversations covered global watch culture, the future of independent brands, and how Bangladesh looks to someone seeing it for the first time.

At our Gulshan showroom, before we moved to the new space.

Most people had met the brand through a watch. That day, they met the person behind it.

The dinner

One evening we sat down to dinner with people who already own SEVENFRIDAY. It wasn't a formal event. Just a long table, a lot of watches on a lot of wrists, and a founder who got to see where his brand ended up. We think about that night more than anything else from the visit.

What it meant

The people who came made those two days what they were. We're glad to be part of this community, and we'd like to keep building it with the same people who showed up.

Thank you, Dan, for coming. Thank you to everyone who came to meet him.

This is only the beginning.

Aminul Islam Russell
Founder, Time Access