When a publication is 'closing', the atmosphere is that of the week before an important exam.
Making a monthly should mean having a month to complete the work. And in fact it does. But the feeling is that everything takes place in the last week. Seven days of impossible rhythms, writing, typesetting, correcting, and running late because 'we have to go to press'. But then you catch your breath. You recover your energy. And the next month you find yourself again, completing the work on the edge.
Here, the month of November for us is the non plus ultra of editorial closure. Within 30 days we send four publications to press: The November Clock (precisely), the Yearbook, the Almanac and the December/January Clock. November is that month of the year when you wonder why you haven't pursued your dream of being an astronaut, a job that seems much less stressful at the moment.
But when the magazine is printed you feel the same emotion as when you handed the booklet to the professor. It is done. So this month 'squeezes' us work-wise, but gives us four times the satisfaction
All this to say that going to the newsstands these days will be a great experience, because you will find issue 290 of L'Orologio with the new Carrera inspired by the Dato 45 on the cover, the Yearbook with the Speedmaster Silver Snoopy Award and, shortly, also our Almanac, delivered to the presses today.
On the cover, the Holy Grail of 2020: who can guess?
