What's on Your Riste? A Watch Podcast
Welcome to “What's on Your Riste? A Watch Podcast.” The podcast for people who love wristwatches way more than is probably reasonable and have absolutely zero plans to stop. I'd suggest starting at the beginning, this isn't a "current events" type show; start at Season 1, Episode 1 and you'll be along for the journey! …or anyone you’re interested in since S01 Episodes 1-3 have some audio issues we had to work out* Think of this more like a TV show for enthusiasts...minus the TV...so radio... We cover everything from Rolex, Omega and Cartier to indies like Czapek, Dornbluth, Gronefeld, Rexhep, Hanhart, Laine, Seiko and more. Welcome, we're stoked you're here! *Riste Simnjanovski (Watchovski)* Media Contact: RistePodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @RistePodcast
Episodes
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Thank you to everyone who has made this show so special! This episode is for you!!!
Description:
In this episode of What’s on Your Riste?, Watchovski travels to Saint-Imier to explore Zeitwinkel, one of modern independent watchmaking’s quietest and most uncompromising brands. From the meaning of “Zeitwinkel” itself—the mathematical angle between mean time and true solar time—to the brand’s proprietary German silver movements, asymmetric dial architecture, smoked sapphir...
Links to BOTH companies I discussed today...no affiliate links / no paid sponsorships...I just like these companies and wanted to share...
Amsterdam Watch Co (AWCo) Link
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S02E24: Bonus: Amsterdam Watch Co (AWCo) and CLOSER
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Buying a vintage watch from another country means paying a stranger for a description. This bonus episode examines two overseas dealers that earn trust in very different ways: Amsterd...
S02E06: The Locker Room is Not Watch School: The Bedazzled Submariner Problem
Description
Professional athletes are some of the most visible watch collectors in the world; but fame, money, and taste do not automatically arrive together.
In this standalone episode of What’s on Your Riste?, Watchovski explores the strange overlap between professional sports, sudden wealth, predatory luxury culture, and the watch industry’s o...
Title: The Hum and the Light: They Invented the Electronic Future and Did Not Get to Keep It
Description:
There is a man in Kyoto named Gunpei Yokoi who won by refusing the newest technology. He called it lateral thinking with withered technology: take the cheap old chip everyone else has thrown away and understand it so completely you can do something nobody expects. In 1989 he put that idea in a gray plastic box called the Game Boy...
Season 2: Episode 5
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The Crown Jewels in the Castle — How the Great Houses Were Saved, and What They Paid For It
Description:
The conglomerate episode. In the early 1980s, quartz nearly killed Swisswatchmaking and the giants were the ones dying. This is how Nicolas Hayek refused the funeral and funded the rescue of the most precious mechanical watches on earth with the cheapest plastic one, ...
S02E22: Make it Black: How the World Got Optimized Into One Color
Description:
Henry Ford said you could have a Model T in any color you liked, so long as it was black. The reason you were taught, that black paint dried faster, is mostly a myth. The real reason is the one that runs this whole episode: one color means the line never has to stop.
This bonus episode starts with a man in a good suit standing very still at the 1923 New Yor...
S02E04: The First Thing You See: A Survey of Dial Finishing, From the Workbench Up the Mountain
Decription:
Fifty thousand glances. That is roughly how many times you will look at your watch’s dial over the years you own it, and yet the dial is the part nobody talks about. This episode fixes that. We climb dial finishing like a mountain, one rung at a time, from humble printed dials all the way to hand-painted enamel that cost...
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Season 2, Episode 3 (swapped/moved to sneak in the "shill episode")
Philippe Dufour: The Man Who Refused to Let the Past Be Thrown Away
CORRECTION: Note that I misspoke in a section when I state “his 80s” and should have stated “the 80s” as in the 1980s ;)
Description: He made three watches in forty years. That is the entire body of work that made Philippe Dufour the most revered ...
Description:
A bonus episode, and a single watch. Riste tells the story of a vintage Zenith Yugoslavian Air Force chronograph, cal. 143-6, powered by an Excelsior Park movement. Why a 1940s wartime caliber ended up in a watch ordered in 1954 for the pilots of Tito's non-aligned Yugoslavia. Why the production date of a movement and the issue date of a watch are almost never the same thing. Why the screw-down caseback tells you more t...
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S02E02: “Make a Living, Not a Killing:" The paid-shill economy, the man who became the warning label, and why this show stays independent
Description:
Riste is not exactly in a cuddly mood for this one.
This episode starts in crypto, walks through the rise and collapse of BitBoy, and then brings the whole thing home to watches: the paid-shill economy, undisclosed promotions, fake “honest revi...
Special thanks to Brandon at: https://horologybythesea.com/ for the corrections and support!!!
Contact: RistePodcast@Gmail.com
https://www.instagram.com/ristepodcast/ or @RistePodcast on Instragram (but I'm better with email).
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S02E24: Habring² Follow-Up and my Case for Indies: Velvet Ropes, Purchase History and Bleeding on Shirts (Bonus Ep)
Description
This one opens with an apology. After an earlier episode on Habring², li...
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Description
Welcome back - we missed you!
Season 2 begins with a deep dive into one of the best hidden stories in independent watchmaking.
Before Habring² existed, Richard Habring was already changing modern watchmaking from behind the scenes. As a young engineer at IWC Schaffhausen under legendary industry figure Günter Blümlein, he solved one of horology’s har...
THE INTERMISSION
(and a super not-legal, like totally not legal or binding apology to your friends and family for this show)
Description:
Between Season 1 and Season 2, What’s on Your Riste? takes a loose, loving, slightly legally questionable pause to talk about the side of watch collecting nobody puts in the magazines: the little lies. The package that is “just a strap.” The watch that was “basically a trade...
Season 1: Episode 20 THE FINALE
The Season 1 finale of What's on Your Riste?
Description:
Twenty episodes. An honest accounting of what the season built — from the rabbit-hole opener of Episode 1 to the personal turn of Episode 3, through the four-episode philosophical arc at the heart of the season, across five countries, from G-Shock to F.P. Journe, from hedonia to eudaimonia, from the watches that make you happy to the watche...
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Episode 19 is the episode What’s on Your Riste? has been building toward since Episode 13: a full deep dive into François-Paul Journe... the most important living independent watchmaker in modern horology.
From his beginnings in Marseille and the restoration workshop of his uncle in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, to building his first hand-made tourbillon over seven years, to founding F.P. Journe in Geneva in 1999, this e...
*This episode is dedicated to Nick Meijer - THANK YOU for the support and suggestions!!!*
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The Guardian of the El Primero: Charles Vermot and the Movement Hidden Behind a Wall
DESCRIPTION
Zenith’s El Primero should not exist.
During the quartz crisis, the American owners of Zenith ordered the company’s mechanical tooling destroyed, including the presses, dies, plans, and machinery needed to produce the legendary El Prim...
NOTE: This content of this recording was created prior to the learning the unfortunately news that Eddie Platts of Smiths/Timefactors had passed away. Eddie, you were an absolute legend in the space, and you will be greatly missed. To Eddie's family, to Dave and everyone at Timefactors, UK., we love you all.
RIP brother.
https://www.timefactors.com/blogs/news/eddie-platts-1949-2016
*Side note: the Isle of Man is included here as a re...
Description:
A listener (Nate, hello to the folks in Boise, ID) wrote in with a question his friends all think is silly: he refuses to buy any modern Swatch Group watch because Powermatic 80 movements are reportedly swapped rather than serviced, and he wants watches he can actually pass down to his son. This bonus episode takes that question seriously, start to finish.
First, what's really inside a Powermatic 80; the ETA 2824 archite...
S01E17: Japan, Part Two, The Indies: Hajime Asaoka, Naoya Hida, Masahiro Kikuno, Kurono Tokyo, & Kuoe
Note: A reference is made when talking about Kuoe and Smiths. This was recorded prior to the passing of Eddie. RIP brother.
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In Episode 17 of What’s on Your Riste?, Watchovski explores the quiet apex of Japanese watchmaking: the independent makers operating outside the institutional system, often alone, producin...
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