What's on Your Riste? A Watch Podcast

What's up @Dumihed (Mike) on WatchCrunch, this episode is for you dude!

Bonus Episode (Season 1, secret Episode 22): “The Mighty Middle”

Spotify Description:

A man at a watch meetup apologized for his Hamilton, and this episode is the forty-five-minute rebuttal.

A fast, joyful tour of twenty mid-tier brands that punch absurdly above their weight: Longines, Certina, Mido, Hamilton, Frédérique Constant, Alpina, Oris, Nomos, S...

Dropped Early for you Ethan! Hello to you all in Walla Walla dude!!!

Season 1 Episode 13 (Akrivia and Rexhep Rexhepi)

Title: Rexhep Rexhepi: The Refugee Who Became the Most-Watched Watchmaker Alive

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Episode 13 of What’s on Your Riste? tells the extraordinary story of Rexhep Rexhepi; the Kosovan refugee who became one of the most respected watchmakers alive. From fleeing war at age twelve to earning a coveted apprentic...

It’s the late 1990s. Le Locle, Switzerland. A small workshop in a town most Americans

couldn’t find on a map.

Inside that workshop, working on grand complications... minute repeaters, tourbillons,

perpetual calendars... there are a handful of young watchmakers sitting at adjacent

benches. Some are in their twenties. Some are in their thirties. Most of them are broke. Not

one of them is famous.

In about twenty years, the watch...

Episode 11: So Your Friend Wants a Rolex

What do you say when your friend tells you they want a Rolex? In this episode, Watchovski has an honest, respectful conversation about Rolex, collecting, and the danger of letting other people’s taste shape your own watch journey. From the Submariner 14060M and Sea-Dweller 16600 to the Omega Seamaster Peter Blake, this episode explores why great watches still may not be your watches.

We ...

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A bonus episode of What's on Your Riste? — but this one isn't for watch people. It's for the people who love them anyway.

The partners who've rolled their eyes at the Christmas present. The parents who've been politely confused for two decades. The siblings, the friends, the coworkers who've sat through one too many monologues about lug width and movement finishing and finally asked, with real exasperation, why are ...

Episode 10 — Description

Hedonia & Eudaimonia: Why Some Watches Make You Happy, and Others Make You You

Aristotle laid out the framework 2,400 years ago. Watchovski applies it to your wrist.

Today's episode is the philosophy episode the watch community has been quietly circling for years without naming. Two ancient Greek words... hedonia (short-term pleasure, joy, the dopamine hit) and eudaimonia (deeper meaning, identity, ...

Another Episode of Watch Stories!

There is a small village in central Germany called Kalbe.

You have not heard of it. There’s no real reason you would have. Seventy-five hundred

people live there. There is no famous restaurant. The most prominent landmark is the ruins

of a ninth-century castle. The town doesn’t show up on any tourism map.

And in a modest two-story house with a pointed gable, on a quiet street, with a small c...

What if I told you that one of the founders of Patek Philippe — the Patek Philippe, the most

prestigious watch brand in the world — got pushed out, in a bitter falling-out, one hundred

and eighty years ago — and that his original brand was completely forgotten for over a

century — and that ten years ago, a small team in Geneva resurrected his name and started

making watches again, and most people in this hobby s...

This episode is going to make some of you uncomfortable. It’s going to ask you to look at

your collection ...your beautiful, considered, lovingly curated collection... and think about it

the way someone trying to take it would think about it.

That is not a fun mental exercise.

This is the conversation I wish someone had with me before I lost everything.

Keywords: Storage, Collections, Break In, Theft, Robbery, Security, Incuranc...

(Audio sucks at the start, (before music) sorry, re-recorded once I realized the episode didn't work without covering the horribel part...so I included it this time).

Last episode, I told you we'd talk about the watch that started it for me.

I want to be honest with you up front. This episode is going to be different. It's going to be more personal than I planned. There are some things I haven't really talked about publicly before, a...

Okay, so picture this. You’re at a party. Someone notices your watch. They go, ‘Oh nice, is that a Rolex?'

And you say, ‘No, actually, it’s a Bovet.’

(awkward silence)....Bow-whaatt?

Yeah...that's the conversation we're having today.

Keywords: The New Longines HydroConquest 2025 Plus the Independents That Should Be on Your Radar: Fears, Bovet, Parmigiani; Longines HydroConquest review, new HydroConquest 2...

If you listened to Episode 001 and were as frustrated with the music overlay (thanks Spotify and Riverside for deleting my voice breaks and throwing music over it), I think I've got it fixed here...but I'll leave the one with errors up just so we have the memories of my ignorance.

"Welcome to the Rabbit Hole"

S01E01: Watch Collecting for Beginners: Rolex, Patek, AP and the Independents Nobody Tells You About (Czapek, Laine, Dornbluth...