What's on Your Riste? A Watch Podcast

Season 1: Episode 20 THE FINALE

The Season 1 finale of What's on Your Riste?

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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

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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...

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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...

S01E16: Japan, Part One — The Country That Quietly Won the Engineering War (Seiko, Grand Seiko, Citizen and Casio)

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For decades, Switzerland has dominated the story of luxury watchmaking. But what if Japan quietly won the engineering war while the West wasn’t paying attention?

In this episode of What’s on Your Riste?, Watchovski dives deep into the extraordinary rise of Japanese horology — from Seik...

Episode 15: "American Watchmaking — The Industry That Died and Is Being Rebuilt"

You can find a ton of info on more American brands here:

https://americanwatchmakingdirectory.org

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America was once the watchmaking capital of the world (Waltham, Elgin, Hamilton, Gruen)

producing over 100 million pocket watches between 1850 and 1950, inventing the railroad-grade

accuracy standard, and teaching American production methods ...

*This one is for my watch brother from another mother in Idaho*

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Bonus Episode: Bonus Episode for Nate: “Between the Words:" Mühle-Glashütte and Lip (of Besançon)

…I goofed with the “lip” and “nose” line, you’ll catch it, but I don’t want to re-record, so here we are…I’ve accepted my imperfections, you should not ;)

Let’s get into it…in 3rd person bec...

Episode 14: “A Reset Button — The Tool Watch Episode”

Special Thanks to Vuk Radic at ItsAboutTime (https://www.itsabouttime.email)….check out his amazing watch newsletter!!! Solid, up to date new releases and awesome “Easter Eggs” he throws in on every update. One of the few Newsletters I sign up for and I encourage listeners to do the same!

Ok, about this week…

After a four-episode philosop...

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

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

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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 ...

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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...