What's on Your Riste? A Watch Podcast

S01E23: The S1 to S2 Intermission

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.” The grail that will definitely be the last one. Probably.In this intermission special, Watchovski offers a formal apology to all significant others, introduces the first edition of the Watch-to-English Dictionary, reads letters from the other side of the household, and finds the bigger truth underneath all the collecting comedy: we do not hide these things because we are ashamed of the watch. We hide them because we are a little shy about how much we love something, and how much it costs to love it out loud.No brands required. Bring your spouse.Keywords:watch collecting, watch podcast, What’s on Your Riste, Watchovski, horology, watch collectors, collector humor, watch addiction, luxury watches, independent watchmaking, watch straps, just a strap, Chrono24, WatchRecon, WatchCharts, grail watch, watch collecting jokes, watch spouse, significant others, watch community, mechanical watches, watch buying, watch enthusiast, collector rationalization, watch-to-English dictionary, Season 1 intermission, Season 2 intermission

S01E20: Season 1 Finale: What We Built, and What Comes Next”

Season 1: Episode 20 THE FINALEThe 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 watches that make you you.What the show got right. What it didn't finish. And what's promised for Season 2: Philippe Dufour, the guilloché craft episode, Roger W. Smith's full episode, the brother's watch when Riste is ready.Then: a listener Q&A. Do you have a grail watch? Why skip the big brands? What did making twenty episodes actually teach you? And will this show ever go behind a paywall? Four questions, answered directly and honestly.Then: listener mail. The letters and stories and confessions from the community — the hedonia and eudaimonia inventories, the Rolex stories, the British watchmaking memories — read on air, responded to with care.This is the episode where the host steps back, looks at what was built, and talks directly to the people who showed up for all of it.Season 2 is coming!!!!Keywords:watch podcast season finale, what's on your riste, watchovski, whatsonyourriste, season 1 finale, watch collecting, watch community, mechanical watches, horology podcast, watch podcast, grail watch, eudaimonia hedonia watches, F.P. Journe, Rexhep Rexhepi, Philippe Dufour, Voutilainen, guilloché, Dornblüth, Czapek, British watchmaking, American watchmaking, Japan watchmaking, independent watchmakers, watch philosophy, listener mail, watch podcast Q&A, free watch podcast, watch hobby, wristwatch collecting, watch enthusiasts, season 2 preview, watch podcast community, indie watchmakers, haute horlogerie, watch finishing, movement craft

S01E19: F.P. Journe: The Watchmaker Who Couldn’t Stop

Description: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 episode traces the life, philosophy, and technical genius of the man behind some of the most revered watches ever made.We explore the Tourbillon Souverain, the rose gold movement revolution, the astonishing Chronomètre à Résonance, the Octa collection, the Centigraphe, and the invention-first philosophy behind invenit et fecit...AKA “invented and made.”This is also the connective tissue episode of the entire season: George Daniels, Philippe Dufour, Rexhep Rexhepi, independent watchmaking, restoration craft, and the idea that the most meaningful watches are physical expressions of obsession, discipline, and imagination.If you’ve ever wondered why serious collectors speak about Journe with near-religious reverence, this is the episode.Keywords:F.P. Journe, François-Paul Journe, independent watchmaking, haute horlogerie, luxury watches, mechanical watches, horology, watch collecting, watch podcast, watch enthusiast, watch collector, Chronomètre à Résonance, Tourbillon Souverain, Chronomètre Souverain, Octa, Octa Lune, Octa Calendrier, Octa UTC, Centigraphe Souverain, Sonnerie Souveraine, Linesport, resonance watch, remontoir d’égalité, tourbillon, George Daniels, Rexhep Rexhepi, Philippe Dufour, Abraham-Louis Breguet, Christiaan Huygens, Antide Janvier, Swiss watches, Geneva watchmaking, independent horology, handcrafted watches, rose gold movement, invenit et fecit, watchmaking history, collector watches, quiet luxury, watch community, Swiss independent watches, Journe resonance, FP Journe resonance, Roger W Smith, Akrivia, Asprey, vintage watches, luxury timepieces, What’s on Your Riste, Watchovski, modern horology, mechanical artistry, high horology

S01E25: The Guardian of the El Primero: Charles Vermot and the Movement Hidden Behind a Wall

*This episode is dedicated to Nick Meijer - THANK YOU for the support and suggestions!!!*TITLEThe Guardian of the El Primero: Charles Vermot and the Movement Hidden Behind a WallDESCRIPTIONZenith’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 Primero automatic chronograph movement.One watchmaker refused.Charles Vermot secretly carried nine crates of equipment and meticulously organized technical drawings into an attic above the Zenith workshops. He sealed everything behind a wall, returned to his bench, and spent the next nine years assembling quartz watches while the mechanical movement he loved waited silently above his head.Then the industry changed its mind.When Zenith needed the El Primero again, Vermot raised his hand, opened the wall, and revealed that everything required to restart production had survived. The movement he saved would return to life, help revive Zenith, and eventually power the celebrated Rolex Daytona reference 16520.This is the story of the race to create the automatic chronograph, the iconic Zenith A386, the quartz crisis, the birth of the “Zenith Daytona,” and the humble watchmaker who agreed to look wrong for nine years so he could be right forever.KEYWORDSZenith, Zenith El Primero, El Primero, Charles Vermot, The Guardian of the El Primero, Zenith watch history, El Primero history, Zenith A386, A386, automatic chronograph, first automatic chronograph, high beat movement, 36000 vibrations per hour, 36000 vph, column wheel chronograph, integrated chronograph, caliber 3019 PHC, quartz crisis, Swiss watch industry, mechanical watch revival, Le Locle, Swiss watchmaking, horology, watchmaking history, watchmaker, hidden watch movement, hidden attic, Zenith attic, nine crates, Zenith Radio, Dixi, Paul Castella, Ebel chronograph, Rolex Daytona, Zenith Daytona, Rolex Daytona 16520, reference 16520, automatic Daytona, Rolex chronograph history, Seiko 6139, Chronomatic, Calibre 11, Breitling, Heuer, Hamilton, Buren, Dubois Depraz, Movado, vintage Zenith, vintage chronograph, iconic chronographs, luxury watch history, watch collecting, watch collectors, watch podcast, horology podcast, What’s on Your Riste, Watchovski, Nick Meijer, DailyWatch, 360watch, Kristian Haagen, GPHG Academy

S01E18: The Country That Invented the Marine Chronometer and Then Forgot It Had/British-ish Watches

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 result of Roger Smith’s origin country*S01E18: The Country That Invented the Marine Chronometer and Then Forgot It Had: British Watchmaking (George Daniels, Roger W. Smith, Chrisopher Ward, Fears, Garrick, & Smiths)Description:Episode 18 explores the extraordinary rise, collapse, and quiet revival of British watchmaking — the country that gave the world the marine chronometer, the lever escapement, and the co-axial escapement… then somehow faded from the center of horology.From John Harrison solving the longitude problem in 1759 with the legendary H4, to George Daniels reinventing complete hand-built watchmaking in the twentieth century, to Roger W. Smith carrying that tradition forward today on the Isle of Man using tools dating back to the 1820s — this episode traces one of the most important and overlooked stories in modern watch culture.Plus: Christopher Ward and the Bel Canto’s historic GPHG win, the craftsmanship of Fears and Garrick, the complicated modern story of Bremont, the legacy of Smiths and Timefactors, and why British watchmaking remains one of the most stubbornly authentic corners of the hobby.This is an episode about invention, craftsmanship, obsession, and the people who kept building watches even when almost nobody asked them to. Keywords:British watchmaking, Roger W Smith, George Daniels, John Harrison, Thomas Mudge, marine chronometer, longitude problem, Harrison H4, Daniels Method, co-axial escapement, lever escapement, independent watchmaking, British horology, Isle of Man, Christopher Ward, Bel Canto, GPHG, Petite Aiguille, Fears watches, Garrick watches, Andreas Strehler, Bremont, Smiths Everest, Timefactors, Pete Speake, Charles Frodsham, Nicholas Bowman-Scargill, David Brailsford, Simon Michlmayr, Mike France, Peter Ellis, Davide Cerrato, Nick English, Giles English, luxury watches, mechanical watches, haute horlogerie, watch collecting, watch enthusiast, watch podcast, horology, independent watches, British luxury, handmade watches, watchmaking history, tool watches, chronometer, Rolex, Omega co-axial, F.P. Journe, Rexhep Rexhepi, Akrivia, Swiss watches, What’s on Your Riste, Watchovski, quiet luxury, collector watches