What's on Your Riste? A Watch Podcast

S02E04: The First Thing You See: A Survey of Dial Finishing, From the Workbench Up the Mountain

S02E04: The First Thing You See: A Survey of Dial Finishing, From the Workbench Up the MountainDecription: 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 costs as much as a house, naming a watch you can actually go find at every step. The surprise of the climb is that some of the most beautiful, genuinely hand-finished dials in the world, like a brushed Fears or a lacquered Laco Cuxhaven, sit near the bottom, at prices a real person can reach. Craft, it turns out, is not gated by price. The only question that matters is whether you can see the hand.Keywords: dial finishing, watch dials, sunburst dial, brushed dial, lacquer dial, fumé dial, guilloché, engine turning, grand feu enamel, cloisonné enamel, miniature enamel painting, skeletonized dial, openworked dial, silvered dial, Fears Brunswick, Fears Copper Salmon, Laco Cuxhaven, Grand Seiko, H. Moser, Dornblüth, Naoya Hida, J.N. Shapiro, Czapek, Parmigiani Fleurier, Voutilainen, Anordain, Louis Erard, Donzé Cadrans, Comblémine, Patek Philippe 5531, Bovet, Audemars Piguet Royal Oak, affordable hand finished watches, attainable watches, What’s on Your Riste, Watchovski, watch podcast, independent watchmaking, watch collecting, mechanical watches

S02E03: Philippe Dufour: The Man Who Refused to Let the Past Be Thrown Away

Contact: RistePodcast@gmail.comSeason 2, Episode 3 (swapped/moved to sneak in the "shill episode")Philippe Dufour: The Man Who Refused to Let the Past Be Thrown AwayCORRECTION: 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 watchmaker alive.This episode tells the full story: a boy born into the frozen valleys of Swiss Jura who wanted nothing more than to leave, spent years listening to disappointed customers in Frankfurt and the Caribbean, came home, and quietly built a philosophy of craft that the rest of the industry eventually had to reckon with. We trace the path from his first commission under someone else's name; the grande sonnerie movements he made for Audemars Piguet that went out wearing AP's name and not his ...to the vow he made after that experience, and what he built because of it.We cover the three watches: the Grande et Petite Sonnerie that put his own name on the map in 1992, the gloriously unnecessary Duality with its twin balance wheels, and the Simplicity, the watch that does almost nothing and says everything. We spend real time on what hand finishing actually means, why Dufour finishes surfaces nobody will ever see, and why that decision is, at its core, a moral one.If you have ever wondered why a three-handed watch sells for over a million dollars, this is the episode.Keywords: Philippe Dufour, Dufour Simplicity, Dufour Duality, Grande Sonnerie, independent watchmaker, Swiss watchmaking, Vallée de Joux, hand finishing, black polishing, anglage, beveling, haute horlogerie, watch podcast, What's on Your Riste, Watchovski, mechanical watches, independent horology, watchmaking philosophy, Audemars Piguet, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Le Sentier, Gaïa Prize, watch collecting, watch enthusiast, finishing craft, tourbillon, small atelier, single watchmaker, watch auction, Phillips auction, Simplicity anniversary

S02E21: Yugoslavian Zenith 143-6 Pilot (WWII, Cold War, Theft & More)

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 than the dial does. And the personal story underneath all of it: a dial handed down by a great- uncle who fixed watches for love and never money, a promise to make it whole, a 2023 break-in, and a stranger who heard the story and finished what family started.Keywords:Mentioned in this episode: Zenith, Excelsior Park, the Yugoslav Air Force, the Tito–Stalin split of 1948, Pilot

S02E02: “Make a Living, Not a Killing” The paid-shill economy, the man who became the warning label, and why this show stays independent

Contact: RistePodcast@gmail.comS02E02: “Make a Living, Not a Killing:" The paid-shill economy, the man who became the warning label, and why this show stays independentDescription: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 reviews,” and the quiet little grift of turning an audience’s trust into someone else’s marketing budget.The point is not that creators should never make money. Make a living. Feed your kids. Take the sponsorship if it fits. But tell the truth about the check. Because the second a paid placement starts pretending to be independent enthusiasm, the audience stops being a community and becomes exit liquidity.This is a character episode wearing a crypto episode’s clothes — about disclosure, independence, the value of your time, and why What’s on Your Riste? would rather stay small than sell you a fake opinion with a nice watch on its wrist.No sponsors. No affiliate links. No clever fine print.Keywords:watches, watch podcast, What’s on Your Riste, Watchovski, Riste, Make a Living Not a Killing, BitBoy, Ben Armstrong, crypto, crypto influencers, paid shills, undisclosed sponsorships, watch media, watch YouTube, watch collecting, horology, independent watch media, paid promotion, affiliate links, disclosure, sponsorship ethics, creator economy, influencer marketing, exit liquidity, watch reviews, honest reviews, watch community, independent creators, watch enthusiasm, The Bitcoin Heir Next Door, character, money and morality, hobby culture, collecting culture, watch journalism, luxury watches, microbrands, independent watchmaking

S02E24: Habring² Follow-Up and my Case for Indies: Velvet Ropes, Purchase History and Bleeding on Shirts (Bonus Ep)

Special thanks to Brandon at: https://horologybythesea.com/ for the corrections and support!!!Contact: RistePodcast@Gmail.comhttps://www.instagram.com/ristepodcast/ or @RistePodcast on Instragram (but I'm better with email).Episode TitleS02E24: Habring² Follow-Up and my Case for Indies: Velvet Ropes, Purchase History and Bleeding on Shirts (Bonus Ep)DescriptionThis one opens with an apology. After an earlier episode on Habring², listener Brandon of Horology by the Sea wrote in with corrections and context too good to keep to myself, so we set the record straight on Maria and Richard Habring: why the name is written the way it is, why her name comes first at Richard's insistence, why the workshop moved to Styria, and why Richard would rather chase the next challenge than sell yesterday's glory.From there we get into the machine. Ferrari allocations. Rolex and Patek purchase history. Birkin pre-spend. Invite-only credit cards, private clubs, selective universities, the rope outside the club and the bottle that buys the table. Then the psychology of why all of it works on us, from the scarcity heuristic and reactance to the old initiation research that explains why suffering to get in makes us love what we find on the other side.Then the turn, because this is a hopeful episode. The big houses that will simply sell you the watch, Omega, Blancpain, Oris, Grand Seiko, Tudor, and why that openness is admirable rather than ordinary. And finally the difference between two kinds of scarcity: the kind a brand manufactures to keep you grateful, and the honest arithmetic of two people and a bench. One door wants your submission. The other wants your friendship.Song referenced, not reproduced: "You're So Last Summer" by Taking Back Sunday (Tell All Your Friends, 2002), written by John Nolan. No sponsors. No affiliate links. As always.Keywords / TagsHabring2, Maria Habring, Richard Habring, rattrapante, split seconds, Styria, independent watchmaking, watch podcast, horology podcast, Horology by the Sea, scarcity, artificial scarcity, gatekeeping, velvet rope, purchase history, waiting list, allocation, Rolex, Patek Philippe, Nautilus, Aquanaut, Ferrari allocation, Hermes Birkin, luxury psychology, Robert Cialdini, reactance, effort justification, Aronson and Mills, sunk cost, loss aversion, FOMO, status signaling, Omega Speedmaster, MoonSwatch, Blancpain Fifty Fathoms, Oris, Grand Seiko, Tudor, authorized dealer, Taking Back Sunday, John Nolan, watch collecting, Watchovski, What's on Your Riste