What's on Your Riste? A Watch Podcast

Season 2, Episode 12: Franck MullerTHE MASTER AND THE MARGINS: FRANCK MULLER, THE SHAPE OF AMBITION, AND THE WATCH THEROOM LOVES TO HATEDESCRIPTIONA prodigy. A partnership. A courtroom feud with a counterfeiting uncle and fifteen hundred mystery Russian movements. A two-point-seven-million-dollar watch with thirty-six complications. And a sporty tonneau that quietly became the brand’s comeback. This is the full Franck Muller story, the admiration and the disdain held in one hand, with a long, fun look at the engineering of the Vanguard. I am Watchovski.KEYWORDSFranck Muller, Vartan Sirmakes, Cintrée Curvex, tonneau, Master of Complications, front-visible tourbillon, Casablanca, Long Island, Conquistador, Master Banker, Color Dreams, Crazy Hours, jumping hour, Aeternitas Mega 4, Pierre-Michel Golay, Westminster carillon, grande sonnerie, petite sonnerie, perpetual calendar, Watchland, Genthod, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Geneva Watchmaking School, Svend Andersen, Patek Philippe restoration, quartz crisis, Poljot movements, Jean-Claude Biver, Richard Mille, Vanguard, Vanguard Gravity, elliptical tourbillon, Aero Revolution, Vanguard Yachting, Vanguard Mariner, Vanguard Casablanca, glass fiber composite, gray market, counterfeits, super clone, haute horlogerie, independent watchmaking, collector culture, Watchovski, What’s on Your Riste

Link to a visual of the watch: Hodinkee ArticleSJX Quick HistoryWalton Custom Watches LinkTitle: 59, 60, Click: The GPHG-Winning Zenith Everybody Forgot (The Pilot Big Date Special 42)Description: A tiny click on a chronograph sends Watchovski from his desk to Geneva. The Zenith Pilot Big Date Special won the 2012 GPHG Petite Aiguille, runs a five-hertz El Primero 4010, hides a patented big date that reads backwards, and shares its two-eyed layout with Zenith’s Cold War pilot chronographs on both sides of the Adriatic. So why does nobody talk about it? Jumping minute counters, useless telemeters, a Habring cameo, and the best-kept secret on the secondary market.Keywords: Zenith, El Primero, El Primero 4010, Pilot Big Date Special, GPHG 2012, Petite Aiguille, bi-compax chronograph, jumping minute counter, big date, Cairelli CP-2, Italian Air Force, Yugoslav Zenith, telemeter, Habring, column wheel chronograph, high beat, watch podcast, What’s on Your Riste, Watchovski; Walton Custom Watches

S02E11: The First Watch (Kids and Teens): Flik Flak, Sher, Blok, Mini Kyomo, Casio, Baby-G, Times, Freestyle, VintageDESCRIPTIONThe hardest watch you’ll ever buy is the first one you give a kid. This bonus episode is for parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents, and godparents who want to hand a small person a real watch and do it right. We start with an uncomfortable fact (most young people can’t read an analog clock anymore), make the case for why that skill still matters, then shop every budget: Flik Flak, Sher, Blok, Mini Kyomo, the unkillable Casio F-91W, Baby-G, Timex Easy Reader, Freestyle Shark, and Swatch. Plus the move nobody expects for teenagers: vintage quartz Seiko and Citizen, cooler and cheaper than another smartwatch. People first, as always. I’m Watchovski.KEYWORDSkids watches, first watch for a child, learning to tell time, analog clock skill, Flik Flak, Sher Watches, Blok 33, Mini Kyomo, Casio F-91W, Baby-G, Timex Easy Reader, Timex Time Machines, Freestyle Shark, Swatch, vintage quartz, neo-vintage, Seiko quartz, Citizen Eco-Drive, watches for teenagers, smartwatch alternative, gift watch, watch collecting for beginners

Media: [email protected]: @RistePodcastDescription: If you could only have one watch for the rest of your life, which one would it be? We take thequestion seriously. We move through the archetypes; the utilitarian's answer, the connoisseur's answer, the sentimental one; and finally the honest version: the watch thatmakes you feel settled. Then we connect it back to what this season has been about all along. Not a list. A mirror.Keywords: one watch, one-watch question, rolex submariner, omega speedmaster, gmt-master, tudor black bay, fp journe, chronometre souverain, dufour simplicity, philippe dufour, watch collecting, philosophy, collector taste, independent watchmaking, what's on your riste, watchovski, watchpodcast, season 2, collecting life, settled, watch values, whatsonyourriste

Media Contact: [email protected]: @RistePodcastThanks again to DumiHed (Mike) for this topic :)TitleYour Grail Watch Is in Japan. How Did It Get There? (S2 Bonus)DescriptionIt’s 11 p.m. You finally find the exact watch you’ve been hunting for. The price gets your attention. The condition looks incredible. The seller? Tokyo. Again.Why does the hunt for a Swiss watch so often lead to Japan?In this Season 2 bonus episode of What’s on Your Riste?, Watchovski follows a question from listener Mike, aka DumiHead, into the machinery behind Japan’s pre-owned luxury watch market: the buying frenzy of the 1980s, boxes and papers that somehow survive decades, dealer licensing through the police, and wholesale auctions most collectors will never see. Add the pull of a weak yen, and your late-night watch search starts to make a lot more sense.Along the way: what earns buyer trust, what keeps watches moving across borders, and why that endlessly repeated “80 percent” claim deserves a raised eyebrow.Swiss watches. Japanese detours. And the uncomfortable discovery that your secret watch shop was never really a secret.KeywordsWhat’s on Your Riste; Watchovski; Season 2 bonus episode; Japan watch market; pre-owned luxury watches; buying watches from Japan; Japanese watch dealers; Swiss watches; watch collecting; grail watches; vintage watches; Tokyo watch shopping; Nakano Broadway; secondary watch market; watch auctions; AUCNET; EcoRing; kobutsusho license; watch condition; boxes and papers; weak yen; luxury watch resale; DumiHead