What's on Your Riste? A Watch Podcast

S02E14: What's the Real Cost of Collecting? Description: Watches cost money. Everybody knows that. This episode is about the costs nobody warns you about. A man brings his grail to a meetup and then admits he never wears it, and that quiet confession opens up the real question: what does collecting actually cost us, past the price tag? We walk down four costs, lightest to heaviest, with a dead French philosopher, a runaway dressing gown, a ninety minute drive to buy a watch I swore I would not buy, and a turn at the end that reframes the whole bill. Philosophical, honest, and a little self deprecating. No prior watch knowledge required. Bring the friend who has something in a safe. KEYWORDS cost of collecting, watch collecting philosophy, why we collect watches, Diderot effect, hedonic adaptation, arrival fallacy, loss aversion, endowment effect, collecting psychology, watch collector confessions, meaningful watches, heirloom watch, grail watch, watch hobby cost, collecting and meaning, sentimental value, watch community, watch podcast, What’s on Your Riste, Watchovski, philosophy of collecting, why we buy watches, watch FOMO, secondary market, collecting regret, watches and identity

S02E13: "Made" in Italy: Panerai, Bvlgari, Venezianico, Unimatic, and Giuliano Mazzuoli (...with a special hello to my family in Italy...thank's for the suggestion to have fun with this one.) DESCRIPTION Is Italy even a real watchmaking country? Buckle up. This is the fun one. We start with Sylvester Stallone falling in love with a giant Italian navy watch on a movie set in 1996 and accidentally launching a global cult, and we use it to make a cheeky but serious argument: Italy’s gift to watches is taste, not gears. We cover Panerai, the Florentine legend that is made in Switzerland, including a straight- talking take on its recent comeback and why you should probably buy one used. Bulgari, the Roman jeweler that humiliated the Swiss by going thin, with about ten world records in eleven years. And the young Italian independents writing the next chapter: Venezianico, Unimatic, and Giuliano Mazzuoli. No prior watch knowledge required. Bring the friend with the dinner-plate watch. KEYWORDS Italian watches, Italian watchmaking, Panerai, Panerai Luminor, Panerai Radiomir, Panerai history, Sylvester Stallone Panerai, Panerai Daylight, Panerai used value, Panerai prices, Bulgari Octo Finissimo, Octo Finissimo Ultra, thinnest watch world record, Bulgari watches, Venezianico, Meccaniche Veneziane, Unimatic, Modello Uno, Giuliano Mazzuoli, Manometro, Italian microbrands, Italian independent watchmakers, Anonimo, U-Boat, Zannetti, sprezzatura, watch design, watch podcast, What’s on Your Riste, Watchovski, taste in watches, Florencewatchmaking, Roman design

Season 2, Episode 12: Franck Muller THE MASTER AND THE MARGINS: FRANCK MULLER, THE SHAPE OF AMBITION, AND THE WATCH THEROOM LOVES TO HATE DESCRIPTION A 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. KEYWORDS Franck 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 Article SJX Quick History Walton Custom Watches Link Title: 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, Vintage DESCRIPTION The 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. KEYWORDS kids 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