What's on Your Riste? A Watch Podcast

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. Description: In Episode 17 of What’s on Your Riste?, Watchovski explores the quiet apex of Japanese watchmaking: the independent makers operating outside the institutional sy...

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

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 Description: 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 tea...

*This one is for my watch brother from another mother in Idaho* Description 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 because is sounds fancier. A listener o...

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 philosophical...

What's up @Dumihed (Mike) on WatchCrunch, this episode is for you dude! Bonus Episode (Season 1, secret Episode 22): “The Mighty Middle” Spotify Description: 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 Const...

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 Description: 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 twel...

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...

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 sti...

Description 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, w...

Episode 10 — Description 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 eudaimo...

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...

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...

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, Th...

The Vintage-ish Episode... Omega, Ardath, Cartier, Piaget, Chopard & GP Keywords: how to buy vintage watches, Frankenwatch, vintage Cartier Pasha Seatimer, Omega 2279 pre-321, vintage Piaget, vintage Girard-Perregaux, service dial vs original How to Buy Vintage Watches Without Getting Burned: Frankenwatches, Service Dials, and the 10-Point Checklist

Let's have fun this week! Mr. Jones Watches, Studio Underd0g & Zelos are covered this week...and a special fashion watch ;)...teased for episode 6... Keywords: Studio Underd0g review, Studio Underdog watermelon, Zelos Hammerhead, Mr. Jones watches London, microbrand watches 2026, fun watches under $1000

The Decoy Effect...and an introduction into Yema, Horage and H. Moser & Cie. Keywords: Yema Superman review, Yema micro-rotor, Horage K1 movement, H Moser Endeavour pre-owned, Moser Venturer 18kt gold, decoy effect

(Audio sucks at the start, (before music) sorry, re-recorded once I realized the episode didn't work without covering the horribel part...so I included it this time). Last episode, I told you we'd talk about the watch that started it for me. I want to be honest with you up front. This episode is going to be different. It's going to be more personal than I planned. There are some things...

Okay, so picture this. You’re at a party. Someone notices your watch. They go, ‘Oh nice, is that a Rolex?' And you say, ‘No, actually, it’s a Bovet.’ (awkward silence)....Bow-whaatt? Yeah...that's the conversation we're having today. Keywords: The New Longines HydroConquest 2025 Plus the Independents That Should Be on Your Radar: Fears, Bovet, Parmigiani; Longines HydroConquest review, new HydroCo...

If you listened to Episode 001 and were as frustrated with the music overlay (thanks Spotify and Riverside for deleting my voice breaks and throwing music over it), I think I've got it fixed here...but I'll leave the one with errors up just so we have the memories of my ignorance. "Welcome to the Rabbit Hole" S01E01: Watch Collecting for Beginners: Rolex, Patek, AP and the Indepe...

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