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Exploring watches and more through culture, adventure, and personalities. This is a discussion of how curiosity drives enthusiasm, pushing us to explore and even confront our own boundaries. Interests explored will cover a deep field, Hosted by watch industry veteran, Blake Buettner.
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This week we welcome watch industry veteran, and creator of the Unpolished newsletter, Tony Traina. In this episode we discuss Tony's journey into the space, the kinds of watches that drive his curiosity and passion, and the nature of our responsibilities in fostering a new generation of enthusiasts. A few unexpected watches make an appearance in this episode, including an MDM Hublot, and a re-issue before re-issues were all the rage. Don't miss Tony's newsletter, Unpolished, which you can subscribe to below.
Show Notes:
Follow Tony Traina on Instagram
TAG Heuer Carrera Reissue ref. CS3111
Omega Seamaster Milano Cortina
Crazykirbyh (Vintage Hannah) on Instagram
This week we welcome Justin Mastine-Frost to the podcast. Justin is a Canadian based veteran journalist of the watch and automotive spaces working for SHARP Magazine. We share a love of some rather unusual watches and under-the-radar brands, from Linde Werdelin to Sarpaneva Watches, and in this episode we talk about what makes them so special today, and what the current state of the industry is missing as a result. Justin also provides some insights to the differences in covering the watch industry to the automotive industry, and what the watch industry could learn when it comes to launching new products.
Show notes:
Justin Mastine-Frost on IG
TAG Heuer Glassbox Carrera in Purple
This week we welcome Kat Shoulders to the podcast to chat about the newly released Oris Divers Sixty-Five 60th Anniversary Edition, which we both traveled to Vail, Colorado to see. We discuss our adventures on the trip, our thoughts on the watch, as well as the overall state of dive watch enthusiasm hitting a fatigue point. Kat is an accomplished photographer, and we also talk about our shared love of cameras and how we can work in more non-watch photography to our schedules this year.
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Pasadena Humain Society
World Central Kitchen
American Red Cross - Los Angeles
Lōcī Watches
Kat Shoulders on Instagram
Kat's Rolex Sea-Dweller 16600
Kat's White Omega Speedmaster
Oris Diver's Sixty-Five 60th Anniversary Edition
Tudor Black Bay Chronograph in Pink
Leica Q3 43
Fujifilm X100VI
Ricoh GRIII
Grainydays
GXAce
Cam Mackey
This week is a solo episode with a discussion around the reemergence of quartz watches as depicted in a recent article by the New York Times, a home brew project that brings a red aluminum heat shield to the MoonSwatch, and the titanium IWC GST Aquatimer 2000. There's also a deeper look at what the Aquatimer has become, and where it could potentially go from here, through the lens of its past. This is a great dive watch collection that could use some love, but thankfully, there are still plenty of interesting examples available from its history.
Show notes:
Episode 6 with Lightning Keyboards
NYT Article about Quartz Watches
The Return of Quartz Watches
Markwell Watches & the Datematic
Sideria_Instruments on Instagram
Interview with Damian
The IWC GST Aquatimer 2000
This week, friends Danny Milton and Bilal Khan return to the show to chat about the new year, Rolex price increases, holiday movies, and even a few video games. We recap some of our favorites watches of the year and look ahead to 2025. We also discover that none of us are big on resolutions. Catch more end of year content over at Teddy Baldassarre and keep it parked here for much more to come in 2025.
Show Notes:
Preston Gibson of Sidecar
Detailing the ‘red’ Submariner
Elden Ring, Shadow of the Erdtree
Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet
Teddy Baldassarre: Fantasy Watches of 2024
EDIT: Updated with the correct, edited audio.
This week is a solo episode of the podcast where I bring you the three watches I wore the most this year, as well as some deeper thoughts on the Tudor FXD GMT after having spent some time with it in use. Thank you for listening to the podcast this year, I appreciate each and every one of you - please have a lovely holiday season and new year. There won't be a new episode next week as I'll be traveling for the holiday, but keep an eye on this space for exciting things to come in 2025.
Show Notes:
Tudor FXD GMT Introduction
Deep Dive on the Tudor FXD GMT
Tudor FXD Black
Rolex Sea-Dweller 16600
Rolex GMT-Master II 126710BLRO
This week we welcome Wesley Smith back to the podcast. Wesley runs the clothing and accessory brand Standard H, and hosts the podcast of the same name. With the 2024 Formula 1 season behind us, Wesley and I recap our thoughts on the season as a whole, and look ahead to 2025 and beyond. The grid will see plenty of changes going into next season, just ahead of the new regulation set going into effect in 2026. Wesley also shares his biggest watch purchase of 2024, so stay tuned until the end.
Show notes:
Standard H
Bernie Ecclestone Selling His Car Collection
This week we welcome brothers Devin (Foglark) and Justin (The Wristorian) as well as Tom Place to the podcast to chat about the watches we wore and enjoyed in 2024. We also look ahead to 2025 and make a few predictions of what we hope to see from some of our favorite brands. We also discuss other products we've picked up or used over the course of the year that made life a little better to pass on some recommendations. There's plenty more end of year content to come so stay tuned for more.
Show Notes:
The Grey NATO
Tom Place
Foglark
The Wristorian
Omega Seamaster 300M (x2)
The Observer Collection Sea Bag
This week we welcome watch industry veteran Roger Ruegger to the podcast. Roger is the editor in chief of WatchTime Magazine, and the proprietor of Dive Into Watches. In this episode, we discuss the state of the dive watch genre, our experiences within it, and where we’d like to see it go from here. Please note, the release of the new Seamaster 300M models happened after we recorded this.
Show Notes:
Roger Ruegger on Instagram
Roger’s Video of our dive in Florida with the FXD
IWC Portugieser Eternal Calendar
This week we welcome Collective Horology co-founder Gabe Reilly to the podcast to discuss the brand’s 10th collaborative watch releasing today, the Zenith Defy Skyline C.X. The new watch is the second collaboration between Collective Horology and Zenith, and the first since 2019 and their initial product offering, the C.01. Gabe offers a wealth of insight not only to the process, but to the industry as a whole, and to how Collective Horology fits into that bigger picture by way of a focus on independent watchmaking.
Show Notes:
Collective Horology
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