Off Hours

Chris and Jon discuss the new pad printer from Kent Printers, as well as the typeface design Lee worked on for Chris’ new dial.

It’s Blade Runner Month! Jon and Chris discuss Blade Runner inspired watches, the Only Watch auction, GPHG, and some of the subtleties of dial making.

The perfect cookie, the perfect moon phase, perfect silence, and the perfect black.

Chris and Jon discuss the end of the Santa Fe Symposium, archery tag, Apple’s Series 5 Watch, and Chris’ upcoming pad printer purchase.

In the fourth instalment of our series on George Daniels’ book, Watchmaking, Chris and Jon discuss the watchmaker’s lathe, its uses, and what to look for when buying one.

• Watchmaking by George Daniels
• Lathes
• Struthers’ Project 248 2 Minds, 4 Hands, One 8mm Lathe
• Turning Between Centres
• Makers Rendezvous Chris tried his hand at turning poplar on a pull lathe at Makers Rendezvous 2019
• Lee Valley
• Zaratsu Polishing
• Holtzapffel Makers of ornamental lathes
• Watchmakers Lathe
• Schaublin Lathes
• Aciera F1
• Micro 100 Carbide Tooling
• Machinery’s Handbook
• DMT Diamond Bench Stones
• Ruby Hone
• Making High Speed Steel Cutters
• Grinding Lathe Tools
• 4 Jaw Chuck Centering competition at Bar Z Bash
• Cowells Makers of small machine tools
• Vector Watchmaker Lathes & Accessories
• Cardon Tools

Peter Speake-Marin joins Chris and Jon for a conversation about life as an independent watchmaker and his most recent endeavour, The Naked Watchmaker Project. This is part two of two. Part one can be listened to here.

• Peter Speake-Marin Part One If you haven’t listened to it already, we recommend first listening to part one of our conversation with Peter
• The Naked Watchmaker
• Stoic World Peter Speake-Marin’s latest venture in watchmaking
• Speake-Marin Watch Brand The watch brand that Peter & his wife, Daniela, founded & later sold
• Greubel Forsey
• Ian Skellern
• Tim Ferriss
• The Four Hour Work Week
• Stoicism
• Somlo Antiques
• Graveyard Full of Secrets Philippe Dufour reflecting on the loss of craft & skill that occurs each time a watchmaker passes away
• Renaud & Papi
• Marc Hayek
• The Swatch Group
• Jaquet Droz
• Breguet
• Blancpain
• Ferdinand Berthoud
• Grand Seiko
• Hiko Mizuno School of Watchmaking in Japan
• N.G. Hayek Watchmaking Schools
• Naked Watchmaker YouTube Channel Videos created by Peter Speake-Marin, including the Reuge video that was shot on his iPhone
• Watchmaking by George Daniels
• Theory of Horology
• Derek Pratt
• Kari Voutilainen
• Stephen Forsey
• Jaeger LeCoultre
• Marine Chronometer
• HSNY Talk Peter Speake-Marin’s presentation on the Naked Watchmaker for the Horological Society of New York in 2018
• Horological Students’ Room at the British Museum
• Seiko Museum
• Bulgari
• Vacheron Constantin

Peter Speake-Marin joins Chris and Jon for a conversation about life as an independent watchmaker and his most recent endeavour, The Naked Watchmaker Project. This is part one of two.

Chris and Jon discuss the horological parts of Chris’ recent trip to the UK, including Greenwich, a visit with the #watchnerd, pad printing, and the BHI’s chronograph course.

Chris returns from the Goldsmiths’ Company Jewellery Materials Congress. He and Jon discuss Crown Jewels, gold jugs, and the horrible things people do to nice cars.

Jon and Chris continue their series on George Daniels’ book Watchmaking, delving into the craft of drafting and various forms of magnification useful to watchmakers.