The HourTime Show

Hello friends, Nicholas here. Your pals were unable to record this week so we've decided to re-run the March episode where we gave our initial reactions to the Omega MoonSwatch. If you've already listened to that episode, well, I guess you can delete this. But if you haven't, enjoy!

Be sure to keep it locked to WristWatchReview.com for more fun watch content. Thank you, and we'll see you next week!

Hello and welcome to yet another exciting edition of The HourTime Show, the official podcast of WristWatchReview.com. Your hosts this week are Victor (@vmarks on Twitter) and Nicholas (@nicholasadeleon). Nicholas may sound slightly "echo-y" this week because he had his mic improperly positioned. Sorry!

We kick the show off with some house business: Please take two seconds to help us make a watch! Yes, Victor is spearheading the project, informally known as the "Cholex," whereby your pals at WristWatchReview make their own watch. We're still at the feedback stage, so please read this blog post and fill out the little form. Thank you!

Onto other news, Victor brings word of a fun WT Author watch that's currently being Kickstarted. It looks, well, huge, but Victor has one on loan and he says it wears pretty well. 

We then veer into a quick discussion of movements, including the relatively new Soprod movement Newton and its use by Ollech & Wajs, and Seiko's lack of an affordable chrono movement. We also touch on some leaked images of Seiko's upcoming GMT SKX using the 4R34. 

There's also some random Apple talk, but that's about it for the week.

Thanks once again to Andrew Haworth for producing this week's episode.

Keep it locked to WristWatchReview.com and @wristwatchreview on Instagram for more fun watch content.

Thank you for listening, and have a great week!

Hello and welcome to yet another exciting edition of The HourTime Show, the official podcast of WristWatchReview.com. Your hosts this week are John (@johnbiggs on Twitter), Victor (@vmarks) and Nicholas (@nicholasadeleon).

Yes we've got a full house here this week on The HourTime Show, with John opening the discussion with some talk on his SEESTERN (yes, the name is capitalized) and how it compares to an actual Doxa Sub 300T he has on loan. If you thought the real Doxa would blow away the SEESTERN in terms of build quality and so forth, well, you're 100 percent correct. But, one retails for roughly $2,000 while the other goes for less than $200. So, you know.

Nicholas then tells the tale of his brand new Pagani Design PD1651, a Rolex Yacht-Master "homage" that is baaasically a piece of junk: the bezel is misaligned and the date wheel doesn't advance with the hour; you have to manually change the date by pulling out the crown one click. It's too bad because, as Victor says, from 10 feet away it looks pretty cool! The rubber strap is awesome, to be fair to Pagani Design. (Nicholas misspoke by saying it was leather; it's rubber.)

We then touch on the MoonSwatch, now that the dust has settled.

There's a bit more, but that about does it for this week.

Thanks once again to Andrew Haworth for producing this week's episode.

Keep it locked to WristWatchReview.com and @wristwatchreview on Instagram for more fun watch content.

Thank you for listening, and have a great week!

Hello and welcome to yet another exciting edition of The HourTime Show, the official podcast of WristWatchReview.com. Your host this week is Nicholas (@nicholasadeleon on Twitter and Instagram).

This week we interview Michael Culyba, director of the documentary Keeper of Time. As you'll hear in the interview, we're pretty big fans of the doc and think you'll enjoy it too.

Keeper of Time debuts in New York City on April 28. If you're in the NYC area you can purchase tickets for its in-person screening. You can also purchase tickets for a livestream virtual screening, which is available worldwide. 

Everyone who purchases a world premiere ticket is entered to win a Unimatic x Massena LAB U1-MLBN Friends & Family Edition watch. It's a limited edition watch, with only 80 made, and we think it looks pretty cool. Culyba tells us that the more tickets you buy, the more chances to win. Neat!

And that, as they say, is that.

Thanks once again to Andrew Haworth for producing this week's episode.

Keep it locked to WristWatchReview.com and @wristwatchreview on Instagram for more fun watch content.

Thank you for listening, and have a great week!

Hello and welcome to yet another exciting edition of The HourTime Show, the official podcast of WristWatchReview.com. Your hosts this week are Victor (@vmarks on Twitter) and Nicholas (@nicholasadeleon).

Before we get into the meat of the episode we have a request: Please take two seconds to look at this design of our in-house watch idea (case and latest dial design) and tell Victor what you think, either by tweeting him or emailing him at [email protected]. We're very seriously considering creating it but we're at the stage of the process where we need a ton of feedback, whether it's good or bad, before taking any next steps. Thank you!

Moving on, this week is mostly about re-capping some of our favorite (and least favorite) watches that came out of the Watches and Wonders trade show. Yes, we're a little late but we couldn't record last week. Among the watches we touch on are the new Tudor Black Bay Pro, the new Yacht Master with a wacky "falcon eye" dial (Hodinkee has good photos), a new Panerai Submersible made with something called "E Steel," which is supposedly "sustainably sourced," and this titanium Oris with a salmon dial. We also touch on some Patek news--or is that Longines news? (Zing!)

And that, as they say, is that.

Thanks once again to Andrew Haworth for producing this week's episode.

Keep it locked to WristWatchReview.com and @wristwatchreview on Instagram for more fun watch content.

Thank you for listening, and have a great week!

Hello and welcome to yet another exciting edition of The HourTime Show, the official podcast of WristWatchReview.com. Your hosts this week are Victor (@vmarks on Twitter) and Nicholas (@nicholasadeleon).

Look, yes, there's huge news this week, but we have a couple of things to talk about beforehand.

The first is that we're giving away a watch! Yes, the kind folks at Whitby have provided us an Intrepid X Chronograph for you to win. Simply enter here for your chance to win. Huzzah!

Next, Bulgari. They've broken the record for the world's thinnest mechanical watch. Plus, you get an NFT with it. Nice!

Lastly, we're genuinely looking for feedback on a watch we're considering manufacturing; an early mock-up render can be found here. This would be a huge undertaking, so please email Victor ([email protected]) with you're feedback. 

OK, MoonSwatch time. Keep in mind that this conversation was recorded on Friday, March 25, one day before the MoonSwatch was released.

Victor and Nicholas give their full and frank opinion on all things MoonSwatch: the initial marketing tease, how it fits into the wider "hype" cycle, what you're actually getting for your $260, and more. This is a pretty long discussion by our standards but hopefully it's formative and entertaining.

There's a bit more, but that about does it for this week.

Thanks once again to Andrew Haworth for producing this week's episode.

Keep it locked to WristWatchReview.com and @wristwatchreview on Instagram for more fun watch content.

Thank you for listening, and have a great week!

Hello and welcome to yet another exciting edition of The HourTime Show, the official podcast of WristWatchReview.com. Your hosts this week are John (@johnbiggs on Twitter), Victor (@vmarks on Twitter), Nicholas (@nicholasadeleon), and WWR Managing Editor (IE, the guy who actually runs the site!) Patrick (@PatrickWatches).

That's right: we've got us a full four-wolf moon this week!

Victor kicks off the wrist check with a watch he recently assembled from parts featuring an Elgin dial, which we then explain what that means. Patrick is wearing the Mido Ocean Star GMT, which he's in the process of reviewing. This kicks off a quick discussion on different types of movements, who makes what, etc. John and Nicholas (well, really Nicholas) merely smile and nods here. Speaking of John and Nicholas, John has an Omega Speedmaster Professional and Nicholas has his PT5000-based SteelDive. The crown is too small to turn comfortably but the watch seems to keep time pretty well. For less than $200 it's hard to complain.

This brings us to one of our main discussions of the week, and that's whether or not people like Nicholas, who like watches but who maybe don't have a spare $5,000 to buy every shiny Omega that comes down the pike, are perhaps "doing it wrong" by gravitating toward brands like SteelDive. We've touched on this in the past but now Patrick gives his take. John adds some interesting insight from the world of alternative investing, and how that's driving up the cost of some watches.

There's a bit more, but that about does it for this week.

Thanks once again to Andrew Haworth for producing this week's episode.

Keep it locked to WristWatchReview.com and @wristwatchreview on Instagram for more fun watch content.

Thank you for listening, and have a great week!

Hello and welcome to yet another exciting edition of The HourTime Show, the official podcast of WristWatchReview.com. Your hosts this week are John (@johnbiggs on Twitter), Victor (@vmarks on Twitter), and Nicholas (@nicholasadeleon).

Time for a wrist check: Victor has a Bulova, Nicholas has an Orient Bambino, and John has a GMT Tudor, his love affair with his "Tiffany Blue" Seestern having seemingly come to an end.

After opening the show with a bit of guitar talk ("It's a little hobby of mine," says John), your pals to the idea of watches in the apocalypse. Obviously. Will Daytonas or Pateks have any value in a world where society has broken down and we're all fighting for scraps? Would having a solar-powered G-Shock make you some sort of magician in your post-historic settlement? Very possibly, especially if as John points out you've got one of those G-Shocks that can display tide data. The way things are going, we may find out soon enough.

We close the show by touching on some recently announced pieces, including Tissot's PRX chronographs and the deep green Omega Seamaster 300M.

There's a bit more, but that about does it for this week.

Thanks once again to Andrew Haworth for producing this week's episode.

Keep it locked to WristWatchReview.com and @wristwatchreview on Instagram for more fun watch content.

Thank you for listening, and have a great week!

Hello and welcome to yet another exciting edition of The HourTime Show, the official podcast of WristWatchReview.com. Your hosts this week are Victor (@vmarks on Twitter) and Nicholas (@nicholasadeleon).

We open this week with a quick discussion on why Orient (which Nicholas is wearing this week) isn't as big as Seiko. They make good watches!

Next we discuss the brand that has taken WristWatchReview by storm over the past few weeks: Seestern! Nicholas bought an orange model a few weeks ago, and we've since discovered why it's called "Seestern." There's a starfish on the clasp, and "Seestern" is German for "starfish." Another watch mystery, solved.

We then turn to the idea of market value and why certain watches are worth X instead of Y, with Victor going over some of the watches he's looking to move on, including an Aikon and a veeeery 90s Tag Heuer Kirium.

There's a bit more, but that about does it for this week.

Thanks once again to Andrew Haworth for producing this week's episode.

Keep it locked to WristWatchReview.com and @wristwatchreview on Instagram for more fun watch content.

Thank you for listening, and have a great week!

Hello and welcome to yet another exciting edition of The HourTime Show, the official podcast of WristWatchReview.com. Your hosts this week are John (@johnbiggs on Twitter), Victor (@vmarks), and Nicholas (@nicholasadeleon).

We open this week with a wrist check, which we're pretty bad at remembering to do but here we are: Victor has his Sandoz (which resembles this guy), Nicholas has his white dial Hamilton Khaki Field Mechanical, while John is wearing the infamous "Tiffany Blue" Seestern!!!

This leads to our main discussion of the week: the role that the Seesterns of the world play. These are bands like Seestern, Steeldive, Heimdallr, etc. and whether or not they're "acceptable" for watch fans who don't necessarily have $5,000 to drop on the latest Omega. As much as I'd like the NTTD Omega, eh, I don't exactly have $10,000 to spend on a watch right now.

We then briefly touch on the upcoming Watches & Wonders trade show, and talk a bit about trade shows in general. They're cool, sure, but don't feel bad if you've never been to one.

That just about does it for this week.

Thanks once again to Andrew Haworth for producing this week's episode.

Keep it locked to WristWatchReview.com and @wristwatchreview on Instagram for more fun watch content.

Thank you for listening, and have a great week!