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• We are joined by two incredible authors Rebecca Struthers and Alom Shaha to discuss their new book 'About Time' aimed at young school children. The conversation ranges from the making sun dials at school; learning what a 'jiffy' of time is; our love of moonphases,;whether AI will destroy our concept of time; and finally that diamonds are the best material to make an canoe! (26mins 05 seconds)

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• We are joined by the fabulous, Anna, from Chrono.Girl.Life for a fun packed interview. We talk about how she got into watch collecting and what the future holds for her instagram journey, and why she doesn’t share Zac and I’s love for Cartier (!), although she is redeemed as she is part of the ‘no date window’ club! (28mins 38 seconds)
• Watches we are lusting after: Zac picks out a 1970s vintage Longines Tank in gold ref 1174, while Tim can’t get the Hermes Slim D’Hermes Quantieme Perpetuel out of his head/heart he went further down the rabbit hole and found the Slim D’Hermes Hodinkee Limited Edition with a beautiful blue dial. Anna’s picks out Atelier Wen’s Ancestra as well as Awake’s Sơn Mài frosted leaf green dial. (10mins 38 seconds)
• Insta watch shots of the month: Tim again picks three with his first pick being IlanWatches UG PoleRouter macro shot with a stunning pinky gold which shimmers with a brushed effect on the dial. Next up is The Time Curator’s Vacheron ref 6351 macro. A crisp macro of the 7 and 8 position and a gold case which is machine turned. Then finally the pick of the bunch Watchograf’s incredible bubble Baltic AquaScaphe. Submerged into water and creates this deep sea effect. Never seen anything like it . (20mins 10 seconds)
• Zac selects Time.Vintage.HK’s 19k yellow gold Cartier Baignoire on a fantastic green lizard strap. (25mins 03 seconds)
• Anna picked the winner which was Watchograf! They receive our TimeKeepers beer mat!

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• We bring you a fantastic interview with Phil the co-founder of Holme & Hadfield - the watch display case maker. amongst other items. We’ve wanted to have H&H on since we started the podcast. Listen to how and why H&H was born; the top sellers; how their new watch winder is made; engaging with their customers; and future collabs with a watch micro brand and a knife brand. (23mins 50 seconds)
• We share our Instagram shots of the month and learn that Zac has never watched The Muppets Christmas Carol!!! Tim selects four of his favourites: A fun smattering of colour with a rainbow sketch showcasing a Cartier tank and the Eiffel Tower from WatchtheLuxe; a generous cup of Cartiers from GeorgiaBenj; another from WatchFigures with those Muppet characters critiquing a Rolex Sub; and finally an artistic take from WatchWayUp capturing an angled crown shot of a vintage Rolex (10mins 34 seconds)
• Meanwhile, Zac goes for SpecialDial’s excellent set of Cartiers (shout out Ceinture!) using their signature use of light and also picks up out PiagetCollector’s white gold, blank dial custom watch for the King of Qatar.
• We round out the episode with watches we are lusting after. Zac goes for a vintage Omega big scarab with a pink dial from Vintage_watches_milano. Tim is crazy for the Heuer Bundeswehr with the bund strap from the 1960s - excellent pushers and such a clean dial. A superb example from FathomWatches.(4mins 52 seconds)

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• We've taken the pod in-person! Delighted to record at Kibble Watches in London where we have a few beers with founder, James, where we hear about his journey at a young age of becoming a watch dealer and his successes to date. You can listen to that part of the pod at (20mins 10seconds).
• During the interview Tim talks about a watch James currently has in stock an absolutely stunning Hermes Quantieme Perpetual Calendar. If only Tim had the money!!! (33mins 55 seconds)
• The watches we are lusting after this month: Zac picks a Patek ref 4385 with a gold Tank-style case and an onyx dial. Did we mention the 42 diamonds too! Tim selects the new under the radar release from IWC - the Lake Tahoe 41 Pilot with its wonderfully contrasting white case and black dial. James goes with Parmigiani's new Toric Perpetual Calendar in platinum with a Morning Blue dial. (3mins)
• A strong selection for our favourite shots on Instagram this month: Tim selects two top quality Grand Seiko macros. The first from Timo.t1 again making his second appearance with the excellent Grand Seiko SBGW273 green Genbi Valley dial. Then we have The Watch Watch's cherry blossom Shunbun Spring Drive with a dial like a cloud or swan feathers. His final pick is another from Lydia's Watches with her talent for spotting great real world watch props - this time carved hands into door panels. (7mins 35seconds)
• Meanwhile Zac picks Casafarniente and their desk shot with a modern Cartier Santos Dumont as well as WooHoo Time's Royal Oak ref 14790 paired with a inky denim jacket. James weighs in with a_collected_man's Roger W. Smith's Series 4 bi-metal dial and johnson167's pair of Cartier Bamboo Coussins complete with matching belt. (13mins 40seconds).

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• A superb and at times hilarious chat with the Dial Artist, Chris. Find out how he started, the techniques and tools he uses as well as churning our 100 custom watches a week for IFL Watches and 6,000 annually. Hear how he spent way too long painting a man's nipple on a Cartier Santos and almost became a boob! (40mins 54 seconds)
• Better late than never we talk through our favourite releases from Watches & Wonders: Tim picked out the Grand Seiko Kiri in the purple; the new burgundy BB58; the beautiful pink-dial Calatrava 6196p; and the Cartier Santos Dumont XL with the brown dial and RED cabochon. Meanwhile, Zac chose to highlight the start of the show Cartier’s Tank à Guichets. (7mins 20 seconds)
• Zac is lusting after the new Cartier Tressage this month. Whereas Tim got caught up with the MAD2 hype in a big way and was fortunate/unfortunate not to be successful in the ballot! (24mins 21seconds)
• Our Insta shot of the months had a bit of an Easter egg theme this time out. Tim picks out fellow podcaster Lydiaswatches superb orange Easter egg x Jurassic Park-esque Oyster Perpetual. He followed this up with Timo.T1’s Grand Seiko Kinder-egg style. The for something completely different WatchDaddy365’s macro of a Zenith Chronomaster features the overlapping sub-dials. Also a special shout out to friend of the show Xi Wang and her incredible artist talent producing a Hermes Arceau L’heure de la lune. (30mins 40seconds).
• Zac selects @_1_5_1_8’s vintage rose gold moon-phase Patek on the wrist as well as Watchcollectinglifestyle’s Piaget Andy Warhol. Chris selects Lydia as the winning the shot of the month so a TimeKeepers’ beer mat is yours.

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• Delighted to welcome Bjoern Altmann to the pod. A first rate illustrator with a fascinating story to tell, particularly his 600+ designs for Tag Heuer all in a few months! We bond over our shared love of Cartier and strangely station clocks of the London Underground. He’s got thousands of beautiful illustrations so check his Insta page now - BjoernAltmann (23mins 03 seconds)
• Tim has a first ever Watch Sale Alert! The Cartier Ceinture has a new owner. All done through the wonderful Sam of the Watch Concierge Services. 100% trust and fully recommend. Her care and attention made the sale. (03mins 35 seconds)
• We do a mini dive into Breguet focusing in on the Classique with its off centre and recessed sub-dial as well as the legendary Type XX. Noting that Breguet style hands are Tim’s favourite hands (other than pontife!). (1hr 24min 24seconds)
• Zac is lusting after a Cartier Santos Dumont this month - a man with great taste! Meanwhile, Tim has become infatuated with a watch he didn’t think he would be and that’s the Patek Philippe Ellipse. (07mins 52seconds)
• We each pick our Insta shot of the month. Tim singles out a top trio of A Slap on the Wrist’s reversed Reverso; a killer little watch from TimebyRaf called a Gygax Jump Hour; and finally a classy Cartier Tank black and white shot by Wrist_Watch_Doctor. Zac goes out of this world with a vintage Rolex flying saucer by m_a_n_e_g_a; and lastly a vintage Audemars Piaget with a stunning meshed bracelet and deep green dial by Kawaii.sr.vintage. (13mins 56seconds).
• And the shot of the month winner of a TimeKeepers’ beer mat is yours TimebyRaf!

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• We kick off our first interview of the year with none other than Watch Yourself Jorge of growing YouTube fame. Jorge and Tim clash on symmetry and date windows, but all his forgiven. Jorge gives his hot takes where he sees watch social media going, which brands embrace social media successfully (and how the phrase Hobo Bond sprung from!), and what sparked his passion for starting a YouTube channel dedicated to watches. (27mins 07 seconds)
• Tim’s talks about his fun trip to Fathom Watches in London thanks to a Watch Collectors’ Club Rolex Submariner event where he got to try on some excellent vintage Rolexes. (10mins 40 seconds)
• We deep dive on our first micro brand of the pod - Baltic. Tim was fortunate to land a Prismic with the lapis blue dial last year, while we give a special mention to the_other_side_of_art’s insta page fully of top quality Baltic shots. (1hr 14min 20seconds)
• Zac and Tim share the watches they are lusting after this month with a Rolex Day Date ref6612c and a vintage Breitling SuperOcean 2005 getting the nod respectively. (14mins 06seconds)
• We each pick our Insta shot of the month. Zac’s choices this month are LunarOyster’s 190892 Audemars Piguet ref 25643 and Yayo_genf’s rose gold Universal Geneve Polerouter Deluxe. Tim selects wintery themes from The Watch Watch’s icy Grand Seiko Spring Drive and AverageWatchDads’ Rolex Submariner, then topped off with a gorgeous neo-vintage Audemars Piguet jade dial from Feelipp0. (18mins 40seconds).
• And the shot of the month winner of a TimeKeepers’ beer mat is yours The Watch Watch!

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• We kick off 2025 with a deep dive into Tag Heuer which ranges from vintage Carerras and Seafarers to more modern skeleton Monacos and the updated Skipper (30mins 56 seconds)
• Tim’s showcases his new watch art prints (1mins 12 seconds)
• We then have a mini segment: What we want to see in 2025. Key theme here is more customisations from brands, while Tim wants more Cartier cabochon colours for the masses! (19mins 22 seconds)
• The watches we are lusting after this month - Tim selects a neo-vintage Cartier Santos Dumont Thin and Zac’s controversially picks out Blancpain X Swatch Fifty Fathoms Ocean of Storms (4mins 56 seconds)
• We each pick our Insta shot of the year as well as our favourite of the month. For December Zac picks Collectorskyline’s Piaget 92000 in a stunning green malachite dial as well as Goldfingersvintage’s Movado M90. Meanwhile Tim goes crazy and picks FIVE! 316Watches’ awesome jam doughnut and FXD combo; Macrorelojes’ brilliant lighting effect on his Oris Propilot; then a Christmas/New Year trio of Giltydials’ Rolex GMT x Moet combo; the_nightswatch’s Omega 300m; and finally moonphase.fr's Christmas tree of Speedmasters. Congrats to Giltydials as Zac’s choice this month. (9mins 12seconds). A Timekeeper’s beermat is yours!
• The shots of 2024 for Zac goes to Watchbie’s FXD in the dessert; Tim picks Otottoi Watches’ incredible 12 watch collage (17min 10 seconds)

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• Happy Birthday to us! We are official one year old. 12 episodes talking about some of our favourite people, photos on instagram and of course watches. Stay tuned for bigger plans in 2025 and beyond.
• We are delighted to be joined by a wonderful artist, Xi Wang from Australia - and in the glory of multi-colour with our second episode also on Youtube. She draws and paints high quality watches adding her own artist flare. We discuss what inspired her, she walks us through her drawings, and how challenging it is portraying time through art (31mins 40seconds). Tim & Xi also bond over their shared love of Cartier and maybe the only listeners to a niche ‘cabochon watch shot of the month’ spinoff!
• We talk a little about our visit to the private viewing of Lyon & Turbull’s recent online auction after having Charles Tearle on the show. We then discuss Tim’s recent trip to Time+Tide’s new store in London (4mins 32 seconds)
• The watches we are lusting after this month - Tim selects French grand Laventure’s Transatlantique II GMT with a green dial. Meanwhile, Zac picks the Patek Philippe Gondola with a lapis dial (18mins 42seconds)
• A strong selection for our favourite shots on Instagram - Tim pick out WatchBerger’s quality shot of Tudor Pelagos wrapped around the neck of his guitar. He then selects Ilanwatche’s beautiful macro of a Cartier Santos cabochon. Tim’s third and final choice is from the famous Avocado Vintage Watches’ with a rare Girard Perregaux. Zac went for DadandSon Watches’ watch palm of many vintage watches from Chopard and Cartier to Jaeger and Patek. (23mins 32 seconds)
• Zac and Xi’s winner is Ilanwatches incredible Santos macro. A Timekeeper’s beermat is yours!
• We then deep dive Patek Philippe. Tim has nice things to say about the Calatrava as his grail watch, but needs Zac and Xi’s help on more positive things about a certain Nautilus and Cubitus (1hr 16mins 48 seconds)

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• Big news - we are going visual. We will be bringing our followers both podcast and video cast formats. Look out for this episode on Youtube very soon (28 seconds)
• Zac is now famous! He was interviewed for the New York Times about young watch collectors. (2mins 10 seconds)
• We talk a little about our visit to Grand Seiko’s flagship store in London and Tim’s evening event to Breitling’s UK flagship thanks to the Watch Collectors Club. (4mins 15 seconds)
• The watches we are lusting after this month - We both have two! Tim goes for what almost appears to be an AI-generated half black half white dial of the Zenith el Premero - Lupin the Third, Final Edition. His next pick is the Hermes Quantieme Perpetual Calendar with its quirky numerals and funky lugs. Meanwhile, Zac picks one of the ultimate 50s vintage dress watches, the Omega Constellation Pie Pan - shark tooth. He pairs that with Tissot Navigator skin diver (11mins 10 seconds)
• A strong selection for our favourite shots on Instagram - Tim pick out @Scarlintheshire’s needlework with a Cartier Tank stitched on to her jacket - WANT!; a quality collaboration and compositions from @Threehandpix and @Aviantime and their Rolex and Baltic; finally @Coffees_and_Calibers teaser shot for his forecoming Watches & Pastries Week starting 18th November. Zac went for @Tim Vaux’s capture of the most expensive F P Journe ever sold (18mins 10 seconds)
• Zac’s winner is the collaboration from ThreeHandPix and Aviantime. A Timekeeper’s beermat is yours!
• We then deep dive on one of our favourite brands - Cartier. From the iconic Tank and Tim’s Ceninture, to the surrealist-inspired Crash and geometric Asymmetrique with a squeeze of Santos Dumont and a pinch of Basculante (25mins 24 seconds)

In the next episode, Zac and Tim will be joined by a special guest to discuss watch art. Follow us at TheTimeKeepers2024 as well as Tim at watch_word_ and Zak at Sourced_watches.