What's on Your Riste? A Watch Podcast
A podcast dedicated to wristwatch enthusiasts who are deeply passionate about timepieces. The host, Riste Simnjanovski, covers a wide range of brands from mainstream names like Rolex, Omega, and Cartier to independent watchmakers such as Czapek, Dornbluth, and Gronefeld. The show is structured more like a journey than a news program, with listeners encouraged to start from the first episode. It's an insider's look at the world of watches, filled with enthusiasm and detailed discussions.
Episodes
S02E10: The One Watch Collection
Media: RistePodcast@gmail.comInstagram: @RistePodcastDescription: If you could only have one watch for the rest of your life, which one would it be? We take thequestion seriously. We move through the archetypes; the utilitarian's answer, the connoisseur's answer, the sentimental one; and finally the honest version: the watch thatmakes you feel settled. Then we connect it back to what this season h
S2E27: Your Grail Watch Is in Japan. How Did It Get There? Season 2 Bonus
Media Contact: RistePodcast@gmail.comInstagram: @RistePodcastThanks again to DumiHed (Mike) for this topic :)TitleYour Grail Watch Is in Japan. How Did It Get There? (S2 Bonus)DescriptionIt’s 11 p.m. You finally find the exact watch you’ve been hunting for. The price gets your attention. The condition looks incredible. The seller? Tokyo. Again.Why does the hunt for a Swiss watch so often lead to J
S02E09: Watch Stories: De Bethune - The Most Underrated Indie
Description:De Bethune is the most underrated independent watchmaker working in 2026.Founded in 2002 by Denis Flageollet, headquartered in Sainte-Croix, the brand has spent two decades quietly stacking patented innovations into watches almost nobody outside the cult fully understands. The blued titanium aesthetic. The DB28 family. The five inventions in a single movement. Pierre Jacques stepped do
S02E08: Roger W. Smith: The Apprentice Who Became the Last of a Line
Contact: RistePodcast@gmail.comA note on the use of “British” and “Manx”....When discussing George Daniels and Roger W. Smith, we (I) recognize the importance and pride of Manx identity and the unique culture of the Isle of Man. Both men discussed in this episode had roots in England and later made the Isle of Man their home, and both have frequently been described as Manx watchmakers. At the same
S02E26: Thank You 60x (Bonus)
Email: RistePodcast@gmail.comInstragram: @RistePodcastThank you to everyone who has made this show so special! This episode is for you!!!
S02E07: Watch Stories Zeitwinkel - The Angle of True Time
Description:In this episode of What’s on Your Riste?, Watchovski travels to Saint-Imier to explore Zeitwinkel, one of modern independent watchmaking’s quietest and most uncompromising brands. From the meaning of “Zeitwinkel” itself—the mathematical angle between mean time and true solar time—to the brand’s proprietary German silver movements, asymmetric dial architecture, smoked sapphire displays,
S02E25: Bonus: Buying Overseas w/ Amsterdam Watch Co (AWCo) and CLOSER (Squale, Blancpain, Subino, No Radiobino)
Links to BOTH companies I discussed today...no affiliate links / no paid sponsorships...I just like these companies and wanted to share...Amsterdam Watch Co (AWCo) LinkCLOSER LinkTitle:S02E24: Bonus: Amsterdam Watch Co (AWCo) and CLOSERDescription:Buying a vintage watch from another country means paying a stranger for a description. This bonus episode examines two overseas dealers that earn trust
S02E06: The Locker Room is Not Watch School: The Bedazzled Submariner Problem
S02E06: The Locker Room is Not Watch School: The Bedazzled Submariner ProblemDescriptionProfessional athletes are some of the most visible watch collectors in the world; but fame, money, and taste do not automatically arrive together.In this standalone episode of What’s on Your Riste?, Watchovski explores the strange overlap between professional sports, sudden wealth, predatory luxury culture, and
S02E23: The Hum and the Light: They Invented the Electronic Future and Did Not Get to Keep It (Accutron, Pulsar, Nintendo).
Title: The Hum and the Light: They Invented the Electronic Future and Did Not Get to Keep ItDescription:There is a man in Kyoto named Gunpei Yokoi who won by refusing the newest technology. He called it lateral thinking with withered technology: take the cheap old chip everyone else has thrown away and understand it so completely you can do something nobody expects. In 1989 he put that idea in a g
S02E05: The Crown Jewels in the Castle — How the Great Houses Were Saved, and What They Paid For It
Season 2: Episode 5Contact: RistePodcast@gmail.comTitle: The Crown Jewels in the Castle — How the Great Houses Were Saved, and What They Paid For ItDescription: The conglomerate episode. In the early 1980s, quartz nearly killed Swisswatchmaking and the giants were the ones dying. This is how Nicolas Hayek refused the funeral and funded the rescue of the most precious mechanical watches on earth wi
S02E22: Make it Black: How the World Got Optimized Into One Color
S02E22: Make it Black: How the World Got Optimized Into One ColorDescription:Henry Ford said you could have a Model T in any color you liked, so long as it was black. The reason you were taught, that black paint dried faster, is mostly a myth. The real reason is the one that runs this whole episode: one color means the line never has to stop.This bonus episode starts with a man in a good suit stan
S02E04: The First Thing You See: A Survey of Dial Finishing, From the Workbench Up the Mountain
S02E04: The First Thing You See: A Survey of Dial Finishing, From the Workbench Up the MountainDecription: Fifty thousand glances. That is roughly how many times you will look at your watch’s dial over the years you own it, and yet the dial is the part nobody talks about. This episode fixes that. We climb dial finishing like a mountain, one rung at a time, from humble printed dials all the way to
S02E03: Philippe Dufour: The Man Who Refused to Let the Past Be Thrown Away
Contact: RistePodcast@gmail.comSeason 2, Episode 3 (swapped/moved to sneak in the "shill episode")Philippe Dufour: The Man Who Refused to Let the Past Be Thrown AwayCORRECTION: Note that I misspoke in a section when I state “his 80s” and should have stated “the 80s” as in the 1980s ;)Description: He made three watches in forty years. That is the entire body of work that made Philippe Dufour the mo
S02E21: Yugoslavian Zenith 143-6 Pilot (WWII, Cold War, Theft & More)
Description:A bonus episode, and a single watch. Riste tells the story of a vintage Zenith Yugoslavian Air Force chronograph, cal. 143-6, powered by an Excelsior Park movement. Why a 1940s wartime caliber ended up in a watch ordered in 1954 for the pilots of Tito's non-aligned Yugoslavia. Why the production date of a movement and the issue date of a watch are almost never the same thing. Why the s
S02E02: “Make a Living, Not a Killing” The paid-shill economy, the man who became the warning label, and why this show stays independent
Contact: RistePodcast@gmail.comS02E02: “Make a Living, Not a Killing:" The paid-shill economy, the man who became the warning label, and why this show stays independentDescription:Riste is not exactly in a cuddly mood for this one.This episode starts in crypto, walks through the rise and collapse of BitBoy, and then brings the whole thing home to watches: the paid-shill economy, undisclosed p
S02E24: Habring² Follow-Up and my Case for Indies: Velvet Ropes, Purchase History and Bleeding on Shirts (Bonus Ep)
Special thanks to Brandon at: https://horologybythesea.com/ for the corrections and support!!!Contact: RistePodcast@Gmail.comhttps://www.instagram.com/ristepodcast/ or @RistePodcast on Instragram (but I'm better with email).Episode TitleS02E24: Habring² Follow-Up and my Case for Indies: Velvet Ropes, Purchase History and Bleeding on Shirts (Bonus Ep)DescriptionThis one opens with an apology. A
S02E01: “Habring² ...The Couple Who Walked Away”
Email: RistePodcast@Gmail.comhttps://www.instagram.com/ristepodcast/DescriptionWelcome back - we missed you!Season 2 begins with a deep dive into one of the best hidden stories in independent watchmaking.Before Habring² existed, Richard Habring was already changing modern watchmaking from behind the scenes. As a young engineer at IWC Schaffhausen under legendary industry figure Günter Blümlein, he
S01E23: The “It’s Just a Strap Lie” Episode AKA The S1 to S2 Intermission
THE INTERMISSION (and a super not-legal, like totally not legal or binding apology to your friends and family for this show)Description:Between Season 1 and Season 2, What’s on Your Riste? takes a loose, loving, slightly legally questionable pause to talk about the side of watch collecting nobody puts in the magazines: the little lies. The package that is “just a strap.” The watch that was “basica
S01E20: Season 1 Finale: What We Built, and What Comes Next”
Season 1: Episode 20 THE FINALEThe Season 1 finale of What's on Your Riste?Description:Twenty episodes. An honest accounting of what the season built — from the rabbit-hole opener of Episode 1 to the personal turn of Episode 3, through the four-episode philosophical arc at the heart of the season, across five countries, from G-Shock to F.P. Journe, from hedonia to eudaimonia, from the watches that
S01E19: F.P. Journe: The Watchmaker Who Couldn’t Stop
Description:Episode 19 is the episode What’s on Your Riste? has been building toward since Episode 13: a full deep dive into François-Paul Journe... the most important living independent watchmaker in modern horology.From his beginnings in Marseille and the restoration workshop of his uncle in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, to building his first hand-made tourbillon over seven years, to founding F.P. Jou
S01E25: The Guardian of the El Primero: Charles Vermot and the Movement Hidden Behind a Wall
*This episode is dedicated to Nick Meijer - THANK YOU for the support and suggestions!!!*TITLEThe Guardian of the El Primero: Charles Vermot and the Movement Hidden Behind a WallDESCRIPTIONZenith’s El Primero should not exist.During the quartz crisis, the American owners of Zenith ordered the company’s mechanical tooling destroyed, including the presses, dies, plans, and machinery needed to produc
S01E18: The Country That Invented the Marine Chronometer and Then Forgot It Had/British-ish Watches
NOTE: This content of this recording was created prior to the learning the unfortunately news that Eddie Platts of Smiths/Timefactors had passed away. Eddie, you were an absolute legend in the space, and you will be greatly missed. To Eddie's family, to Dave and everyone at Timefactors, UK., we love you all. RIP brother.https://www.timefactors.com/blogs/news/eddie-platts-1949-2016*Side note: the I
S01E24: Is a Swapped Movement Still an Heirloom? (Swatch, Tudor & Seiko)
Description:A listener (Nate, hello to the folks in Boise, ID) wrote in with a question his friends all think is silly: he refuses to buy any modern Swatch Group watch because Powermatic 80 movements are reportedly swapped rather than serviced, and he wants watches he can actually pass down to his son. This bonus episode takes that question seriously, start to finish.First, what's really insid
S01E17: Japan, Part 2 of 2, The Indies: Hajime Asaoka, Naoya Hida, Masahiro Kikuno, Kurono Tokyo, & Kuoe
S01E17: Japan, Part Two, The Indies: Hajime Asaoka, Naoya Hida, Masahiro Kikuno, Kurono Tokyo, & KuoeNote: 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 syst
S01E16: Japan, Part 1 of 2: The Country That Quietly Won the Engineering War (Seiko, Grand Seiko, Citizen and Casio)
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 horology
S01E15: American Watchmaking - The Industry That Died and Is Being Rebuilt (Vortic, Cincinnati Watch Co., Weiss, RGM, J.N. Shapiro)
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.orgDescription: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-gradeaccuracy standard, and teaching
S01E23 Bonus Episode for Nate: “Between the Words:" Mühle-Glashütte and Lip (of Besançon)
*This one is for my watch brother from another mother in Idaho*DescriptionBonus 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 once
S01E14: A Reset Button - The Tool Watch Episode (G-Shock, Citizen, Seiko, Marathon, CWC, Sinn, Tudor, Damasko & Hamilton)
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 arc
S01E22: Mid-Tier Watches (Longines, Certina, Mido, Hamilton, Frédérique Constant, Alpina, Oris, Nomos, Sinn, Damasko, Formex, Stowa, Marathon, Doxa, Kurono Tokyo, anOrdain, Furlan Marri, Baltic, Yema)
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 Constant,
S01E13: Rexhep Rexhepi — The Refugee Who Became the Most-Watched Watchmaker Alive
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 AliveDescription: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 twelve t
S01E12: The Renaud & Papi Diaspora: Greubel Forsey, the Grönefelds, and the French Sleeping Giant Almost Nobody Talks About
It’s the late 1990s. Le Locle, Switzerland. A small workshop in a town most Americanscouldn’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 adjacentbenches. Some are in their twenties. Some are in their thirties. Most of them are broke. Notone of them is famous.In about
S01E11: So Your Friend Wants a Rolex
Episode 11: So Your Friend Wants a RolexWhat 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 stil
S01E21*: The "Sharing Episode." Why We’re Like This: A Bonus Ep. for People Who Love Watch People
DescriptionA 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, wit
S01E10: Hedonia & Eudaimonia: Why Some Watches Make You Happy, and Others Make You … “You”
Episode 10 — Description Hedonia & Eudaimonia: Why Some Watches Make You Happy, and Others Make You YouAristotle 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 eudaimoni
S01E09: Watch Stories - Dornblüth & Sohn: Father, Son, and the Quietest Workshop in Haute Horlogerie
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 hundredpeople live there. There is no famous restaurant. The most prominent landmark is the ruinsof 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 quiet
S01E08: Watch Stories - Czapek: The Watchmaker Who Founded Patek Philippe (and the Story Almost Nobody Tells)
What if I told you that one of the founders of Patek Philippe — the Patek Philippe, the mostprestigious watch brand in the world — got pushed out, in a bitter falling-out, one hundredand eighty years ago — and that his original brand was completely forgotten for over acentury — and that ten years ago, a small team in Geneva resurrected his name and startedmaking watches again, and most people in t
S01E07: Living With a Collection: Storage, Security, and the Stuff Nobody Wants to Talk About
This episode is going to make some of you uncomfortable. It’s going to ask you to look atyour collection ...your beautiful, considered, lovingly curated collection... and think about itthe 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, Theft
S01E06: Vintage Cartier Pasha Seatimer, Omega Pre-321, and Why Piaget and Girard-Perregaux Are Underrated
Updated BOOKS at the bottom now!!!The Vintage-ish Episode... Omega, Ardath, Cartier, Piaget, Chopard & GPKeywords: how to buy vintage watches, Frankenwatch, vintage Cartier Pasha Seatimer, Omega 2279 pre-321, vintage Piaget, vintage Girard-Perregaux, service dial vs originalHow to Buy Vintage Watches Without Getting Burned: Frankenwatches, Service Dials, and the 10-Point ChecklistGot a great quest
S01E05: Mr. Jones Watches, Studio Underd0g, and Zelos: Three Brands Making the Most Fun Watches in the World
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
S01E04: Why You Really Want a Submariner: The Decoy Effect, the Watch Industry's Trap, and Three Brands Operating Outside It (Yema, Horage, H. Moser)
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
S01E03: The Watches That Made Me: A Stolen Collection, a 1940s Zenith Pilot's Chronograph, and the Watch Community That Helped Rebuild It
(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 I
S01E02: Beyond Rolex and Omega: Why Longines, Fears, Bovet, and Parmigiani Belong in the Conversation
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 HydroConqu
S01E01: "Welcome to the Rabbit Hole" (corrected audio)
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 Independ
S01E00: Trailer
The trailer for: "What's on Your Riste: A Watch Podcast"Media Contact: RistePodcast@gmail.comInstagram: @RistePodcast
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