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The Time 4A Pint Podcast
by Time 4A PintThe global watch industry produces an estimated 1.2 billion units a year. With around, 7.5 billion people on the planet, that means that over a 6 and a half year period, enough are made for every one of us to go out and buy a brand new watch of our own. In reality, that’s not what happens. For starters, just because all these watches are being churned out, doesn't mean that anyone is actually buying them. Lots of people can’t understand why you would spend money on a wrist watch. After all, with just a couple of taps, your mobile phone can tell you what the time is anywhere in the world - and you can catch Pokemon on it. You can’t do that with a watch. On the other hand, for some people, one watch isn’t enough. There are those among us that hunt out, capture, collect, catalogue, and show off their watches to others who share the same passion. On internet forums, Instagram, and even at in person meetups. For those who collect, watches are kind of like Pokemon, they’ve got to catch them all. And that’s what this show is all about. Watch collectors. Not Pokemon.
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Episodes
53: Underwater Adventures with the CWC Royal Navy Diver & Other Stories
1h 12m · Published52: A Brief History of Watches in Space
39m · PublishedDuring the late 1950s, the human race developed a taste for building huge, powerful, rockets, and launching them into outer space.
Exciting stuff, for sure, but made much more exciting, when on April 12 1961, Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was strapped into one of these rockets, and became the first human being to travel into space. Wearing a 17-jewel Sturmanskie watch on his wrist.
Now, the 17-jewel Sturnmanskie may not be on the wish list of many collectors, however its use by Gagarin in Vostok 1, earns it a place on the register of watches in space.
This is a theoretical register, as far as I know, but were it to be beautifully presented in hardback form, preferably, with lots of lovely photographs, you could assume, it would contain a great deal of black dialled, hand wound, triple register chronographs, with the greek symbol for Omega on their dial.
Tucked in between all of those Swiss made 321, 861, and 1861 calibre chronographs, you’d find timepieces from all manner of brands, containing all kinds of tech - tuning fork watches of various flavours, brightly coloured automatic chronographs, cheap, cheerful, robust, and accurate digital watches, dressy chronographs that you’d never expect to see in an industrial situation, pilots watches with complicated slide rules on their dial, and a whole host of coronet adorned divers and GMTs.
There are so many watches that have been worn in space, that someone really could write a book on the subject. But that’s perhaps a task for another day.
Today, we’re suiting up, strapping in, and launching ourselves into a very brief history of watches in space.
Watches featured in this episode:
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Poljot Strela Calibre 3017 Chronograph
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Accutron Astronaut (214 movement)
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Omega Speedmaster 145.012SP
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Rolex Submariner 14060M
You can find pictures of them, along with some helpful show notes at https://www.time4apint.com/podcast/the-time-4a-pint-podcast-episode-52
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51: Diving Into The Omega Seamaster 300
48m · PublishedWith the heavy media focus on the Moonwatch and the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11 this year, you could be forgiven for thinking that Omega produce nothing but manual wind chronographs, and that the only exploration they have been involved with required rockets and spacesuits.
Equally, glancing at the ongoing surge in vintage, and limited edition modern Speedmaster prices, it seems that some collectors feel that if it wasn’t on the wrist of Aldrin, Armstrong, or Collins (or related to a watch they wore), that it’s not really worth hunting down. Pure lunacy.
Today’s guest has pushed through the Moonwatch phase of his collecting madness, and donned mask, flippers, and snorkel, to explore the depths of Omega’s vast vintage catalogue.
His focus pulled from Omega watches that splashed down into the ocean on the wrists of engineers, scientists and explorers, to Omega watches that went deep under the oceans surface on the wrists of engineers, scientists, and explorers. Horological tools that couldn’t be more different. Although those cases do look incredibly similar!
Watches on this episode:
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Omega Seamaster 2913-3
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Omega Seamaster 165.014-63
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Omega Seamaster 165.024
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Omega Seamaster 165.024 “Big Triangle”
You can find pictures of them, along with some helpful show notes at https://www.time4apint.com/podcast/the-time-4a-pint-podcast-episode-51
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49: Timekeeping Tools for Professional Divers
33m · Published48: Where Horology Meets Motorsport
34m · Published47: Getting to the Core of Chris' Collection
1h 18m · Published46: Drinking Beers and Talking Watches with Ben
1h 8m · Published45: Hanging Out With Alan
36m · Published44: Refounding Fears, and the journey to Brunswick (square) with Nicholas Bowman-Scargill
52m · Published42: A Tale of Two Movements
44m · PublishedThe Time 4A Pint Podcast has 53 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 47:11:06. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on November 28th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on April 5th, 2024 10:47.