For episode 62 of the Time 4A Pint Podcast, I got together with fellow talkative Englishman, and pathological contrarian, Phil Toledano. Who you may know from Instagram as Mister Enthusiast. The topics we covered were many and varied. Including, but not limited to: buying and maintaining group B rally cars, ram raids, Vietnam era pilot's helmets, the joy of putting your kid's face onto plates, pillows, and tote bags, how weird and wonderful it is to be a Dad, Birman cats, Mr Frumples the dog, great TV Shows we're currently watching, the Jaguar XJ220, running a lifestyle clothing brand, watch sausage parties, how instagram can be a rather dull unimaginative echo chamber, turning Rolexes into art, collecting Patek's from the 70s, buying the things that you really like, and the importance of a test tube filled with oil. These intro's are getting weirder aren't they? You can find pictures and reference numbers of all the watches that we talked about on the Time 4A Pint website. If you like what you hear, please leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts. If you love what you hear, please buy me a virtual pint to say thanks.

For episode 58 of the Time 4A Pint Podcast, I got together with New York Times best selling Author, and spectacular watch nerd, Gary Shteyngart. Born in Leningrad in 1972, Gary moved to New York at the age of 7. Which is where he was last week, when we jumped on a long distance line to talk about seven of the watches from his collection, angry people on the internet, and his most recent novel, Lake Success. You can find pictures and reference numbers of all the watches that we talked about, along with lots of helpful show notes on the Time 4A Pint website. Want to support the show? Buy me a virtual pint for just £1 at https://ko-fi.com/time4apint

During 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: Poljot Strela Calibre 3017 Chronograph Accutron Astronaut (214 movement) Omega Speedmaster 145.012SP 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 Want to support the show? Buy me a virtual pint for just £1 at https://ko-fi.com/time4apint

Welcome to Episode 47 of the Time 4A Pint Podcast - Ever since the first episode aired in April 2017, people have been sending me messages, asking about my watches. What do I have? What have I sold? What do I like? What doesn't do it for me? What's next on the list? And whilst answers to those questions, and more, have been woven into to the conversations that I've had with guests over the last 46 shows, there was no single place where I just got to talk about my stuff. So this week I set out to change that, and Invited friend of the show Jonas over to drink some beers, eat some pizza, and talk about the 6 watches which make up the core of my collection. There are some mistakes in here, some questions I just don't have answers to, and I'm sure I got some things totally back to front, but hey, I never claimed to be an expert. I'm just a guy who likes watches. And beer and pizza. Clearly. Watches on this episode: 2002 Omega Speedmaster Professional (reference 3570.50.00) 2002-2006 Omega Speedmaster Professional X-33 Second Generation (reference 3291.50.00) 1974 Omega Speedsonic (reference 188.0002) 1969 Omega flightmaster Cal. 910 (reference 145.013) 1971 Omega flightmaster Cal. 911 (reference 145.026) 2013 Omega Speedmaster Professional Racing "TinTin" (reference 311.30.42.30.01.004) Head to https://www.time4apint.com/podcast/the-time-4a-pint-podcast-episode-47 for pictures and show notes. If you're enjoying the Time 4A Pint Podcast and would like to support the creation of new episodes, you can buy me a virtual pint on Ko-Fi, and help to keep the conversations flowing - https://ko-fi.com/time4apint Credit to https://soundcloud.com/cityfires for the use of https://soundcloud.com/cityfires/map-of-time-creative-commons

Welcome to Episode 45 of the Time 4A Pint Podcast - This week I got together with Alan, a watch collector who doesn't hang around on forums, or Instagram, and has been adding horological goodies to his stash for over 20 years, to hang out and talk watches. Starting out with all of Alan's watches laid out on a table, we spent four hours talking through what made sense to share, what made a good story, and what you, the listener would find most interesting to hear about. And after much negotiation we got down to the big 6 - a set of watches Alan would walk out the door with if his house were on fire. Probably. Enjoy. Watches on this episode: Omega Railmaster 2914-1 Broad Arrow Omega Seamaster Automatic 166.0251 "Baby PloProf II" Tudor Oyster-Prince Submarine 7924 Rolex Submariner 5513 (1st Quarter of 1962) Rolex Explorer 1016 Audemars Piguet 39mm Royal Oak Openworked Selfwinding 15305ST.OO.1220ST.01 Head to https://www.time4apint.com/podcast/the-time-4a-pint-podcast-episode-45 for pictures and show notes. Support the Time 4A Pint podcast, buy me a beer - https://ko-fi.com/time4apint Credit to https://soundcloud.com/cityfires for the use of https://soundcloud.com/cityfires/map-of-time-creative-commons

Welcome to Episode 42 of the Time 4A Pint Podcast - This week I sat down for a chat with Aris, to talk about two iconic watch movements, and a selection of the automatic chronographs from his collection that make use of them. From Sinn, to Tudor, Lorenz, and Lemania, each of the watches we talked about contains either a Valjoux 7750, or a Lemania 5100. Two tried and tested workhorses, wrapped up inside six rugged, and beautiful tool watches. Get ready to add a few more timepieces to that wish list. Head to https://www.time4apint.com/podcast/the-time-4a-pint-podcast-episode-42 for pictures and show notes. Credit to https://soundcloud.com/cityfires for the use of https://soundcloud.com/cityfires/map-of-time-creative-commons

Welcome to Episode 37 of the Time 4A Pint Podcast - This week I was out in Karlsruhe, Germany, for the Chrono24 get together, and through a mix of good luck, good timing, and other people being much more organised, got to sit down with Eric Wind for a chat. Hear how Eric went from being an enthusiastic amateur, to regular contributor for Hodinkee, to Vice President, Senior Specialist of Watches at Christie's New York, and is now running his own vintage watch business, Wind Vintage. Oh, and we talked about some of his watches too! Watches on this week's show: Gallet "Jim Clark" Multichron 12 Heuer Carrera 2447N Vulcain Cricket Tudor Prince Oysterdate Ranger (two of them!) 1961 Rolex 1675 GMT-Master Omega Speedmaster 145.012-67 "Ultraman" Head to https://www.time4apint.com/podcast/the-time-4a-pint-podcast-episode-37 for pictures and show notes. Credit to https://soundcloud.com/cityfires for the use of https://soundcloud.com/cityfires/map-of-time-creative-commons

Welcome to Episode 30 of the Time 4A Pint Podcast - this week we got together with Stuart, the man behind www.omegaholygrail.com to talk about the Omega Speedmaster 376.0822, or as it's better known in watch collector circles, The Holy Grail. Stuart kindly brought along two versions of the 376.0822, one all original, the other with service parts, and shared with us what to look for when trying to evaluate this uncommon Speedmaster from the 1980s. Head to https://www.time4apint.com/podcast/the-time-4a-pint-podcast-episode-30 for pictures and shownotes. Credit to https://soundcloud.com/cityfires for the use of https://soundcloud.com/cityfires/map-of-time-creative-commons

Welcome to Episode 15 of the Time 4A Pint podcast - this week we sat down with Mike Stockton, from Fratello watches, to talk about being a (part time) watch journalist, and a full time watch nerd. Mike has a enviable collection of interesting watches, but to keep things under control we made him choose 7 to bring along - a 1980 Rolex GMT Master Root Beer a.k.a "The Clint Eastwood" (although we think "Miami Vice" would be a better nickname!), a Grand Seiko SBGW047, a Gallet Multichron 12, a Breitling 756 Co-Pilot, an Enicar Sherpa Graph Mk1b, a 1965 Seiko 62Mas 6127, and a Heuer Camero. If you're interested in the BCatt Watchstraps that Mike has fitted to his Breitling 765 Co-Pilot, and Enicar Sherpa Graph Mk1B, and would like to see more of Ben's work, or find out how to order, you can check out his Instagram Page. Visit www.time4apint.com/podcasts and scroll down to episode 15 to visit the gallery. Credit to https://soundcloud.com/cityfires for the use of https://soundcloud.com/cityfires/map-of-time-creative-commons

Welcome to Episode 11 of The Time 4A Pint Podcast - where we meet Ewan, the owner of some fun, affordable, vintage Seiko's. Most of us have owned a budget friendly Seiko or two, from the seemingly indestructible Seiko 5's , through to the function filled quartz chronographs of the 1980s... but any of us have a Seiko stash like Ewan's? Watches in the episode: Seiko 6139-6030 Chronograph "Pogue" Seiko 6139-6030 Chronograph (Silver Proof Dial) Seiko 6139-6030 Chronograph (Silver Proof Dial) Seiko Bellmatic Seiko 7a38-7190 Quartz Chronograph Seiko 7a28-7120 RAF Issued Quartz Chronograph Omega Speedmaster Professional 145.022-71 Visit www.time4apint.com/podcasts and scroll down to episode 11 to see pictures of all the watches we talked about in this show. Credit to https://soundcloud.com/cityfires for the use of https://soundcloud.com/cityfires/map-of-time-creative-commons