What's on Your Riste? A Watch Podcast

Riste Simnjanovski (Watchovski)
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Welcome to “What's on Your Riste? A Watch Podcast.” The podcast for people who love wristwatches way more than is probably reasonable and have absolutely zero plans to stop. I'd suggest starting at the beginning, this isn't a "current events" type show; start at Season 1, Episode 1 and you'll be along for the journey! …or anyone you’re interested in since S01 Episodes 1-3 have some audio issues we had to work out* Think of this more like a TV show for enthusiasts...minus the TV...so radio... We cover everything from Rolex, Omega and Cartier to indies like Czapek, Dornbluth, Gronefeld, Rexhep, Hanhart, Laine, Seiko and more. Welcome, we're stoked you're here! *Riste Simnjanovski (Watchovski)* Media Contact: RistePodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @RistePodcast

  1. 2d ago

    S02E14: What's the Real Cost of Collecting?

    S02E14: What's the Real Cost of Collecting? Description: Watches cost money. Everybody knows that. This episode is about the costs nobody warns you about. A man brings his grail to a meetup and then admits he never wears it, and that quiet confession opens up the real question: what does collecting actually cost us, past the price tag? We walk down four costs, lightest to heaviest, with a dead French philosopher, a runaway dressing gown, a ninety minute drive to buy a watch I swore I would not buy, and a turn at the end that reframes the whole bill. Philosophical, honest, and a little self deprecating. No prior watch knowledge required. Bring the friend who has something in a safe. KEYWORDS cost of collecting, watch collecting philosophy, why we collect watches, Diderot effect, hedonic adaptation, arrival fallacy, loss aversion, endowment effect, collecting psychology, watch collector confessions, meaningful watches, heirloom watch, grail watch, watch hobby cost, collecting and meaning, sentimental value, watch community, watch podcast, What’s on Your Riste, Watchovski, philosophy of collecting, why we buy watches, watch FOMO, secondary market, collecting regret, watches and identity

  2. Oct 29

    S02E13: "Made" in Italy: Panerai, Bvlgari, Venezianico, Unimatic, and Giuliano Mazzuoli

    S02E13: "Made" in Italy: Panerai, Bvlgari, Venezianico, Unimatic, and Giuliano Mazzuoli (...with a special hello to my family in Italy...thank's for the suggestion to have fun with this one.) DESCRIPTION Is Italy even a real watchmaking country? Buckle up. This is the fun one. We start with Sylvester Stallone falling in love with a giant Italian navy watch on a movie set in 1996 and accidentally launching a global cult, and we use it to make a cheeky but serious argument: Italy’s gift to watches is taste, not gears. We cover Panerai, the Florentine legend that is made in Switzerland, including a straight- talking take on its recent comeback and why you should probably buy one used. Bulgari, the Roman jeweler that humiliated the Swiss by going thin, with about ten world records in eleven years. And the young Italian independents writing the next chapter: Venezianico, Unimatic, and Giuliano Mazzuoli. No prior watch knowledge required. Bring the friend with the dinner-plate watch. KEYWORDS Italian watches, Italian watchmaking, Panerai, Panerai Luminor, Panerai Radiomir, Panerai history, Sylvester Stallone Panerai, Panerai Daylight, Panerai used value, Panerai prices, Bulgari Octo Finissimo, Octo Finissimo Ultra, thinnest watch world record, Bulgari watches, Venezianico, Meccaniche Veneziane, Unimatic, Modello Uno, Giuliano Mazzuoli, Manometro, Italian microbrands, Italian independent watchmakers, Anonimo, U-Boat, Zannetti, sprezzatura, watch design, watch podcast, What’s on Your Riste, Watchovski, taste in watches, Florencewatchmaking, Roman design

  3. Oct 21

    S02E12: Watch Stories Franck Muller - The Master and the Margins

    Season 2, Episode 12: Franck Muller THE MASTER AND THE MARGINS: FRANCK MULLER, THE SHAPE OF AMBITION, AND THE WATCH THEROOM LOVES TO HATE DESCRIPTION A prodigy. A partnership. A courtroom feud with a counterfeiting uncle and fifteen hundred mystery Russian movements. A two-point-seven-million-dollar watch with thirty-six complications. And a sporty tonneau that quietly became the brand’s comeback. This is the full Franck Muller story, the admiration and the disdain held in one hand, with a long, fun look at the engineering of the Vanguard. I am Watchovski. KEYWORDS Franck Muller, Vartan Sirmakes, Cintrée Curvex, tonneau, Master of Complications, front-visible tourbillon, Casablanca, Long Island, Conquistador, Master Banker, Color Dreams, Crazy Hours, jumping hour, Aeternitas Mega 4, Pierre-Michel Golay, Westminster carillon, grande sonnerie, petite sonnerie, perpetual calendar, Watchland, Genthod, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Geneva Watchmaking School, Svend Andersen, Patek Philippe restoration, quartz crisis, Poljot movements, Jean-Claude Biver, Richard Mille, Vanguard, Vanguard Gravity, elliptical tourbillon, Aero Revolution, Vanguard Yachting, Vanguard Mariner, Vanguard Casablanca, glass fiber composite, gray market, counterfeits, super clone, haute horlogerie, independent watchmaking, collector culture, Watchovski, What’s on Your Riste

  4. Oct 17 ·  Bonus

    S02E28: BONUS: 59, 60, Click: The GPHG-Winning Zenith Everybody Forgot (The Pilot Big Date Special 42)

    Link to a visual of the watch: Hodinkee Article SJX Quick History Walton Custom Watches Link Title: 59, 60, Click: The GPHG-Winning Zenith Everybody Forgot (The Pilot Big Date Special 42) Description: A tiny click on a chronograph sends Watchovski from his desk to Geneva. The Zenith Pilot Big Date Special won the 2012 GPHG Petite Aiguille, runs a five-hertz El Primero 4010, hides a patented big date that reads backwards, and shares its two-eyed layout with Zenith’s Cold War pilot chronographs on both sides of the Adriatic. So why does nobody talk about it? Jumping minute counters, useless telemeters, a Habring cameo, and the best-kept secret on the secondary market. Keywords: Zenith, El Primero, El Primero 4010, Pilot Big Date Special, GPHG 2012, Petite Aiguille, bi-compax chronograph, jumping minute counter, big date, Cairelli CP-2, Italian Air Force, Yugoslav Zenith, telemeter, Habring, column wheel chronograph, high beat, watch podcast, What’s on Your Riste, Watchovski; Walton Custom Watches

  5. Oct 15

    S02E11: The First Watch (Kids and Teens): Flik Flak, Sher, Blok, Mini Kyomo, Casio, Baby-G, Timex

    S02E11: The First Watch (Kids and Teens): Flik Flak, Sher, Blok, Mini Kyomo, Casio, Baby-G, Times, Freestyle, Vintage DESCRIPTION The hardest watch you’ll ever buy is the first one you give a kid. This bonus episode is for parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents, and godparents who want to hand a small person a real watch and do it right. We start with an uncomfortable fact (most young people can’t read an analog clock anymore), make the case for why that skill still matters, then shop every budget: Flik Flak, Sher, Blok, Mini Kyomo, the unkillable Casio F-91W, Baby-G, Timex Easy Reader, Freestyle Shark, and Swatch. Plus the move nobody expects for teenagers: vintage quartz Seiko and Citizen, cooler and cheaper than another smartwatch. People first, as always. I’m Watchovski. KEYWORDS kids watches, first watch for a child, learning to tell time, analog clock skill, Flik Flak, Sher Watches, Blok 33, Mini Kyomo, Casio F-91W, Baby-G, Timex Easy Reader, Timex Time Machines, Freestyle Shark, Swatch, vintage quartz, neo-vintage, Seiko quartz, Citizen Eco-Drive, watches for teenagers, smartwatch alternative, gift watch, watch collecting for beginners

  6. Oct 8

    S02E10: The One Watch Collection

    Media: RistePodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @RistePodcast Description: 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 has been about all along. Not a list. A mirror. Keywords: one watch, one-watch question, rolex submariner, omega speedmaster, gmt-master, tudor black bay, fp journe, chronometre souverain, dufour simplicity, philippe dufour, watch collecting, philosophy, collector taste, independent watchmaking, what's on your riste, watchovski, watchpodcast, season 2, collecting life, settled, watch values, whatsonyourriste

  7. Oct 5

    S2E27: Your Grail Watch Is in Japan. How Did It Get There? Season 2 Bonus

    Media Contact: RistePodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @RistePodcast Thanks again to DumiHed (Mike) for this topic :) Title Your Grail Watch Is in Japan. How Did It Get There? (S2 Bonus) Description It’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 Japan? In this Season 2 bonus episode of What’s on Your Riste?, Watchovski follows a question from listener Mike, aka DumiHead, into the machinery behind Japan’s pre-owned luxury watch market: the buying frenzy of the 1980s, boxes and papers that somehow survive decades, dealer licensing through the police, and wholesale auctions most collectors will never see. Add the pull of a weak yen, and your late-night watch search starts to make a lot more sense. Along the way: what earns buyer trust, what keeps watches moving across borders, and why that endlessly repeated “80 percent” claim deserves a raised eyebrow. Swiss watches. Japanese detours. And the uncomfortable discovery that your secret watch shop was never really a secret. Keywords What’s on Your Riste; Watchovski; Season 2 bonus episode; Japan watch market; pre-owned luxury watches; buying watches from Japan; Japanese watch dealers; Swiss watches; watch collecting; grail watches; vintage watches; Tokyo watch shopping; Nakano Broadway; secondary watch market; watch auctions; AUCNET; EcoRing; kobutsusho license; watch condition; boxes and papers; weak yen; luxury watch resale; DumiHead

  8. Oct 1

    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 down as CEO in summer 2025, and we talk through what that means and what it doesn't. This is the case for a brand that the market hasn't caught up to yet. Keywords: de bethune, denis flageollet, david zanetta, db28, db28xp, db28xs, steel wheels, kind of blue, blued titanium, spherical moonphase, pare-chute, sainte-croix, jura, aiguille d'or, gphg, pierre jacques, justin reis, the 1916 company, watchbox, tha, techniques horlogeres appliquees, independent watchmaking, haute horlogerie, tourbillon, balance spring, silicon escape wheel, under the radar, underrated indies, what's on your riste, watchovski, watch podcast, watch collecting, whatsonyourriste

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Welcome to “What's on Your Riste? A Watch Podcast.” The podcast for people who love wristwatches way more than is probably reasonable and have absolutely zero plans to stop. I'd suggest starting at the beginning, this isn't a "current events" type show; start at Season 1, Episode 1 and you'll be along for the journey! …or anyone you’re interested in since S01 Episodes 1-3 have some audio issues we had to work out* Think of this more like a TV show for enthusiasts...minus the TV...so radio... We cover everything from Rolex, Omega and Cartier to indies like Czapek, Dornbluth, Gronefeld, Rexhep, Hanhart, Laine, Seiko and more. Welcome, we're stoked you're here! *Riste Simnjanovski (Watchovski)* Media Contact: RistePodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @RistePodcast

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