The Time 4A Pint Movember Raffle is back! And this time, thanks to my really lovely freinds, there are more than £6,000 or prizes up for grabs. No. Really! Check them out: The Antiquarian Horological Society - 1 Years Membership - worth up to £70 Baruch “Budge” Coutts - 1 x Limited Edition ‘Colour Shadows” 2021 print - worth £280 (ships from UK) Bremont - 1 x Bremont MB Masterclass and Tour Experience for Two - Worth £990 Farer - 1 x £1,200 Farer gift voucher to be used in...

For episode 63 of the Time 4A Pint Podcast, I got together with Toronto based Justin Mastine-Frost. Outgoing editor in chief of watchuseek.com and fitrated.com, and brand new Director of Digital Content for Sharp Magazine, Canada’s foremost luxury publication. Justin and I first got to hang out in November of 2020, when he and fellow guest Aldis Hodge  joined me and Mat for our 15th Virtual GTG (which you can check out on YouTube). Justin was not messing about that day, and brought some...

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...

For episode 61 of the Time 4A Pint Podcast, I got together with nomadic Irishman, and owner of Brooklyn’s Iona Bar, Victor Boyd, who you may know from Instagram, as PapillonVic. We talked about buying Rolex Submariners for £295, working in high end restaurants in London and Paris and opening one in Manhattan, selling an entire collection to pay the bills when the world changed on September 11, and starting over in Brooklyn with a very cool neighbourhood bar called Iona. Diving with watches,...

For episode 60 of the Time 4A Pint Podcast, I got together with Portobello Road based watch dealer, and fellow fan of odd horology, Josh Rogers. We talked about how the trade has changed in the last 10 years, the weird and wonderful things that wander in off the Portobello Road, keyboard warriors and Omega cross hairs, impulse purchases in French Flea markets, buying a new stainless steel Rolex at retail, and our shared fondness for quirky and often unloved timepieces. You can find pictures...

For episode 59 of the Time 4A Pint Podcast, we are going to be talking about Movember, or more specifically, Affordable & Unloved - The Time 4A Pint Movember Summer Raffle. I’ve teamed up with my virtual GTG co-host Mat, also known as the Watchnerd, to raise funds and awareness for Movember, by raffling off some watches that we’ve bought, and failed to fall in love with. We’ve got 5 in the pot so far, there are 2000 tickets available, they’re just £6 each. And I know you can’t wait to...

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...

For episode 57 of the Time 4A Pint Podcast,  I got together with Tokyo based Eric Skier, also known as "Jewpanese Dude".  Originally from the United States, Eric has been living in Japan since 1991. He is a 5th degree blackbelt in Kendo, who enjoys living a simple life, with friends, family, a cold beer or three, and some better than decent food. We talked about his love for fine timepieces. Hunting out rarities in Japan. The risk of buying broken and obscure watches. 10 of the...

This week I got together with Kathleen McGivney, the New York based CEO of RedBar Group - the world’s largest watch enthusiast community. Kathleen is one of the most friendly and welcoming people in the watch collecting hobby. Has an extensive, eclectic, and ever changing collection of horological gems. And will, if asked, provide you with all the information you could ever need, on the subject of Radium, its uses, and why eating, licking or ingesting it in any way is a terrible idea. We...

For Episode 55 of the Time 4A Pint Podcast, I jumped on a long distance line with Suguru “Sug” Nishioka, to talk about family, diving, the 90s, and how important it is to find a watch that’s the right size for you. Watches featured in this episode: 2020 HODINKEE x Casio “6900 by John Mayer” LE Casio G-Shock DW6900JM20-8CR 1995 Seiko SUS Chronograph 7T27-7A40 2021 Synchron Military Black PVD coated diver 1995 Sinn 244 Ti 1967 Rolex 1016 Explorer 2020 Rolex 114200 Oyster...

November is coming to a close, but there's still time for you to enter the Time 4A Pint Movember raffle, and maybe win my Oris Chronoris Movember Edition

For this very special edition of the Time 4A Pint podcast, we’re going to be talking all about Movember. We’re going to be meeting my contact over at Movember UK Stef, and hearing direct from three Movember ambassadors Bobby Bansal, Elvin Box, and James Mace about their experiences with testicular cancer, prostate cancer, and mental health. And then you’re going to have a chance to win my 2019 Oris Chronoris Movember Edition, and a copy of Flores Delores and the Oris Chronoris signed by...

Much of the watch collecting hobby, is about enablement. One or more collectors, gently nudging another towards functions, styles, heritage, brands, and models that they might find interesting. Sometimes this happens face to face, over one too many pints of winkles old peculiar, sometimes it happens on forums through friendly discussion and heated debate, and more and more, the subtle power of an Instagram friend’s beautifully shot photographs, shoulder the responsibility for an unplanned...

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...

With 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...

It’s early June, the show you're about to listen to has been sat in various states of draft since the end of March, and we haven’t been on the air since February. (Please forgive me if things are a little bit rusty!) Today, we’re going to talk about the podcast, the events, how things are funded (hint: it involves me and you), and because this is a show about watch collecting, 4 new watches that I’ve added to my personal stash. Watches discussed on this episode: Omega CK2300 Accurist...

Head back to the 1960s and 70s, and if you were buying a watch designed for professional diving, you were more likely to wear suits made from form fitting neoprene, than hand tailored wool to your place of work. Thankfully the professional tool watches that found their way into hands of COMEX and Cousteau, were incredibly rugged, and incredibly water resistant - So those of us that are more comfortable behind a desk, than in a diving bell, can enjoy them today. Not that either today’s...

Welcome to Episode 48 of the Time 4A Pint Podcast - This week I got together with Colin, long term watch collector (and longer term Formula One fan), to talk about the (metaphorical) collision of his passions for Horology and Motorsport, and the ensuing (actual) explosion of Heuer Chronographs! Watches on this episode: Rolex Oysterdate Precision 6694 Omega Genéve Dynamic 135.033 Heuer Autavia 1163V “Viceroy” (Calibre 12) Heuer Autavia 73663 “Villeneuve” (Valjoux 7736) Heuer Autavia 2446...

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...

Welcome to Episode 46 of the Time 4A Pint Podcast - This week I got together with Ben, blogger for 8 Past 10, and watch enthusiast (not collector... or so he thinks!), to drink beers and talk watches. This show was a fantastically quick turnaround, from a very brief chat over a beer on Friday, to a recording (and a couple more beers) on the following Wednesday. And up to the point where the recorder started rolling, I had no idea where the conversation was going to go, or what we were going...

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...

Welcome to Episode 44 of the Time 4A Pint Podcast - This week I got together with Nicholas Bowman-Scargill, 4th Managing Director, and re-founder of the Fears Watch Company to drink tea, eat biscuits and talk about the first hand wound watch from Fears in more than 50 years! Tune in to hear about the re-establishment of what was the West of England's largest watchmaker, and the journey Nick has taken in the development, construction, and launch of the small production marvel of British...

Welcome to Episode 43 of the Time 4A Pint Podcast - it has been an incredibly long time since we last had a chat - so today I’m going to bring you up to speed with all things Time 4A Pint - including how you can buy me a beer! A short (watch free!) show, but fear not regularly scheduled content returns next week! Head to https://www.time4apint.com/podcast/the-time-4a-pint-podcast-episode-43 for show notes. Support the Time 4A Pint podcast, buy me a beer -...

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...