The Time 4A Pint Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

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 serious horological heat, in the form of an Arnold and Son Nebula.

Which as anyone who’s scrolled through Justin’s Instagram account will tell you, is just one fascinating piece in a hugely varied collection that spans high end to affordable, and mainstream to independent.

I had no idea what Justin was going to bring along today, but I knew that whatever it was, it would be interesting. And colourful. Or grey. Or both.

You can find pictures and reference numbers of all the watches that we talked about on the Time 4A Pint website.

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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.

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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

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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 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:

• Omega Seamaster 2913-3

• Omega Seamaster 165.014-63

• Omega Seamaster 165.024

• 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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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 guest, or myself are likely to be found wearing a suit, or being allowed to undertake any serious diving for that matter - Frankly, there’s more chance of us knowing the Greek word for “the depth of the ocean”. Which is Benthos, in case you were wondering. A piece of information that may prove useful in around 20 minutes time. Watches discussed on this episode: Eterna-Matic Super KonTiki 130FTP Eterna-Matic Super KonTiki IDF Issued Certina DS-2 Super PH 500M Certina DS-3 Super PH1000M Aquastar Benthos 500 (10-50 bezel) Aquastar Benthos 500 (decompression bezel) Head to https://www.time4apint.com/podcast/the-time-4a-pint-podcast-episode-49 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 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 “Rindt” (Valjoux 72) Heuer Silverstone 110313 (Calibre 12) Heuer Audi Sport (Lemania 5100) Head to https://www.time4apint.com/podcast/the-time-4a-pint-podcast-episode-48 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 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 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 to talk about. Pretty much the same position you guys are in at the start of each show. Cheers. Head to https://www.time4apint.com/podcast/the-time-4a-pint-podcast-episode-46 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 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 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 engineering that is the Fears Brunswick. Head to https://www.time4apint.com/podcast/the-time-4a-pint-podcast-episode-44 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