**Hello everyone, Nicholas here. This week's episode is late for one of two reasons: One, I forgot to schedule it for publication or two, Anchor messed up. I've been having issues with Anchor lately and would love to find a new provider tbh. Regardless, apologies, but enjoy!**
This week on The HourTime Show, the official podcast of WristWatchReview.com, John, Victor, and Nicholas break down their top 10-ish favorite watches under $1,000. But before that, John has some follow-up on a watch that, ahem, greatly resembles a Rolex GMT Master II. Timestamps (we're trying a new format for these, hopefully they work!) (0:00) John's thoughts on his "GMT Master II" (8:20) The top 10 begins: Hemel Air Wing (9:30) NTH Watches (10:15) Seiko King Turtle (10:40) Citizen Tsuyosa (11:40) Hailos (12:30) Imperial Royal Guard (13:20) Heimdallr's Willard Homage (15:00) Casio Frogman (16:10) Seiko Orange Monster (17:55) MoonSwatch (19:00) Tissot PRX (21:00) Tissot Seastar (24:30) Victor has some Belhamel follow-up, outro Thanks once again to Andrew Haworth for his help producing this week's episode. Follow the crew on social media: https://twitter.com/johnbiggs
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https://www.instagram.com/wristwatchreview Come hang in our Discord: https://discord.gg/AccJepsEn4 Thank you, have a great week! -Nicholas, May 14, 2023, Tucson, AZ
Hello and welcome to The HourTime Show, the official podcast of WristWatchReview.com. Your hosts this week are Victor (@vmarks on Twitter) and Nicholas (@nicholasadeleon). John is away this week. He sends his regards.
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This week, Victor and Nicholas primarily discuss three big topics: Seestern's new Pelagos homage and how it compares to similar pieces from the likes of Heimdallr, and why you'd want to spend $300 on an homage versus a rep; Rolex's certified pre-owed program; the Belhamel Contra A40; and some DIY watch project stuff. We also briefly mention some big New York Times article on replica handbags, which *we think* is relevant but we didn't actually read the article.
We also bring back audio podcast chapters with this episode. Adding chapters tacks on several more minutes to post-production so hopefully someone out there appreciates them. If your podcast player supports chapters you can more easily skip around to different segments of the episode. Many of the most popular podcast apps, including Apple Podcasts, Overcast, and Pocket Casts, support podcasts, but I (Nicholas) don't know offhand if Spotify does. I guess we'll see!
Thanks once again to Andrew Haworth for his help producing this week's episode.
Keep it locked to WristWatchReview.com and @wristwatchreview on Instagram for more fun watch content. And feel free to come hang with us all day on Discord!
Thank you for listening, and have a great week!
-Nicholas, Tucson, AZ, May 7, 2023
Hello and welcome to The HourTime Show, the official podcast of WristWatchReview.com. Your hosts this week are John (@johnbiggs on Twitter), Victor (@vmarks), and Nicholas (@nicholasadeleon). Yes, we're still on Twitter. If you have a Bluesky invite please get in touch with us lol.
**For a video version of this podcast, simply visit our YouTube channel.**
This week we primarily discuss three watches: the Graham Fortress Green, the Christopher Ward Twelve, and, your main event of the evening, the very summery Timex T80. Do we like them? Do we meh them? There's only one way to find out!
Thanks once again to Andrew Haworth for producing this week's episode, both the audio and video versions.
Keep it locked to WristWatchReview.com and @wristwatchreview on Instagram for more fun watch content. And feel free to come hang with us all day on Discord.
Thank you for listening, and have a great week!
-Nicholas, Tucson, AZ, April 30, 2023
Hello and welcome to The HourTime Show, the official podcast of WristWatchReview.com. Your hosts this week are John (@johnbiggs on Twitter) and Nicholas (@nicholasadeleon).
We may have lost our blue checks but we're still here!
Victor is out sick this week, so this is a quick episode.
John and Nicholas touch on three big topics this week: Boldr's new Pokémon collab, the bronze Baltic Aquascaphe Morron, and whether or not it's possible to become literal friends with someone because of the watch they're wearing.
Good clean fun!
Don't forget that The HourTime Show is now also on YouTube! Simply subscribe to the WristWatchReview YouTube channel, and new episodes of HourTime will appear as part of a dedicated HourTime Show playlist. Like and subscribe if you want to see our fancy production at work!
Thanks once again to Andrew Haworth for producing this week's episode.
Keep it locked to WristWatchReview.com and @wristwatchreview on Instagram for more fun watch content. And feel free to come hang with us all day on our shiny new Discord.
Thank you for listening, and have a great week!
Hello and welcome to The HourTime Show, the official podcast of WristWatchReview.com. Your hosts this week are John (@johnbiggs on Twitter), Victor (@vmarks) and Nicholas (@nicholasadeleon).
If you're not aware, The HourTime Show is now on YouTube! Simply subscribe to the WristWatchReview YouTube channel, and new episodes of HourTime will appear as part of a dedicated HourTime Show playlist. Like and subscribe!
This week, the gang mostly discusses the murky world of replica watches, better known as "reps." It seems John is tempted by the idea of buying a rep GMT Master II, so we hash out live on the air what he should do.
There are a few other topics but that's the gist this week.
Thanks once again to Andrew Haworth for producing this week's episode.
Keep it locked to WristWatchReview.com and @wristwatchreview on Instagram for more fun watch content. And of course, our shiny new Discord and YouTube channel.
Thank you for listening, and have a great week!
Hello everyone, Nicholas here.
This is just a quick public service announcement to let you know that The HourTime Show is now on YouTube.
Our channel is YouTube.com/@wristwatchreview, and there you'll find our video episodes. Any and all WristWatchReview.com video content will live there too, with this dedicated playlist hosting HourTime itself.
The audio-only version of the pod isn't going anywhere, but we thought it would be fun to make a video option available for folks.
Thanks!
Hello and welcome to The HourTime Show, the official podcast of WristWatchReview.com. Your hosts this week are John (@johnbiggs on Twitter), Victor (@vmarks) and Nicholas (@nicholasadeleon).
If you're not aware, The HourTime Show is now on YouTube! Simply subscribe to the WristWatchReview YouTube channel, and new episodes of HourTime should (knock on wood) appear as part of a dedicated HourTime Show playlist. Like and subscribe!
This is a shorter episode this week because John had what's known in the business as a "hard out." Meaning, he had a work thing to do right after.
But the pod never sleeps! (OK, we occasionally sleep.)
This week we tackle all of Rolex's new releases that were announced at Watches and Wonders this year. Your hosts' reactions are... mixed. We then tackle the Oris ProPilot X Kermit and get into where all these cutesy watch collabs came from.
There's a bit more but that's the gist!
Thanks once again to Andrew Haworth for producing this week's episode.
Keep it locked to WristWatchReview.com and @wristwatchreview on Instagram for more fun watch content. And of course, our shiny new Discord and YouTube channel.
Thank you for listening, and have a great week!
Hello and welcome to yet another exciting edition of The HourTime Show, the official podcast of WristWatchReview.com. Your hosts this week are Victor (@vmarks) and Nicholas (@nicholasadeleon). John is traveling this week and couldn't record.
WE HAVE NEWS!!!
This week's episode is our very first attempt at creating a video podcast. You can watch it HERE.
For various reasons we've been wanting to experiment with producing a video edition of The HourTime Show for a few months now, and we've finally decided to give it a shot.
The audio podcast will not got away! But, we basically wanted to give folks an option of watching video since we know that's important to folks. There will be some bugs as we figure out the workflow, but hopefully everything works properly.
For now, the video version will be found on YouTube. Again, you can click here to watch the first episode. Like and subscribe, and all that. (Yes, it's being hosted on my personal YouTube channel for now.) We might expand it to other platforms (like Spotify) but I (Nicholas) don't actually know how that will affect the audio feed. If anyone at there does know please tweet me or email me at nicholas@wristwatchreview.com.
If you have any suggestions or anything like that please email the show at tips@wristwatchreview.com, tweet us, or ping us on Discord.
All credit to Andrew Haworth for producing both the audio and video edition of The HourTime Show!
As for this week's episode, we tackle a bunch of subjects including Rolex's alleged production increases and whether or not we think Tissot is the new Tudor. What does that mean? No one knows what it means but it's provocative. It gets the people going!
Keep it locked to WristWatchReview.com and @wristwatchreview on Instagram for more fun watch content.
Thank you for listening, and have a great week!
Hello and welcome to yet another exciting edition of The HourTime Show, the official podcast of WristWatchReview.com. Your hosts this week are John (@johnbiggs on Twitter) and Nicholas (@nicholasadeleon).
With Victor away this week John and Nicholas decide to break down what exactly is "off" with the latest MoonSwatch release. How did something that was universally well-received end up becoming... whatever this is?
Pretty decent convo on how the vibe has shifted.
There's a bit more but that's the gist.
Thanks once again to Andrew Haworth for producing this week's episode.
Keep it locked to WristWatchReview.com and @wristwatchreview on Instagram for more fun watch content.
Thank you for listening, and have a great week!
Hello and welcome to yet another exciting VERY VERY TINY edition of The HourTime Show, the official podcast of WristWatchReview.com. Your host this week is Nicholas (@nicholasadeleon).
John and Victor could not record this week so I'm publishing this quick thingamajig mostly to remind you to join our Discord.
If you were in the Discord last week you would have seen our LIVE REACTION to the new Omega MoonSwatch. John has larger thoughts here.
You might have also missed Patrick's take on the new Atelier Jalaper AJ-P400.
That's about it!
Keep it locked to WristWatchReview.com and @wristwatchreview on Instagram for more fun watch content.
Thank you for listening, and have a great week!
Hello and welcome to yet another exciting edition of The HourTime Show, the official podcast of WristWatchReview.com. Your hosts this week are John (@johnbiggs on Twitter), Victor (@vmarks) and Nicholas (@nicholasadeleon).
We open the show this week with some more ChatGPT hijinks, asking it to write a watch podcast intro from scratch. Sounds OK to us! We intend to mess around with this tech a bit more in the coming days and weeks.
Victor then goes into detail with a Houtman, which he has on loan at the moment. This sparks a wider discussion on branding, design, and so on. Of course, we had to then ask ChatGPT to come up with some watch brands for us.
Lastly, we help Victor pick a travel watch. Sounds like he needs a GMT of some sort!
There's a bit more but that's the gist.
Thanks once again to Andrew Haworth for producing this week's episode.
Keep it locked to WristWatchReview.com and @wristwatchreview on Instagram for more fun watch content.
Thank you for listening, and have a great week!
Hello and welcome to a special MICRO edition of The HourTime Show, the official podcast of WristWatchReview.com. Your hosts this week are John (@johnbiggs on Twitter) and Nicholas (@nicholasadeleon). Victor (@vmarks) appears at the very end for approximately three seconds.
Why micro? Because Nicholas, who is a very important person, had to take a call during our usual recording time and we didn't want to miss another week. So, micro it is!
We open with a great deal of G Shock talk, brought about by Nicholas's recent visit to the gun show in Tucson. A looot of G Shocks there, let me tell ya. This newest Frogman? Eh, a little busy for our tastes.
We then shift to a quick discussion of this Nivada and the VK64 mecha-quartz movement. What's the deal with the 24-hour subdial?
And that about does it for this MICRO episode.
Thanks once again to Andrew Haworth for producing.
Keep it locked to WristWatchReview.com and @wristwatchreview on Instagram for more fun watch content.
Thank you for listening, and have a great week!
Hello and welcome to yet another exciting edition of The HourTime Show, the official podcast of WristWatchReview.com. Your hosts this week are John (@johnbiggs on Twitter), Victor (@vmarks) and Nicholas (@nicholasadeleon).
We open the week with some AI talk, stuff like ChatGPT and Dall-E, and whether or not these tools can be used to create watches. We more or less land on, "Sure, why not?"
We then pivot to a new (to us) Norwegian brand called Aigi, whose Satellite Ground Station we're definitely big fans of. John loves it, and he hates everything!
Victor then brings the brand Houtman to the table, which he now has in for review. Another new-to-us brand that's a winner. Nice!
There's a bit more but that's the gist.
Thanks once again to Andrew Haworth for producing this week's episode.
Keep it locked to WristWatchReview.com and @wristwatchreview on Instagram for more fun watch content.
Thank you for listening, and have a great week!
Hello and welcome to yet another exciting edition of The HourTime Show, the official podcast of WristWatchReview.com. Your hosts this week are John (@johnbiggs on Twitter), Victor (@vmarks) and Nicholas (@nicholasadeleon). Full house!
We open the show this week with, get this, some actual watch talk.
First on the docket is the Hnauty Hero-X, which John has in for review. As is befitting our general ideology, we're basically OK with this! The price is right, it looks fiiiiine, and so forth. Is it in the same level as all those APs that were announced last week? Well no, but we think it's cool overall, silly name notwithstanding. We're in a good mood this week!
We then take a tangent to discuss WHAT THE HECK IS HAPPENING to design and/or aesthetics in this country.
We then take another tangent to plug our Discord. We're still in the early stages of figuring this out so please be kind.
Victor has some thoughts on the Alpina Alpiner Extreme Automatic Freeride World Tour, leading to an overall discussion on Alpina itself.
Thaaat's about it!
Thanks once again to Andrew Haworth for producing this week's episode.
Keep it locked to WristWatchReview.com and @wristwatchreview on Instagram for more fun watch content.
Thank you for listening, and have a great week!
Hello and welcome to yet another exciting edition of The HourTime Show, the official podcast of WristWatchReview.com. Your hosts this week are John (@johnbiggs on Twitter) and Nicholas (@nicholasadeleon).
Strap in for a weird one, friends.
With Victor out, John and Nicholas take you on a meandering meta journey about the meaning of life and a bunch of other stuff. I love this discussion to be honest.
Now if you listen to a watch podcast expecting to eventually hear about watches, good news: We talk about this new Kross Studios Bob Fett tourbillon, this Christopher Ward Dune GMT, and this Shinola GMT.
Keep it locked to WristWatchReview.com and @wristwatchreview on Instagram for more fun watch content.
Thank you for listening, have a great week!
Hello and welcome to yet another exciting edition of The HourTime Show, the official podcast of WristWatchReview.com. Your hosts this week are John (@johnbiggs on Twitter), Victor (@vmarks) and Nicholas (@nicholasadeleon).
This is the first podcast of 2023, so hooray! We should be back to our normal recording schedule from now on.
At the top of the show we reveal that Nicholas (IE, the person writing these show notes) has left New York for Tucson, Arizona. See you in heck, New York!
As far as watch news go, we discuss a couple of nice pieces including this handsome Traska GMT that apparently we all love; this Vulcain skindiver that we're ehhh on; the (potential) impact of the (potential) recession; and this Laventure Automobile Chronograph, which we're also sorta meh on.
Keep it locked to WristWatchReview.com and @wristwatchreview on Instagram for more fun watch content.
Thank you for listening, have a great week!
Hello and welcome to yet another exciting edition of The HourTime Show, the official podcast of WristWatchReview.com. Your hosts this week are John (@johnbiggs on Twitter), Victor (@vmarks) and Nicholas (@nicholasadeleon).
Welcome to the final episode of 2022. Sorry we've been AWOL, but for a number of reasons that are explained here we were unable to record.
We touch on a few topics in this episode, including the Barstool Sports guy's dumb watch; Timex's weird NFT thing; John trying to eBay this Seiko he no longer wants; and what we're happy and/or thankful for this year.
I (Nicholas) edited this episode, so apologies if it's not up to our usual standard.
Keep it locked to WristWatchReview.com and @wristwatchreview on Instagram for more fun watch content.
Thank you for listening, and we'll see you at some point in January!
Hello and welcome to yet another exciting edition of The HourTime Show, the official podcast of WristWatchReview.com. Your hosts this week are John (@johnbiggs on Twitter), Victor (@vmarks) and Nicholas (@nicholasadeleon).
We open The Pod with a status update on Nicholas: He's alive! Yup, he had The Covid and was out of commission for several days there. But he's feeling much better now. Hooray!
Believe it or not but we actually talk about watches this week, focusing on some Black Friday deals we think you should keep an eye on. We mostly touch on brands like Timex and Invicta (!) but then also suggest visiting sites like Chrono24 to find vintage pieces this holiday shopping season. Nicholas also wanted to randomly highlight this RGM Yellowstone National Park watch. Neat!
Thanks once again to Andrew Haworth for producing this week's episode.
Keep it locked to WristWatchReview.com and @wristwatchreview on Instagram for more fun watch content.
Thank you for listening, and have a great week!
Hello and welcome to yet another exciting edition of The HourTime Show, the official podcast of WristWatchReview.com. Your hosts this week are John (@johnbiggs on Twitter) and Victor (@vmarks). Nicholas was recovering from The Covid when this was recorded but should be back in the saddle next week.
John and Victor discuss a bunch of stuff this week including Yema doing a Kickstarter for a Wristrmaster Traveler Micro-Rotor, which vaguely resembles a Royal Oak. If you back the Kickstarter it can be yours for roughly $1,500 but if you wait for retail availability it'll set you back closer to $3,000. Ouch!
We then shift to a discussion of Timex's collab... thing with Fortnite. We're cautiously pro-VR/AR/etc here but this has us scratching our heads... but we could just be old, who knows. There's actually a decent discussion here on the evolution of media and various moral panics ("comic books will destroy children's souls!" etc.) so you're in for a treat.
The last big topic we discuss is vintage watches. We're slightly skeptical of vintage watches because you generally don't know what you're getting but John recently purchased a Seiko Speedtimer and Victor got a Duward Aquastar. Hear them chew over their decisions!
Speaking of vintage watches, there was a really good article over at Fratello about Zoomers apparently loving them.
That's about it for this week.
Thanks once again to Andrew Haworth for producing this week's episode.
Keep it locked to WristWatchReview.com and @wristwatchreview on Instagram for more fun watch content.
Thank you for listening, and have a great week!
Hello and welcome to yet another exciting edition of The HourTime Show, the official podcast of WristWatchReview.com. Your hosts this week are John (@johnbiggs on Twitter), Victor (@vmarks), and Nicholas (@nicholasadeleon).
One quick note: Producer Andrew is traveling over the next few weeks so Nicholas is handling editing duties. It *should* sound fine but, unlike Andrew, Nicholas is not a professional editor. You've been warned!
Moving on.
John opens the show with his thoughts on the Benrus 3061, which we basically all love. If you look up "field watch" in the Watch Geek Dictionary you'll see a photo of it. Not bad for a $600 jawn that was featured in the movie Bullitt!
We then turn to a topic Nicholas saw in a local newspaper about how everyone hates Daylight Saving Time, and that its days may be numbered. We go into the history or "point," perhaps, of switching the clocks back and forth every spring and autumn, and basically land on the idea of: pick one and stick with it.
At this point, Victor brings up Swatch's old idea, from the late 90s, of "Internet Time," which was an attempt to create a universal time zone, in a sense, that used a measurement called beats and was featured in Phantasy Star Online. Let's bring it back!
Victor then runs us through a $30,000 Zenith psychedelic chrono that he believes resembles those old Trapper Keepers.
Lastly, we go over the Omega MoonSwatch. Turns out that A) John bought one in Poland a few months ago and B) it's going on tour over the next couple of weeks in a few cities in California and Florida. So, if you want a MoonSwatch and live in one of these cities, feel free to hit up Swatch on social media for more details.
And that, as they say, is that.
Keep it locked to WristWatchReview.com and @wristwatchreview on Instagram for more fun watch content.
Thank you for listening, and have a great week!