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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...

On Sunday 3rd May, me (I'm the nerd behind Time 4A Pint) and Mat (the #Watchnerd), were joined by special guests Jonathan Hills (Director, Clocks & Barometers at Sotheby's) and Seth Kennedy (Watchmaker, Antiquarian Horologist, and QEST Scholar) for a little over 60 minutes of horological show...

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...

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...

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...

Hello WUS! I finally found the time to sit down, record, edit, and publish a new show. :-) 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...

Ever since the first episode of the Time 4A Pint Podcast 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...

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...

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...

Evening WuS! 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...

Hi WUS, I had the great pleasure of being a guest of Oris at the Jazz FM Awards last week, and getting to borrow their most recent Jazz watch, the Dexter Gordon for review. Hopefully my rambling nonsense if of use to anyone considering this watch! :) Cheers Chris If you had asked me when...

Morning WUS! Episode 37 of the Time 4A Pint Podcast is Live! - 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...

Morning WUS! Episode 36 of the Time 4A Pint Podcast is live - For those of you that are listening to this show as it comes out each week, you might be wondering what's going on. There was supposed to be a two week break between the last show and this one, and there was a weird gap between...

Afternoon WUS This was originally due to air on Friday 5th January, however my gallbladder had other ideas... regular service will now resume! For this week's show, I spent an evening hanging out with Nathan, talking about his transition from vintage vinyl, to watch collecting, and the friends...

Morning WUS! This week I got together with Jonas, to talk about some of the military pieces within his eclectic collection.

 True to character, they're are not only of different types, from different manufactures, and periods of time, but from different militaries and forces too - Making...

Morning WUS! Episode 33 of the Time 4A Pint Podcast is now Live. This week I spent an afternoon with Mister James Dowling, Rolex aficionado, and not so secret lover of the Beta 21, talking about the high end electronic movement from the past, and the futuristic watches that it was fitted to...

Episode 32 of the Time 4A Pint Podcast is live! - This week we grabbed a beer with Ollie, a vintage watch collector, who doesn't currently have any of his vintage watches (they're all away being repaired), to talk about two of the most popular limited edition pieces to be released in 2017, the...

Morning WUS! Episode 31 of the Time 4A Pint Podcast is live. For this week's show we got to spend some time with Johann, who was visiting the UK all the way from Manila, in the Philippines, and brought along some of his Limited Edition timepieces to share with us. With watches from...

Episode 30 of the Time 4A Pint Podcast is Live! This week we got together with Stuart, the man behind omegaholygrail.com to talk about the Omega Speedmaster 376.0822, or as it's better known in watch collector circles, The Omega Holy Grail. Stuart kindly brought along two versions of the...

Episode 30 of the Time 4A Pint Podcast is Live! This week we got together with Stuart, the man behind omegaholygrail.com to talk about the Omega Speedmaster 376.0822, or as it's better known in watch collector circles, The Omega Holy Grail. Stuart kindly brought along two versions of the...