Grab your wristwear and ear buds. Get ready to relax and learn from the best watch podcast episodes.
If you are looking to learn about watches in general, or are an enthusiast searching for the best watch podcast episodes on watches, you’ve arrived at the right place. Here are five must-listen podcast episodes on watches that will either start you on your watch journey, or help keep your momentum going.
In no particular order:
1. The Grey NATO 190 – “One Month In Sri Lanka.” There are really too many great TGN episodes to choose just one. So I chose what is quite possibly the only podcast to feature its host being bitten by a potentially rabid dog (and most definitely the only watch podcast with said topic). This episode is par for the course for a typical TGN session, with topics that are insightful, periodically dramatic, and quietly meaningful. Set with Jason Heaton in Sri Lanka visiting his wife’s family, this episode of course has the advertised telling of the dog bite and associated vaccinations. But there is so much more, including discussion of Triple Aught Design gear, Seiko divers, intriguing locales, and exotic organisms. It ultimately provides entertainment and good food for thought, as well as a good bit of watch talk. Listening to this one might be followed by 200 more, as James and Jason provide a pleasing, calming, and transcendent escape into TGN land.
2. Worn & Wound Podcast # 83, “Mark Cho of The Armoury.” One of the most satisfying results of a watch podcast is getting a “two for one.” That is to say when you both hear about interesting watches and get something else of significant interest along with it. In this Worn & Wound Podcast session, we learn about Mark Cho’s watches, get a window into his sense of style and design, and hear about the origin of the uber-cool and fashionably under-the-radar haberdashery The Armoury. And where else are you going to entertain a bit of wristband horology as well as learn about the Japanese concept of mono no aware (which the School of Life defines as “the powerful emotions that objects can evoke or instil in us)? Nothing like a watch-loving twofer. Thanks Worn & Wound.
3. OT: The Podcast. “Looking back at James Cox, the man who sold Paul Newman’s Daytona”(Jan 6, 2022.) In some ways it would seem that there is little left to say about Paul Newman’s iconic Daytona, but Andy and Felix do an admirable job bringing James Cox’s story to watch enthusiasts in a way it hadn’t been before. There is plenty in this episode on the path of this very particular Rolex, and listeners get an opportunity to get to know James Cox as well, a person well worth knowing. If that isn’t enough, this episode was literally inspiring to the Dogwatch, and brought about the invitation for James to join the On the Dogwatch podcast #28. Good on you, mates.
4. Hodinkee Radio Episode #113. Explorer & Educator Josh Berntstein. This is a watch podcast at its best. Here you learn about a unique and fascinating individual. You hear about a whole different way to live, in this case with Bernstein’s work at Boulder Outdoor Survival School, where one, in short, learns to catch, skin, and cook their own food and survive in the wilderness. Although Bernstein is a celeb, hosting shows such as “Digging for the Truth” and “Into the Unknown,” there is plenty of good old-fashioned consideration of watches, and more importantly it is a chance to put those watches in the context of an interesting life.
5. Scottish Watches Podcast #200. “The Jean-Claude Biver Interview.” This guy is literally the big cheese in the watch industry, both because he has his own cheese brand, and because he has poked, prodded, pushed, resuscitated, and inspired myriad watch brands. These include such companies as Omega, Blancpain, TAG Heuer, and Hublot. When something is going on in watches, Biver has been there to sniff it out. This podcast gives a good introduction to Biver and how he thinks.
