Chris and Jon discuss the end of the Santa Fe Symposium, archery tag, Apple’s Series 5 Watch, and Chris’ upcoming pad printer purchase.

• Santa Fe Symposium
• Eddie Bell
• The Goldsmiths’ Company Jewellery Materials Congress
• Portland Jewelry Symposium
• SNAG The Society of North American Goldsmiths
• Dr. Robert Organ
• ChefSteps’ Ultimate Guide to Chocolate Chip Cookies
“The perfect blend of chewy, crispy, buttery, chocolatey goodness”
• ChefSteps Joule Sous vide cooking made simple
• Bon Appétit Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Chris’ Eggroll Challenge
• Playback Bar & Gamespace
• 45lb Recurve Bow
• Carbon Arrows
• Archer Watches
• Apple Watch
• SIHH 2019 Episode 35 of Off Hours
• Vacheron Constantin Twin Beat Perpetual Calendar
• _DavidSmith
• Moon++ An accurate moonphase complication for the Apple Watch
• Eterna Caliber 39 The base watch caliber Chris is using for the watches he is working on developing
• Kent Pad Printers
• Tampo Print
• Black 3.0 An ultra black acrylic paint

In the fourth instalment of our series on George Daniels’ book, Watchmaking, Chris and Jon discuss the watchmaker’s lathe, its uses, and what to look for when buying one.

• Watchmaking by George Daniels
• Lathes
• Struthers’ Project 248 2 Minds, 4 Hands, One 8mm Lathe
• Turning Between Centres
• Makers Rendezvous Chris tried his hand at turning poplar on a pull lathe at Makers Rendezvous 2019
• Lee Valley
• Zaratsu Polishing
• Holtzapffel Makers of ornamental lathes
• Watchmakers Lathe
• Schaublin Lathes
• Aciera F1
• Micro 100 Carbide Tooling
• Machinery’s Handbook
• DMT Diamond Bench Stones
• Ruby Hone
• Making High Speed Steel Cutters
• Grinding Lathe Tools
• 4 Jaw Chuck Centering competition at Bar Z Bash
• Cowells Makers of small machine tools
• Vector Watchmaker Lathes & Accessories
• Cardon Tools

Peter Speake-Marin joins Chris and Jon for a conversation about life as an independent watchmaker and his most recent endeavour, The Naked Watchmaker Project. This is part two of two. Part one can be listened to here.

• Peter Speake-Marin Part One If you haven’t listened to it already, we recommend first listening to part one of our conversation with Peter
• The Naked Watchmaker
• Stoic World Peter Speake-Marin’s latest venture in watchmaking
• Speake-Marin Watch Brand The watch brand that Peter & his wife, Daniela, founded & later sold
• Greubel Forsey
• Ian Skellern
• Tim Ferriss
• The Four Hour Work Week
• Stoicism
• Somlo Antiques
• Graveyard Full of Secrets Philippe Dufour reflecting on the loss of craft & skill that occurs each time a watchmaker passes away
• Renaud & Papi
• Marc Hayek
• The Swatch Group
• Jaquet Droz
• Breguet
• Blancpain
• Ferdinand Berthoud
• Grand Seiko
• Hiko Mizuno School of Watchmaking in Japan
• N.G. Hayek Watchmaking Schools
• Naked Watchmaker YouTube Channel Videos created by Peter Speake-Marin, including the Reuge video that was shot on his iPhone
• Watchmaking by George Daniels
• Theory of Horology
• Derek Pratt
• Kari Voutilainen
• Stephen Forsey
• Jaeger LeCoultre
• Marine Chronometer
• HSNY Talk Peter Speake-Marin’s presentation on the Naked Watchmaker for the Horological Society of New York in 2018
• Horological Students’ Room at the British Museum
• Seiko Museum
• Bulgari
• Vacheron Constantin

Peter Speake-Marin joins Chris and Jon for a conversation about life as an independent watchmaker and his most recent endeavour, The Naked Watchmaker Project. This is part one of two.

• The Naked Watchmaker
• Speake-Marin Watch Brand
• St. John’s Comprehensive School The school young Peter Speake attended before Hackney Technical College
• Hackney Technical College The institution where Peter first learned the craft of horology; the horology program at Hackney College closed down in the late 1990s
• Philippe Dufour
• Maximilian Büsser Founder of MB&F
• WOSTEP The Watchmakers of Switzerland Training and Education Program
• Antoine Simonin
• Piaget
• Somlo Antiques
• Ian Skellern
• Rolex
• Bexleyheath
• Mamiya Medium Format Camera The style of camera that Peter initially used to capture the process behind some of the many historic timepieces he restored, equipped with a Polaroid caseback
• Piccadilly Circus The location where Peter helped establish a watch restoration workshop for George Somlo
• Asprey Somlo’s closest competitor at the time
• Steven Hale One of the watchmakers who worked alongside Peter at Somlo
• Jules Jürgensen
• Patek Philippe
• Omega
• Hans Wilsdorf
• Topping Tool
• TheWatches.tv Tools Episode Peter Speake-Marin shares a look into the historic collection of watchmaking tools that have been lovingly restored by André Léchot
• Les Petites Machines d’André Léchot
• Foundation Watch The pocket watch that kickstarted Peter’s career as a watchmaker
• Schaublin Lathes A lathe maker favoured by many independent watchmakers
• Pointeuse A coordinate based drilling machine
• Jig Borer Video of a Hauser M1 jig borer in action
• Renaud & Papi Where Peter worked as a complications specialist
• Elephant & Castle
• Baselworld Fair
• Kees Englebarts A master engraver who first introduced Peter Speake-Marin to Philippe Dufour
• Poker & Beetle Hands An image from an article Peter wrote for the BHI’s Horological Journal in 2001 showing part of the process he used to create the hands for his Foundation Watch
• Derek Pratt
• Gentian
• Rolle The village Peter was working in when his Foundation Watch first sprang to life
• Stephen McGonigle
• Mary Shelley Author of Frankenstein
• Dufour Simplicity
• Speake-Marin SM2 An in-house caliber with German silver mainplate & bridges
• German Silver
• Cartier
• LeCoultre
• A. Lange & Söhne
• Tungsten
• Roswell 08 Deconstruction
• Vianney Halter
• Antoine Preziuso
• AHCI The Académie Horlogère des Créateurs Indépendants
• Sven Andersen
• Vincent Calabrese

Chris and Jon discuss the horological parts of Chris’ recent trip to the UK, including Greenwich, a visit with the #watchnerd, pad printing, and the BHI’s chronograph course.

• Silver Car Debunked
• Mercedes-Benz Silver Arrows Team
• Fordite
• Black Badger Composites
• Black Badger x Bamford
• Mokume-gane

• Papers from the Goldsmiths’ Congress
• Royal Observatory in Greenwich

• Prime Meridian
• Why the North Star Changes
• John Harrison
• Derek Pratt & Harrison’s H4 Book & DVD available from the BHI
• The Longitude Story
• Jonathan Betts Gets a Surprise Visit from Neil Armstrong
• The #watchnerd
• One Hour Watch
• Watchtype Official site of Lee Yuen-Rapati
• Pad Printing
• Crispin Jones on Dezeen Founder of Mr. Jones Watches
• Mr. Jones Watches
• Jones’ Sun & Moon Watch
• Kent Printers
• BHI Courses
• ETA 7751
• Bergeon 30081-EX-7750 Tool for adjusting eccentric screws on an ETA 7750 & similar
• Automatic Oilers Keep those cap jewels from flying
• Omega Speedmaster
• BHI Distance Learning Course
• Old School B&B in Upton

Chris returns from the Goldsmiths’ Company Jewellery Materials Congress. He and Jon discuss Crown Jewels, gold jugs, and the horrible things people do to nice cars.

• Santa Fe Sympoaium Papers Papers from the 2019 Santa Fe Symposium have been posted
• The Goldsmiths’ Company Jewellery Materials Congress Chris delivered a paper on niello at the congress in July
• The Goldsmiths’ Company
• Dr. Robert Organ
• Detection of Fake Antique Silver Plate Dr. Organ’s paper presented at the 2017 Santa Fe Symposium
• Kicked Out by Royalty Chris recounted his behind the scenes tour of the Goldsmiths’ Company back in episode 17
• Eddie Bell Founder of Rio Grande & the Santa Fe Symposium
• Niello Papers Chris’ papers presented at the Santa Fe Symposium
• The Crown A Netflix original series, many scenes of which were filmed in the hall that Chris delivered his presentation in

• Jewellery Materials Congress Presenters
• Teresa Frye Founder of TechForm, Teresa delivered a presentation on platinum at the congress
• Why Use a Platinum-Cobalt Alloy?

• Martyn Pugh Creator of the micro-alloyed 24ct gold & titanium Claret Jug that Chris is holding in the picture above
• What is a Claret Jug?
• Crown Jewels Chris got up close with the Crown Jewels during the Jewellery Materials Congress
• Globe Theater As authentic as it gets to catch a Shakespearian play
• White Swan A pub
• Millennium Bridge
• St. Paul’s Cathedral
• Grant Macdonald Official website of one of England’s foremost master goldsmiths
• Formlabs Grant Macdonald employs Formlab printers in his studio
• Maxim Lobovsky Co-founder of Formlabs
• Neutec Casting Both Grant & Chris use Neutec vacuum casting machines in their work
• Solid Silver Audi Thanks to some sleuthing by Snopes, turns out this was a hoax
• EnvisionTec 3D Printers Along with the Formlabs printers, Grant Macdonald also uses EnvisionTec printers for finer detailed work
• Secret Cinema Chris attended a Secret Cinema production of Casino Royale while in London
• Casino Royale
• Moonraker
• Octopussy
• Hello Internet Goes to the Secret Cinema CGP Grey & Brady Haran catch a Secret Cinema rendition of Blade Runner

Jon and Chris continue their series on George Daniels’ book Watchmaking, delving into the craft of drafting and various forms of magnification useful to watchmakers.

• Watchmaking The quintessential watchmaking guide, written by George Daniels
• La Porte School of Watchmakers North America’s first school of watchmaking
• Canadian Horological Institute The CHI opened four years after the La Porte School of Watchmakers
• Henry Playtner Founder of the CHI
• Dieter Rams
• Nelson Ball Clock
• The Real Story Behind George Nelson’s Iconic Ball Clock
• Noguchi Table
• Fusion 360
• Cricut Maker An automated desktop cutting machine to help rapidly prototype ideas
• Silhouette An alternative to Cricut
• 3D Printer A relatively inexpensive, but reliable, 3D printer to turn drafts into physical prototypes
• Derek Pratt A quiet, but legendary watchmaker who, like Daniels, was fond of prototyping ideas with paper
• Solidworks A robust CAD & virtual prototyping tool
• PTC Creo An alternative to Solidworks
• Autodesk Inventor Fusion 360 cranked to 11
• Rhino3D A 3D modelling tool
• Fusion 360 Video Courses
• NYC CNC NYC CNC’s series of Fusion 360 tutorials
• Lars Christiansen Fusion 360 Videos
• Fusion 360 Forums
• Craig Struthers Artwork
• ASCO Loupes
• Trinocular Stereo Zoom Microscope
• Leica Microscopes
• Fiber Optic Light Ring
• LED Light Ring

Jon and Chris discuss the tribulations of baking the world’s best chocolate chip cookies, as well as a new method Chris is experimenting with to rapidly prototype watch dials.

• The World’s Best Chocolate Chip Cookie According to The Food Lab
• Valrhona Chocolate Makers of the chocolate Jon used in his cookies
• Bon Appétit Chocolate Chip Cookie Chris’ favourite chocolate chip cookie recipe
• Cookie in a Cookie The chocolate chip portion of this double-stuffed cookie on its own is the usual go-to recipe around Jon’s house
• Skillet Cookie Because, of course, Chris has barbecued chocolate chip cookies
• Blackmagic Design Pocket Cinema Camera 4K The video camera Chris has been crafting a custom, battery pack handle for
• Canon Battery Pack
• Canon 5D Mark II
• 18650 Cell Chris’ handle will be able to hold 4x 18650 rechargeable battery cells
• Chris’ YouTube Channel
• DJI Osmo Action Camera A new action camera that serves up fitting competition for GoPro
• GoPro
• Mac Pro The yet-to-be-officially-released new Mac Pro from Apple has the potential to be a video-editing powerhouse
• DJI Mavic 2 Pro
• Cedric Johner on The Watches TV
• Heat Transfer Paper A product Chris has been experimenting with to prototype dials for his watches

Chris and Jon continue discussing Chris’ month of travel. This episode they discuss Makers Central and the Santa Fe Symposium.

• Birmingham Jewellery Quarter
• Makers Central Chris recently exhibited at Makers Central with his good friend, Rich Loen
• Loen Design
• Vectric Vectric helped make it possible for Rich & Chris to showcase at Makers Central
• CNC Mill Kit The kit that Rich based his new puck carving mill off of
• MAKE Magazine & Maker Faire Shutting Down
• Dale Dougherty Founder of MAKE
• NSNorth A conference Jon attended while Chris was on the other side of the pond
• Ken Kocienda One of the few names on the original iPhone patent, creator of the iOS keyboard, & one of the key individuals behind WebKit, Ken was the keynote speaker at this year’s NSNorth
• Creative Selection Written by Ken Kocienda
• Developing for a Niche Jon’s talk from NSNorth 2016
• May-Li Khoe The keynote speaker at NSNorth the year that Jon was a speaker, like Ken, May-Li was a key contributor to several key Apple technologies
• Leonardo da Vinci – Royal Collection Trust Chris was able to catch a part of the 500th anniversary exhibition of da Vinci’s work, from the Queen’s collection, while in the UK
• Codex Leicester A collection of scientific inquiries, by da Vinci, acquired by Bill Gates in 1994
• Drawing in Silverpoint
• 500 Years of Genius Leonardo da Vinci exhibit at the Museum of Science & Technology in Ottawa
• Staffordshire Hoard Chris also spent some time taking in the Staffordshire Hoard while in Birmingham
• Frank Cooper
• Stoke-on-Trent Museums
• Birmingham City University
• Santa Fe Symposium Chris attended this year’s Sante Fe Symposium, along with Frank Cooper & many other prominent players in the jewellery making world
• Graceland
• Eddie Bell
• Saul Bell Design Award
• Rio Grande
• Santa Fe Symposium Papers Archive
• The Goldsmiths’ Company Jewellery Materials Congress Chris will be speaking at the Goldsmiths’ Congress in the UK this summer
• Grant MacDonald London
• Teresa Frye Founder of TechForm, Teresa will be speaking about platinum at the Goldsmiths’ Congress
• Dr. Ulrich Klotz Head of material testing & precious metals research at FEM, in Germany, Ulrich will also be speaking on platinum at the Goldsmiths’ Congress
• Damiano Zito CEO of Progold, in Italy, Damiano will be giving a presentation on selective laser melting using precious metals at the Goldsmiths’ Congress

Chris has returned from a month of travel. He and Jon discuss the day/date and automatic course he took at the British Horological Institute.

• BHI Short Courses Chris recently attended another short course at the British Horological Institute
• Seth Kennedy Antiquarian watchmaker Seth Kennedy
• Cousins A horological supply house in the UK
• ETA 6497 Assembly of an ETA 6497 pocket watch caliber
• ETA 2836-2 One of the watch calibers Chris worked with on this trip to the BHI
• Seiko 7S26 The other caliber Chris worked with on this trip to the BHI
• Tissot Powermatic 80 An inexpensive Tissot containing one of ETA’s newer, free-sprung calibers (the C07.111) that is otherwise very similar in construction to the ETA 2836-2
• Eterna 39 Chris is basing his watches on variants of Eterna’s caliber 39
• Romain Gauthier Screw heads with a cruel twist
• Witschi Dry Tester Witschi makes a range of waterproof testing equipement that can evaluate the seal integrity of a watch case without using water
• Waterproof Tester A basic wet tester for evaluating the water resistance of a watch case
• Seiko Magic Lever A video overview of how the winding system in a Seiko watch operates
• TAG Heuer 1887 One of the few “Swiss” watch calibers that employ Seiko’s Magic Lever style winding system, based heavily on Seiko’s 6S37 chronograph caliber
• Atmos Clock
• Atmos for the Wrist The patent for the late Steven Phillips’ temperature responsive “Eternal Winding System”
• Eternal Winding System An archived version of the official webpage for the late Steven Phillips’ “Eternal Winding System”

• Sisyphus Mini Chris recently backed the Sisyphus Mini kit

Chris and Jon continue their discussion of George Daniels’ book Watchmaking. In this episode they discuss work benches.

• Watchmaking by George Daniels
• Phone Posture An article about the toll that craning our necks has on our spines

• Archer Watches
• California Closets
• Economical Watchmaking Bench Popular in jewellery shops, an appropriate height bench for watch work
• Adjustable Height Watchmaking Bench A high-end watchmaking bench with electronic height adjustment & padded arm rests
• IKEA Standing Desks
• Motorized Table Lift Kit from Lee Valley
• Jarvis Standing Desk The standing desk frame that Chris is considering basing his watchmaking bench off of
• Portable Bench Top A simple, budget friendly watchmakers bench that can be put on top of any standard height desk or table, akin to the elevated bench top used by Daniels & Roger W. Smith
• R.W. Smith Studio Watchmakers at the benches in Roger W. Smith’s studio on the Isle of Man

• Plier Rack Jon uses a towel rack/drawer pull like this to keep pliers & similar tools organized & close at hand
• Jewellers Work Bench The style of bench Chris referenced, useful for catching filings & swarf while making components

Chris and Jon begin a series discussing George Daniels’ book Watchmaking.

• Watchmaking by George Daniels—the only reference book you need to build a watch from the raw materials
• Canadian Horological Institute With its massive floor to ceiling windows, the building that originally housed the CHI is still standing across from the St. James Cathedral in Toronto
• 5500K Light Bulbs
• Eye Strain Tips from the Mayo Clinic for reducing eye strain
• Light Cabinet A multi-temperature light box for colour assessment
• Hue Bulbs Philips Hue smart bulbs offer a range of colours that you can program or alter on a whim
• Lutron Caseta Smart Light Switches Chris is switching over to Lutron smart switches to control his lights
• Flow Psychologist & researcher, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, on the mental state of flow
• Radiant Floor Heating System
• Radiant Ceiling
• Precitrame Manufacturer of high precision CNC equipment used in watchmaking & other industries
• Linoleum Flooring Jon settled on Forbo’s Laguna Marmoleum Real 3238 linoleum flooring for the last few watchmaking spaces he’s had a hand in creating
• Watchmaker’s Parts Tray The tray that inspired the linoleum colour choice Jon settled on
• Air Quality & Cognitive Function An in-depth study on the correlation between cognitive function & carbon dioxide along with other variables such as ventilation and VOC exposure
• Air Quality & Productivity A study on the impact of air pollution on productivity
• CO₂ & Decision Making A study on the direct effects that elevated carbon dioxide has on decision making
• Awair 2 An air quality monitor Jon picked up last year