Blued screws, blued indices, blued hands. Steel isn’t the only thing that’s blue in this episode. Chris and Jon chat about tempering steel, Baselworld 2019, and Swiss customs.

• Frodsham Chronometer Dr. Magnus Bosse goes hands-on with the Charles Frodsham Double Impulse Chronometer
• Aviano A typeface similar to the one used for the indices on Akrivia’s Tourbillon Barrette Miroir
• Rennie Mackintosh The font Chris is working with for his current dial designs

• Steel Colour Chart A visualization of the various colours that steel changes to as it is heated

• Bluing Clock Hands A demonstration of bluing clock hands, from the Clickspring channel on YouTube
• Elizabeth Tower Home to Big Ben, the first of Elizabeth Tower’s four clock faces has been revealed with a fresh coat of blue paint

• Baselworld
• AHCI Official website of the Académie Horlogère des Créateurs Indépendants
• HANDwerk Collection Stefan Kudoke announced a new collection of watches, with in-house Kaliber 1 movements, at Baselworld this year
• Habring² Felix Kudoke’s Kaliber 1 is based, in part, on Habring’s A11B movement that debuted in their Felix watches
• Omega Apollo 11 50th Anniversary Featuring their new caliber 3861, an 861 updated with co-axial escapement, free-sprung balance wheel, & METAS certification
• Beware: Swiss Customs Michael Stockton recounts the trouble he ran into with Swiss Customs on his way to attend Baselworld 2019
• E311 Declaration Card
• ATA Carnet