What Makes Them Tick Episode 8 https://offhours.show/podcast-player/580/ep8.mp3Chris is planning to make a watch. He and Jon talk movements, makers, and the calibers others have built off of. PTS Resources An Asian manufacturer known for their tourbillon calibersptsresources.com ETA Switzerland’s most dominant supplier of mechanical watch movementseta.ch Sellita A maker of ETA clone movementssellita.ch Soprod A manufacturer of mechanical, as well as advanced quartz, movementssoprod.ch Miyota A Japanese manufacturer of quartz & mechanical watch movementsmiyotamovement.com Eterna Chris is planning to use Eterna’s GMT caliber 3911 & their moonphase complication in the 3955eterna-movement.com Eterna Logo Eterna’s logo is a stylized version of the ball bearing system that the company pioneered for self-winding watchesoffhours.show Eterna 39 Review Aaron Berlow’s review of Eterna’s Caliber 39, for HODINKEEhodinkee.com Eterna 3030 Eterna’s caliber 3030 was released in 2006, to celebrate the company’s 150th anniversaryeterna-movement.com Struthers London Struthers London began making timepieces from antique, English made calibers, before branching off into creating their in-house Project 248 caliberstruthers-london.co.uk Struthers Feature The Struthers article Chris referred to: Dr. Rebecca Struthers on Dutch watch forgers, 3D imaging, & why the Struthers London logo is a foxthejewelleryeditor.com Atelier de Chronometrie Atelier de Chronometrie creates watches based on vintage Omega calibers 266 & 283atelierdechronometrie.com Vianney Halter Vianney Halter built his early watches on the Peseux 7001, which is now produced by ETA under the same caliber numbervianney-halter.com Nomos Like Vianney Halter, Nomos started with the Peseux 7001nomos-glashuette.com Peter Speake-Marin An early interview with Peter Speake-Marin, that takes a look at his hand made pocket watch, as well as his reasoning for using ETA movements as the basis for his first serially produced timepiecespeople.timezone.com Kari Voutilainen Voutilainen’s decimal repeating timepieces were built on minute repeating ebauches that he customized & his Observatoire series were built on the Peseux 260voutilainen.ch Daniels’ Millennium Watch Daniels recounts making his Millennium Watch series with the aid of Roger Smith, based on Omega’s caliber 2500, which itself was based on the ETA 2892youtube.com Palladium A video comparison of white metals used in the jewellery industry, Chris is considering using palladium 500 as the case material for his watch designsyoutube.com Bleaching Silver Dials Roger W. Smith flame bleaching the dial of a Daniels pocket watchtwitter.com Vacheron Constantin Vacheron Constantin’s Metiers d’Art collectionvacheron-constantin.com Chris Ploof Jeweller who specializes in working with Damascus chrisploof.com
