Chris is planning to make a watch. He and Jon talk movements, makers, and the calibers others have built off of.
Full visual show notes available at http://offhours.show/ep8
• PTS Resources An Asian manufacturer known for their tourbillon calibers
• ETA Switzerland's most dominant supplier of mechanical watch movements
• Sellita A maker of ETA clone movements
• Soprod A manufacturer of mechanical, as well as advanced quartz, movements
• Miyota A Japanese manufacturer of quartz & mechanical watch movements
• Eterna Chris is planning to use Eterna’s GMT caliber 3911 & their moonphase complication in the 3955
• Eterna Logo Eterna's logo is a stylized version of the ball bearing system that the company pioneered for self-winding watches
• Eterna 39 Review Aaron Berlow’s review of Eterna’s Caliber 39, for HODINKEE
• Eterna 3030 Eterna's caliber 3030 was released in 2006, to celebrate the company's 150th anniversary
• Struthers London Struthers London began making timepieces from antique, English made calibers, before branching off into creating their in-house Project 248 caliber
• Struthers Feature The Struthers article Chris referred to: Dr. Rebecca Struthers on Dutch watch forgers, 3D imaging, & why the Struthers London logo is a fox
• Atelier de Chronometrie Atelier de Chronometrie creates watches based on vintage Omega calibers 266 & 283
• Vianney Halter Vianney Halter built his early watches on the Peseux 7001, which is now produced by ETA under the same caliber number
• Nomos Like Vianney Halter, Nomos started with the Peseux 7001
• 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 timepieces
• Kari Voutilainen Voutilainen’s decimal repeating timepieces were built on minute repeating ebauches that he customized & his Observatoire series were built on the Peseux 260
• 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 2892
• 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 designs
• Bleaching Silver Dials Roger W. Smith flame bleaching the dial of a Daniels pocket watch
• Vacheron Constantin Vacheron Constantin’s Metiers d’Art collection
• Chris Ploof Jeweller who specializes in working with Damascus