Podcasts about Watches

Podcasts....made popular from the ipod that you can download streamed audio or video of various sorts of what not that it is about now has come to the topic on wristwatches. Yes those time telling devices that tick away in your wrist. And to my knowledge, I have come across two streaming and downloadable podcasts that offer this. I shall then give slight details on each, my thoughts and how they compare.

The first started in November of 2009. Its HourTime from hourtimeshow.com.

Hosted by popular blogger of watches Mr. Ariel Adams of ablogtoread.com and a writer at luxist.com and askmen.com and his partner Mr. John Biggs who as hosted couple of sites like crunchgear.com and wristwatchreview.com and even has a written a book about IT. Now on its 62th episode, the guys are going stronger day by day to providing a meaningful, straightforward and sometimes funny discussion about our beloved hobby and passion.

They have gone through various discussion and topics of almost every brand you can remember. From Casio, Seiko, swatch up to the big guys like AP, PP, RM, JLC, VC, MB&F and of course the popular Rolexes and Omegas. But what makes me stick and follow every episode of this show is that they provide us listeners with the right out comment about watches. How they like em, how they dont, how this watch is like a good buy or how ugly the watch is. They are not afraid what to say, how the brands may think or who anyone else thinks. They're like Top Gear of watches with a combination of Clarkson, Hammond and May. Sometimes, they do disagree on some thoughts about the watches. It's really like listening to two expert WIS and their opinions on the watches and everything that happens around them which includes industry news, trade shows, awards etc. To add to that, their podcasts are of very good quality thanks to some sponsors.

The other choice is What Time Is It? from blogtalkradio.com or whattimeradio.com.

The show is hosted by Jerome Peneau, a social media strategist and who now works for Marvin Watches. Well for this one, its basically just an interview session with the industry movers and shakers of the watch industry. Starting from Max Busser, Stephen Forsey, Hublot's Jean-Claude Biver, Morten Linde and Jorn Werdelin and even Hodinkee himself - Ben Clymer. It's great listening to see how these greats in the world of horology tell stories of how they came about and how they got into the industry. How they strategize, conceptualized and created their thing. Its like listening to business news and just that its filtered all on the watch industry.

In summary, Hourtimes is a podcast about watches, by watch geeks and for watch geeks. Whattimeisit is a podcast for the who's who in the business. I for now am more of a watch geek and have listened to all 62 episodes. Now you know my pick.

Till the next blogcast.

Links:

http://hourtimeshow.com/

http://www.whattimeradio.com/

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/whattimeradio