Hairspring

Hairspring's founder Erik Gustafson and enthusiast Max Braun bring you a meandering weekly-ish roundtable on watches and many other things.

Episode 61: Winners & Blunders (and Alternatives)
Apr 14, 2025 – 00:59:50
Episode 60: Contrarianisms
Apr 3, 2025 – 00:57:14
Episode 59: Faux Pas
Mar 27, 2025 – 01:00:48
Episode 58: The Day-Date Download
Mar 15, 2025 – 01:05:59
Episode 57: Retroactive Bidding
Mar 5, 2025 – 01:08:27
Episode 56: Q&A (Pt. 4)
Feb 25, 2025 – 01:09:36
Episode 55: Great Unknown Modern Watchmakers & Their Watches
Feb 17, 2025 – 01:07:43
Episode 54: Great Unknown Vintage Watch Brands
Feb 11, 2025 – 00:57:25
Episode 53: Undervalued Speedmasters, Why Independent Chronographs Matter, and the Le Mans Market
Feb 3, 2025 – 00:56:15
Episode 52: PCC, The Greatest Bloodline in Watches
Jan 27, 2025 – 01:15:56
Episode 51: Strap Etiquette and Why Roman Numerals Often Fail
Jan 20, 2025 – 00:56:04
Episode 50: Ben Clymer
Jan 13, 2025 – 01:23:12
Episode 49: Enthusiast vs Collector vs Professional
Jan 7, 2025 – 01:06:58
Episode 48: Time ‘Only’?
Jan 1, 2025 – 01:09:01
Episode 47: Modern Watches, Excluding Independents, That We Love
Dec 23, 2024 – 00:58:33
Episode 46: Building a 100K 3-Watch Collection That Must Go Up in Value, Plus New Year’s Watch Resolutions
Dec 16, 2024 – 01:02:31
Episode 45: Common Misconceptions
Dec 10, 2024 – 01:09:42
Episode 44: The Balance Cocks of 2000-2024
Dec 2, 2024 – 01:10:49
Episode 43: State of the Collectors’ Market (Plus 100K for Integrated Complication)
Nov 25, 2024 – 01:11:07
Episode 42: Tremblasé & Researching for Dummies
Nov 18, 2024 – 00:57:28
Episode 41: Hot Takes (Pt. 2), Plus an Attorney of BLNRs
Nov 11, 2024 – 01:00:34
Episode 40: Is Modern Patek Philippe Lost?
Oct 26, 2024 – 00:57:42
Episode 39: Would You Rather
Oct 19, 2024 – 00:58:54
Episode 38: Definitely Not Iconic
Oct 11, 2024 – 00:57:33
Episode 37: Braving Looking Like A Fool & Desmosedicis (with Sylvain Berneron)
Oct 4, 2024 – 01:13:45
Episode 36: Rare But Nobody Cares (Pt. 2)
Sep 27, 2024 – 00:57:47
Episode 35: A LNOS, Scholarship-Changing Podcast
Sep 20, 2024 – 00:56:28
Episode 34: The 10(ish) Most Significant Independent Watches of the Last 25 Years
Sep 13, 2024 – 01:12:05
Episode 33: Q&A (Pt. 3)
Sep 6, 2024 – 00:56:20
Episode 32: Great Omega That Isn’t the Speedmaster
Aug 30, 2024 – 00:58:17
Episode 31: Interesting Versions of Boring Watches
Aug 23, 2024 – 01:03:38
Episode 30: What Grinds our Gears
Aug 16, 2024 – 01:01:20
Episode 29: Building a 50K 3-Watch Collection . . .For Each Other
Aug 9, 2024 – 01:01:43
Episode 28: Uneven Discs (with Justin Hast)
Aug 2, 2024 – 01:01:36
Episode 27: Reference Punts (Pt. 2)
Jul 26, 2024 – 01:05:20
Episode 26: What Makes a Movement Great
Jul 13, 2024 – 01:04:07
Episode 25: Price vs Value
Jul 5, 2024 – 00:58:18
Episode 24: The Ultimate Three-Hand, Three-Watch Collection from the Holy Trinity
Jun 27, 2024 – 00:59:47
Episode 23: Silicon Dreams & Interrogating a Rolex AD
Jun 21, 2024 – 00:51:17
Episode 22: Q-Watches, SpaceX, and Oil Infrastructure
Jun 6, 2024 – 01:02:16
Episode 21: WTF is Finishing
May 30, 2024 – 00:59:02
Episode 20: Jordan’s Wellendorff, Patek Philippe Dial Condition, and Dad Watches
May 24, 2024 – 01:11:17
Episode 19: Hot Takes & The Most Interesting Watch in the World
May 16, 2024 – 00:56:06
Episode 18: The Ultimate 3 Watch Rolex & Tudor Collection at 75K
May 10, 2024 – 00:58:50
Episode 17: The 2915 vs 6239 ‘Face’-Off (With a Tour of Japan’s Obscure Independents)
May 3, 2024 – 00:58:27
Episode 16: Heavy Luggage
Apr 26, 2024 – 01:00:31
Episode 15: Alpine Researching
Apr 18, 2024 – 01:04:30
Episode 14: Q&A (Pt. 2)
Apr 12, 2024 – 00:54:30
Episode 13: Q&A (Pt. 1)
Apr 4, 2024 – 01:03:41
Episode 12: Events for Escapements
Mar 28, 2024 – 00:51:38