My first reaction to Fotina when it started coming out was incredibly negative. I don't remember the watch but I remember my reaction

You know the first time I saw it I thought to myself what the hell is this nonsense?

What is this air-sats baloney, bullshit, cheap shot, insincere, laughably

pathetic attempt to steal fire from genuinely vintage watches is this?

What the hell?

What the hell? What is this nonsense?

You know, if you're a person with a sort of naturally, generally aggrieved posture towards life, watches are a great thing to get into because there's always something to be upset about. Oh, Hey everybody I'm your host Stephen Pulburn and this is Hodinke Radio.

There is nobody better around Hodinke HQ if you want to go for a deep dive into something,

the Mr. Jack Forrester.

And recently he ran two stories on the site that I wanted to bring him into the studio to talk a little bit about.

So one is an ode to the main spring that's often forgotten part of watchmaking and Jack somehow makes this tiny little piece of metal tell a 500 year plus story.

Then we go to something more aesthetically focused, an article about Fotina and the

foe aging of watches.

This is a hot topic, People have lots of opinions.

There were almost 200 comments on the story at the time we recorded this.

And Jack sheds a little bit of light and gives a little bit of context to this thing that

everyone seems to have an opinion

about. After that Ben and I sit down with Eric Wind who you might know is the

proprietor and founder of Wind Vintage but he's actually a long-time friend and

in Hodinke O.G.

He was one of our earliest contributors.

And the three of us sit around and talk about all manner of things

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