George Bamford Just Wants You To Express Yourself (Through Watches)
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4.7 • 960 Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Sometimes images don't do it justice. |
| 0:02.0 | That is something that you don't realize. |
| 0:05.0 | The weight of watches. |
| 0:07.0 | Gold plating doesn't feel like gold, but it looks like gold. |
| 0:11.0 | Let's say a tropical dial. |
| 0:13.1 | You know how the tropical dial just kind of comes alive |
| 0:16.3 | and that for me is I think the difference is |
| 0:19.8 | when you see it in your hands, |
| 0:22.1 | I can understand what the designer thought. |
| 0:25.0 | And you know, sometimes you just go, I don't really know what they thought, but I freaking love it. Oh, Hey everybody. I'm your host Stephen Pulperin and this is Hodincky Radio. |
| 0:55.2 | This week we've got one of my all-time favorite people from the watch world on the |
| 0:59.8 | show and that's Mr. George Bamford. You might know George as the guy who used to |
| 1:04.3 | black out Rolex's who now is working directly with a ton of watch brands the |
| 1:09.2 | likes of Zenith, Tacoyer, Bulgery, as well as working on his own brand, Bamford, London. |
| 1:15.0 | And George is somebody who, while you may see the more avant-garde side of his personality, |
| 1:20.0 | has a deep respect and love for the history of watchmaking. He's somebody I met really early on in my watch journey and kind of has set a great example for how you can love watches and make watches a fun engaging part of your life and a way to find community and express yourself through time pieces. |
| 1:38.0 | And I honestly can't believe we've made it this long without George on the show. |
| 1:42.0 | This episode is a ton of fun and we get into a lot of topics, some heavy, some light, all of them |
| 1:47.5 | well worth your time. So without further ado, let's do this. Hey George, good to see you. Hey George, good to see you. |
| 1:54.0 | Welcome to the show man. I am so happy to be here. |
| 2:06.8 | What an honor. Man the honor is all mine. It is always nice to see your face. |
| 2:12.1 | I mean it's early morning here on the west coast and there is not a better way to start the day my friend |
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