S02E04: The First Thing You See: A Survey of Dial Finishing, From the Workbench Up the Mountain

What's on Your Riste? A Watch Podcast · Aug 27, 2026 · 42m

S02E04: The First Thing You See: A Survey of Dial Finishing, From the Workbench Up the Mountain

Decription:

Fifty thousand glances. That is roughly how many times you will look at your watch’s dial over the years you own it, and yet the dial is the part nobody talks about. This episode fixes that. We climb dial finishing like a mountain, one rung at a time, from humble printed dials all the way to hand-painted enamel that costs as much as a house, naming a watch you can actually go find at every step. The surprise of the climb is that some of the most beautiful, genuinely hand-finished dials…