Pocket watch

So I would say, you know, I was connected to watches very early.

My dad had some American pocket watches, like two or three years old, even.

I remember just loving these watches, wanting to pull them off, pull them out, wind them, take the crystal off, set them.

I think that seed was planted early on, but I really didn't get into it until probably 10 years ago.

And if I may, Max, I just wanna start with a quick little story of where I've had the one touch point in my life with the life of Roger Smith.

I was at Phillips in 2023, in June, where there was a pocket watch on the block.

There was a guy named Roger in the front row, and this was a watch that he made in his parents' garage at 22.

He made every part himself.

It's a tourbillon spring detente escapement perpetual calendar.

Took him six years.

The previous English pocket watch auction benchmark belonged to Daniels, who we will also be talking about in depth, and that achieved 4.56 million US.

That's the Space Traveler one.

store.

White Rabbit's Pocket Watch, which is a powerful card.

It did have a pickup auction, but shipping was free.

All right.

And we begin with a 100-year-old family heirloom getting the ride of a lifetime.

An antique pocket watch hitched a ride to the International Space Station yesterday with its owner, fourth generation Ukrainian Canadian astronaut Joshua Kutryk, and the rest of Crew-13, which is comprised of a Russian cosmonaut and two American astronauts.

After a nearly eight-hour sprint to space on SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, the team is clocking in for their six-month mission, conducting experiments on everything from Parkinson's disease to growing crops in space.

Meanwhile, the Dragon spacecraft that shuttled them will make a round trip back to Earth, carrying the Crew-12 team, which has been in space since February.

Lastly, viva Slojamastan.

Now, today's Kid News quiz.

What family heirloom did an astronaut bring to the International Space Station? [clapping] A 100-year-old pocket watch.

According to scientists, how many separate species of gentoo penguins are there? [clapping] Four.

It's crazy.

You can buy a pocket watch that's cheaper on Timu now than you can buy them secondhand on Goodwill.

And I'm like, what? I don't get it.

That's crazy.

... yeah.

"Swatch by AP pocket watch, uh, which can be around $1,500.

How do I tell them I'm in Baby Step 2 and would rather pay off my debt instead of adding more to it? They say it's an investment and will increase in value for resale purposes, so it's, it's not dumb to get one.

Uh, I'm trying to be different because normal is broke.

Yeah, w- I don't understand what this relationship was to begin with.

Well, all the things-

And if they love this so much, why don't they buy it? To feel, all the things to feel peer pressure about, I wouldn't expect a pocket watch.

A pocket watch.

Okay, so yeah, we do have a couple things to talk about today.

We're not just all monocles and pocket watches over here.

We...

Oh, okay, so...

His own watch made from raw metal.

It's a tourbillon pocket watch with a detent escapement.

Every component cut, filed, polished by his own hands.

And he's taking the watch to a man called George Daniels.

He, he's met Daniels once briefly at a college lecture, like six years earlier.

And he read Daniels' book, "Watchmaking," until, you know, the spine had cracked.

And he's built his pocket watch using what he considered Daniels' instructions, and he hopes Daniels will accept him as an apprentice.

And he arrives on the Isle of Man.