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The Watchmaker's Apprentice - Netflix

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MetalMickey

I've just watched a fantastic film on Netflix about George Daniels (inventor of the coaxial escapement) and his apprentice Roger Smith.

 

It's a fascinating look at the almost vanished art of a single watchmaker hand making watches from scratch, and I found it absolutely fascinating.

 

It's on Netflix (UK), and some more details on it are on the website http://www.thewatchmakersapprentice.com

 

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Gazzla

I've watched it, it was originally on the Beeb. Fascinating.

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jmshen

This has been in my queue for weeks now. I've really been on a documentary kick lately: Somm, Jiro dreams of Sushi. I'm really looking forward to this one. Anyone have other recs on watch vids?

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Stewart

Is that Albert Finney narrating?

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Kcore

I had the opportunity to view it back in April with the Horological Society of NY at the TriBeCa Cinema. There was a Q&A with Roger Smith and film director, David Armstrong. Really enjoyable!

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Gazzla

He makes 10 watches a year and sells them for 100 grand each.

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JSJ

By strange coincidence I watched it on Amazon Prime yesterday evening. Thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it.

 

Talk about nutters. I thought we were bad. Impressive nutters I must say. Driven, passionate and definitely not doing it for the money.

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SackOHammers

Can't seem to find it in the U.S. On Amazon.com, nothing shows up for "The Watchmaker's Apprentice". On Netflix, nothing shows up with "Watchmaker" in it.

You have to go to the Amazon UK site to even see the DVD listed. I didn't see it available in Prime for me.

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jmshen
Can't seem to find it in the U.S. On Amazon.com, nothing shows up for "The Watchmaker's Apprentice". On Netflix, nothing shows up with "Watchmaker" in it.

You have to go to the Amazon UK site to even see the DVD listed. I didn't see it available in Prime for me.

Hulu has it if you have a subscription. If you don't care about quality you can also find it on those streaming sites. And as always you can find copies through other means but sometimes it's a "torrent"ial hassle.

 

Did you see what I did there? Huh? Huh?

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MetalMickey
Can't seem to find it in the U.S. On Amazon.com, nothing shows up for "The Watchmaker's Apprentice". On Netflix, nothing shows up with "Watchmaker" in it.

You have to go to the Amazon UK site to even see the DVD listed. I didn't see it available in Prime for me.

 

You could try a service like unblock-us.com that has a free trial to switch region but a bit of a pain serting it up for one short movie.

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zaqwsxmike

The putlocker HD streams are pretty good. Saw this a couple of weeks back, gotta say it's my fave watch-related docs of all time :morebeer:

 

On a related note, any recommendations for more horology docs? Preferably in HD cuz it's basically porn...

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MA123

I like the part when they come across an omega poster stating "the co-axial by omega" and he replies "well they would say that wouln't they" !

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Gazzla
Can't seem to find it in the U.S. On Amazon.com, nothing shows up for "The Watchmaker's Apprentice". On Netflix, nothing shows up with "Watchmaker" in it.

You have to go to the Amazon UK site to even see the DVD listed. I didn't see it available in Prime for me.

Hulu has it if you have a subscription. If you don't care about quality you can also find it on those streaming sites. And as always you can find copies through other means but sometimes it's a "torrent"ial hassle.

 

Did you see what I did there? Huh? Huh?

 

 

Can't seem to find it in the U.S. On Amazon.com, nothing shows up for "The Watchmaker's Apprentice". On Netflix, nothing shows up with "Watchmaker" in it.

You have to go to the Amazon UK site to even see the DVD listed. I didn't see it available in Prime for me.

 

You could try a service like unblock-us.com that has a free trial to switch region but a bit of a pain serting it up for one short movie.

 

 

 

If you've got half hour to kill. I found it compulsive viewing:

 

 

 

 

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MetalMickey

Thanks for these videos Gaz.

 

I can't get over how down to earth Roger Smith is. You'd never imagine he would create such stunningly beautiful work.

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JSJ
Thanks for these videos Gaz.

 

I can't get over how down to earth Roger Smith is. You'd never imagine he would create such stunningly beautiful work.

Yeah he's just an abnormal guy like the rest of us only much more so. :giggle:. Amazing in fact.

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Gazzla
Thanks for these videos Gaz.

 

I can't get over how down to earth Roger Smith is. You'd never imagine he would create such stunningly beautiful work.

Yeah he's just an abnormal guy like the rest of us only much more so. :giggle:. Amazing in fact.

 

 

Pleasure. The geezer gets my vote.

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narikaa

Whaaaaaat!

 

 

 

You mean they don't spew out the end of the line as little pieces of diverz steel perfecshun wiv ROWLOCKS ROLEX on them

 

well I never

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