The Time 4A Pint Podcast #10: Falling for the Weird and the Wonderful with Neil Francis (remastered)

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Morning all!

It's Friday - it's Time 4A Pint Podcast day!

Welcome to episode 10 of The Time 4A Pint Podcast - where we welcome back Mr. @neilfrancis, collector of watches and other interesting things, who we met all the way back in episode 4.

Neil had so much stuff with him then that there wasn't time to fit it all in, so joins us this week with 6 more weird and wonderful items that he's fallen in love with over the years.



Watches in this episode:
  • Omega Megaquartz Constellation
  • Omega Megaquartz Marine Chronometer
  • Rorisi "Apostles" watch
  • Breguet Classique reference 5207
  • "Breguet" Pocket Watch

Listen now!
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A great episode, a real voyage of discovery, thank you both very much!
 
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I listened this morning and thoroughly enjoyed it. The hour flew right by.

My father had a book he got sometime in the 80s called something like Erotic Art of the Masters and I could swear that rude nun picture was in it.
 
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My father had a book he got sometime in the 80s called something like Erotic Art of the Masters and I could swear that rude nun picture was in it.

Spend a lot of time with that book @ahartfie 馃槈馃檮馃槜
 
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Spend a lot of time with that book @ahartfie 馃槈馃檮馃槜
Nah, his Playboy collection going back to before I was born was much more interesting! Purely for the articles, you understand.
 
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Nah, his Playboy collection going back to before I was born was much more interesting! Purely for the articles, you understand.

LOL! 馃榿
 
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just catching up on these and finished Episode 6 recently, glad to hear these are still going on unlike jakes rolex blog's podcasts
 
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just catching up on these and finished Episode 6 recently, glad to hear these are still going on unlike jakes rolex blog's podcasts

Recorded Episode 11 today with @ewand - will get on the edit tonight, but should be a good one... lots of fun Seiko content. 馃榾
 
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Just caught up on this ep tonight, was hoping that when I checked this thread some Antiques Roadshow-type historian would have commented explaining exactly what the deal is with that nun thing, or at least some more info on the Jesus watch! Either way, very interesting stuff @neilfrancis ! 馃憤
 
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Just caught up on this ep tonight, was hoping that when I checked this thread some Antiques Roadshow-type historian would have commented explaining exactly what the deal is with that nun thing, or at least some more info on the Jesus watch! Either way, very interesting stuff @neilfrancis ! 馃憤


I found 3 more examples of the Jesus watch online - all quartz, all gold plate, no makers name on the dial... and there the information stopped.

An art historian friend tells me that the flying penis/exposed genitalia of the nun, in a mix of ancient Roman/Grecian art, and renaissance, are all fertility symbols.

She said that you'd normally have 1 symbol, not 8... 馃槈

I wondered if that was a pill box for home brew South American viagra? 馃榿