ation all except it ends of the other country. now because of ukraine is very weak in front of russia in the united states and its allies to believe that they can talk about some of the values of follow up between the 2 countries. never that they did not manage and they said, and yet they still insist on continuing the wall. and ukraine is in a serious shortage. all main power to the point that the are saying. even if we receive new weapons, we don't have man to use these weapons. yeah, that's interesting because we heard from that landscape just on foods that you this is report on cnn where he said himself to the report to the problems again with what's happening or not front is due to a lack of western weapons, but we know need to countries of gaping well over a $100000000000.00 worth of homes. so where is they all gone? is it we just down to the fact that there is

a lot of money power in order to use them? now, it's what, 1st of all, there is a high level of corruption in ukraine even before the war. and this hasn't stop exit route, you know, particularly when there is a flow of money that is coming from different spots and different continents. and a ukraine, a is doing business as usual, inputting, making that and all in the money and the supply that's coming from abroad. as 2nd the we had zalinski saying in the past that they need only money because they have everything but money. and they receive the money and then they said we need weapons and they received the weapons and then they said, we need things and then to receive banks and all of europe and the states united states gave them the things. and then they now they saying, oh, we only need that, you pass it in deception. besides, i mean, this is a mockery because we only know that this boy,

he's going no way to the issue here. age ukraine is ready to sacrifice to the last ukrainian to continue with this war. the americans are extremely unhappy with these sacrifices of the greatness because this is a very cheap world for the americans, the repairs we are so stupid and stupid enough to continue insisting on what that we already know the outcome since a year now. so all of that really doesn't fit. and the conclusion is the whole continue you, grace to losing ukraine, asking for more money is getting good. i can for more weapons, he's getting it. now we have no demobilization. after 36 months, we have an increase of a difference of age of mobilization and is moving through 25 years. and then we know that there are only 17 percent of the ukraine and populations between $20.30

and the majority has already be mobilized. okay, they're gonna have to leave, but i'm very sorry, but we are out of time. thank you very much for joining us. that was back to and we'll correspond that allows your money in brussels. thank if a great you've had your company this out. we've been back with fresh updates for you in around 13 minutes the, the, the

that taking it reminds me that i'm late for a very important date. which means it's time to slip down to the rabbit hole and into a world of russian time pieces. this is peter hoff, one of emperor peters of greats. exquisite creations, showcasing luxury palaces, cascade fountains and spectacular parklands. but few people know that it's also home to one of russia's oldest watch making factories. david henderson stewart has been at the helm of this enterprise for more than a decade. but i'm going to ask him, what makes russian watch making tick the so david, i have to, i guess, start with an esoteric question. what philosophers and scientists stay really cannot decide on what time is. one theory is the time was created by humans so that we could deal with our uncertainty. what is time to you and what are clocks to you? well times for me is one of the most important things and it was,

i mean with all the money in the world, you cannot buy an additional seconds. um, you know, each of us stuff equals in front of time. and um, you know, when you look at so the history far on says time was secrets, time was given by sky. they looked at the sun, the stars at the moon. so it came kind of for them, it came from the gods. and so time was take words. so i kind of from have the same feeling towards time is something that's been very precious. and definitely one of the most important thing is though we have a new wealth as lost as the we have and it was easy. now when you started here, like jetta, you really didn't know anything about watches. now you were pretty much an expert. um, so what makes a kit the watch? stand out to tech from a technical point of view. well, i can't say is much more than the watch and i get to is a history. and i can't the is brand the dots intern, sky link to russian culture russian history. and it's also the result of an

incredible new how that is kept in under this roof, which otherwise would have disappeared. because you can always buy the machines in switzerland. but the new house is out solution incredible. these people doing incredible things with their hands. and the result is to watch without any bug fees, chip setup for next that's should always give the right time is just and that's what caused that to interact and every single day, week month, fee. uh uh, gives, gives you the time is something that is quite incredible. now, um, i've heard of an acoustic signature and i've heard that a lot can't to watch, has its own unique acoustic signature. what exactly is that? and why is that kitchen, so unique watches, um, no, just watches, move the, the hands move around, the diode and watches make a sound also. and so what, she's very much like a living fussing. and it has a history, it's, it's, it's in the watch make. it gives life to the, to the watch. and, uh,

the watch that you were on your risk measures your store your, your time. mm hm. and it gives a sound and the sound is unique because the watch has made with russian metal. hm. uh tons of which also has this in construction. so the sounds, i mean, difficult for me to describe the song, but i know it's unique. it doesn't look, it doesn't sound like the sound that this with which so okay, what about the jewels and watches? when i think of jewels, i think of something that isn't decorative but jewels for a washer and much more important to can you talk to me a little bit about what a jewels watch means? yeah, of course. every single which is a switch which is depression, which is tons of using the mechanical movements i have on my wrist. 24 jewels. now jewels, uh no, just beautiful gems. mm jewels are also sort of a very important function. you should imagine like in, in, in the game tree and there are lots of wheels with access. and each ox rotates

around his pivots, like sometimes $100000.00 times a day. and it, if it were a metal against my fault, it was very significant. you where outs isn't so the tape of every ok so you have but you said you really again to metal doesn't wear out. just all sorts of some very important function. ok, that's very cool. something that i did not know. thank you for that. very few people knew that there's a lot of people think like you, it's just extra to, i mean, that's a declaration, but it's not right. it's actually has an expensive, very, very important. now, what about you, what you do here is more than business. you say that it is a can to well cultural values. in fact, i've heard it in interview that you said that what you do here is kind of like from the bookstore theater. can explain that. what do you mean by that? i mean, everybody thinks it's a business, it's not a business. a business is something which is aims to make money. get to so much more than not. you should imagine that it gets as a fund fee that has existed for more than 300 years. it was funded by jim per piece

of the great. mm hm. and it tells the stories that folds incredible achievements of the service under brushing people who the conquests of space and russian have on god and so on. so and, and, um, watching it, so dozens, few people buy watches to read the time. now people buy watches because they get solutions from the watch. and the motion comes from the mechanical movement, which is unique, which is the result of an incredible know how the story that the watch toes, the design and all of this is, is tremendously incredible. and look to my wife. she's the result of more than $8000.00 operations. you need more than easy specialists to do this. i mean, it's not, it's the purpose of all of this is not to make money out of being much, much richer if i started to, you know, and i, to continue winston has come to wherever this is about something much bigger than

that's the alexander brother and coffee has been collecting time pieces for half a century and now owns within 6000 clocks and watches from different places and advocates within any known private collector in the world. the . how did you get started? what is collecting watches mean to you? is it about preserving history? is it about the fascination was time? what does it this collection mean to you? later on? yes, i'm 64 years old. you know, you pay for some people say soviet watches a worth listening, boring, changing that wrong. and we're, so we need to preserve all the history which i'm trying to do. i then few young people have no idea about and so we had watches got here, which will actually amazing on what i've been collecting is a history of watches. actually, i have to say i 1st and then i collected antique timepieces before switching to

soviet made one set there with no, it's a fascinating subject. i'm a member of the connect as club with a woman with a many years ago, wrote to me saying it's better to own 10 break. it watches the bucket full of soviet mess up, reduce junk, cause it was, i guess, go from just had no clue about soviet watches and see with, with what i want to do is help the next generation appreciate the beauty of soviet watches. his concern, he really got his history is the legacy i want to leave behind checklist parapro assistant. so you've mentioned you have more than 6000 watches. it's an impressive collection and of these thousands, what are some of the most rare or the is valuable that cost, most time it's in the most rare and valuable ones as a user to what's good. in fact, these watches have zodiac signs on the dials. yeah, you have cancer and so on, you know, can you think the zodiac sign has its own gemstone? okay, so we've got music. this time piece is also interesting. if you look at the live this, you can see it has

a holographic crystal sick or here's another remarkable piece. whether it's a dining wash from a factory museum, there with a, with this while she has a unique movement of which was never mass produced because it was destroyed, you wouldn't, as soon as it was made 0 instead of what is these are the rhetoric swatches. i have the, i guess my final question is, how much is this all work? have you ever had your entire collection appraised um, how much is it all value that you guys have? you know, this collection is priceless. i don't even know how much it could be was because it's so unique. but it would be a lot of money because a lot of work that has gone into this collection. and you can find such a time pieces today. they don't exist anymore. it was a woman who called me twice, offering me 50000000 for the collection. i would remain it's guardian, but i would no longer be the own. uh, it was something on the stuff that for me, you know, i'm 64. okay. and then when i been doing this my whole life,

what don't i just con, sell it to anyone who i'm sure it's my life. i don't want to change is that with? yeah, like collecting watches and you'll have it. i enjoy the excitement and i'm really committed to seeing this through finish. and i have, do you, my goal is to have the biggest collection period that might by say, but that's what i want. the money doesn't have the same appeal to me. i would think that what i enjoy noise being able to tell people about my watch is not a i want people to know that a country made all these wonderful things. the what are the qualities that you look for and a watchmaker. what does one need to have in order to be like an exclusive about gifted quality watchmaker? i would say the biggest quality that's a which make us have is, is pushing me. um i before discovering that i guess i was a lawyer. i was a banker. i never saw so much passion in the profession as what you mean because uh

for them it's so much within the job is the passion of yes and for life. mm hm. and so when you a question about what's making, then all the other qualities flowing automatically, you know, precision and, and all of that, it's a really, i would say a question. and what about you? you cannot be a good, what's, what makes a, if you know caution that about to your about to making, which is i would say that that's true all the way through. i guess. what about you personally? what have you learned from watching, making you say that you were lawyer in the bank or coming here? what have you learned about life in general? well, 1st of all, i've discovered 2 things. first of all, um i discovered the world of time and things like we, we talked about to submit a run. mm hm. i also discovered how, you know, we, we come from a wealth of the west and well to where we value, you know, people who succeed in life by being bankers and lawyers and with us. and i

discovered in this funk for you how incredible jesus was. you know, when i see walkers is crossing it, people doing things with a hands that job is so much more difficult than even being a banker. mm hm. um, to become a good to watch me could take suitcase 5 to 6. yes. and that was a huge challenge because there are new normal which making schools in rush anymore . so we, when we high young people, we, we created origin which making school and we, we train them and it takes us 5 to 6 years to, to make, you know, especially as often. so i've have it for months for specs. now for, for, for these workforce work with their hands because they do all these incredible things. the, the sometime pieces can be spotted on the risk of the world's rich and mighty, take constantly and try again. who's watching, making is recognized by kind of source, as some of the most creative and original we can find out what's quite literally

behind the face of it. the konstantin, thanks for taking the time to speak with us and to show us some of your work. now i see some sketches out here which fascinates me. i understand that before you start any project, you start with a sketch in, in a time when we have a i, and computer enhancements. so why with a sketch? are you an analog person, per se? he session of materials. there are many watchmakers and designers who rely on more than 3 d modeling tools. so i'm, as you said, you was a, i think what i want though is from my creativity to come from the how does it with me? but as if you need this direct link between my fingertips in my brain, when i transfer my idea of on to a notepad or canvas who might give you calls but such a must for me. that personally the or where is the quickest way to sketch

a new watching life. so now the outside design, the ornaments are one thing, but the inside of the watches, the mechanism itself. do those change from watch to watch or time piece to time piece, or is it all the same inside? and then when we describe a watch movement, we talk about it architecture. when we look at different buildings and their architectural styles, we certainly see some functional elements like the foundation of the post and the ground, the was the windows and so on. a watch movement is a very functional mechanism as well. so we have a functional elements. i also meant to have a static value of 2, even though some of the pots will never be seen by anyone except to watch, make a full service or have had to watch later. and good. you're working with so many tiny parts to create the mechanism or on such a small, small scale. very delicate work. how do you get such crash midship the mathematics, correct? the parts? correct. some of them your manufacturing yourself. i'm sure um,

how does that all work together? have you do that here and we're putting in the sometimes this kind of craftsmanship is described as jewelry. great. in fact, some watchmakers consider with almost an insult, almost to the precision you need for making jewelry, is orders of magnitude lower than what's required for mechanical launches. of success via question, we certainly need special measurements instruments because the, the color and says in making about depend on the precision of a measurements. we have these instruments as well as specialized machines, which allow us to manufacture high position pods to a total runs of several microns or several thousands of a millimeter. now, you've said that you've made the most complex timepiece in russia. what do you mean by that? is it complexity and number of parts? is it the interest in to intricacy, excuse me, of movement. and what is the most complex time police in rush force? miss todd created both the most complicated table clock in russia and full recently the most complicated watch in russia as well. the past. yes, one try to in this

a number of pods in the movement. for example, the most go computers clock has 2506 pots in the movement alone. the wristwatch i mentioned has 664 pods and things. but the complexity is also determined by the number of function adult complications. so you have the number of pods and the number of functions that can perform the bowl. so probably the number of new inventions in the time based on the background tax, and then this a time, which is the most precious thing we have, that went into the crafting of a mazda piece. okay, now you've also created the 1st to, to be on clock or time piece in russia. what exactly is that? um, am i correct in understanding that it's uh, helps with the accurate accuracy? what is it to be on time takes? 20 years ago, i set myself the goal of creating the 1st of a tube alone in russia in a table clock. last on usual goal was a challenge i decided to take upon myself to create the to him alone is a mechanism invented by dismissal. jamaica abraham louis, but i gave you 200 years ago. i should start with the purpose of countering the

effect of gravity on the accuracy of a time. peace with the laws of physics hasn't changed much over the last 200 years . so one of the key components of a time based of 10 shows its accuracy is the balance wheel. who has access must coincide with its center of mass and none of them even now in the 25th century. we can't make it exactly so therefore the job of a to belong is to average out gravitational error and provide accurate time keeping stuff by some good works well in portable time piece is and is a great solution on, you know, some of your designs are fantastic with um, extravagant ideas and thinking of the time piece that calculates the time on maurice as well as a time piece that calculates russian orthodox easter. i guess i have to ask maybe the most obvious question of who's the clientele for this type of watch? why would someone want this type of watch? my role here is primarily that to but not just to me knows no limits. there's

classical out like drawing or making sculptures. and what i do is technical out to modest maybe more working on extremely complicated mechanisms which calculate the distance between us and to boss full time and miles on the days of orthodoxy. stuff . obviously these have no practical sense these days in the same book. it's more of an autistic challenge for me. and so when you're talking about mechanical watches in general, most today we're swamped with information and can check the time, not necessarily on a risk wash and put on a mobile phone and so on. you could say that the mechanical watch has essentially outlived its usefulness to them because they were just so many other convenient devices that can tell you at the time of booking. so my work is primarily a creative process for me in your live a 1st, we do have already space program, a system that watches the show, the time on miles will eventually be used by cause mendoza arrest her know to will set foot on the red planet. and the distant or not too distant future, they'll want to know what time it is. but the secondly, i'll watch these have been and still being used on the international space station

and stuff now are among the very few time paces that have been worn under a space suit by cosmos, during space walks by tomorrow. so there are a couple of specific examples of serious practical use, give others. mm hm. i'm commenting. i'm. let's talk about the orthodox easter time piece because i've tried to calculate it with a social and my editor. it's very difficult. it's incredibly complex in terms of doing that. how do you go about creating something and the mechanism for something so complex, sticking in data rules for setting the data of orthodoxy state well formulated in the middle of the 1st millennium hague d. it was defined as the 1st sunday following the 1st full moon off the call so many different algorithms for determining the date with her post over the next 1500 years with all that i've taken it a step further. and also i came up with my own mathematical formula based on those algorithms, which then helped me to build a mechanical watch maggio history based on. yes, i've done that twice by the way,

once for a model with optical indication released in 2005. my 1st launch for orthodoxies to the federal. i'd like to go through a different mechanism which uses a hand to indicate the right data. and i'm proud to say that few watchmakers do innovative math about from classical mathematical calculations to help them invent new modules and the calendars. another thing that a now after say that the time of my research, you had 94 patterns already. you're an artist, you're an engineer, and you have to be all of these things. um, what is your next big dream project? i guess commercial. i'm happy to say that we just go down 95th maintenance hazel, reach 100 pages and soon enough, you know, at some point i began to see my work as a challenge and we're just trying to do something. nobody else is doing. and setting apparently unachievable goals, i'm not going to develop any secrets, but we do have quite a few very ambitious project in the pipeline. you can trace this trajectory,

looking at some of the previous achievements, because frank red, gold of unusual and complicated watches. some of them related to space exploration, nor other challenges. and so i'm not very frank to go, isn't others quite practical. see me at the moment, but not necessarily needed today or next. yeah, that may be very handy in future years. what about your work? it brings you joy and brings you pride what. what do you like? most of you do? unlike other forms of, of watch making is very complex. it takes a long time to create, to watch. it's true that it can be months and often he is a very big name, is the movement of this clock. yeah, it took me about 5 years to build some of my latest, a complicated wristwatch is required to get as in more, almost at them. add to that the inventions i had created before which went into those models skipped to commend you could easily say those watches with 10 years in the making states us, you think it's a lengthy process. what brings me joy is the best of a new time piece, a new. it's great to have a new idea. it's nice to sketch something beautiful as it was goodwin,

having invested several years into a timepiece or do you see it boeing at last? so for me as a mechanical device, it has a life of its own. and i'm at this moment you'll overwhelmed with joy without the kind of back to the esoteric a little bit. i'm an american, you're in british, but i've heard you talk about the russian soul is important and what you do here. but i've also heard from russian, says that there is no possible way that a foreigner could really fully understand. the russians also talk to me about the russian soul and the rocket to watch. how is it implemented, quote, 1st of all,

what are kind of disagree? because when you look at the history from me, um starting with the to the great and then of to with lots of foreigners have come to russian like a lot of so far. and this house has of significant impact in the development of frustrate you open to over the overtime on the roof. and so from you. well, i discovered the russian soul by reading those to you have ski in uh, in uh when i lived in england is to me it was kind of a key pool with very tormented deep culture. decreased feelings. mm hm. which was very different from what i knew things because english people and notes like us. and we are thoughts too high, the shootings and no to have any feeling senior governors expression this difficult the. it means to us, you know, what, what way when people feel things are usually the eclipse starts moving. mm hm. well, we have thoughts and have a to show a few things. right? so that was very different from, from, from what i knew. and i was interested invite us and signed us what direction?

so as to mean, i mean it goes on goes back to the staff together looking definitely etzky. i like like many, many people. right. and he describes very well dis, afraid, jeep complications, reference. so you've also said that watch me thing in general would be boring without russians. so what do russians and bring in? what does russia bring to the table in the realm of watching me thinking it? i'm not the one who said that's okay. this is something about this tool that is, this is said to me every time i grew to we participate in big procedures, horse exhibitions, engineering, for example. we have all of these new john douglas and which making experts who come to me and said, thank god you do exist, because otherwise the world, fortunately can, would be much more boring if that. what when you switch, which is where we bring is a different construction of the movements. and i mean, i'm movements, i'm moving with our russian movement. looks like us this moment, but it's constructive confusion differently. and another kind of design um

washes, tell us very different. his history or school story and so the russian watches are very different from what you find in switzerland and people in the watch making world of caution at about 4 inches. mm hm. so they're very happy that we think we bring some fresh a to, to a well that's would be otherwise dominated by switch, which is the,

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