“In the Metal” is hosted by an online editor in Northern Ireland and a former rocker turned watchmaker in Texas.
WARRENPOINT, Northern Ireland — In March 2020, Dan Spitz, an American musician and watchmaker whose timepieces start at $158,000, contacted Johnny McElherron, editor of The Watch Press, an online publication based in Northern Ireland, to discuss a new watch.
“Dan asked me to write about a watch he’s developing, the J11.13,” Mr. McElherron recalled during an interview at his home in Warrenpoint. The mechanical timepiece had been five years in the making by then. It is now poised to be presented later this year.
“Usually you’d chat to a watchmaker for 10
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