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On episode 83 of A Week in Watches, we take a look at three new relatively affordable releases. First is a new powerhouse of a chronograph from Farer with unique functionality. Next is a new addition to Seiko’s Craftsmanship line, featuring a dial of beautiful Arita porcelain. Last, the Omega x Swatch MoonSwatch returns again with some vibrant colors. This week’s episode is brought to you by Windup Watch Fair Chicago, which is preparing to kick off on July 12th. Eindup Chicago is heading into its third year and will feature over 40 brands, including Christopher Ward, Citizen, Fortis, G-SHOCK, Oris, and many more. Located at Venue West in West Town, it’s sure to be another exciting year. Learn more at Windupwatchfair.com

On this episode of the Worn & Wound podcast, we’re happy to be joined by Joe Kirk from Grand Seiko. Joe has been on the podcast a few times, most recently in 2022, and he’s always a fantastic guest. In this episode, Kat Shoulders and Zach Weiss chat with Joe about the recent crop of releases from Grand Seiko at this year’s Watches & Wonders event, including watches powered by the new 9SA4 caliber, and the incredible color changing dial featured on the SBGC275. They also talk about a huge variety of other topics, including servicing your Grand Seiko, the story behind the new Kodo, and what makes the new Grand Seiko flagship boutique in New York City special. He also provides some insight into the release of the new Locomotive from Credor, one of the most unexpected and exciting new releases this year. This is an episode you won’t want to miss if you’re a Grand Seiko fan, new or old.To stay on top of all new episodes, you can subscribe to The Worn & Wound Podcast — now available on all major platfor

And just like that, we’ve got a season.Yes, Max Verstappan won the Canadian GP, in a race where strategy and rain played a large role. However, that is not the important storyline this week. He was one of five drivers who could have. With Mercedes now joining the fray, we have 3 and a half teams (sorry Checo) that can legitimately fight for not just podiums, but for wins as well. In addition to this welcome change, we got quite a race from the rest of the field. Haas rolled the dice, Danny Ric and Ocon responded right, Ferrari was nowhere in sight, and drivers that got new contracts ran for their post race flights. Add all those things together and this was easily the best race of the year.Tune in and listen to this episode for more of our thoughts on the 2024 Canadian GP.

On the podcast this week, Kat Shoulders and James Helms are joined by Mark Frankel, founder of Long Island Watch. Mark is a longtime fixture in the watch industry and has been part of the Worn & Wound story from the beginning. Many of the early watches reviewed in the early days of the website were actually lent to us by Mark and Long Island Watch. Mark’s business has grown along with Worn & Wound, including a popular YouTube channel and his own brand, Islander, which of course is sold through Long Island Watch. This is a fun conversation that covers a wide range of topics including the difficulty of cracking the YouTube algorithm, keeping track of growing collections, and the history of Long Island Watch.To stay on top of all new episodes, you can subscribe to The Worn & Wound Podcast — now available on all major platforms including iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Soundcloud, Spotify, and more. You can also find our RSS feed here.And if you like what you hear, then don’t forget to leave us a revie

In this bonus episode of the Worn & Wound, Zach Kazan and Kat Shoulders sit down with Andreas Bentele, Marketing Manager at Fortis Watches. If you’ve been to a Windup Watch Fair recently, you may have met Andreas in the Fortis booth, where he and his team are always finding innovative ways to introduce their watches to the public. This year their booth had a tranquil, boutique-like feel, and it was a great place to experience Fortis in person. In this conversation, Andreas chats with Zach and Kat about what makes Fortis special, spending a great deal of time focusing on the brand’s history and heritage when it comes to space exploration. Fortis watches go through some pretty serious testing to ensure they can stand up to just about anything, including a burgeoning space tourism industry! They also talk about the unique collecting culture among Fortis enthusiasts, and Andreas gives a hint as to what might be coming from Fortis later in the year. To stay on top of all new episodes, you can subscribe to The

This week on the podcast, Zach Kazan and Kyle Snarr reflect on their recent experience at Couture, the watch and jewelry trade show in fabulous Las Vegas. They talk about some trends that they saw emerge at the show, their experience in Vegas, and they give an all important update on the swag situation this year. Then, Zach talks to Rolf Studer, co-CEO at Oris, about the latest Hölstein Edition and the concept behind this year’s LE and the importance of Hölstein in the history of Oris.To stay on top of all new episodes, you can subscribe to The Worn & Wound Podcast — now available on all major platforms including iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Soundcloud, Spotify, and more. You can also find our RSS feed here.And if you like what you hear, then don’t forget to leave us a review on iTunes.If there’s a question you want us to answer you can hit us up at info@wornandwound.com, and we’ll put your question in the queue.Show Notes Kyle’s wrist check: Autodromo Group BZach’s wrist check: Autodromo Group BWilliam

Time on Screen is back this week for a conversation with Worn & Wound contributor, pen enthusiast, and now novelist Brett Braley for a conversation centered around Sideways, one of the great recent comedies about a writer and the writing process. Zach and Brett dig into why this film has held up so well since its 2004 release, what it says about the writing process, and how the world of wine relates to watch collecting (perhaps unsurprisingly, there are plenty of parallels). They also talk about Brett’s journey in bringing his debut novel, Arthur, into the world, his own writing process, and the new writing projects he’s currently working on.To stay on top of all new episodes, you can subscribe to The Worn & Wound Podcast — now available on all major platforms including iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Soundcloud, Spotify, and more. You can also find our RSS feed here.And if you like what you hear, then don’t forget to leave us a review on iTunes.If there’s a question you want us to answer you can hit u

After years of missed opportunities and straight up bad luck, Charles Leclerc can now finally call himself a Monaco GP winner. All in a race weekend where he looked like the dominant driver with the dominant car from the start. However, as great as this victory was, we take a look at all the things that made the Monaco GP an absolute snoozefest for most of the race.Thankfully, what the race lacked in overtakes, it more than supplied in rumors and spicy interviews. We have Alpine, who has a tumultuous driver pairing that may see Esteban Ocon at the least suspended, if not let go. Aston Martin, who seems to be on the hunt for a new team principal. And finally Mercedes, where one driver is sure he’ll never out qualify his teammate. And not for a lack of talent.Finally, we take a look back at the moments in F1 history that sealed our love for the sport. (The type of love where you sit through a race where there is no change in the top 10 on the grid.)Tune in and listen to this episode for that and more on the 202

This week on the podcast, Zach and Kat sit down to answer your questions in our monthly Q&A. We got a ton of great questions, as we always do, from our Instagram followers and our Worn & Wound+ Slack community. Among the topics discussed: our favorite summer watches, the concept of a “backup” watch, and how we keep track of our growing collections. Kat and Zach also consider a question on whether they’d let a certain watch brand run the world.To stay on top of all new episodes, you can subscribe to The Worn & Wound Podcast — now available on all major platforms including iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Soundcloud, Spotify, and more. You can also find our RSS feed here.And if you like what you hear, then don’t forget to leave us a review on iTunes.If there’s a question you want us to answer you can hit us up at info@wornandwound.com, and we’ll put your question in the queue.Show NotesKat’s wrist check: vintage Tudor SubmarinerZach’s wrist check: IWC Pilot Chronograph 41 CerataniumSpaceOne Introduces

This week on Time on Screen, we’re talking about Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk in an episode sponsored by our friends at William Wood Watches. In celebration of the release of their most ambitious watch to date, William Wood CEO Jonny Garrett joined Zach Kazan and Kyle Snarr on stage at the San Francisco Windup Watch Fair to talk about Nolan’s film and share the story of the Dunkirk Watch. The new limited edition watch was made in partnership with and in tribute to the Massey Shaw, a London Fire Brigade Fire Boat that played an important role in evacuating British forces from Dunkirk Beach in the early stages of World War II. The watch is filled with small and large tributes to the Massey Shaw. The dial is modeled after the telegraph found in the wheelhouse of the Massey Shaw used by the Captain on the bridge to order engineers in the engine room to power the vessel, for example. And each example of the Dunkirk Watch will have a small piece of the Massey Shaw’s engine fitted into the caseback, which depicts Ope

Happy Memorial Day Weekend! While, yes, there is a genuine day of remembrance on Monday, it’s also the weekend that unofficially marks the beginning of Summer. So, you’re probably enjoying your relaxing Sunday morning and having a cup of coffee. And what goes perfectly with coffee? A Week in Watches, of course!Happy Memorial Day Weekend! While, yes, there is a genuine day of remembrance on Monday, it’s also the weekend that unofficially marks the beginning of Summer. So, you’re probably enjoying your relaxing Sunday morning and having a cup of coffee. And what goes perfectly with coffee? A Week in Watches, of course!On episode 81, we discuss some rather Summer-y new releases from Zodiac, Vertex, and Ming, as well as the new Toledano and Chan. The latter is more of a somber Winter morning, but we’ll let that slide. If you enjoy this episode, please like and subscribe; we appreciate it!This week’s episode is brought to you by William Wood, who is celebrating the release of their new Dunkirk watch. Continuing Wi

On this week’s podcast, Zach Kazan and Zach Weiss are putting a new spin on an old format. The “3 for $5k” column is a Worn & Wound staple (and the Reader Edition will be back very soon), but with inflation being what it is these days, we thought it was time to extend the upper limit of our budget for this thought experiment. So in this episode, Zach and Zach decide on their own personal three watch collection for $10,000. It’s interesting to see how their thought processes change (and stay the same) with more fake money to play with. Let us know how you’d spend a hypothetical $10,000 in the comments below. And if you’d like to submit your own “3 for $5k” column, you can use this link to get started.To stay on top of all new episodes, you can subscribe to The Worn & Wound Podcast — now available on all major platforms including iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Soundcloud, Spotify, and more. You can also find our RSS feed here.And if you like what you hear, then don’t forget to leave us a review on iTune

“You cut him! You hurt him! You see? You see? He’s not a machine! He’s a man!”Another week of racing and how things have changed. Though Max Verstappen found himself in P1 this week, on the twist and turns of the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, he had to work for the win. Previous Grand Prix winner, (feels great to say that) Lando Norris, sensed blood in the water as we were treated to a maximum push to the finish line. We think it’s safe to say McLaren is now officially giving Red Bull a run for its money.Beyond this amazing finish, many of the remaining teams found themselves cast into the roles of supporting characters this week. Mercedes is on an island by themselves as the 4th best team. Aston Martin found Stroll celebrating a P9 while his teammate struggled, which would have been chalked up to just a bad week if not for a Visa RB team that now seems game.Tune in and listen to this episode for more of our thoughts on the 2024 Emilia-Romagna GP.It was a fun episode to record and we even found time to fix t

Back in the summer of 2021, we took a stab at recasting watches in well known movies (and offering some of our favorite watches from movies as well). Today, Zach Kazan and Kat Shoulders return to this format, with a little help from our Worn & Wound+ Slack community. First, they go over some of their favorite recent (and not so recent) examples of watches in movies (and TV!), and then they humbly suggest a few alternatives to well known watches in movies. And yes, the Hamilton Boulton in the most recent Indiana Jones film is addressed at some length, as are the watches of Jurassic Park.If you’re a watch enthusiast and a movie lover, you know that this is fertile ground for an additional episode or two, so let us know in the comments if there’s a movie you want us to recast and we’ll tackle that in a future episode.This episode is sponsored by Sternglas and their new Hamburg Chrono Mecha-Quartz. After continued requests from the community and two years of tinkering, there is now a Chronograph in the Hambur

This week on the podcast we’re coming to you live from the recently completed Windup Watch Fair in San Francisco. Blake Malin hosts Zach Kazan, Kyle Snarr, and Garrett Jones (the newest member of the Worn & Wound team, and making his podcast debut!) for a debrief on the show. The team talks about their impressions of our new venue in San Francisco, the most impressive watches they saw over the weekend, and a whole lot more.To stay on top of all new episodes, you can subscribe to The Worn & Wound Podcast — now available on all major platforms including iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Soundcloud, Spotify, and more. You can also find our RSS feed here.And if you like what you hear, then don’t forget to leave us a review on iTunes.If there’s a question you want us to answer you can hit us up at info@wornandwound.com, and we’ll put your question in the queue.Show NotesChristopher Ward Introduces the Twelve X, One of their Most Ambitious Watches To DateFormex Essence Space GoldPaulin Oh NoCamera West

The Miami GP weekend is just getting started. We cover all the sunny Sprint racing action with an in-person episode from the WindUp Fair in San Francisco with special guest (and major watch and motorsport enthusiast) Josh Shanks.Beyond just racing, some very interesting story lines are developing this season leading us to ask a few questions. Now that GOAT car designer Adrian Newey is officially leaving Red Bull, what’s the next chapter in his illustrious career? What does this mean for Red Bull? Rumors are swirling around Florida man Logan Sargeant; will the Miami GP be his last race in F1? Will 17 year old Kimi Antonelli replace him? Finally, we discuss our predictions for the main event in Miami.

This week on the Worn & Wound podcast, Zach Kazan and Zach Weiss are joined by Ed Jelley to finally put a bow on Watches & Wonders 2024, discussing their favorite releases from the show and their overall impressions of this year’s slate of watches. Before the Watches & Wonders talk, however, there’s a big new release from one of our favorite brands to discuss. Christopher Ward dropped the new Twelve X last week, and it quickly became the hottest topic in the watch world. Zach Weiss had a chance to see the watch in person ahead of its release, and he gives us his first impressions and a rundown of why this watch is a pretty big deal for Christopher Ward as a brand, and what it might mean for the industry as a whole.To stay on top of all new episodes, you can subscribe to The Worn & Wound Podcast — now available on all major platforms including iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Soundcloud, Spotify, and more. You can also find our RSS feed here.And if you like what you hear, then don’t forget to lea

The Windup Watch Fair in San Francisco is just days away! Join Blake Malin, Kyle Snarr, and Nelly Calhoun for a preview in this special bonus episode of the Worn & Wound podcast. Take an early peek at the Windup Watch Fair San Francisco right here. 

Over the years, Garrick Watchmakers has become one of our favorite independent brands. Their distinct design language draws on the heritage of classic British watchmaking, and the watches themselves are almost entirely bespoke. Truly, each one is made to order, and clients have enormous latitude in picking out nearly every detail. Dave Brailsford is Garrick’s cofounder and joins Zach Weiss and Zach Kazan in this episode of the Worn & Wound podcast to discuss Garrick’s history, the unique challenges of running a brand where the client has such a large role in the decision making process, and painstaking production process that sees Garrick making a huge amount of each watch in-house. To stay on top of all new episodes, you can subscribe to The Worn & Wound Podcast — now available on all major platforms including iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Soundcloud, Spotify, and more. You can also find our RSS feed here.And if you like what you hear, then don’t forget to leave us a review on iTunes.If there’s a qu

Another week of racing and this time we find ourselves at the Chinese GP. Last time F1 graced this track, it was 2019 and many were complaining about Mercedes dominance. In 2024, Red Bull is the one with a stranglehold on the paddock and it showed in both the sprint and race with Max Verstappen taking the checkered flag in both events.Yet the storylines were still plentiful. We had Daniel Ricciardo who finally looked in form until Lance Stroll decided to live the line “Rubbing is racing”. Danny’s reaction had us wondering if an angry Ricciardo is what F1 really needs. There was also the wily old veteran in Fernando Alonso who had us glued to our seats in the closing laps of the race. We were even treated to spontaneously combusting grass. Tune in and listen to this episode for more of our thoughts and observations of the 2024 Chinese GP.