The Worn & Wound Podcast

We’re back!After a winter break where many of us probably wished for a competitive 2024 season, the teams are all back with some new looking cars, new team names (RB???) and new storylines. We’ve also jumped on the newness bandwagon as we bring in a new co-host, Amarveer Brar. Hailing from sunny California, Amarveer brings his love for watches and Formula 1 to the table. Paired up with Ricardo Sime from last season, the duo look to bring a touch of Worn & Wound passion to this historical sport.Right off the bat, that’s exactly what they do, diving headfirst into preseason testing and some of their major takeaways from new cars finally hitting the track. Then, it’s a quick segue into Drive to Survive Season 6, from the interesting comments made by a 7-time Drivers World Champion, to how bad overconfidence looks when you start to fail. Tune in and listen to this first episode to get your first dose of Time on Track for the 2024 season.

This week the Worn & Wound podcast is all about Formex, and the recent limited edition Essence we released with them earlier in the month. We’re happy to be joined by Markus Wälchli and Raphael Granito from Formex for this conversation, and Worn & Wound cofounder (and designer of this particular watch) Zach Weiss is here too. This is a deep dive into the history of Formex and the unique challenges of creating this specific watch, plus we also hear from Zach Weiss about the sci-fi influenced campaign built around “The Watch from Another World.”This episode of the Worn & Wound podcast is brought to you by the Windup Watch Shop and the Formex x Worn & Wound Essence Sector 39 Chronometer Limited Edition – inspired by the worlds of sci-fi films and series, the Essence Sector 39 Chronometer envisions a watch from an alternate universe. 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,

This week, Time on Screen is back with an interesting and too often forgotten Christopher Nolan movie. Insomnia was Nolan’s first big budget Hollywood production coming off the surprise hit of Memento, and while it’s a pretty standard thriller on the surface, there are glimpses of what’s to come for Nolan if you look for them. Zach Kazan welcomes Zach Weiss and Kat Shoulders to this episode, where they talk about how Insomnia holds up twenty years after its release, and then they pick their top three Christopher Nolan movies. There’s also an extended sidebar on the recently completed fourth season of True Detective, another crime drama set in Alaska, but with a very different vibe, and weather.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

We’re back this week with our monthly Q&A podcast episode. Kat Shoulders, Zach Weiss, and Zach Kazan are all on the mic fielding questions from our Instagram followers and Worn & Wound+ Slack community. Topics this month are as varied as usual, and touch on hypothetical titanium Seikos, limitations of mass produced movements, our longest honeymoon period with a watch, and a lot more. We love to do these Q&A episodes, so if you want to get a question in for the next one, be sure to join our Worn & Wound+ Slack group and keep an eye out for our monthly call for questions.Special thanks to Sherpa Watches for sponsoring this week’s podcast. Sherpa created their own true compressor case system, including the bayonet compressor case back and the compressor crowns, built in-house. Their unique design, including the double crown and crown guards, are all made from German or Swiss components. The watches feature 200 meter water resistance certified to the ISO 6425 norm. Finally they have what they call

Welcome to episode 74 of A Week in Watches! Another solid week of releases, this one is dominated by one brand that just can’t stop, and the most noble of metals – titanium. There’s a new brutish military diver from the mil-spec nerds over at Tornek-Rayville, some crystallized dress watches from Baltic, a simply handsome titanium chronograph from Zenith, and a ton of stuff from Grand Seiko. Like, a ton. Check it out below, and please like and subscribe if you haven’t already!This week’s episode was brought to you by the Windup Watch Shop and the new Formex x Worn & Wound Essence Sector 39 Chronometer Limited Edition. The first collaboration between the two brands, its sci-fi-inspired style will stand out in any collection. Head over to WindupWatchShop.com to check them out, as well as accessories, EDC, clocks, and more.

This week on the podcast, Zach Kazan talks to Laurence Bodenmann, Head of Heritage at Zenith. Laurence has what might seem like a dream job for a watch lover, poring over the Zenith archives and diving deep into the brand’s history, looking for ways to preserve and communicate that long history to a modern audience. Laurence is a trained anthropologist (and teacher) and takes an appropriately academic approach to her job at Zenith, and has a perspective like few others we’ve talked to on the podcast. In this episode, Laurence explains exactly what a Head of Heritage at a historical Swiss watch brand does, how she wound up at Zenith, and tells a few stories about discoveries she’s made along the way that have surprised her.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 u

This week on the podcast, Zach welcomes Worn & Wound contributor Nathan Schultz. Nathan has been writing for Worn & Wound for nearly a year, and is the creator of the “Selling Points” series, where he brings his unique perspective on finding value (and sometimes not finding value) to the Worn & Wound community. Zach and Nathan talk about Nathan’s history in the hobby and what draws him specifically to affordably priced watches. They also talk about watch modding culture and how Nathan recently did some surgery on a Bulova Hack to fix a noisy rotor.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 NotesNathan

In this new episode of Time on Screen, Zach welcomes Worn & Wound cofounder and CEO Blake Malin to the podcast for the very first time. Today’s movie is The Firm, the 1993 legal thriller starring Tom Cruise and featuring an incredible cast of great supporting actors. Why The Firm? Well, there are definitely some great watches in the movie, but this is all about Zach and Blake’s interest in 90s legal thrillers, which were a burgeoning genre at the time and have proven to be incredibly rewatchable decades later. In this episode, they break down what they like about The Firm specifically, but also get into why this period of time was “peak lawyer” in so many ways, chart their own thwarted legal careers, and why the two-tone Submariner is the most offensive 1990s 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

New releases are coming fast and furious in the first month of 2024, and we’ve got updates on some big ones in this week’s edition of A Week in Watches. There’s a new Speedmaster from Omega (a January tradition) as well reissues of classics from Zenith and Longines. Plus, the hypothetical watches from the Seiko Power Design Project, featuring “incredibly specialized watches” that 99% of people don’t need. They don’t actually exist, but they’re a lot of fun.

This week on the podcast, Zach Kazan, Kat Shoulders, and Ricardo Sime jump on the mic to talk about some of their recent watch acquisitions, and what those pickups might mean (or not mean) for their collections in 2024. Ricardo finally added a GMT to his collection in late 2023 after a long search, Kat picked up a new limited edition Fears (one of her favorite brands), and Zach bought a James Lamb after his usual long period of deliberation. In this conversation, they each talk about what led them to each of their new watches, and how those watches fit into their collecting goals for the upcoming year.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

On today’s episode of Changing Gears, Kat is joined by her good friends Lydia Winters and Vu Bui. Lydia and Vu are U.S. natives now living in Sweden, and along with being watch collectors, they are also both amazing photographers. We chat about their recent Tool/kit they did for Worn & Wound camping in the Swedish forest. We of course get into photography and discuss Lydia’s decision to change camera systems and why. We had a blast with both of them and be sure to check out their new daily podcast, This Watch Life! We hope you like this new podcast format and really appreciate all the listeners! Kat has some awesome interviews in the works for those of you that love gear! 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.If there’s a question you want us to answer you can hit us up at info@wornandwound.com, and we’ll put your

Today on the Worn & Wound podcast, we’re once again joined by Dana Li, founder of Tell the Time, a watch platform focused on providing a female driven perspective on the watch world. In this episode, after a brief discussion on the influx of Lunar New Year watches and some other new releases from a busy first month of the year, Dana, Zach Kazan, and Zach Weiss play a game of Overrated/Underrated, each proposing a handful of topics and asking for the group’s hottest take: are these overrated or underrated? Discussion points include micro-adjustment on bracelet clasps, the various flavors of gold in watch cases, and vintage watches in general.This episode was sponsored by Citizen and their new Promaster Air Automatic GMT watch, a first for the Promaster line. The launch celebrates the 35th anniversary of Promaster, a line that embodies the spirit of adventure in the air, on land or at sea and lives up to the values of functionality, durability, and performance.To stay on top of all new episodes, you can sub

Time on Screen is back this week, and at long last features a movie by the Coen Brothers, a filmmaking team that has been incredibly important to both Zach Kazan and Kyle Snarr, Worn & Wound’s Head of Partnerships and the guest on this episode. They’re tackling No Country for Old Men, the Coen’s 2007 classic neo-western based on the much loved Cormac McCarthy novel, and the film that many recognize as their true breakthrough, finally winning them a Best Picture Oscar and near universal acclaim. Zach and Kyle talk through what makes the movie special and how it fits into the larger context of the Coen’s filmography, and they finish off the episode with their personal top five favorite Coen Brothers films. There’s some overlap between their lists, but it still captures the enormous breadth and variety in their films over the years.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, S

Welcome to episode 72 of A Week in Watches. This week’s episode is part two of A Year in Watches 2023. This week, we focus on independent brands like Nodus, Lorier, Farer, Baltic, a fully American-made watch, and more. Naturally, there was way too much to cover again, so these were just a few highlights. This week’s episode was brought to you by the Windup Watch Shop. The best way to start the new year is a new watch. Head over to WindupWatchShop.com to check out new watches, limited editions, accessories, EDC, clocks, and more. The holidays are over, it’s time to get yourself something nice.

This week on the Worn & Wound podcast, Zach Kazan and Kat Shoulders are once again taking questions from the Worn & Wound+ Slack community. We seek out questions from listeners about once a month, and you came up with some great ones for January. Zach and Kat field questions on topics ranging from the relaunch of Universal Geneve, mid century watch design fatigue, and a growing interest in independent watchmaking. There’s also a great discussion on the place of homage watches, and a quick diversion into Zach and Kat’s home audio setups. If you’re not yet involved in the Worn & Wound+ Slack, click here to join today. It’s completely free to join, and there are great watch discussions happening there every single day.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 le

This week, the Worn & Wound podcast is all about tool watches. We’ve got Zach Kazan, Kat Shoulders, Zach Weiss, and Ricardo Sime on mic to discuss the finer points of a category in watchmaking that is essentially inescapable. But what does it really mean to own and collect tool watches in 2024? We try to define what a tool watch is in the first place (we’ve found there’s no real consensus) and grapple with whether an interest in tool watches has more to do with practicality, aesthetics, or something else entirely. It’s a fun conversation that takes all kinds of unexpected turns.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

This week on Time on Screen, Zach is joined by Kat Shoulders as they look back on the previous year in movies. In the great tradition of movie podcasts, this is our Best of 2023 episode. Kat and Zach agree that last year was a great year for movies, the best in quite some time, dominated by a massive summer box office led by Oppenheimer and Barbie (both of which have been covered on Time on Screen, incidentally). But there were many, many other films throughout the year that left their mark. In this episode, Zach and Kat each pick their top 3 and go into depth on why each meant something to them last year, plus there are a whole slew of honorable mentions discussed toward the end. They even give a few of their favorite TV achievements from the last year. Let us know in the comments what your favorites from 2023 were, and what you think of Kat and Zach’s lists.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 Pl

Welcome to episode 71 of A Week in Watches. To make it a tradition this is a special episode, or rather, part of one of a special two-parter cleverly titled “A Year in Watches.” Yes, we’re going to take a look back at big moments and releases from 2023. As you’d expect, there’s a lot to cover, so we’re doing the “big brands” in this episode – think Omega, Rolex, and Tudor – and micros and indies in the next.Naturally, there still was too much to cover, so we focused on big launches from Watches & Wonders, what Rolex was up to (they did some weird stuff in 2023, especially for them), and then Seiko, who had a particular focus this year. If you enjoy the episode, please do like and subscribe.This week’s episode was brought to you by the Windup Watch Shop. The best way to start the new year is a new watch. Head over to WindupWatchShop.com to check out new watches, limited editions, accessories, EDC, clocks, and more. The holidays are over, it’s time to get yourself something nice.

This week on the first podcast of 2024, it’s our annual predictions episode, where we look ahead to the new year and make our best guesses about what’s to come. It’s part wishful thinking, and partly just hunches we’ve been harboring, but it’s always fun to play prognosticator and imagine what might transpire over the next twelve months. On this episode, Zach and Kat welcome an often requested guest: Norqain’s Katlen Schmidt! That’s right – that makes this episode a Tenn & Two reunion episode, which is just a fantastic way to start the year. Katlen shares some of her own predictions for 2024, including her thoughts on more color, movement innovations, and the limited edition trend.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 ques

On this episode of Changing Gears, Kat is joined by Trevor Davis of William Ellery. William Ellery is an outdoor clothing brand based in Brooklyn, NY. They are doing some amazing things in not only the outdoor space but in sustainability as well. Kat talks to Trevor about his design inspirations, ultra-light travel, and how William Ellery is different from most outdoor brands. We hope you like this new podcast format and really appreciate all the listeners! Kat has some awesome interviews in the works for those of you that love gear! 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.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: Trevor’s Wrist CheckTrevor’s Gear Check: Wallet and Knife Kat’s Wrist CheckKat’s Gear CheckWilliam Ellery Webs