In the first race back from the summer break, McLaren, who was already on a positive trajectory, smoked their closest rival to the tune of a 22 second gap at the finish line. A gap reminiscent of the first race of the season where Max Verstappen had us believing it would be 2023 all over again. After months of asking for more competitive challengers, it now seems like McLaren will only be taking Redbull’s place. We discuss if this dominant performance will be the new norm and how Redbull’s current trajectory may mean a battle for the Driver’s Championship isn’t an unrealizable dream for the papaya team.

We also look forward to Monza and wonder if Ferrari is holding upgrades back specifically for their home race. It wouldn’t be the first time we’ve seen the team hyper-focused on success at one racetrack. What’s more, with a new racer on the grid (Bye Logan, Hi Franco), we enthusiastically await what the Temple of Speed has to offer this weekend.

Start up your podcast player and listen to this episode for more of our thoughts on the 2024 Dutch Grand Prix.

Today, we sit down with Kenneth Lam of Arken Watch Co. We chat about what kind of watch collector he was early on, what inspired his brand, and what's to come from Arken. As many of you know, his designs stand out among the many micro-brands out there, and Ken is using some interesting complications we dive into on the pod this week. 

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Today on the podcast, Zach Kazan sits down with Griffin Bartsch, Worn & Wound contributor and watch collector, about his path into collecting and why he’s stuck around in the hobby. Griffin got started in the hobby at a young age with a hand-me-down vintage watch, and that set the stage for years of exploration into watches of all kinds. Griffin takes us through some of the watches that have defined his taste over the years, and how his outlook has changed over time, including through his experiences at auctions, writing about watches, and working for a major watch retailer. Griffin also gives us a preview of his upcoming review of the Zenith Defy Extreme Diver, one of the most talked about new releases of the year.

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Show Notes

• Griffin’s wrist check: Rolex Datejust
• Zach’s wrist check: Citizen Tsuyosa Small Seconds  
• Our Favorite Summer Watches
• Review: the Lorier Astra
• The Worn & Wound Podcast Ep 356: Our Watch Origin Stories, and First Watch Recommendations
• Four of the Biggest Surprises from Chicago’s Windup Watch Fair
• Interview: A Conversation with Benoit de Clerck, Zenith’s New CEO

Last week, Formula 1 visited Brazil's famed Interlagos track for round 21 of the season. Like last year, this was a sprint weekend, meaning less time for setup, and more time for racing drama, which we saw plenty of. In this episode, Ricardo and Blake dive into the details of the race weekend, lamenting the string of horrible luck Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc has been experiencing the past season and a half. This race saw his exit from a P2 starting position during the formation lap leading into the race. Lando Norris was happy to take over that position during the race itself, pushing Verstappen early in the race, and keeping a respectable distance from the leader much of the way. 

On this week’s podcast, Blake welcomes Jason Gong, founder of Complecto, to the podcast. Jason joins Blake and Zach to chat about the origins of Complecto, their mission to advance diversity within the watch community, and the launch of their first limited edition, a super cool gray dialed Jet Star made in collaboration with Bulova. Along the way, they also chat about how Jason’s obsession with watches began at an early age, how his work in Silicon Valley and in finance informs the ideas behind Complecto, and a whole lot more.

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Show Notes

• Jason’s wrist check: Bulova x Complecto Jet Star LE
• Zach’s wrist check: Autodromo Group B
• Blake’s wrist check: Zenith El Primero “Rainbow” Flyback
• Zenith & Aaron Rodgers Reveal New Green Chronomaster Sport Chronograph
• Complecto
• Zach K. on the OT Podcast  

Round 20 of the 2023 Formula 1 season saw action in sunny Mexico City around the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez circuit, which threw plenty of heat at the cars over the course of the weekend. That meant high degradation on the tires, and little in the way of clean air for the cars to enjoy. We saw yet another lap 1, turn 1 incident punish an overly aggressive move by Sergio Perez hoping to take advantage of a tremendous start, unfortunately leading to his retirement from the race in front of his home crowd. The front of the pack was quickly filled by the Ferrari and Mercedes cars vying for podium spots behind Verstappen, who took his record breaking 16th win of the season. A strong race from Hamilton saw him taking P2, while the race’s pole sitter, Leclerc, held on for P3.

This week on the podcast, Blake welcomes Zach Weiss and Zach Kazan to talk about a pair of recent releases from Omega and Ming that cover similar ground in their use of interesting and uncommon materials, all in the name of reducing weight. The new Omega Planet Ocean diver uses a titanium movement to cut weight in a package that’s already quite chunky, and the Ming LW.01 is a literal record setter, lighter in weight than any other mechanical watch.These non-traditional watches have us thinking about the merits of lighter weight watches in general and also the use of new materials more broadly, these two new releases in particular inspired quite a bit of conversation.

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Show Notes

• Time On Screen: In The Mouth of Madness
• Zach K’s wrist check: Arcanaut Arc II Fordite
• Zach W’s wrist check: Grand Seiko SBGW277
• Blake’s wrist check: Oris AquisPro
• Fears Brings Mother of Pearl to the Brunswick, But Not In the Way You Might Expect
• Omega Introduces a New Ceramic Compound to their Collection and Puts a Titanium Movement in the New Planet Ocean
• Ming Surprises with What Could Be the Lightest Watches Ever Made
• A Lange & Söhne Gives Zeitwerk Minute Repeater the Honeygold Treatment for New NYC Boutique

Time on Screen is back this week with a seasonally appropriate entry, an underrated mid-90s classic from the Master of Horror himself, John Carpenter. Zach Kazan is joined by Zach Weiss and Chris Antzoulis (all horror movie fans to their core) for this discussion of In the Mouth of Madness, the capstone to Carpenter’s “Apocalypse Trilogy,” and a personal favorite of this crew. There are other Carpenter horror movies that are more famous, but none that take place largely in New Hampshire, and few that are quite this unhinged, following Sam Neill’s insurance investigator as he tries to track down a missing horror writer whose latest novel has the power to make its readers insane, forever altering their reality, and bringing about the end of the world as we know it. In other words, perfect spooky season fare. 

There are watches in the movie as well, but In the Mouth of Madness really fits into this series for the way the narrative plays with time, using elliptical storytelling techniques to underscore the idea that our characters are losing their grip on reality.

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Welcome to a special episode of A Week In Watches filmed live on the floor of our Windup Watch Fair New York. This episode features first hand looks at some of the new watches released at or around the fair with commentary from the people behind them. This year’s fair was our biggest ever, so unfortunately we weren’t able to get to all the new watches, but we pulled aside a handful of the most interesting watches caught our eye during the fair. This includes watches from Laco, Baltic, Isotope and more, along with some of the EDC brands that showed up this year. There was no shortage of exciting watches to check out, and as always, some incredible watch spotting in the crowd of enthusiasts that showed up.

Thanks to our lead sponsors: Oris, Christopher Ward, Zodiac, G-Shock, and Citizen for making such a great impression upon first walking into the fair!

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As we enter the final stages of the 2023 Formula 1 season, the cars and teams look to make their final updates to secure position, and even to plan ahead for next season. Round 19 saw action return to the US for the race at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, TX, and this Sprint race weekend brought plenty of drama both on the track, and off it. We saw competitive racing out front thanks to a revitalized Mercedes car running a new floor, a strong presence from McLaren, and of course the ever present Red Bull leading the pack. The final result was anything but predictable this week, with a determined Lew Hamilton chasing down Max Verstappen, though his bid for victory ultimately fell just a few seconds short. Ultimately, it wouldn't have mattered as the Mercedes driver (along with Ferrari's Charles Leclerc) was handed a DSQ thanks to a floor plank being out of spec after the race.

This week on the podcast, Blake and Zach are on mic after a long Windup weekend to recap the show, including our favorite watches and experiences over the course of the show. This was a particularly memorable Windup Watch Fair, with a record number of brands across two floors of the Altman building, with all of them bringing their best watches to the show. We also saw more EDC brands exhibiting than ever before, adding a new dimension to the experience, and were able to connect with a number of Worn & Wound+ members throughout the weekend, underscoring the community feel of the event. 

Before the Windup recap, Blake takes us through a cool new diving experience he had with the FDNY, as well as an attempted mod of one of his favorite Tudors.

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Show Notes

• Zach’s wrist check: Timex x The James Brand Ironman
• Blake’s wrist check: Tudor Pelagos FXD
• Baltic Unveils the All New Hermétique Collection
• Sherpa Watches Launches with Two True Super Compressors
• The Lorier Hydra Zulu
• Laco DIN 8330
• Hands-On: the Isotope Hydrium California
• Isotope Moonshot Chronograph
• (Hands-On)The Genta IWC Ingenieur Era Returns With New Automatic 40
• Worn & Wound+
• Fears Brings Mother of Pearl to the Brunswick, But Not In the Way You Might Expect

This week on the podcast, Blake welcomes Kyle Snarr and Nelly Calhoun to the podcast to talk all things Windup Watch Fair, which returns to New York City this weekend. The New York City fair is always special, and this year’s is our biggest yet, taking place over two floors of the Altman Building, including a number of brands making their Windup debut. In this episode, Kyle and Nelly answer questions submitted by our Worn & Wound+ Slack community about the ins and outs of Windup, how the show comes together, and the best way to get the most out of your Windup experience. We also highlight some exciting changes to this year’s program, including an expanded “EDC Alley” and an exciting debut from Fossil.

 

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Show Notes

• Kyle’s wrist check: Bulova A11 Hack
• Blake’s wrist check: Rolex Explorer II 16570
• [VIDEO] Christopher Ward Treads Familiar Ground With The Twelve
• Oris Celebrates the Life and Career of a Baseball Legend with the Hank Aaron Limited Edition
• So Many Lasers, So Much Tagging—Recapping the Zodiac x Worn & Wound Super Sea Wolf Laser Tag LE Launch Party
• Windup Watch Fair

A Week In Watches returns with big news from Seiko, who revealed a pair of new Prospex references which celebrate the brand’s history in land-based watches. The pair of limited editions each pick up something special from Seiko’s history, starting with the SPB411 GMT, a watch that recalls the Navigator Timer of the ’60s, which was Seiko first GMT to feature a rotating bezel. The second is a revival of the Landmaster in celebration of its 30th anniversary, where Seiko has brought back the 3 dimensional compass bezel and blue gradient dial. Both work exceptionally well, and highlight the brand’s deep tool watch roots at their very best.

Elsewhere we were thrilled to see a new release from Baltic this week, which shifted away from old-school-cool dive watches and put focus on classic field watches. The frame works brilliantly here with lumed applied numerals, a svelte case, and a trick crown that sits flush with the case wall. The watch boasts 4 different dials at launch, and is a welcome expansion of the brand’s refined sense of design.

 

Finally, new releases from Nomos and Ming, as well as a collaboration between Montblanc/Minerva and Collective round out the news that’s caught our attention this week. Catch the full episode below for the run down, and be sure to leave a comment on your thoughts in the video for us to highlight in the next episode.

Thanks to this week’s sponsor, Shinola, for their support.

To commemorate 10 years of American design and manufacturing, Shinola Detroit is proud to share this video that reveals the company and its employees as a team that can carve a distinct pathway forward with their own sense of, as they say, “timeless American design.”

This cinematic video gives an insider glimpse of their watchmakers assembling timepieces, soaring views of the Detroit headquarters, and shares perspective on the past decade as well as Shinola’s aims for the future.

Learn more about Shinola’s Timeless American Design, their latest watch and apparel releases right here.

You will also be able to see a selection of Shinola’s watches and fine goods at Windup Watch Fair NYC on October 20-22 at The Altman Building, located at 135 W 18th St, New York, NY.

What if I told you on July 20th that Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton would crash into each other at the Hungarian GP but that would be a distant second to the main story? A story of a team finishing 1,2 but bad race management and a cringe worthy 20-30 mins of radio overshadowing that.  

We take a look back at how McClaren poorly handled their most dominant performance this year. We also question if a team can truly be successful with this approach. If Lando Norris isn’t being prioritized for the rest of the year, can you take McClaren seriously in any attempt at the driver’s championship? Is Lando Norris not the team’s number one driver?

So many questions. And we try our best in Part II of this podcast to answer them. So sit back and enjoy this episode and listen to our thoughts on the Hungarian GP.

Time On Track returns this week with a look at Round 18 of the 2023 Formula 1 season: Qatar. The newly resurfaced Lusail International Circuit was particularly punishing to the Pirelli tires this week, so much so that a mandate was handed down to the teams stipulating that tires could go no longer than 17 lap stints at a time. This created 3 and 4 stop races for many of the teams, and plenty of drama in the Sprint race leading up to Sunday. Perhaps the biggest challenge for the drivers this week was the track limits at a few select corners, which led to a plethora of deleted lap times and eventual 5 second penalties.

This week on the Worn & Wound podcast, Blake and Zach are talking about a range of new releases, including a big new release from Collective and Montblanc, as well as a fascinating modern take on the field watch from Baltic. They also catch up about some recent travel (including a visit to the Vortic headquarters in Fort Collins, CO), and reviews that they’ve completed recently on a 90s favorite and a new entry in the “leisure sport” category.

Today’s episode of the Worn and Wound Podcast is brought to you by the New York Windup Watch Fair. Windup Watch Fair is a three-day-long shopping experience that brings watch brands and customers together in a fun, approachable, and engaging environment. Always free and open to the public, Windup Watch Fair encourages everyone from seasoned collectors to first-time watch buyers to come in, take a look, shop, and talk watches. Over 80 watch, apparel, and gear brands will participate this year, including our lead sponsors, Bulova, Christopher Ward, G-SHOCK, Oris, and Zodiac. Experience Enthusiasm™ in person at the New York Windup Watch Fair, at the Altman Building – 135 W 18th Street, from Friday, October 20th through Sunday, October 22nd. To learn more, visit www.windupwatchfair.com.

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Show Notes

• Zach’s wrist check: Lorier Hydra Series III
• Blake’s wrist check: Autodromo Group B Chronograph “Night Stage”
• Time on Screen Podcast: Contact
• So Many Lasers, So Much Tagging—Recapping the Zodiac x Worn & Wound Super Sea Wolf Laser Tag LE Launch Party
• Collective Horology Introduces their Latest Limited Edition, a Collaboration with Montblanc Featuring a Gorgeous Minerva Caliber
• Baltic Unveils the All New Hermétique Collection
• Inside Vortic as they Launch the Colorado Watch Company
• [VIDEO] Missed Review: The Titanium Omega Seamaster 300 2231.50.00
• Hands-On: the Parmigiani Fleurier Tonda PF Sport Automatic in Rose Gold

This week on the podcast, Blake and Zach are chatting with Asher Rapkin, co-founder of Collective Horology, about their latest release, the 1858 Minerva Monopusher Chronograph “Blue Arrow” P.05. This is a seriously high end, and beautiful, chronograph that takes inspiration from vintage Minerva stopwatches from the 1940s and 50s. Asher takes us through how the watch was conceived, with a variety of different design cues coming together to form a watch that represents a fascinating bit of “historical nonfiction,” as Asher puts it. It’s a watch that Minerva never made, but could have if they decided to move in a slightly different direction.

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Show Notes

• Zach’s wrist check: Lorier Hydra SIII
• Blake’s wrist check: Omega Seamaster 300
• Asher’s wrist check: Autodromo Group C
• Missed Review: The Titanium Omega Seamaster 300 2231.50.00 
• Collective Horology Introduces their Latest Limited Edition, a Collaboration with Montblanc Featuring a Gorgeous Minerva Caliber

A Week In Watches returns this week with a look at a trio of divers that take their inspiration from the past, and apply in a thoroughly modern way. No faux lume or tropical dials in sight, prompting us to wonder if that trend is behind us. Divers from Oris, Tudor, and Seiko all paint a clear picture of a way forward that’s not a carbon copy of the past. You might say Seiko has always been ahead in that game, and their latest Prospex divers, which bring the 62MAS flavor into a tidy modern skindiver case that we’ve loved since it was released in 2020. If this is what we can expect more of, count us in.

Elsewhere, Farer dropped a pair of new chronographs called the Chrono-Contempo with colorways inspired by two vibrant streets found in London. These are Farer through and through, with unexpected colors and a clean, modern design language. As usual, Farer nails the proportions here thanks to their use of the hand wound SW510M from Sellita.

Finally, a collaboration between our friends at Fratello and Minase comes together for the second time, continuing a trend of subtle yet powerful dial executions from the pair. The latest is the M-3 Nori, and gets a dial inspired by Japanese seaweed, which comes together way better than you might expect. Here’s to the next one.

On this episode of Time on Screen, Zach welcomes Ricardo Simé to the podcast to chat about Focus, an underseen 2015 film starring Will Smith and Margot Robbie. Focus has become something of a cult favorite since it came and went at the box office nearly ten years ago, and it strikes a particular chord if you’re a watch collector with what are some frankly terrifying scenes involving watch theft. Theft is something that’s on the mind of many watch collectors these days - it seems like a week doesn’t go by where a story isn’t shared of someone losing their watch to a thief, so Focus is incredibly topical at the moment. In addition to that, it’s just an incredibly entertaining crime film with a ton of great screwball energy and real chemistry between Smith and Robbie, with one of the best gambling scenes we’ve ever seen on film.

Time On Track looks to Japan this week for round 17 of the Formula 1 season at the famous Suzuka Circuit. Verstappen returned to form this week, taking a dominant victory and bagging the World Constructor Championship for the team in the process, despite Sergio Perez's most forgettable race of the season. Some strange team orders were the subject of plenty of discussion, including one call that saw a last lap swap between the Alpine drivers, and another that played out between the Mercedes cars looking to keep a Ferrari at bay. Sergio's strange race also has us wondering if Lewis Hamilton might find himself within striking distance of P2 in the Drivers Championship before the season is out.

This week on the podcast, Zach Kazan and Kat Shoulders are taking over while Blake is on vacation for a special episode where they tackle questions from our Worn & Wound+ Slack community. These questions were a lot of fun and really ran the gamut, covering everything from flexing your Rolex at the gym, to caring for your watch bracelets, and favorite articles and photography campaigns we’ve been involved with. We’ll definitely be doing this again, so if you have questions for members of the Worn & Wound team, drop them in the comments. Better yet, join the Worn & Wound+ community by clicking here.

Today’s episode of the Worn and Wound Podcast is brought to you by the New York Windup Watch Fair. Windup Watch Fair is a three-day-long shopping experience that brings watch brands and customers together in a fun, approachable, and engaging environment. Always free and open to the public, Windup Watch Fair encourages everyone from seasoned collectors to first-time watch buyers to come in, take a look, shop, and talk watches. Over 80 watch, apparel, and gear brands will participate this year, including our lead sponsors, Bulova, Christopher Ward, G-SHOCK, Oris, and Zodiac. Experience Enthusiasm™ in person at the New York Windup Watch Fair, at the Altman Building – 135 W 18th Street, from Friday, October 20th through Sunday, October 22nd. To learn more, visit www.windupwatchfair.com.

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Show Notes

• Zach’s wrist check: Parmigiani Fleurier Tonda PF Sport Auto
• Kat’s wrist check: IWC C.03 Pilot Chronograph 41
• Worn & Wound+ Slack Community
• My Secret Seiko
• Windup Watch Fair NYC
• Introducing the Nivada Grenchen x Worn & Wound Chronomaster Valjoux 72 and Datomaster VK64
• Jean-Claude Biver, the Matterhorn, and Carbon Fiber with Some Color: A Few Days in Zermatt with Norqain and the New Wild One
• The Howard, Davis & Dennison #3: Inside the Sale of the Most Valuable American Pocket Watch
• Out Of Office: Cruising the California Coast With The Grand Seiko SBGE285
• We Finally Got Our Hands on the Bell & Ross BR 03-94 Multimeter, and Here’s a Video to Prove It
• Owner’s Review: The Arcanaut Arc II Fordite

Racing returns this week with the first of a double header featuring Singapore and Japan, and the Marina Bay Street Circuit offered what is to this point, the best race of the season. For the first time this season, and the first time more than 15 races, a team other than Red Bull claimed victory, and without the dominant Verstappen in the lead, the door was opened to the most competitive racing out front we’ve seen all season long. There was effectively a 4 way battle for the top spot that ran right to the end of the race, with Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz taking the checkered flag just ahead of Lando Norris, and Lewis Hamilton.

Singapore’s relatively bumpy street circuit meant Red Bull wasn’t able to run their suspension in it’s usual, very low, sweet spot. This threw the car’s aerodynamics off just enough to bring the car back to earth a bit, with high mid field pace that saw Verstappen finish in P5, and Perez in P8. Ferrari took advantage this week, qualifying in pole position, and a good enough race strategy to maintain the lead through the race. Both Mercedes cars the McLaren of Lando Norris made thing interesting out front, however, with a brilliant strategy call by Mercedes late in the race nearly handing them the victory.

We’ll return next week with a look at the race in Japan around the iconic Suzuka Circuit, which we expect a full return to form by the Red Bull cars, but this is a sport where nothing can be taken for granted, so here’s hoping we’ll get some more competitive racing.

Today on the Worn & Wound podcast, Blake Buettner is checking in from his recent dive trip in Florida with Tudor, and is joined by fellow dive watch aficionado Justin, AKA @the_wristorian on Instagram, where you’ve probably seen him post tons of amazing content on just about everything you can imagine relating to dive watch history. He’s a true authority, and a genuine enthusiast, and his feed is worthy of a follow if you’re not already checking in. 

In this conversation, Blake and Justin discuss all the action on the ground and under the surface with Tudor, including their experience at the Man in the Sea museum, home to SEALAB-I and many other important pieces of diving history, and their reactions to the latest Tudor FXD, this time clad in a black dial. This one is absolutely loaded with dive watch content, so get ready for a full exploration of the Tudor dive watch lineup, and where it stands now with the latest addition to the collection. 

Today’s episode of the Worn and Wound Podcast is brought to you by the New York Windup Watch Fair. Windup Watch Fair is a three-day-long shopping experience that brings watch brands and customers together in a fun, approachable, and engaging environment. Always free and open to the public, Windup Watch Fair encourages everyone from seasoned collectors to first-time watch buyers to come in, take a look, shop, and talk watches. Over 80 watch, apparel, and gear brands will participate this year, including our lead sponsors, Bulova, Christopher Ward, G-SHOCK, Oris, and Zodiac. Experience Enthusiasm™ in person at the New York Windup Watch Fair, at the Altman Building – 135 W 18th Street, from Friday, October 20th through Sunday, October 22nd. To learn more, visit www.windupwatchfair.com.

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Show Notes

• Justin’s wrist check: Tudor Pelagos 39
• Blake’s wrist check: Tudor Pelagos FXD
• Man in the Sea Museum
• Tudor Introduces New Pelagos FXD in Black
• The Wristorian

Time on Screen is back this week, and Zach Kazan welcomes his Worn & Wound colleagues Nelly Calhoun, the team’s Events Manager, and Nina Flanders, Worn & Wound’s Customer Experience Coordinator. In this episode, they’re talking about Greta Gerwig’s Barbie. In a huge movie year, no movie has been more talked about than Barbie, and there is so much to discuss, including an all-time great triple watch-spot on the wrist(s) of Ryan Gosling, a hilarious and poignant performance by Margot Robbie, and the unlikely way a huge piece of IP like Barbie was able to start a nuanced discussion of feminist ideas among huge numbers moviegoers. It’s an unprecedented movie in a lot of ways, and this conversation dives into what makes Barbie so unique, and why it’s likely to endure for years.

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On this week’s podcast, Zach Kazan, Kat Shoulders, and Zach Weiss are on the mic to talk about their watch origin stories. Everyone has a first watch, and these are the ones that, although we couldn’t possibly know it at the time, set us on an inexorable path to the watch industry. We’d love to know what your first watch was, and if you still have it, so let us know in the comments below. 

Since we knew we’d be talking about first watches, we thought we’d also provide some recommendations for first watches if anyone in your life might be looking to pick up a time telling device for the wrist, and potentially fall down what we can all agree is quite the rabbit hole. These are very loose recommendations, not necessarily taking price or age into account, and we tried to have as much fun with these as possible. We think there are some pretty good choices included!

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Show Notes

• Kat’s wrist check: Louis Erard x Alain Silberstein “Smile Day”
• Zach W’s wrist check: A. Lange & Sohne Lange 1
• Zach K’s wrist check: Venezianico Redentore Bellanotte
• Review: the Venezianico Redentore Bellanotte

This week on the podcast, Blake is joined by Zach Kazan to talk about all the big news coming out of Geneva Watch Days, including an impressive collaboration between MB&F and H. Moser for Only Watch, an impressive new chronograph from Sylvain Pinaud, and a Doxa that, perhaps, stole the show (for better or worse). But first, they talk about what will surely be one of the most talked about releases of the year, the new Swatch x Blancpain Scuba Fifty Fathoms. It was inevitable that Swatch would follow up the massive success of the MoonSwatch with something, but it’s kind of hard to believe that we’re really here talking about a colorful, BioCeramic take on the vaunted Fifty Fathoms. 

Let us know what you think of the new Scuba Fifty, as well as the big Geneva Watch Days releases, in the comments below, or in our new Slack community, which you can join by clicking here.

Today’s episode of the Worn and Wound Podcast is brought to you by the New York Windup Watch Fair. Windup Watch Fair is a three-day-long shopping experience that brings watch brands and customers together in a fun, approachable, and engaging environment. Always free and open to the public, Windup Watch Fair encourages everyone from seasoned collectors to first-time watch buyers to come in, take a look, shop, and talk watches. Over 80 watch, apparel, and gear brands will participate this year, including our lead sponsors, Bulova, Christopher Ward, G-SHOCK, Oris, and Zodiac. Experience Enthusiasm™ in person at the New York Windup Watch Fair, at the Altman Building – 135 W 18th Street, from Friday, October 20th through Sunday, October 22nd. To learn more, visit www.windupwatchfair.com.

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Show Notes

• Zach’s wrist check: IWC Pilot Chronograph 41 Ceratanium
• Blake’s wrist check: Porsche Design Chronograph 1
• We Finally Got Our Hands on the Bell & Ross BR 03-94 Multimeter, and Here’s a Video to Prove It
• Swatch Asks “What If?” with their New Collection of Square, Bioceramic Watches
• Our First Reactions to the Swatch X Blancpain Scuba Fifty Fathoms
• Talking Watches With Jean-Claude Biver
• Review (with Video): Omega x Swatch BioCeramic Speedmaster MoonSwatch Mission to Jupiter
• H. Moser Collaborates with MB&F for Only Watch Stunner Pandamonium Streamliner
• The Doxa SUB 300β Sharkhunter is one of the Strangest Releases of the Year
• [Hands-On] De Bethune Goes All Blue (Again) with New Kind of Blue DB28XP
• Hands-On: The Chronograph Monopoussoir Sylvain Pinaud x Massena LAB

A Week In Watches returns with a special episode featuring Zach and Blake discussing the new releases from Geneva Watches Days, as well as a few other surprises thrown in for good measure.

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Time On Track returns to discuss round 15 of the 2023 Formula 1 season, which saw rain free racing happen around Italy's historic Monza circuit. Ferrari threw everything but the kitchen sink at their car this week to bring the fight to Red Bull around their home track, and they damn near succeeded. While the inevitable 10th straight Verstappen victory indeed came to pass, Carlos Sainz managed to lead the first 19 laps from pole, providing us our first bit of meaningful racing at the front of the pack this season. Sergio managed to nab P2, but Carlos earned a P3 finish for his heroic drive, as well as the well deserved driver of the day award. 

This week, a special episode of the podcast, hosted by Worn & Wound cofounder Zach Weiss and featuring fellow cofounder James Helms and Jonathan Ferrer, founder of Brew Watch Co. Jonathan has been a friend to us at Worn & Wound since the earliest days of Brew, and this conversation is a fun look back at the history of his brand, including an early Worn & Wound limited edition, the watch that saved Brew, and the triumph of the hugely successful Metric. Jonathan and Zach also give us the inside story on the just launched Brew x Worn & Wound Metric Regulators, a colorful and slightly tweaked version of the original Metric that you can read more about right here.

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Show Notes

• Jonathan’s wrist check: Brew Automatic Metric 
• James’s wrist check: Omega Speedmaster Professional  
• Zach’s wrist check: Grand Seiko SBGW277
• Introducing the Brew x w&w HP-1 Limited Edition
• Introducing the Retrograph, a “Shot Timer” from Brew Watch Co.
• Brew is Back with the Retromatic, an Espresso Inspired Time and Date Watch with an Automatic Movement
• Brew Gets Funky With All New Metric Chronograph
• Introducing the Brew x Worn & Wound Metric Chrono Regulators

The summer break is behind us, and we return for another episode of Time On Track, covering round 14 of the Formula 1 season in the Netherlands, at the Zandvoort circuit. At this point in the season, there are two things we can come to expect: a Verstappen win, and rain coming into play over the race weekend. As we've become accustomed to in recent races, rain did play a role throughout the weekend, and while there were a few predictable effects of this, for the most part, the race ended in somewhat predictable fashion. And that's a credit to the drivers this week. 

Today on the podcast, Blake Buettner is joined by Worn & Wound cofounder James Helms and Chad Tsagris, who runs Laco, Out of Order and other brands in the United States, and is the SVP of Watch Gang (you’ve almost certainly seen him at a Windup if you’ve attended one recently). This is a wide ranging discussion covering why it’s scary to dive into vintage watches, the difficulty surrounding buying a Rolex at retail, and the late breaking news that Rolex has bought Bucherer, the longtime luxury watch retailer.

This episode is brought to you by Worn & Wound+, a free online community for like-minded enthusiasts to connect and discuss watches, gear, and more. Worn & Wound+ is the latest opportunity for our readers to experience enthusiasm and share what they’re passionate about. Membership benefits include early access to content, events, new releases, monthly live streams, direct access to the Worn & Wound team, and special promotions from the Windup Watch Shop. You’ll even have access to Drops From The Vault, a series of sales for the most sought-after Windup Watch Shop limited editions from the past, in practically new, untouched condition. Join today for free right here.

Show Notes

• James’s wrist check: Omega Speedmaster Professional
• Chad’s wrist check: Heuer Incabloc
• Blake’s wrist check: Brew Metric
• Double Red Sea Dweller
• Worn & Wound+

This week on the Worn & Wound podcast, Zach and Blake are discussing a wide range of topics, inspired by the recent debut of our “Watches and What Else” series, focusing on the artwork of Bryan Braddy. Just on the Worn & Wound team alone, the staff represents a huge variety of watch adjacent interests, and we’ll be digging into those more on the site in the coming months. Everything from record collecting, to mechanical keyboards, to open water diving is on the table. But first, we’ve got a new releases to talk about from Brew in the first ever mechanical iteration of the Metric, and a very clever memento mori watch from Mr. Jones.

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Show Notes

Zach’s wristcheck: ADPT x VERO Workhorse Limited Edition

Nivada Grenchen x Worn & Wound Chronomaster Valjoux 72 Chronograph

Brew Introduces the first Mechanical Metric, a Limited Edition of 500 Pieces

Mr. Jones Continues to Expand their Mechanical Collection with the Release of The Accurate, A Clever Take on the Memento Mori

Zenith Gets Colorful with the High Frequency Defy 21 Chroma II

Watches and What Else: Bryan Braddy and His Unique Horological Art

This week on the podcast, we’ve got a full roster of Worn & Wound team members on the mic to talk about some of the recent news in the watch world, as well as a topic that’s near and dear to all of us: navigating the enthusiast forums to sell your watches online. Zach Kazan recently wrote an editorial that asked if this process has ever been more problematic, and on this episode the whole team is here to share their thoughts. There’s also a discussion about a big new release from Longines, and one of the more interesting small brands we’ve come across as of late, the Impossible Watch Company, based in Talkeetna, Alaska. All that, plus a spirited defense of The Snyder Cut, coming from Zach W. and Zach K., as you’d expect.

 

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Show Notes

• Kat’s wrist check: Hamilton Khaki Field
• Zach K’s wrist check: Tudor Black Bay 41 METAS
• Zach W’s wrist check: Porsche Design Chrono 1
• Blake’s wrist check: Omega Seamaster 300M 2230.50
• Longines Redesigns HydroConquest With New GMT Collection
• Raging Against the Machine in Talkeetna, Alaska: The Impossible Watch Company
• We’re Living in a Society: Don’t Do This When Buying a Watch

On this special episode of Time on Screen, we’re coming to you live from the Editorial Lounge at the Chicago Windup Watch Fair, where Zach Kazan was joined by Worn & Wound’s Head of Partnerships, Kyle Snarr, and Neall Brick from Citizen. They’re there to discuss Once Upon a Time…In Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino’s ninth feature film. This is one of the best watch spotting in recent years, primarily for a well documented mistake that has a Citizen chronograph on Brad Pitt’s wrist that definitely didn’t exist in 1969, when the film takes place. That’s the jumping off point for a spirited discussion about the film, the complicated reaction to it, and Tarantino’s career.

There’s also plenty of talk about the watch featured in the film, which was the inspiration for the recently released Citizen 50th Anniversary Tsuno Chronograph, a 1970s inspired gold tone chronograph that looks particularly at home on a bund strap.

We’re grateful to our friends at Citizen for making this episode possible. Their Promaster collection is built on a century worth of technological research and innovation. The collection represents professional-grade sports watches built for sea, land, and air. Each watch is designed to overcome the elements and empower the wearer to “Go Deeper, Go Further and Go Higher” and the watch casting in Once Upon a Time…In Hollywood is a solid representation of that ethos.

To learn more about the Citizen Tsuno Chronograph 50th Anniversary Limited Edition and explore the collection, head to citizenwatch.com.

A Week In Watches returns with a look at a plethora of new releases that include updates from Christopher Ward, Glashütte Original, Nomos, and Tissot. Everyone has a new dial color or case size, it would seem, but they all work well here, bringing new renditions to old favorites, and further dialing in already great platforms. The big news this week comes from Longines, who redesigned their HydroConquest family with a new collection of GMT watches. Unique colorways and a few odd details on the dial preserve some of that classic HydroConquest character, while showing some serious sings of maturity in the process.

In other news, we’re about a year away from the 2024 summer Olympic games in Paris, and Omega is ready to kick things off with a new Seamaster 300commemorating the games. Omega and the Olympics go way back, like way way back, so it’s no surprise to see Omega getting a head start on things with a new LE, and we suspect that this won’t be the last to do so.

Finally, can you ever have too much of a good thing? Tissot doesn’t think so, and just keeps iterating on the wildly popular PRX range, most recently with new dial colors and even a fully gold plated example in their 35mm Powermatic 80 PRX line. It should come as no surprise that they work rather well. Catch more details on these watches in our full intro.

Reminder that you can catch us again in 2 weeks for more watches, people, and news in episode 62 of A Week In Watches.

This week on the podcast, Blake and Zach sit down to talk about some of the watches they’ve reviewed recently, including what might be the ultimate Zenith Defy, as well as the summer ready TAG Heuer Carrera Skipper, a reissue of one of the most sought after of all Heuers. There are also some fun new releases to talk about, including a new Vulcain with a dive table that’s tough to wrap your arms around, and a pair of new Nomos Ahois in a more compact size.

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Show Notes 

• Zach’s wrist check: Grand Seiko SBGA469
• Blake’s wrist check: Girard-Perregaux Laureato Copper Dial
• [VIDEO] Hands-On With The Entirely Unnecessary (But Entirely Awesome) Apple Watch Ultra
• Vulcain Brings Back the Nautical Cricket (Again)
• The Sportiest Nomos Gets an Update with a New Size and Two New Dial Colors
• Review: the Zenith Defy Skyline in Black Ceramic
• [VIDEO] Review: The New TAG Heuer Skipper Carrera

In this episode of Time on Screen, Zach Kazan and Blake Buettner are both fresh off of seeing Oppenheimer, one of the biggest and most talked about movies to be released in years, covering events that Christopher Nolan seems to think are the most important in all of human history. That might be up for some debate, but it’s just one of many things to tackle from this dense, loud, visually impressive, and head spinning film. Of course, as a period piece, there are some historical vintage watches to discuss that appear on screen, but the movie is so immersive and so full of ideas, it’s not likely to leave you distracted by watch spotting.

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Show Notes 

• Blake’s wrist check: TAG Heuer Skipper
• Zach’s wrist check: Lorier Hydra III
• Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer Features Carefully Curated Vintage Hamilton Watches, Sourced from Collectors
• The Day After Trinity

Time On Track returns to examine the final race before the summer break, and it's one our favorite tracks on the calendar. This is round 13, the Belgian GP at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps. This was an action packed weekend that featured a sprint shootout and race, a whole lotta rain, and one inevitable winner. Max Verstappen took his 9th win of the season with a phenomenal performance starting from 6th on the grid (thanks to a new gearbox taken prior to the race). Sergio Perez got the performance he was looking for, finishing a somewhat distant second, followed closely by Charles Leclerc, and Lewis Hamilton. The McLaren team continued to look strong throughout the weekend, with some masterful driving from both Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris, and were it not for a lap 1, turn 1 incident, might have seen one of them on the podium. 

This week on the podcast, Blake and Kat are joined by Barbara Palumbo, a longtime fixture in the watch enthusiast community and a friend of the show who you might know better as @whatsonherwrist on Instagram. Barbara is one of our favorite personalities in the watch world, and as you’ll hear in this conversation, is an exceptional storyteller. Barbara tells us about the genesis of her children’s book inspired by an Oris watch, reminisces about watch trade shows of the past and what makes Dubai Watch Week in particular so special, and we get to hear the origin story of her own limited edition watch made in collaboration with Out of Order to celebrate her 50th birthday.

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Show Notes

• Blake’s wrist check: Porsche Design Chronograph 1
• Kat’s wrist check: Rolex Explorer 2
• Barbara’s wrist check: Out of Order “Scotch on the Rocks” Limited Edition
• Flores Delores and the Oris Chronoris
• Dubai Watch Week

In this edition of Time on Screen, Zach Kazan and Kyle Snarr recount their experience with Indiana Jones and dip into the newest installment of the franchise, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Zach gives us all the details around his recent red carpet experience at the LA premiere of the film (more on that here) and gets into the watch on Indy’s wrist—Hamilton’s classically-designed Boulton.

From there the episode transitions into a first for the Time on Screen podcast, Zach gets the chance to interview the Prop Master from the film, Ben Wilkinson. Together they dive deep into the role of the ‘property master’ and how objects on screen should always help move the story forward. A big thanks to Hamilton, Disney, Lucasfilm and our guest Ben Wilkinson for making this episode a reality!

We’re back with a fresh episode of A Week In Watches, covering news from Norqain, Oris, Vulcain, and of course, Linde Werdelin. Additionally, it wouldn’t be a new week without a new collaboration to discuss, and this time it comes courtesy of our friends at Massena LAB and Revolution Magazine in the form of a new, mostly original take on the Uni-Racer Chronograph. Elsewhere, Oris returns to the baseball field to honor the great Milwaukee (okay, and Atlanta) Brave, Hank Aaron with a new colorway of their Big Crown Pointer Date. Another unique configuration of an existing watch released this week is a new Octo Moonphase from Linde Werdelin, who still have a knack for killer case architecture and open dial work.

A favorite release this weeks comes from Vulcain, who is once again bringing back the Nautical Cricket, a diving alarm watch with a gnarly inner bezel which includes a full decompression table. This is a historic watch that’s more than just a novelty, it’s got some serious pedigree under its belt that dates back to the early ’60s. Plus, it offers two caseback options, a move we rarely see at this price point. Keep an eye out for more on that one coming soon. Until then, enjoy this week’s episode below.

A quick note on a programming change with A Week In Watches: this series will be moving to a bi-monthly format, allowing us more time to bring you a broader selection of curated news, at an even better production quality. A lot of work goes into creating these, and we want to make sure we can maintain the best possible balance to bring you our thoughts on all the people, watches, and stories from the industry. This change will take effect beginning next month.

This week’s episode is brought to you by Artem straps. Artem is a modern watch strap maker out of Australia creating a high quality sailcloth-style watch straps. After much testing and iteration, Artem developed a meticulous material selection process which landed on a unique blend of materials that offered just the right finish, flexibility, and water resistance. The upper side of their straps are an embossed synthetic, while the underside is a combo of coated leather and natural rubber. The results are impeccable, made with a quality usually only found in very high-end OEM straps. Visit artemstraps.com to learn more about the brand and its array of products.

Time On Track returns for round 12 of the 2023 Formula 1 season with the race in Hungary. Ricardo and Blake react to the new qualifying format trialed at this race (a change we’d like to see made permanent), as well as all the race drama that unfolded on track on Sunday. The end result may have been predictable, but there was still plenty to ponder as we head into the mid season. McLaren continues to storm up the grid with another impressive performance from Lando Norris, who finished P2, and rookie Oscar Piastri, who once again came tantalizingly close to his first podium. Can Mercedes replicate their customer team’s jump in pace? They’ll need to if they want any chance of closing the gap to Red Bull in this weekend’s race in Belgium.

This week on the podcast, we’re going back to the 90s for a discussion about the unique nostalgia that period right before the turn of the millennium. We had a great conversation with Gabe Reilly from Collective Horology in front of a crowd at the Windup Watch Fair in Chicago, and are sharing that here this week. The 1990s saw a lot of great (or at least interesting) watches that perhaps don’t get the respect they deserve, and we try to figure out why in this panel discussion.

This episode is brought to you by Artem. Artem is a modern strap maker out of Australia. During their search for great aftermarket watch straps, it became apparent to them that oftentimes, the sailcloth straps offered by many retailers felt like a bit of an afterthought. The quality just wasn’t up to par with straps of other materials. This opportunity provided motivation for them to embark on a journey to create a high quality sailcloth-style watch strap that they’d want to wear everyday, no matter the activity. After much testing and iteration, Artem developed a meticulous material selection process which landed on a unique blend of materials that offered just the right finish, flexibility, and water resistance. The upper side of their straps are an embossed synthetic, while the underside is a combo of coated leather and natural rubber. The result speaks for itself… straps with that classic look and functionality of sailcloth, but with the outer satin sheen they’ve become known for and quality usually only found in very high-end OEM straps. Visit artemstraps.com to learn more about the brand and its array of products.

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Show Notes

• Zach’s wrist check: Citizen Fugu Dive Watch
• Gabe’s wrist check: Omega Seamaster 300M
• Blake’s wrist check: Bell & Ross Multimeter
• Missed Reviews: The 3706 “Fliegerchronograph” is a Reminder of What IWC Used to Be
• [Video] Missed Review: The Sinn EZM1, The First Mission Timer

Want to check out a Windup Watch Fair for yourself? The next one will be in New York City from October 20 – 22, 2023. It’s going to be our biggest fair yet. To stay up to date check out windupwatchfair.com, follow the fair @windupwatchfair, and sign up for our newsletters.

This week on the podcast, we’re coming to you live from the Windup Watch Fair in Chicago, and we’re thrilled to be joined for the second year in a row by James Stacey and Jason Heaton, who you almost certainly know as the co-hosts of The Grey NATO podcast. Blake Buettner and Kat Shoulders joined the TGN guys on stage in front of a live audience on Sunday afternoon of Windup weekend, for a wide ranging discussion that featured a recap of a Lake Michigan dive trip with Benrus the day before, insight into what goes into the decision to actually buy a watch, candid thoughts on some big new releases, and a proper evaluation of how to pronounce “Pelagos.” 

Just like last year, this is a two part episode, so be sure to look out for the rest of the conversation on TGN’s feed tomorrow, which includes a great Q&A with Windup attendees.

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Show Notes

• The Worn & Wound Podcast Ep. 253: Live from Windup Watch Fair, A Conversation with Jason Heaton and James Stacey of the Grey NATO
• The Grey NATO
• James Stacey’s wrist check: Citizen Aqualand
• Jason Heaton’s wrist check: Benrus Ultra-Deep
• Kat’s wrist check: IWC x Collective Pilot Chronograph 41
• Blake’s wrist check: Omega Seamaster PLOPROF
• Tudor Reveals Set of New FXD Watches For Alinghi Red Bull Racing
• TAG Heuer Hits The Seas With New Carrera Skipper Chronograph
• TAG Heuer Reinvents an Icon with the Carrera Chronograph 39mm “Glassbox”
• Introducing: The TAG Heuer Mikrograph
• The Black Bay’s Back, Alright! Tudor Launches the New Black Bay 54 and more
• Arken Introduces their Second Act with the Dual-Time Equipped Alterum
• Seiko Announces the SJE093, a Nearly Identical Recreation of the 62MAS Dive Watch

On episode 85 of A Week in Watches, Zach Weiss and Zach Kazan co-host from Windup Watch Fair Chicago 2024. With over 60 brands in attendance, it was a fantastic fair. Zach and Zach chose two brands each to talk to, one just debuting and the other a staple with a new release. Zach Kazan spoke to Monta about the Noble GMT, and then Colorado’s 5280 watches, who are creating rose-engine turned, vitreous enamel dials in the US. Zach Weiss then spoke to Chicago’s own Astor + Banks about the SeaRanger M2, as well as ARTEFKT Seven, a new brand that turned a lot of heads at the fair.

To stay up to date about future Windup Watch Fairs, such as the New York City fair happening in October, head to WindupWatchFair.com

On this week’s episode of A Week in Watches, we have a bunch of complications and some pretty cool case materials. We start with the UK’s Garrick and their Regulator MK2. From there we head to Austria to check out Habring2’s new Top-Seconds chronograph. After, it’s off to Switzerland for Ochs Und Junior’s new, but old Ochs line Moonphase. Lastly, it’s back to the US for Zodiac and their new line of white ceramic Super Sea Wolfs.

This week’s sponsor is the Windup Watch Shop. New in the shop are some fun, colorful watches that are perfect for the summer like the Citizen Promaster Dive Eco-Drive Unite with Blue and the G-SHOCK MTG Aurora Oval. Be sure to check those out and more at windupwatchshop.com

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Time On Track returns for round 11 of the 2023 Formula 1 season, the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. We love this track for the often entertaining racing it lends itself to, and this weekend was no exception. The biggest surprise of this race was the pace shown by the McLaren cars driven by Lando Norris and the rookie Oscar Piastri, who finished in P2 and P4 respectively, and would were it not for an untimely safety car would have likely secured two spots on the podium. We saw another early qualifying exit from Sergio Perez, and a horrid slate of bad luck for McLaren's main rival, Alpine.

In this edition of Time on Screen, recorded following a festive Fourth of July weekend during which no members of the Worn & Wound team were eaten by a shark, Zach Kazan and Kyle Snarr examine Jaws, Steven Spielberg’s 1975 classic, and perhaps the ultimate summer movie. Jaws is often credited with creating the modern summer blockbuster, and in this conversation we look at exactly how that happened, from an ingenious and novel marketing strategy to old fashioned great technical filmmaking.

As watch fans are likely aware, Jaws is also a great watch spotting movie, and has made a cult hit out of the humble Alsta Nautoscaph, worn by Richard Dreyfuss throughout the film. Kyle has spent significant time with the Alsta, and gives his impressions of the watch, along with some thoughts on alternative watch casting for other members of the Orca shark hunting crew.

Show Notes: 

• Affordable Vintage: Deep Dive with the Alsta Nautoscaph “Jaws” Diver
• Watches, Stories, and Gear: The “Jaws” Watch, Heath Ledger’s Joker, and More
• Alsta Resurfaces—Introducing the Nautoscaph II Dive Watch
• Watches on the Screen: Jaws