The Worn & Wound Podcast

This week on the Worn & Wound podcast, it’s time to preview the Windup Watch Fair in Chicago. Partnerships Director Nelly Calhoun takes over hosting duties this week, and is joined by Worn & Wound CEO Blake Malin to talk all things Chicago. Together they discuss all the ins and outs of the upcoming show, including a brand new venue, our fantastic sponsors, and all of the exciting activities happen...

This week on Time on Screen, Zach Kazan and Kat Shoulders explore High Fidelity , the cult hit starring John Cusack as a lovelorn record store owner from 2000. Why High Fidelity ? Two reasons. First, it’s set in Chicago, and ahead of our Windup Watch Fair in the Windy City, we wanted to check out a Chicago set film. Second, this movie is truly about an entire enthusiast culture. There are more tha...

This week on the Worn & Wound podcast, Zach Kazan is joined by Zach Weiss to take a look back at the year so far. We’re about halfway through 2026, so it feels like a good time to think about some of our favorite watches of the year so far, as well as some of the biggest watch stories. This has actually been a very eventful year to this point, with too many great releases to name, and some major c...

This week on the podcast, Zach Kazan welcomes Kat Shoulders to the show to explore a topic first covered here : watch writing cliches. Zach and Kat run through some of the cliches mentioned in Zach’s original article and discuss whether these ideas hold up and why they happen in the first place. It’s actually an interesting conversation, and gets to the heart of how watches are covered in the medi...

This week on the podcast, Zach Kazan is joined by Worn & Wound cofounder Zach Weiss as well as contributor Cait Bazemore for our latest Q&A session with questions submitted through the Worn & Wound+ Slack channel. Lots of great questions this month, including a whole bunch of non-watch questions, which we always appreciate. This month, the team tackles hot button issues like the most overrated and...

This week on the Worn & Wound podcast, Zach welcomes Cait Bazemore to talk about her recent trip to Japan with Citizen to check out their Eco-Drive manufacturing facilities. This week on the Worn & Wound podcast, Zach welcomes Cait Bazemore to talk about her recent trip to Japan with Citizen to check out their Ec-Drive manufacturing facilities. Citizen is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Eco-Dr...

This week on the podcast, Zach and Kat are talking summer watches. This is a conversation we return to every year, it seems. As the weather warms up, it becomes apparent that some watches are just better suited to the summer months. Zach and Kat each pick summer watches in three categories: favorite affordable summer watch, the summer watch they’ll actually be wearing this year, and a grail summer...

This week on the Worn & Wound podcast, Zach Kazan welcomes Ben Cook. If you spend any time on Instagram or TikTok, you probably know Ben from the Ben’s Watches accounts on those platforms. In this episode, Zach and Ben have a wide ranging conversation about the state of the watch world, watch media, and touch on some new releases that have been on our minds as of late (yes, the Royal Pop is discus...

This week on the podcast, what else could we possibly discuss but the launch of the Royal Pop? The new Swatch x Audemars Piguet collaboration has been the topic of conversation around the watch world, and it’s that rare release that has actually transcended our community and become a bit of a pop culture moment more broadly. The bioceramic pocket watch has proven to be divisive among watch enthusi...

This week on the Worn & Wound podcast, Zach Kazan is joined by Garrett Jones for our monthly Q&A episode. Questions this month cover topics like Grand Seiko’s release strategy, the best straps for summer, and, of course, condiments (we’re about the trademark “Condiment Corner” for use on this podcast). We also got a lot of questions on the new watches from Swatch and Audemars Piguet , which at the...

This week on the Worn & Wound podcast, the team is back from San Francisco, and yet another great edition of the Windup Watch Fair. Zach Kazan and Kat Shoulders are on the mic to recap the fair via a series of rapid fire questions covering their favorite versions of the new Christopher Ward Sealander (there are a bunch), to their favorite brands making Windup debuts, and even their favorite dining...

This week, the Time on Screen podcast returns! Ahead of the Windup Watch Fair in San Francisco, we’re talking about Zodiac , one of the great San Francisco movies and a favorite movie by David Fincer, one of our favorite filmmakers. Zach Kazan welcomes Kat Shoulders to the conversation, and they both have a deep appreciation for this film and have a lot to say about it. They run through some of th...

This week’s podcast is a preview of our upcoming Windup Watch Fair in San Francisco! Blake Malin, Kyle Snarr and Nelly Calhoun talk about what to expect this weekend as Windup returns to the beautiful Gateway Pavilion at Fort Mason Center. This year’s Windup is a chance to see over 80 watch brands in person, try watches on your wrist, meet the people behind the brands, and connect with other enthu...

Our team is back from Switzerland, and this week on the podcast Zach Kazan, Zach Weiss, and Kat Shoulders are recapping their time at Watches & Wonders. It was a busy week, filled with meetings, watches, lots of coffee, and very little sleep.  This conversation covers several brands the team met with, including Tudor, Grand Seiko, Rolex, and more. They also discuss some brands that made their Watc...

This week on the Worn & Wound podcast, Zach Kazan and Zach Weiss are previewing Watches & Wonders 2026, which at this point is just days away from opening. They discuss some of the fairly large changes that are in store for this year’s show, including the addition of Audemars Piguet and Sinn, a big change in location for Moser, and a host of satellite events happening at the same time throughout G...

This episode of Changing Gears finds Kat and Garrett settling back into conversation after some time away, catching up through the lens of the gear that’s been shaping their daily lives. What starts with a familiar wrist and gear check quickly expands into a broader discussion on tools—watches, knives, cameras, and even keyboards—and how they intersect with both work and personal expression. There...

This week on the Worn & Wound podcast, Zach Kazan and Zach Weiss are on the mic to talk about some of their recent travels, both of which involved seeing new releases from Swatch Group brands, coincidentally debuting on the very same day. They also happen to be two of the most discussed releases of the year so far, for very different reasons. Zach Kazan was in Dallas right before Windup to see the...

This week on the podcast, we are once again answering questions submitted through our Worn & Wound+ Slack channel for our monthly Q&A episode. Zach Kazan is joined by Kat Shoulders and Worn & Wound contributor Cait Bazemore to field your questions on Tudor’s big anniversary year, silver watches, and a whole lot more, including some fun non-watch related questions for good measure.   To stay on top...

It’s watch show season! This week on the Worn & Wound podcast, Zach Kazan and Zach Weiss are catching up right after our Windup Watch Fair in Dallas to recap that show as well as British Watchmakers’ Day, which took place the week before. It’s the start of a busy season that peaks with Watches & Wonders next month, which of course is more than just Watches & Wonders, and really more of a widesprea...

This week’s podcast is a preview of our upcoming Windup Watch Fair in Dallas! Hosted by Blake Malin with guests Kyle Starr and Nelly Calhoun, the team talks about what to expect this weekend as Windup comes to Texas for the second year in a row. This year’s Windup is a chance to see over 40 watch brands in person, try watches on your wrist, meet the people behind the brands, and connect with other...

This week on the podcast, Kat Shoulders is back to chat with Zach Kazan about her recent experience with IWC in Los Angeles. Most of what Kat saw she can’t discuss until Watches & Wonders embargoes lift, but the brand did drop a brand new version of their Portugieser chronograph in Ceratanium, and it has inspired a wide range of commentary across the watch community. Kat talks about her impression...

Today on the Worn & Wound podcast, Zach Kazan is joined by Zach Weiss and Blake Malin for our monthly Q&A podcast. This is a really fun episode with a great variety of questions covering a huge range of topics, watch related and otherwise. Zach, Blake, and Zach chat about how they use AI, what we do when a watch comes in for review that underwhelms, and what Worn & Wound might look like ten years...

This week on the podcast, Zach welcomes Kat Shoulders to the podcast for a long overdue collection update. Both Zach and Kat have picked up some new watches in the last few months, and in this conversation they dig into what they picked up and why, and the stories behind the purchases themselves. There’s some fun overlap here, but still plenty of variety. We’ll think you’ll enjoy the conversation....

This week on the podcast, Zach Kazan welcomes Ed Jelley for a conversation about their first luxury watch purchases. Entering the “luxury” world as a watch enthusiast is a strange phenomenon and Zach and Ed unpack what it means both practically and emotionally as collectors. They also spend some time trying to define what luxury really means in the watch world, how it differs in our community comp...

This week on the Worn & Wound podcast, we’re talking about regrets. Yes, we’ve had a few. Zach Kazan welcomes Kat Shoulders and Zach Weiss to the pod this week to talk about the watches they’ve bought and sold that they wish they hadn’t, and even some takes and loosely held opinions that have fallen out of favor. This one is a real stroll down memory lane and as you’d expect touches on a great dea...