The Worn & Wound Podcast

Worn & Wound co-founders, Blake Malin and Zach Weiss, return for another episode of the Worn Out podcast. At the end of last year, Blake and Zach sat down with Mark Cho, co-founder of the menswear retailer The Armoury , to discuss his new watch brand, Temporal Works. Described by Mark as “the navy blazer” of watches, they get into the goals of the new brand, the design of the first watch, as well...

This week on the podcast we’re talking all things LVMH Watch Week. Last week’s launches from the LVMH brands served as the unofficial start to a new year of watch releases, with novelties on display from TAG Heuer, Zenith, Hublot, and other brands. In this episode, Zach Kazan chats with Zach Weiss, Garrett Jones, and Liam O’Donnell about their thoughts on the new watches, what they may or may not...

This week on the podcast, Zach Kazan is joined by Kat Shoulders and Liam O’Donnell to peel back the curtain on watch press trips. Zach just got back from Colorado with Oris, so the topic is front of mind. We reached out to members of our Worn & Wound+ Slack channel to solicit questions on press trips, how they work, and how they influence (or don’t influence) our coverage of brands and their watch...

In this episode of the Worn & Wound Podcast, Kat Shoulders is our surprise host while Zach Kazan is away and she is joined by Garrett Jones and Liam O’Donnell for a deep conversation about field watches that deserve a little more love. Each host brings a personal shortlist of some of their favorites they think are underrated. The episode wraps with a fun lightning round on which watches might make...

Happy new year! For this first episode of the Worn & Wound podcast in 2026, the team is here to check in on what they did over their winter break. Zach Kazan hosts Liam O’Donnell and Myra Shallan to discuss all the watch related and non-watch related shenanigans they got up to over their time off. Liam and Myra both ventured outside of New York City to visit friends and family, while Zach hunkered...

It’s the last day of the year, and our final Q&A of 2025! As we send the year out, we’ve turned once again to our listeners, readers, and viewers to solicit questions about watches, the end of year rush, and just about anything else. Zach Kazan is joined by Kat Shoulders and Liam O’Donnell in this episode for one last Q&A extravaganza! If we didn’t get to your question, don’t worry. We’ll continue...

This week on the Worn & Wound podcast, Zach Kazan is joined by Zach Weiss and Liam O’Donnell to celebrate some of our favorite content of the year. This was a fantastic year for Worn & Wound’s blog, YouTube channel, and of course this very podcast, and this is an opportunity to highlight some of our favorite articles, videos, and other content that you may have missed, or that we’re just really pr...

It’s that time once again: our annual best watches of the year episode! Every year we get on the mic to talk about the year in watches and pick some of our favorites, and this year Zach Kazan is joined by Liam O’Donnell and Zach Weiss to walk through some of the best of the best. There were a lot of great watches, this year, as there always are, and this episode is always a fun walk down memory la...

This week on the podcast, Zach Kazan welcomes Sam Amis to the podcast to talk about the intersection between pocket knife and watch enthusiasm. Sam is a Worn & Wound contributor, industrial designer, and knife and EDC industry veteran. He just wrote an article that seeks to show in a very specific way the ways in which the knife and watch worlds overlap from the perspective of a designer. Sam has...

This week on the Worn & Wound podcast, Liam O’Donnell is back and chatting with Zach Kazan about their favorite non-Swiss watches. They explore the idea of future non-Swiss icons, and what the importance of “Swiss Made” really is in the current watchmaking era. We’ve never been shy about highlighting great watches made around the world, and this conversation features a huge variety of future class...

It’s the day before Thanksgiving, and we’re opening up the Q&A mailbag once again, just in time for the long holiday weekend. Today on the podcast, Ed Jelley and Kat Shoulders join Zach Kazan for a Thanksgiving themed Q&A episode covering all the important topics: cranberry sauce preference, the perfect watch for the Thanksgiving meal, the GPGH, and a whole lot more. To stay on top of all new epis...

Today on the Worn & Wound podcast, Zach Kazan welcomes Griffin Bartsch back to the pod to talk about the fall auction season, including the sale of a very expensive steel Patek that has the entire watch world buzzing. But that, of course, was not the only cool watch to hit the block recently, and both Zach and Griffin have identified a few additional lots that have made some news, and some that ha...

This week on the Worn & Wound podcast, we turn our attention to EDC. Zach Kazan is joined by Liam O’Donnell and Garrett Jones, two of our most EDC-connected team members at Worn & Wound. This episode is a general EDC check-in of sorts. The team chats about some EDC items they’ve picked up in the last few months, trends spotted recently, the seasonality of EDC choices as we head into the colder mon...

Time on Screen returns this week with an all new episode on the movie this podcast was literally made for: Back to the Future . Longtime readers and listeners might recall that in the summer of 2020 we recorded an episode of the podcast on this very film that laid the groundwork for what would eventually become Time on Screen. If there was an ever a movie worth dipping into for a second time, it’s...

Today, Worn & Wound Co-Founders, Zach Weiss and Blake Malin, sit down to talk about some recent updates at Worn & Wound. They also chat about recent watch pickups.  Check out the latest from Windup Watch Shop: https://windupwatchshop.com  Hang out in person at Windup Watch Fair: https://windupwatchfair.com  All our videos are produced with the Panasonic Lumix S5II and lighting equipment from www.c...

This week on the podcast, Zach Kazan welcomes Zach Weiss and Liam O’Donnell to the podcast to discuss a topic we’ve been thinking about privately for a while and have heard grumblings about elsewhere. Today we’re asking a big question: is the watch industry out of ideas?  We’ve all felt it in one way or another. There’s a sense among certain enthusiasts that brands are repeating themselves, churni...

This week on the Worn & Wound podcast, Zach welcomes Griffin Bartsch back to the Worn & Wound podcast for a new entry in our Collection Update series. Griffin picked up an IWC Mark XX earlier this year, and in this conversation he explains why that was the right watch for him at this particular moment and how he’s been living with it over the past several months as a daily driver. And Zach picked...

This week on the podcast, it’s our monthly Q&A episode. We have once again fielded a bunch of great questions from our listeners across Instagram, Worn & Wound+, and YouTube. Zach Kazan welcomes Devin Pennypacker, Garrett Jones, and Zach Weiss to the pod today to chat about a variety of topics, including our favorite modern Tudors, footwear choices for Windup and beyond, TV shows you should be wat...

This week on the Worn & Wound Podcast, we’re previewing the upcoming Windup Watch Fair in New York City. Worn & Wound Co-founder and CEO Blake Malin hosts, along with Nelly Calhoun and Kyle Snarr from the Partnerships team, to break down what’s in store as we celebrate ten years of the Windup Watch Fair with our biggest and most ambitious event yet. Held at Center415 on Fifth Avenue from Friday, O...

This week on the Worn & Wound podcast, Zach Kazan welcomes Garrett Jones and Ricardo Sime to the show to talk about potential alternatives to some of the most popular luxury watches. This idea, over the years, has proven to be one of the central questions and debates among watch enthusiasts. If you started your watch journey on the forums before Instagram was the central hub of the watch community...

This week on the Worn & Wound podcast, Zach Kazan welcomes Hamza Masood back to the podcast . Hamza Masood is Head of Partnerships at WatchCharts, a website whose mission is to provide as much pricing data and transparency as possible to the watch buying public and the larger watch industry. It’s a truly invaluable resource, and we think you should bookmark it and refer to it whenever you find you...

What better way to celebrate the beginning of fall than with our monthly Q&A podcast? This week, Zach welcomes Kat, Garrett, and Devin to the podcast to once again field questions from our audience, submitted via our Worn & Wound+ Slack channel as well as Instagram and YouTube. The questions were great this month, covering a wide range of topics on everything from our fantasy watch travel destinat...

Time on Screen returns this week with an all new episode about one of the most acclaimed movies of its era, Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood . When it arrived in 2007, There Will Be Blood was hailed as a masterpiece almost immediately, and its stature has only grown since then. With a new PTA movie, One Battle After Another , now just days away from release, we thought now would be a gre...

This week on the Worn & Wound podcast, Zach Kazan puts Kat Shoulders and Liam O’Donnell through an excruciating thought experiment: could we simplify our watch ownership to a one watch collection? It seems like a truly exotic concept when you work in the watch industry or are otherwise deep into the hobby, but it’s also an idea that can help focus what’s really important to us in a watch. Zach, Ka...

This week on the Worn & Wound podcast, we’re talking all things Geneva Watch Days 2025. Zach Kazan is joined by Zach Weiss and Devin Pennypacker to recap the event and the most interesting watches that came out of it. Before getting into the watches themselves, the group talks about their impressions of the event itself and its relative importance on the watch industry calendar. This was Zach W’s...