The Worn & Wound Podcast

On this week’s episode, Zach speaks with Bradley Price of Autodromo, Paul Sweetenham of Farer, MK II’s Bill Yao, Halios founder Jason Lim, and TJ McKnight from Zodiac. Today’s question: What watches or brands, vintage or modern, are you most inspired by?  This week’s episode of the Worn & Wound Podcast is brought to you by Alpina, founded in 1883. Their recently released Seastrong Diver Gyre Autom...

The topic today: how each collector arrived at their collecting focus, and how they’ve developed their taste over time.  Each of the collectors Associate Editor Zach Kazan spoke with has their distinct taste reflected in the watches they choose to collect. For Erik Strickland, it’s a focus on watchmaking history seen mostly through the lens of a particular brand. For Rob, it’s a pursuit of a class...

Blake’s been in the watch game for years, has a lot of great stories to tell, and brings a unique and focused perspective to his work that we think is going to result in a lot of great content. This is a fun, loose conversation, and we hope you find it to be a great way to get to know the newest member of the Worn & Wound editorial team.  This week’s episode of the Worn & Wound Podcast is brought...

There’s a lot to discuss, including plenty of new releases and reviews, news of a new watch fair in Geneva, and a great piece of content from Hodinkee. Plus, we answer a listener question about a topic that we discuss frequently amongst ourselves: watch bracelets. This week’s episode of the Worn & Wound podcast is brought to you by Citizen and their iconic line of Eco-Drive watches. For over 40 ye...

@wornandwound Do you have a favorite sleeper watch? And what makes a watch a sleeper, anyway? Be sure to let us know in the comments below. This week’s episode is brought to you by the Windup Watch Shop . 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...

Featured on this week’s episode, we have Bradley Price of Autodromo, Jason Lim of Halios, MK II founder Bill Yao, Farer’s Paul Sweetenham, TJ McKnight from Zodiac. The question for today is, “Do you think limited editions are good or bad for the watch industry?” This week’s episode is brought to you by the Windup Watch Shop . To stay on top of all new episodes, you can subscribe to The Worn & Woun...

This week on the Worn & Wound podcast, Zach Weiss and Zach Kazan continue our ongoing series looking at a selection of great watches in a particular price range. This week, it’s watches ranging between $3,000 and $3,500 (be sure to check out the previous episode on the series right here ). As always, these aren’t the “best” watches at this price point, but a selection of interesting choices, with...

Today on the Worn & Wound podcast, we’re launching a new series with a specific focus on watch collecting. Watch collecting is a highly personal endeavor, so we asked a cross-section of notable collectors, some of whom you might be familiar with from their Instagram accounts, about their approach to the hobby. We’ll cover a broad range of topics related to collecting in these episodes – including...

And just like that, June is history. That means it’s time once again for the Worn & Wound team to discuss the month that was in watches. This week on the podcast, Zach Weiss, Ed Jelley, and Zach Kazan go through some of the best content on the site over the last month, including Caleb Liam’s “Nostalgia Machines” guides, the announcement of a surprising tourbillon from Zelos, and a new batch of Sei...

 Using our recent guide to some historic forgotten brands as a starting point, this discussion attempts to define what a forgotten brand really is, and then dredges up watches of the past (and present) in an effort to spotlight some timepieces that simply don’t get their due. What are some of your favorite forgotten brands? Be sure to leave a note in the comments here or on Instagram, and let us k...

Today on the Worn & Wound podcast, we’re back with the second installment of “Ask the Brands,” our podcast series in which Zach Weiss sits down with some of our favorite brand owners to get their candid and unique perspectives on the big questions facing the watch community. Featured on this week’s episode, we have Bradley Price from Autodromo, Bill Yao of Mk II, Jason Lim of Halios, and Farer fou...

Zach Weiss, Blake Malin, Zach Kazan, and Ed Jelley sit down to discuss Back to the Future, an 80s classic that’s uniquely obsessed with time. Of course, the movie also has some great watch spotting, and who doesn’t love an excuse to talk through the time travel paradox? This is the first in a planned series of podcasts where the Worn & Wound team pick a movie where time is an important theme, and...

Zach Weiss, Zach Kazan, and Ed Jelley sit down to talk about everything that happened in the watch world during the month of May, including the latest Baselworld news, and a ton of new releases. We also discuss some of the reviews we’ve published in the last month, and answer a listener question about what makes a great daily wear watch. Be sure to check out links to everything covered on the podc...

Today on the Worn & Wound podcast, we’re kicking off a new series that focuses on the people behind the brands we cover, and getting to the heart of the state of the watch industry today. Welcome to “Ask the Brands.” In each of these episodes, we’ll be posing a broad question to several brands, and getting the unique perspective of each. To kick things off, Zach Weiss spoke with Bradley Price of A...

This week on the Worn & Wound podcast, Zach Weiss and Zach Kazan sit down to discuss some great watches between $2,500 and $3,000. This is part of a continuing series on the podcast where we look at some excellent watches that offer a lot of value in a given price bracket (be sure  to check out the last entry, here ). While these aren’t the “best” watches in the price range, they represent a varie...

Today on the Worn & Wound podcast, the team reminisces about some of the watches they regret selling. It happens to all of us: in the course of buying and selling watches, always looking to expand our horizons and build a solid collection, we inevitably let something go that we wish we could have kept. In this episode, we talk about the watches we regret selling, why we sold them in the first plac...

Today on the show, Zach Weiss chats with Mike France, founder of Christopher Ward, for an in-depth discussion on the origins of the brand, some of the key watches in the collection, and the importance of delivering good solid value to customers. Zach and Mike also discuss the development of the recently launched C60 Sapphire, which posed some unique manufacturing challenges. That watch is also the...

On today’s Worn & Wound podcast, Zach Weiss, Zach Kazan, and Ed Jelley sit down to rehash a very busy April on the site, and in the watch industry. In addition to some great new releases, the guys discuss Zach’s recent Three for $5,000 article, Ed’s review of the Doxa Sub 200, and their thoughts on how to decide to pull the trigger on that new watch. It’s a fun conversation, and be sure to check o...

Today on the podcast, Zach Kazan speaks with Andrew McLean, the founder of SëL Instruments, an independent watch brand based in Arizona. SëL specializes in rugged tool watches, that are proudly and obsessively overbuilt. The MK1 OmniDiver, the brand’s flagship product, is the end result of many years of R&D and destructive testing. The end result is a tool watch like nothing else on the market, wi...

Today on the podcast, Zach Weiss and Blake Malin are joined by VJ Geronimo, CEO of Oris North America. Oris has grown substantially in recent years, going from a niche brand to a much more prominent player in the watch world in a short time, thanks to some great designs and a handful of hit watches. Here, VJ discusses the long history of Oris as an independent brand, the many meaningful partnershi...

It’s not often that there’s true breaking news in the watch world. This is an industry, after all, that has existed for hundreds of years and has been notably slow to change. And, of course, watches, in the grand scheme of things, just aren’t as important as the events that are highlighted above the fold in every newspaper over these past few months in particular. Still, this morning we saw someth...

Seiko and Grand Seiko kept us busy last month with so many new release announcements, we decided to devote an entire podcast solely to their discussion. This week on the Worn & Wound podcast, Zach Weiss, Ed Jelley, and Zach Kazan go through the newest releases from these Japanese brands one by one, covering everything from key heritage reissues to completely new movements. Whether your taste veers...

This week on the Worn & Wound podcast, the team looks back at the month of March. Zach Weiss, Zach Kazan, and Ed Jelley take us through some of the biggest stories of the month, including big new releases from Hamilton and Bulova, a guide to monopusher chronographs, and reviews of some vintage inspired watches from Ball and Tissot. And of course, we discuss Ed’s review of three watches in the new...

This week on the Worn & Wound podcast, Zach Weiss and Blake Malin talk to Paul Sweetenham, founder of Farer. Farer is one of the most promising and active independent brands to have launched in recent memory. Paul was last on the podcast in 2017, and in the time since his last appearance, the brand has successfully debuted a series of impressive watches with interesting complications, uncommon mov...

This week on the Worn & Wound podcast, Zach Weiss, Ilya Ryvin, Zach Kazan, and Ed Jelley look back at the last decade in watches. The 2010s was a big decade for the watch industry, particularly the part of it that we focus on here at Worn & Wound. It was a period of rapid change that included not just the rise of microbrands, but also significant shifts in the way we purchase watches, talk about w...