The Worn & Wound Podcast

This week, we’re joined by Fred Friedberg, author of The Illinois Watch & Its Hamilton Years . The Illinois Watch Company played an important role in American watchmaking, producing watches at a great scale through the years of the Great Depression, including many classic Art Deco designs. Their history is linked closely to Hamilton, which is a main focus of Fred’s book.  Fred is one of the foremo...

On this week’s episode, I’m joined by Zach Weiss, Zach Kazan, and Ed Jelley (who makes his podcast debut), and we take an in-depth look back at the month of February. From the cancellation of the big Swiss fairs due to the looming coronavirus threat, to some of the more interesting watches we saw and articles we published on the site, there’s a whole lot to cover.  This week’s episode is brought t...

There’s always been a big overlap of people who are into watches, and people who are into the broader category of everyday carry, or EDC, which is essentially an umbrella term that covers items someone might have on their person daily  — this includes things like watches, keys, pens, notebooks, knives, and things of the sort. One of the brands in the EDC space today, and it’s one that’s gotten som...

On this week’s episode, Zach and I do something we haven’t done in some time. We’re bringing back our series where we look at 10 great watches between X and Y price points. The last one we did focused on $1,500 and $2,000. This time around, we’re looking at the next bracket up — from $2,000 to $2,500. I’m going to preface this by saying that these aren’t the best watches in this space, because the...

On this week’s episode, we’ve got a special guest for you all — Bhanu Chopra. Now, if that name sounds at all familiar to you, that doesn’t surprise me one bit. Bhanu (whose IG hand is @analogdisplay ) has been a bit of a mainstay in our little horological space. I met him way back when I first started writing about watches, and over the years I’d see him around at industry events and Baselworld a...

We’ve got a great show for you all this week. In the first half of the episode, I’m joined by our Associate Editor Zach Kazan, and he and I talk about a story he wrote some time ago, titled “The Backyard Breguet: How An Exceedingly Rare Watch Made it to Auction.” Now, we don’t normally cover auctions here on Worn & Wound, but every now and then we make an exception when the story of the auction an...

On this week’s episode of the podcast, we take a look back at January and discuss some of the more interesting watch-related news and happenings that took place over the past month. Some of what we discuss are things we covered, like the launch of the Omega Speedmaster Moonwatch 321 Stainless Steel, while others are things we didn’t get to cover on Worn & Wound, but we think are still worth dissec...

Fears was founded in 1846 by a young watchmaker named Edwin Fear, who set up his workshop and showroom in Bristol. It was a family run business for the entirety of its operation, and it ran until 1976, when the company was forced to close its doors. Then in 2016, Nicholas, who is the great-great-great-grandson of Edwin Fear, brought the company back with the Redcliff, the brand’s first watch in 40...

Last week on the show, you heard from Rob Caplan of Topper Jewelers in Burlingame, California. This week, you’ll hear Zach and Blake’s conversation with Dan and Anna Broadfoot, the proprietors of Timeless Luxury Watches, an AD out in Plano, Texas. Dan and Anna have a really interesting backstory. Though Timeless is now in a large, chic spot in a busy shopping area, the business actually began as s...

On the show this week, we’ve got Rob Caplan, the the co-owner of a family-run watch and jewelry store out in Burlingame California called Topper Fine Jewelers, and Chad Tsagris, the head of Laco USA. This week’s episode of The Worn & Wound Podcast is brought to you by the Windup Watch Shop . First, a little bit of backstory on the episode. Late last year, our Managing Editor Ilya Ryvin flew ou...

Ok, this is it, the final episode of 2019! With it being the end of the year and all, we naturally wanted to take a look back at the year, so we pulled the team together for a little retrospective. We cover a whole range of topics, from some of the trends we noticed this year (surprise, surprise, vintage-inspired watches are still huge), to some of the year's bigger stories, as well as stories we...

We have a great twofer this week. In the first half of the episode, Worn & Wound Managing Editor Ilya Ryvin and Associate Editor Zach Kazan sit down with Hamilton’s CEO Sylvain Dolla and Hamilton’s Head of Product Alfredo Bellaveglia. The conversation was recorded right before Hamilton launched their collaboration with Schott, so we discuss that project, but we also cover some of this year’s o...

Ilya here! On this week’s episode of The Worn & Wound Podcast, we’re switching things up a bit. We’re not really talking about watches (don’t worry, there is some watch talk). But if you follow Zach or myself on Instagram, then you’ve likely noticed that other than watches, we’re both pretty into shoes, and one of our favorite brands is Grant Stone . Our guests this week are Wyatt Gilmore and...

On this week’s episode of The Worn & Wound Podcast, we sit down with Andy Mann. Andy is many things. Among them, he’s an Emmy nominated filmmaker, a photographer for National Geographic, a conservationist, a diver, and a Zodiac brand ambassador. Andy has worked on all seven continents on all sorts of conservationist efforts and projects, but he’s perhaps best known for his work with sharks. He...

On this week’s episode of The Worn & Wound Podcast, Worn & Wound Managing Editor Ilya Ryvin and co-host James Helms have the great pleasure of chatting with Steve Laughlin, a mainstay in the independent, enthusiast-brand scene. From his days with Benarus to his current endeavor with Raven, Steve runs down his career making no-frills tool watches, the challenges he’s faced over the years, w...

On this week’s episode of The Worn & Wound Podcast, Ilya, Zach, and Blake sit down to chat about the upcoming Wind Up Watch Fair in New York City . From the exciting new brands making their debut to some of the watches expected to launch at this year’s show, we have the skinny on what you need to know about the Windup NYC 2019 show. Here are the basics: Windup is a three-day watch event taking...

On this week’s episode of The Worn & Wound Podcast, we’ve got a twofer. In the first half of the show, Managing Editor Ilya Ryvin sits down with Worn & Wound contributor Zach Kazan to discuss an article Zach wrote a few weeks back titled, “Tariffs and the Watch Industry: How the US-China Trade War Impacts US-Based Watch Companies.” In the second half, Ilya chats with Magnus Äppelryd of Bra...

Just two years ago, Ming Watches hit the scene and were an overnight sensation. That first limited collection, dubbed 17.01, sold out in no time, which wasn't that much of a surprise because the watches were good — like really good. And they were aggressively priced, too, at just $900 a pop. Then a few months later, Ming put out their sophomore release, this time a high-end piece with a crazy 100-...

On this week's episode of The Worn & Wound Podcast, Ilya chats with Jarett Harkness of Unwind In Time , a shop that specializes first and foremost in Hamilton Electric watches. Vintage is undeniably hot right now, but most enthusiast focus is given to vintage mechanical watches. The watches that interest Jarett, however, are of a different sort, and this all began when he fixed a non-running H...

Because we talk to so many small brand owners here on the Worn & Wound Podcast, one of the recurring focuses of the show has been manufacturing — who makes it, how it’s made, and of course where it’s made. Brands, and that’s brands both big and small, need to to get their watches made somewhere, and there’s really only a handful of options as far as regions of the world go. Within the micro br...

This week, Ilya is joined by Wes and Cullen from Nodus Watches . If you’ve been following the independent watch space with any regularity, then you’ve surely heard of Nodus. This LA-based brand is just a couple of years old, but in a very short amount of time they’ve built a solid following of fans, in part because they make damn fine watches, but also because Wes and Cullen have made it a point t...

This week’s episode is a special one — it marks the 100th episode of The Worn & Wound Podcast! A huge thank you to all of our listeners for tuning into the show the last 100 episodes. We absolutely wouldn’t be doing this without you all. On this week’s episode, we chat about the recently announced Speedmaster 321 Platinum, Omega’s big Speedy release celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apol...

The secondary market is playing an increasingly important role with regard to how people buy and sell watches, and nobody knows more about the secondary marketplace than Tim Stracke, the co-CEO and Founder of Chrono24 . With over 3,000 verified dealers and 20,000 private sellers moving 400,000 watches at any given time, Chrono24 is the world’s largest specialized market for watches, so we wanted t...

On this week’s episode, Zach Weiss and I are joined by another Zach, Zach Kazan, our most recent contributor to Worn & Wound and who’s been killing it with some great content on the site. Some weeks back, Zach attended the Jones & Horan spring auction to witness the sale of a really important timepiece — the Howard, Davis & Dennison #3 pocket watch. He wrote an excellent article for us...

This week’s episode is a special one. At Windup Watch Fair in April , we brought together three Worn & Wound Podcast alumni — Jason Lim from Halios, Bradley Price from Autodromo, and Etienne Malec from Baltic — to participate in something of a power panel about running a successful, enthusiast-focused, independent watch brand in 2019. We covered a whole bunch of topics, from the loaded nature...