The Worn & Wound Podcast

This week on the podcast, Worn & Wound CEO and Cofounder, Blake Malin is joined by Kyle Snarr, Head of Partnerships, and Myra Shallan, our new Event Manager, to discuss what is shaping up to be the biggest consumer-facing watch event around.  Windup Watch Fair NYC is our flagship event of the year and with around 170 brands joining the roster at Center415—we know it’s going to be a good t...

This week on the podcast, we welcome Taylor Mason to the Worn & Wound team. Taylor is Worn & Wound’s new Media Director, and we thought it would be a good idea to get him in front of the mic to introduce him to our podcast audience. Taylor is a talented filmmaker whose work will probably be familiar to many podcast listeners (he’s produced a number of videos with Worn & Wound, all of w...

This week on the Worn & Wound podcast, Zach Kazan and Zach Weiss sit down to talk about a string of new releases from brands both large and small. New watches from Rolex and Hublot (with Jeff Koons) were the big headline grabbers in September, but there were also interesting new watches from Grand Seiko, H. Moser (their most affordable watch ever, and it’s digital) as well as a deep cut Swedis...

This week on the Worn & Wound podcast, Zach Kazan is joined by Kat Shoulders for her final episode as a member of the Worn & Wound team. As Kat prepares for what’s next, she sits down for a conversation covering her time at Worn & Wound, some of the projects and experiences that stand out, and a few memorable stories involving scorpions, snakes, and other assorted wildlife. Show Notes&...

This week on the podcast, Zach Kazan and Kat Shoulders are interrogating some watch industry conventional wisdom. There’s a lot of it out there. From the idea that it’s the “story” that matters most in a watch, to the principle of “buying what you love,” and even the idea that everyone needs a certain type of watch in their collection. This is a fun conversation and Zach and Kat definitely poke so...

Zach Kazan and Zach Weiss are back from Geneva, and breaking down their experience at this year’s Geneva Watch Days in this episode of the Worn & Wound podcast. From overall impressions of the show, to favorite watches, and even meeting Jiro Katayama, it was a very full week in an unseasonably warm Geneva (seriously, it was really hot).  Let us know what you thought of this year’s Geneva...

This week on the Worn & Wound podcast, Zach Kazan and Kat Shoulders welcome Doug LaViolette. Doug is the founder of the Brian LaViolette Scholarship Foundation, and recently collaborated with Sheffield on a new watch that honors his late son, Brian, and raises money for the foundation named for him, which has awarded thousands of scholarships to students all over the world. Doug tells us the s...

This week on the Worn & Wound podcast, Zach Kazan and Cait Bazemore are holding themselves accountable and talking about the watches they were wrong about. After years of collecting and working in the watch industry, Zach and Cait have both realized there have been times when they were just plain wrong about a watch, or a preconceived notion about watches in general. In the spirit of reflection, t...

This week on the Worn & Wound podcast, Zach Kazan welcomes Zach Weiss to the podcast for an old-fashioned discussion on the nature of collecting. Specifically, they’re talking about how their taste has evolved over the course of years. They drill down on how working in the industry, being exposed to a huge variety of watches, and the simple nature of time have changed their thoughts on what’s appe...

This week on the podcast, Zach Kazan is joined by Zach Weiss and Ed Jelley to talk about some of the watches they’ve each had in for review over these last few months. The summer is traditionally a slow time for the watch industry, so we took the opportunity to get as many review samples in the office as possible, and there have been a bunch of standouts. The conversation kicks off with a recap of...

This week, a special, epic edition of Time on Screen on the most epic movie of the year: The Odyssey . We weren’t going to miss an opportunity to talk about the biggest movie of the year by one of our favorite filmmakers. Zach Kazan is joined by Kat Shoulders, Garrett Jones, and Ricardo Sime to talk about their favorite moments from the film, how it stands up to Nolan’s other work, and more.  In t...

This week on the Worn & Wound podcast, Zach Kazan is joined by Kat Shoulders and Cait Bazemore for what might be, according to some, an exercise in futility: identifying three watches (each) under $1,000 that have been released this year. With all the chatter about rising prices (and Geneva Watch Days coming up, an event not known for its orientation toward value) the team thought it would be wort...

The word has been out for a little over a week, but in case you missed the news, Worn & Wound acquired Lorier. We’re super excited about it. Before the news went public (save for a small leak), Blake, James, and Zach sat down with Lauren and Lorenzo Ortega, the founders of Lorier, to discuss the acquisition. It’s a very open, honest conversation about what led up to the decision as well as about o...

Editor’s Note: we had some audio issues on this recording and apologize for the rough patches. This week on the Worn & Wound podcast, it’s once again time to answer your questions submitted through Instagram and our Worn & Wound+ Slack channel. Zach Kazan is joined by Garrett Jones and Zach Weiss to talk about the usual wide ranging topics of interest to our listeners and readers. Among them: mana...

This week on the Worn & Wound podcast, Garrett Jones, Worn & Wound’s Lead Photographer, joins Zach to discuss something many of us have quietly (and sometimes loudly) wondered about: how do I know when it’s time to upgrade my camera? And what about all of our other gear? How do we know when we’re just justifying a gear purchase in the flimsiest way, versus timing an upgrade strategically? Zach and...

This week on the podcast, Zach Kazan and Kat Shoulders are joined by Georgia Benjamin, who by day works in design at Adobe, but by night (and probably all around the clock, frankly) has become quite a force in the watch world. By the numbers, she is among the most followed female watch personalities on social media, and has become a fixture in the broader enthusiast and collecting community. Georg...

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...