The Worn & Wound Podcast

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. 

We want to know what you’ve picked up recently as well, so please let us know in the show notes if you’ve added a new watch...

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 compared to others, and how much weight to really put in it anyway. 

They also catch up on some new releases (including Ed’s take on those new Speedmasters), the Super B...

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 deal of our participant’s collecting history. 

Before the team gets into their watch regrets, there’s a brief discussio...

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 as general topics around men’s style. For more information on Temporal Works, check out our article from the launch here.

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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 predict for the rest of the year, and of course what worked and what didn’t when they saw the new pieces in person. 

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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 watches. 

Let us know if you have any additional questions about press trips – this is a fun topic to discuss and this proved to be a...

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 it into their own collections, plus a few off-the-beaten-path personal suggestions for listeners to check out. 

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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 down, turned off notifications on every device, and watched a bunch of movies. No surprise there! This is a fun conversation with lots of little tangents ab...

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 to produce these episodes monthly in 2026, so your next chance is not too far off.

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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 proud of and excited about. It’s also a way to honor our fantastic and dedicated contributors, who always bring a unique perspective to watch culture that we’...

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 lane and a great opportunity to look for themes and trends that developed throughout the year. 

As al...

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 a lot of thoughts on the things that bind these communities together, and it was a pleasure to chat with him. Garrett Jones, Worn & Wound’s photographer who entered th...

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 classics from some of our favorite brands.

Before that, however, there’s also an extended conversation about a pair of releases from a pair of powerhouse brands: Tudor and Omega. The new, small...

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.

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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 have flown well under the radar. 

As it happens, our recording lined up almost exactly with the end of the GPHG ceremony, so you’ll als...

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 months, and, of course, we talk travel and packing strategies. 

Let us know in the comments what kinds of EDC items you’ve been enjoyin...

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 filmthat 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 Back to the Future. More than that, we have good reason to. It’s back in theaters for its big 40th anniversary, and Casio even released a sp...

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 

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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, churning out conservative products that are proven sellers at the expense of innovating. But is that an insidery point of view? Maybe “innovation” isn’t exactly what this...

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 up a new watch from Typsim, the Seattle based indie known for their unique lume compound and true gilt dials. The Guide XLH, the watch Za...

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 watching, and more. 

Thanks as always to everyone who submitted questions for this episode and every episode! We record Q&A podcasts monthly, so be sure to check out our...

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, October 17 through Sunday, October 19, this 10th Anniversary Edition brings together more than 140 brands, makers, and partners for a weekend of hands-on discovery, conversation, and comm...

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, you no doubt came across countless threads asking for advice on alternatives to the most iconic (and often expensive) luxury watches. We look at two watches, the Rolex Submariner and...

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 yourself shopping for a new or pre-owned watch. In this episode we get a market update from Hamza and a broad overview of the state of the pre-owned watch world, in...

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 destinations to our personal wallet preferences and other EDC topics. The team also weighs on the age old question: dive watch with a GMT bezel, or GMT with a diver bezel? Let...

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 great time to revisit his magnum opus. 

Zach Kazan is joined by Kat Shoulders and Liam O’Donnell for this episode, and together they discu...

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, Kat, and Liam each pick a watch that could potentially be a fabled “one watch” and also discuss the practical and theoretical concerns about owning a single wat...

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 first time at Geneva Watch Days (and Zach K’s second), and the show itself is rapidly changing, so there’s a lot to talk about on this front. 

While t...

This week on the Worn & Wound podcast, Zach Kazan and Kat Shoulders welcome Elodie Townsend, one of Worn & Wound’s newest contributors. Elodie is a watch enthusiast based in San Francisco, and has a deep appreciation for all kinds of timepieces, particularly funky tool watches. In this episode, we chat about how Elodie was introduced to watch collecting and recent watches she’s admired. Elodie is also a longtime car enthusiast, and much of the conversation here focuses on the many ways these hobbies overlap.

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In this episode of Changing Gears, host Kat Shoulders sits down with Betty Van of Switch and Click, the creator behind one of the most popular YouTube channels in the mechanical keyboard space along with W&W co-founders Blake Malin and Zach Weiss. 

The W&W team and Betty kick things off with a wrist check and keyboard check before diving into the story of how Switch and Click began, the inspiration behind the channel, and the moment Betty realized it could turn into something much bigger than a hobby. They explore what makes gear so addictive, f...

This week on the Worn & Wound podcast, it’s another round of listener Q&A. Zach is joined by Kat Shoulders and Garrett Jones as they field questions from our Worn & Wound+ Slack channel and YouTube audience. As always, the questions are great and a huge range of topics are covered, from the concept of luxury field watches to the brands we most associate with our colleagues. Thanks to everyone who submitted a question for this episode! If your question wasn’t answered in this episode, we’ll be back next month with a new Q&A episode and anothe...

This week on the Worn & Wound podcast, Zach is joined by Andy Green and Felix Scholz, hosts of OT: The Podcast. Over the last several years, Felix and Andy have developed OT into one of the top watch podcasts out there with a series of fantastic interviews with watch industry insiders, their own great rapport and sense of humor, and an enthusiastic community of fans (be sure to check out their Discord here). The last time Felix and Andy came on the Worn & Wound podcast, they had just released their first (and so far only) collaborative watch with anOrdain...

On the podcast this week, Zach Kazan welcomes Devin Pennypacker to discuss a topic that comes up in the real life conversations of watch enthusiasts fairly often: how do you start a collection? When you’re the watch collector in a group of non-collectors, it’s something that’s inevitably asked from time to time by those who are curious about the hobby. Starting a collection, or entering the hobby at any level, is a very different proposition in 2025 than at any other time we can remember, so Zach and Devin provide some advice based on the current state of the...

Time on Screen returns this week with an all new episode. In this episode, Zach Kazan and Kat Shoulders break down The Life of Chuck, the latest from Mike Flanagan, a favorite filmmaker among the Worn & Wound crew. The Life of Chuck is an adaptation of a Stephen King novella that is somewhat hard to describe. It follows the life of a single character through important stages of his life, with a story told in an extremely unconventional way, and is one of those movies that you’ll want to discuss and dissect as soon as you get out of...

This week on the podcast, Kat Shoulders is chatting with Worn & Wound contributor and photographer Liam O’Donnell. Liam and Kat go way back, and this is a really fun conversation about Liam’s start in the hobby, how he broke into working in the industry through the NYC watch community, and his own collection. There’s also, of course, plenty of photography talk, as Liam fields questions from the Worn & Community. Liam and Kat also discuss some of Liam’s recent work for Worn & Wound, including last week’s piece on Christopher Ward’s partnership with the Everton Football Clu...

This week on the podcast, we’re returning to a favorite topic: hot takes! We asked our communities on Instagram, YouTube, and our Worn & Wound+ Slack channel to send us their spiciest takes on the watch world so we could react to them and they absolutely did not disappoint. And, of course, Zach Kazan and Kat Shoulders have some takes of their own. Topics covered include the Royal Oak, the very premise of the “GADA” watch, micro-adjustable clasps, Rolex wait lists, and a whole lot more. 

We had so many submissions there was no way to get through...

This week on the Worn & Wound podcast, Zach Kazan is joined by Devin Pennypacker to take a deeper dive into some recent content on the blog. Namely, they’re taking a closer look at Devin’s recent review of the Breitling Top Time B31, which was an enormous and very pleasant surprise for both, as well as a closer examination of our favorite watches of the year so far. Both Zach and Devin defend their top choices, while also offering some additional favorites that did not make the final list. They also take stock of the year in general to t...

This week on the Worn & Wound podcast, we’re bringing you back to Chicago and this year’s Windup Watch Fair in the Windy City. Zach Kazan and Kat Shoulders jump on the mic mere hours after returning home from one of the busiest Windups we can remember, and quickly discuss some of their impressions of this year’s event and what made it special. 

The bulk of this episode though is all about the Citizen Aqualand, one of the truly iconic dive watches of the 1980s. The Aqualand celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, and was a big f...

This week on the Worn & Wound podcast, we’re previewing the upcoming Windup Watch Fair in Chicago. Blake Malin hosts and is joined by Kyle Snarr and Nelly Calhoun to discuss all things Windup as we get ready to continue the Fair’s ten year anniversary celebration with our biggest and best shows yet. 

This year’s show features over 40 exhibiting brands, including old favorites and some brands making their Windup debut. Doxa, Celeste, Watch Craft, and Tudor are among the brands you’ll see at Windup for the first time in Chicago when the show opens on Friday...

It’s Q&A time once again on the Worn & Wound podcast, and we’ve got a bunch of fun questions this month from our Worn & Wound+ listeners covering a huge range of topics. Zach and Devin are fielding questions on how they feel about gradually increasing the prices they pay for their personal watches, favorite rubber and leather straps, and purchases inspired by watches seen in movies and television. There are also some great travel related questions, just in time for summer vacation. And, of course, there are plenty of tangents, including our thoughts on the naming of a ne...