This week on the podcast, Worn & Wound contributor Cait Bazemore makes her podcast debut. Cait has been writing about watches for years, and in this episode we spend most of our time discussing her recent piece on Biwi, a Swiss firm which has gained some fame recently for their work with Norqain. Biwi is a fascinating company and has manufactured rubber straps and a whole host of other things for watch brands over the years, and the story of how Cait came across the story and what she discovered at Biwi’s facilities in Switzerland is truly fascinating. Before the Biwi talk begins, Cait takes us through her path in the watch industry, what’s interesting to her about the community, and how her interest in traditional craftsmanship relates to the high tech world of Biwi.

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Show Notes 

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  • This is the Company Quietly Making the Rubber Straps for Nearly Every Brand in the Industry
  • Colorado’s Best Kept Secret: The 5280 Watch Company is Making Timepieces with Enamel Dials for Under $4,000
  • Jean-Claude Biver, the Matterhorn, and Carbon Fiber with Some Color: A Few Days in Zermatt with Norqain and the New Wild One
  • The Press Box podcast
  • I Do Everything I’m Told by Megan Fernandes
  • Aftersun

In this week’s episode of the Worn & Wound podcast, Zach Kazan and Devin Pennypacker are back from the Windup Watch Fair in San Francisco, and they have a bunch of new releases to chat about. After a quick recap of the show itself, their San Francisco experience, and the pros and cons of Waymo, they each pick a few standout releases from Windup and the watch world more broadly, including new releases from Tudor, Dennison, and Zenith.

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Show Notes 

• Hanhart 415 ES 
• Dennison Announce a New Collaboration with Patek Philippe Expert John Reardon and Collectability
• Trafford Daytripper
• Tudor Adds a Limited Edition Carbon Chrono to the Black Bay Chronograph Lineup
• Zenith Adds a Rose Gold Version of the Chronomaster Original Triple Calendar to the Collection
• Wm Brown Magazine
• Walton Goggins in Architectural Digest

This week on the Worn & Wound podcast, it’s time to preview the Windup Watch Fair in San Francisco. Media Manager Devin Pennypacker takes over hosting duties this week, and is joined by Kyle Snarr, Head of Partnerships, Nelly Calhoun, Events & Partnerships Operations Manager, and Garrett Jones, our in-house photographer. Together they discuss the 10 year anniversary of the Windup Watch Fair, along with some of their first Windup experiences. They give a full rundown of all the activities, activations, and show exclusives, and 90+ brands making their way to the Bay over the next few days.

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Watches & Wonders may have wrapped a few weeks ago, flooding everyone’s feeds with Tudors, Rolexes, Grand Seikos, Pateks, Zeniths, and more than a few Hublots—but we’re not diving into any of that today. Instead, on episode 102 of A Week in Watches, we take a step back from the hype and turn our attention to the quieter—but no less exciting—independent releases that emerged around the same time. April was surprisingly packed with creative drops from small brands doing things their own way, and while the big names stole the headlines, the indies delivered some of the most interesting watches of the month.

Before diving into a few standout releases—yes, including that particularly “crazy” one—here’s a quick heads-up: Windup Watch Fair San Francisco 2025 is just around the corner. It’s happening May 2nd through 4th at the Gateway Pavilion in Fort Mason Park. Over 80 brands will be there, it’s free, and it’s open to all. If you’re on the West Coast, swing by. Full details and the exhibitor list are up now at windupwatchfair.com.

In this episode of Changing Gears, Garrett sits down with Dave Wattenberg, the founder and owner of Pro-Tech Knives. From building the first batch on his kitchen table over 25 years ago to running a 17,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Southern California, Dave’s experience in the knife industry has allowed him and the Pro-Tech team to create some of the best everyday carry knives on the market today. In this episode, Dave and Garrett dive into Dave’s family ties to the cutlery industry, how Pro-Tech got its start, how Dave came to be both a watch and knife enthusiast, and even an exclusive design that’s been created just for the San Francisco Windup Watch Fair. Listen closely, you might even get some information about a top secret Pro-Tech prototype that’s in the works.

We’re happy to announce that Pro-Tech has created an exclusive knife design for the upcoming San Francisco Windup Watch Fair, a TR-3 Integrity.  Derived from one of their best selling automatic knives over 22 years, the TR-3 Integrity combines the iconic TR-3 Auto design with their button lock hardware to create a consumer friendly, manual action knife. This exclusive edition will feature a 3.5”, stonewash finished, S35vn steel blade, battleworn blue relic handles, and a gorgeous abalone button. While this exclusive is limited to 25 pieces, in Dave’s own words, each one is “one of a kind” due to the uniqueness of the abalone insert. Check out this design, and many more at Pro-Tech’s booth inside the EDC Expo at the Windup Watch Fair.

This week on the Worn & Wound podcast, Zach Kazan is joined by Zach Weiss for a collection update. Every so often, when new watches hit our collections, we jump on the podcast to talk about what we picked up and why. In recent months, both Zachs have made a few additions, and we thought now would be a good time to provide an update after the Honeymoon Period has just barely faded. Zach Weiss has seen a vintage watch (from a brand that has been very much in the news) join the collection, along with a very tough to track down timepiece from an upstart Japanese brand. And Zach Kazan has recently added a second piece from a personal indie favorite, as well his first watch from one of the most discussed brands in the watch world. After discussing their new acquisitions, Zach and Zach talk about where they see their collections heading in the short and long term. 

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Show Notes 

• Breitling Acquires Gallet
• Ming Gets Back in the Water with the 37.09 Bluefin
• Ming’s Tribute to Titanium: the 37.02 Ghost
• Interview: Ming Thein on the All New Project 21, a Tantalum Dress Watch with a Restored Vintage Movement
• Otsuka Lotek
• Owner’s Review: The Arcanaut Arc II Fordite
• [VIDEO] Grand Seiko Redefines Accuracy – Again: Introducing the 9RB2 U.F.A. Spring Drive Caliber
• [VIDEO] Hands-on Impressions of the Beautifully Slender Grand Seiko SLGW002 and SLGW003

This week on the Worn & Wound podcast, Zach Weiss, Kat Shoulders, and Zach Kazan are looking back at the recently completed Watches & Wonders event. It’s been about two weeks and we’ve all had a bit of time to digest everything we saw in Geneva, and in this episode we hear about some of the trends we identified, watches we loved, and overall impressions of the show and our time in Geneva. We also answer a bunch of questions from our Worn & Wound+ Slack community on everything from our favorite booths, hidden gems, and those TAG Heuer F1s. 

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Show Notes 

• The Grey NATO – 324 – Watches And Wonders 2025 Megasode
• [VIDEO] The Tudor Goes Deep with Pelagos Ultra
• Tudor Introduces the Black Bay 68, the Biggest Black Bay Yet
• Tudor Launches the Black Bay Pro with an Opaline Dial
• NOMOS Adds a Worldtimer to the Club Sport Line
• Jaeger-LeCoultre Released Nine New Reverso Novelties at Watches & Wonders – These Are Our Favorites
• Ulysse Nardin Introduces the World’s Lightest Mechanical Dive Watch, the Dive [Air]
• First Impressions of the Parmigiani Fleurier Toric Quantieme Perpetual
• First Impressions of the New A. Lange & Söhne Novelties
• Fears Debuts a New Watch Family with the Arnos Pewter Blue
• H. Moser Goes “Pop” with their New Stone Dial Collection
• Auer Chocolate
• The TAG Heuer Formula 1 Goes Solar

This week on the Worn & Wound podcast, Zach Kazan is back from Geneva, fighting jetlag, and chatting with Devin Pennypacker about the broad strokes of Watches & Wonders, how the show was received back home, and some of the notable watches released last week. We’ll have a much more thorough breakdown of Watches & Wonders and the surrounding events next week once the whole team has returned from Switzerland, so stay tuned for that discussion coming soon. 

The rest of the episode is dedicated to talking about a unique collecting phenomenon: the consolidation that many collectors attempt in light of the announcement of so many new novelties. It turns out that post Watches & Wonders is often a great time to troll WatchRecon, eBay, and elsewhere for pre-owned watches being unloaded to fund a newly announced shiny new thing. Devin is currently going through a bit of collection purge himself, and he and Zach talk about how they decide to let something go, and when they know it’s the right time to jump on something new.

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Show Notes 

• The Rolex Land-Dweller is Here: We Got a Watchmaker’s Perspective on the Crown’s New Dynapulse Movement Technology
• Tudor Introduces a New Black Bay 58 in Red, with Some Surprises
• [VIDEO] The Tudor Goes Deep with Pelagos Ultra
• Tudor Launches the Black Bay Pro with an Opaline Dial
• We Built a Vintage Race Bike in a School Bus
• The Pakt Tote

Today, we are hosted by Zach Weiss and Zach Kazan as they are on-location at Watches & Wonders. They talk about their first impressions by many of the new releases. Stay tuned to all Watches & Wonders news on Worn & Wound by heading here: https://wornandwound.com/tag/watches-and-wonders-2025/

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This week on the Worn & Wound podcast, Zach Kazan and Zach Weiss are joined by Bhanu Chopra. Bhanu is likely a familiar figure to many – he’s a watch media mainstay, with bylines in Forbes, Revolution, and, of course, Worn & Wound, among others. If there’s one thing to know about Bhanu, it’s that he has a real passion for independent brands, particularly those on the small affordable side. He was well ahead of the curve when it comes to the current “micro-indie” movement in the watch world. We talk to Bhanu about why these brands mean so much to him, some of his favorite experiences visiting manufactures and ateliers over the years, and how he draws a distinction between a “microbrand” and an “indie” anyway.

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Show Notes 

• The Journey of Thomas Schnelle
• Habring² Pilot Watches: A Tale of Two Fun (and Rare) Complications
• Discovering Hentschel Watches, One of German Watchmaking’s Best Kept Secrets
• Celebrating 30 Years of the Lothar Schmidt Era at Sinn HQ

In this new episode of Time on Screen, Zach Kazan welcomes Worn & Wound contributor Brett Braley to talk about Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread. Why Phantom Thread? Well, for a number of reasons. First, PTA has a new film out later this year and it has Zach and other members of the Worn & Wound team thinking about his filmography. Second, there’s a clear link in our minds between the craft depicted in this film and the world of watchmaking. Third, Brett and Zach previously discussed Tár, a movie with more than a few links to Phantom Thread. Lastly, it’s just a great film, with great performances, and some of the best scenes of a couple eating breakfast that you’ll ever find in a movie.

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