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Established in 2011, wornandwound.com serves as a premier destination for detailed insights on affordable watches. This platform showcases timepieces that stand out due to their exceptional design, solid craftsmanship, cutting-edge technology, or other noteworthy attributes, regardless of their price or brand reputation. At wornandwound.com, you can explore a wide variety of articles created by a team with varied viewpoints. Our content includes reviews, informative guides, and showcases of classic watches. Each piece features high-definition images and videos to enhance your experience.

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Christopher Ward Gets Ready for the Summer with the C60 Trident Reef

1 week ago | wornandwound.com | Zach Weiss

2025 has already been a memorable year for Christopher Ward. Having launched the C12 Loco back in April, their most ambitious watch to date, they’ve further shown they are an indie force to be reckoned with. But, while the C12 Loco proved that they can achieve complicated watchmaking at a reasonable price, it was still on the top end of their catalog. To balance this, for their next launch, they are returning, to some extent, to their roots with an affordable diver, the C60 Trident Reef.
Inside Soprod: Where Mechanical Movements are Made

1 week ago | wornandwound.com | Zach Weiss

Several workstations sit side by side, each featuring a position for a technician and a machine. These workstations are each specialized for a specific task, some for literal assembly, others for lubrication, and others for quality control. Conveyor belts move components as needed or when they are completed. It’s all relatively seamless and fast.
Hands-On: the Ming 37.02 Ghost (and Some Other Mings too)

1 week ago | wornandwound.com | Zach Weiss

Last fall (2024), I felt the itch for something new—that hankering one gets when they just need a new watch. I usually resist, but this time, the fates had a different plan for me. You see, sitting on the forums was an unworn Ming 37.07 Monolith just looking for a good home. I had wanted a Ming for a while, but found myself never in the right place at the right time—or with the right amount of watch-budget when they were released.
Editorial: My Obsession with German Neo-Vintage Watches Under $5,000

2 weeks ago | wornandwound.com | Bhanu Chopra

Vintage watches remain ever popular in the watch collector’s journey. There are serious collectors who remain focused on buying only vintage. Since the pandemic, my inbox has been flooded with auction houses and vintage dealers trying to one-up each other by selling the most curated “once in a lifetime” or most expensive vintage piece. I have nothing against the sellers and buyers, especially if they can vouch for the authenticity and pay for the repairs, they deserve my appreciation.
Seiko Introduces the SPB497, a New Limited Edition in the Presage Collection with an Unglazed Porcelain Dial

3 weeks ago | wornandwound.com | Zach Kazan

Last week in this space, I wrote about a crop of new Seiko 5 Sports watches more than a little indebted to the classic SKX line of divers, and there was, perhaps, some concern trolling about the current state of the Seiko brand. In my view, there’s no denying that Seiko’s grip on the enthusiast world has loosened a bit when it comes to watches in this genre.
[VIDEO] A Closer Look at Ming: Our Favorite Designs and Personal Pieces

3 weeks ago | wornandwound.com | Zach Kazan

Ming launched their first watch, the 17.01, back in the summer of 2017. That watch sold out quickly, as did subsequent watches, and over a relatively short span of the time, the brand achieved an almost reverential status among affordable independent and micro-brands. The watches, from the beginning, have been stylish, highly distinctive, and have pushed design boundaries. Our thoughts on Ming have evolved along with the brand itself.
Zenith Returns to the Shadows with New Defy Revival Diver and Defy Extreme Diver Variants

3 weeks ago | wornandwound.com | Zach Kazan

The return of the dive watch to the Zenith collection has been one of the real highlights for the brand over the last year or so. It’s actually kind of crazy to consider that Zenith went so long without a true diver in their lineup, being that they’ve been one of the foundational pillars on which the whole industry saw so much growth over the last decade.
Citizen Celebrates 40 Years of the Aqualand, One of the Most Unique Dive Watches Ever Made

3 weeks ago | wornandwound.com | Zach Kazan

There are lots of dive watches out there – it’s perhaps the most ubiquitous of all the watch genres. Frankly, it’s easy to see why. In addition to being highly specialized for a very specific task, they tend to work incredibly well as casual, everyday watches regardless of what you happen to be doing with them.
A Taste of the Infinite: Hands-On with the J.N. Shapiro Infinity Series Pure

3 weeks ago | wornandwound.com | Zach Weiss

When Zach Kazan told me the other day that a couple of watches by J.N. Shapiro had arrived at the office, I did a double-take. Not privy to the conversations he had been having regarding an article in progress, finding out that two watches by this revered independent were in the office was an exciting surprise.
H. Moser Introduces a Pair of Streamliners as Part of their Partnership with Alpine Motorsports, Including an Ana-Digi Smartwatch

3 weeks ago | wornandwound.com | Zach Kazan

Just when you thought watches associated with F1 teams were getting stale and predictable, here comes H. Moser with a release that I definitely did not have on my bingo card. There are actually two releases here, both introduced last week as part of the brand’s partnership with the Alpine Motorsports F1 team. Both part of the Streamliner family, one is a skeletonized chronograph (which is cool, but not exactly the most exotic thing in the indie watch world) and the other is…a smart watch.