Watches, Stories, and Gear: Circuit Boards as Art, Affordable Chronometers, and Honoring South Brooklyn Heroes

“Watches, Stories, and Gear” is a roundup of some of our favorite watch content on Worn & Wound, great stories from around the web, and cool gear that we’ve got our eye on.

This installment of “Watches, Stories, and Gear” is brought to you by the Windup Watch Shop.

Worn & Wound
10 Great COSC-Certified Watches Under $2,500 

There’s something incredibly satisfying about a really accurate watch. As mechanical watch lovers, we might sometimes say that we can easily accept a certain amount of drift in day to day timekeeping, and often we genuinely mean it. But that doesn’t mean that there isn’t a distinct pleasure in knowing that your mechanical timepiece is certified to be accurate to a meaningful standard. In this guide from late 2918, Allen Farmelo looks at 10 COSC certified watches that will keep you on time without breaking the bank.

Read it here

Stereogum
Save Stereogum Crowdfunding Campaign

If you’ve been engaged in the indie music scene at all in the last two decades or so, chances are you’ve landed on the pages of Stereogum at some point in time. The indie music blog has had a complicated ownership history in recent years, being bought and sold by media groups, as so many once niche websites have. But in 2019, Scott Lapatine, the site’s original owner and founder, bought it back, and has been in the process of transforming it ever since. The worldwide pandemic has slowed his efforts, so Stereogum has launched a crowdfunding campaign to keep the site alive, and independent. Donations to the Indiegogo campaign can yield all kinds of merch, including hoodies, pins, and t-shirts.

Read it here

Jordan Rathkopf
Neighborhood Heroes: South Brooklyn

Jordan Rathkopf is a New York City based photographer who has been chronicling the Covid-19 pandemic with a special focus on south Brooklyn. His work has recently been showcased on ABC News and other outlets, and since Worn & Wound is Brooklyn based (and the photos are extraordinary) we wanted to feature Jordan’s project here as well. The idea behind Neighborhood Heroes is to highlight volunteers who have been helping their neighbors throughout the pandemic. The photographs and accompanying interviews are powerful and provide a sense of hope, even as the virus continues to spread wildly outside of New York.

Read it here

Hackaday
1975 Circuit Board Was a Masterpiece Hidden on Your Wrist

The original Pulsars are certainly watches that are well appreciated by lovers of vintage quartz watches, but usually we see these watches admired for their innovative digital displays. But here we have another reason to appreciate these watches, via Hackaday: their quite beautiful circuit boards. As seen here, this Pulsar with a calculator input featured traces that were laid by hand, without hard angles, creating something that appears almost organic next to what we imagine a typical circuit board to look like.

Read it here

Jonathan Ferrer
The Brew Watch Show

Jonathan Ferrer, founder of Brew Watches, has just launched his own podcast, The Brew Watch Show. Jonathan’s a designer by trade, and the podcast promises an inside look at his process and what it takes to bring a watch to market, and Jonathan is also seeking listener questions to respond to on the air. The first two episodes are available at the link below, and through other popular podcasting resources.

Listen here

Digital Camera World 
Leica Announces the M10-R

Leica has unveiled their latest digital camera, the M10-R, with a truly amazing full-frame 40-megapixels sensor that is capable of producing an image with a resolution of 7864 x 5200 pixels. That’s…a lot of pixels. The M10-R is the latest entry in the M series, which dates all the way back to the 1950s – a truly impressive run for the German camera maker known for their insanely well made, handcrafted camera bodies and incredibly sharp lenses. The M10-R goes on sale July 20 at a price of $8,295.

Read it here