Roundup: The Panels of Windup Watch Fair NYC 2024

As has become the tradition, we always record the panels that occur throughout each of the Windup Watch Fairs. This fantastic, original content is great to revisit for those who had the chance to be there, and is now available to everyone who didn’t have the opportunity to be there in person. These panels are free to attend at the time of their recording, so in the spirit of Windup—an event that puts an emphasis on approachability—it’s only fitting that the content from the show is freely shared as well. We present it here in this roundup in the order that they happened at the fair, starting on Friday and on through Sunday!

Diving into the New Oris Divers Date

We’re honored that Oris chose to debut its new Divers Date at Windup this year. Worn & Wound’s Managing Editor, Zach Kazan, was joined by Oris Co-CEO Rolf Studer to discuss the significance of this global launch.

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Openwork Podcast Live: Elements of Design

We recorded a joint podcast between the Worn & Wound team and our friend at Collective Horology. Our special guests, Martin Frei of URWERK and Jonathan Ferrer of Brew Watch Co., discussed their particular approaches to designs of their watches. 

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65 Years of Squale

Worn & Wound contributor Griffin Bartsch was joined on stage by Andrea Maggi, CEO of Squale, with special guest: TGV, founder of The Urban Gentry. Together, they discussed the illustrious history of the Squale brand, as well as their latest release, the Squale 2001 Heritage.

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Reviving American Watchmaking

Kyle Snarr, Worn & Wound’s Head of Partnerships, leads a discussion with a team from Shinola including: Greg Verras, their Director of Watch Design, Jamie Steinberger, one of their Production and Quality Engineers, and Titus Hayes, Shinola’s Service Center Manager. They were joined by RT Custer, the CEO of Vortic Watch Company to discuss the future of watchmaking in America.

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20 Years of Christopher Ward: The Swiss Perspective

We were thrilled to host both Jörg Bader, Product Director at Christopher, as well as his father, Jörg Bader Sr., Christopher Ward’s CEO in Switzerland to break down the history and growth of Christopher Ward from the point of view of the brand’s Swiss team—moderated by Zach Weiss, Co-founder at Worn & Wound.
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The French Revolution

Worn & Wound’s Managing Editor, Zach Kazan, was joined by Lilian Thibault, Founder of Awake, Etinne Malec, Founder of Baltic, and Guillaume Laidet,
CEO
of Nivada Grenchen, to discuss the new wave of watch brands emanating from France in recent years.

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150 Years of Bulova and “America Telling Time”

In order to celebrate their 150th anniversary, the team at Bulova commissioned a documentary film directed by Michael Culyba called “America Telling Time.”
We showed an excerpt from the film and Worn & Wound’s Managing Editor, Zach Kazan interviewed the film’s director and two cast members: Richard Callamaras,
Bulova’s Sales Manager and an avid Bulova collector, and our pal James Lamdin,
Founder
at Analog:Shift.

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‘Ask Us Anything’ LIVE!

Several members of the Worn & Wound team, including its co-founders, gather to field a slew of questions from our online community and audience members about the Windup Watch Fair and the watch industry at large.