Unwinding w/ Blake and Zach Ep 3 - Talking Small Business Ownership w/ Ben Preuss

12/16/24 • 52 min

Unwinding is back again! Better late than never. On this episode, we’re excited to be joined by a good friend of Worn & Wound, a fellow small business owner, Ben Preuss. Ben co-founded a digital design and development company called ThinkNerve in 2002 while still in high school. We talk a bit about what it was like to start a company at a young age, what it’s been like running it since, and some general observations on owning businesses. Ben is also a watch guy and has worked with a handful of companies in the watch industry, including Worn & Wound, having built the Windup Watch Shop, as well as updating Worn & Wound throughout the years.

To learn more about Ben’s business, head to ThinkNerve

To learn more about Ben’s business, head to ThinkNerve

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Ep 376: Jerome and Gabriel from Serica on the All New Serica Parade

This week on the Worn & Wound podcast, Zach Kazand and Kat Shouldes talk with Jérôme Burgert and Gabriel Vachette, the co-founders of Serica. The French indie watch brand is celebrating a five year anniversary, and they’ve just released the Parade, easily their most ambitious watch to date. The ultra refined dress watch is, on the surface, a fairly dramatic departure from the brand’s elegant but sporty tool watches. But once you start digging into the details and hear the story behind the watch, you begin to realize that it’s actually squarely in the Serica wheelhouse after all. In this conversation, Jérôme and Gabriel speak frankly about the design process and the challenges they faced bringing the Parade to life, and discuss why watches like this appeal to them in the first place.

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Ep. 377: Our Favorite Digital Watches - December Q&A

This week on the Worn & Wound podcast, we’ve got a full house for our monthly Q&A episode. Zach Kazan is joined by Kat Shoulders, Devin Pennypacker, and Garrett Jones for a fun filled, end of year Q&A episode with lots of great questions and only a small handful of diversions, we promise. Among the topics discussed in this episode, our panel tackles the vast Citizen archive, whether or not Die Hard is a Christmas movie, our favorite digital watches, pocket flashlights, and a whole lot more.

Thanks to all of our listeners who submitted so many great questions this year! We’ll be back next year with more Q&A podcasts, so be sure to join the Worn & Wound+ Slack community if you haven’t already – it’s where we put out a call for questions on a monthly basis, and is just a great place to chat about watches.

This episode is brought to you by Mater Made—a new watch brand made for the modern day renaissance man. Their first model: “The Don” recently was released and is now available in 3 colorways: Asphalt Black, Ultramarine, and Classic White.

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