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Sheffield Revives a Classic: Crafting Quality, Technology, and Affordability Into Every Timepiece

The microbrand making watches the old-fashioned way. By overdelivering.

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The Winter Olympics, But Make It Wearable
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Good, Better, Bezel: How G-SHOCK’s G-STEEL Keeps Toughening Up Beauty
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Bowl Season Gear by Nike

If you’re gearing up for the most wonderful, chaotic stretch of the college football calendar, start here.

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There’s Nothing Cool About Being Cold

Signature Innovation Group hid a flannel in this corduroy jacket.

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When a Dress Shoe Trend Turns Out to Be a Classic
By Beau Hayhoe
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The Winter Olympics, But Make It Wearable
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Bowl Season Gear by Nike

If you’re gearing up for the most wonderful, chaotic stretch of the college football calendar, start here.

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Features
There’s Nothing Cool About Being Cold

Signature Innovation Group hid a flannel in this corduroy jacket.

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When a Dress Shoe Trend Turns Out to Be a Classic

The monk strap’s journey from blog-era favorite to modern classic

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The Winter Olympics, But Make It Wearable

Nike’s cold-weather era is peaking, don’t miss out.

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Feeling the Burn

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The Handsome Fan’s Style Guide to the NBA Finals

The Best Wheated Bourbons That Aren’t Pappy Van Winkle
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The Best Wheated Bourbons That Aren’t Pappy Van Winkle

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Hypershell X Review: The Future of Hiking Has Legs

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The Story You’ll Tell When Someone Compliments Your Shirt

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G-SHOCK’s 10-Year Pursuit of Perfection: The Fine Metallic Series Delivers Unseen Innovation

50 Books Every Man Should Read Before He’s 50
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50 Books Every Man Should Read Before He’s 50

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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

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150 Years of Bulova: The Watch Documentary You Didn’t Know You Needed

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I Went Down a Nixon Watch Rabbit Hole. Here Are the 4 Most Surprising Details I Found

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Stadium Goods Ultimate Sneaker Collection

Sneaker aficionados rejoice. A partnership between Sotheby’s and Stadium Goods has resulted in the Ultimate Sneaker Collection, a museum-worthy collaboration that contains some of the world’s rarest sneakers… just not necessarily in your size. The collection contains precious footwear such as a 1972 Nike Waffle Trainer “Moon Shoe” ($160,000), the…

By Amos Kwon
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SVOYA Studio STEP-UP House

As much as we want to take over our neighbor’s house and use one to get away from the kids, it’s not gonna happen. One family in Dnipro, Ukraine was fortunate enough to merge two apartments into a single one to create a truly epic living space for rest and…

By Amos Kwon
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Fashion
Vaer Automatic Watches

The Vaer brand started back in 2015 in Los Angeles by a couple of guys who wanted to create a well-made classic everyday timepiece that would look just as good with a nylon Nato strap as it did with a handsome leather band, and they wanted it to be affordable.…

By Amos Kwon
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Marlon Brando’s Rolex GMT-Master from ‘Apocalypse Now’ Has Resurfaced

There are quite a few iconic men that have worn equally iconic watches throughout the course of history. We even put together a feature titled Famous Watches and the Men Who Owned Them that outlines a quite a few, including Buzz Aldrin's Omega Speedmaster he wore to the moon. Ten…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Prepare Yourselves: Amazon Prime Day Starts on Monday

The chaos that is Amazon Prime Day is almost upon us once again. It officially kicks off on Monday, July 15, but this time around it's a "A two-day parade of epic deals." Seeing as how many of the deals start earlier and last longer, they should probably just start…

By Cooper Fleishman
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