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Are These the Most Underrated Watches of the Year?

Citizen’s newest luxury collections set a new bar for everyday excellence.

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The Cool Material 2025 Holiday Gift Guides
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How to Give the Gift of Pappy This Year (Even If You Can’t Get Your Hands on a Bottle)
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The Coolest Gifts for Drink Lovers for 2025

Give drink lovers gifts like these. And they'll make you good drinks in return. Win, win.

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Review: Nike x Hyperice HyperBoot – A Game-Changer for Foot Pain and Recovery
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The Best Gear for Life on the Trail, According to the Couple Who Wrote the Book on It
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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

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The Coolest Gifts for Drink Lovers for 2025

Give drink lovers gifts like these. And they'll make you good drinks in return. Win, win.

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Review: Nike x Hyperice HyperBoot – A Game-Changer for Foot Pain and Recovery

Check out our CM product review of the hottest product in wellness right now: the Nike x Hyperice HyperBoot. Spoiler alert -- it’s a gamechanger!

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The Best Gear for Life on the Trail, According to the Couple Who Wrote the Book on It

They've explored 10,000 miles together. Here are their essentials.

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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

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50 Books Every Man Should Read Before He’s 50

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The Hypersonix Dart AE Plane Promises to Hit Mach 7 on Its First Flight

Introducing the Hypersonix Dart AE Plane, a groundbreaking marvel poised to revolutionize the world of supersonic travel. With an astounding Mach 7 top speed, this engineering masterpiece is set to shatter the limits of air travel, propelling passengers to their destinations at unprecedented velocity. The Dart AE is being developed…

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Paul Newman’s 1998 Volvo V90 “Volvette”

The still square-ish Volvo wagons from the '90s are some of our favorite sporty family haulers. They were just the right amount of boxy, combined with a racy front end and wheels that made it look far from Clark Griswold's Family Truckster. Paul Newman had a love for them and…

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Casio’s Latest G-Shock Watch Has Built in Activity Monitoring

The Casio G-SHOCK is one of the most instantly recognizable and iconic watches out there. While the DWH5600 you see here might look like the other octagonal classics on the surface, the latest addition to the G-SHOCK MOVE line is a lot more active and smart. This model is equipped…

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Blackburn Makes the Best Sunglasses You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

For as long as we can remember, Italy's renowned craftsmanship and high-quality materials set the standard for superior eyewear. While we're all for the durable and fashionable acetate frames the country is known for, everything that makes us lust for those sunglasses also leads to incredible prices... until now! Blackburn,…

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Warmer Weather Calls For Linen Suits. These Are the Best You Can Buy

With warm weather comes the perils of roasting in your two-piece suit. Whether you're at a wedding or a work dinner, it’s important to dress the part while not getting a heat stroke in the process. Yes, you can try to be creative and nix the jacket or go for…

By Brett Braley
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