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What It’s Like to Wear an $85,000 Watch

What It’s Like to Wear an $85,000 Watch

I spent some wrist time with the Ulysse Nardin Freak ONE Gold, a wonderfully strange feat of watchmaking with no dial, hands or crown.

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The Case for Nashville as Your Next Golf Getaway
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The Summer Edit: 10 Pieces That Make Getting Dressed Ridiculously Easy
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The $1,200 Sneaker Giveaway ​

Win a pair of handcrafted Crown Northampton Yardley GAT sneakers, a matching cardholder, and a handmade shoe tree.

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What I'm buying, wearing, and using, this week.

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7 Essentials from Filson’s Warm-Weather Shop
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Lifestyle
The Anti-Algorithm Guide to Discovering New Music
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The $1,200 Sneaker Giveaway ​

Win a pair of handcrafted Crown Northampton Yardley GAT sneakers, a matching cardholder, and a handmade shoe tree.

The Cool Shop
The Cool Shop
What We're Buying
The Cool Shop

What I'm buying, wearing, and using, this week.

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What We're Buying
7 Essentials from Filson’s Warm-Weather Shop

For the beach, the lake, the trail, and wherever you like disappearing to on summer weekends.

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Lifestyle
The Anti-Algorithm Guide to Discovering New Music

Streaming made music infinite. Which made discovery harder. Here’s how we’re finding our way back.

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A curated selection of our favorite gear

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America’s Most Historic Golf Trip

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What We're Buying

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The Summer Edit: 10 Pieces That Make Getting Dressed Ridiculously Easy

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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

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Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide
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Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide

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The Luxury Lover’s Guide to Puerto Vallarta

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The Nike Chapter of My Summer Story

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The Hotel Redefining Charleston Charm

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Lifestyle
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Wild Turkey’s New ‘Cheesy Gold Foil’ Release Is a Tribute To a Collector’s Classic

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Kikkerland Music Branch Headphone Splitter

We strongly discourage the practice of becoming ear-buddies with your friend. It's the term we've made up for when you want your friend to hear a new track you just downloaded onto your iPhone and you lend him one of your earbuds. What results is a returned earbud full of your now…

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Entertainment
Mob Rules: What the Mafia Can Teach the Legitimate Businessman

It's doubtful that author and former mobster, Louis Ferrante, will be embarking on a national book signing tour following the publication of Mob Rules, at least we're guessing, since according to the movies we've seen, spilling stories about your time in the mafia can leave you in eternal slumber with…

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SPONSORED: Real Men of Vision. Re-inventing the Wheel

The following is a post sponsored by Dockers. Check out The Dockers Alpha khaki, the first of its kind. Grab a pair today and be the first to wear the next generation of khaki! Buy Now Throughout history there have been men bound and determined to change the way everyone…

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German Military Surplus Utensil Set

It doesn't matter if you're eating a 16oz ribeye in a five star restaurant or a can of beans around a campfire, if you don't want to be a complete savage you need utensils. Men don't need fine silver, they just need a quality four piece set that has everything…

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Danny Haas Superhero Prints

Danny Haas is a man that, much like the rest of us, never quite grew up. Superheroes were a huge part of our childhood and now that Christian Bale and Christopher Nolan, Robert Downey Jr. and John Favreau and Tobey Mcguire and Sam Raimi (let's just agree to forget that…

By Cooper Fleishman
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