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The Watch That Proves Toughness Has Always Been a Kind of Elegance

G-SHOCK didn’t just evolve into refinement. It’s been quietly building toward it from the start.

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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

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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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Winter Upgrade: The New Gear We’re Excited About This Winter

With winter fast approaching, we decided to take some time to reflect on the latest releases. This season is all about coziness. Home goods geared to keep you warm and toasty. Clothing to brave the frigid conditions. Beverages to enjoy beside that blazing fire. While things tend to slow down…

By John A. Paradiso
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Fashion
Timex Waterbury Traditional Day Date

Timex has been bringing the vintage style like nobody else in the watch world today, and they all come at truly attainable prices. Their latest is one that nods to the company's 1854 origins, when it was known as the Waterbury Watch Company. The classic and eye-catching two-tone dial is…

By Amos Kwon
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Buck Mason Donegal Collection

You can try to ignore the cold weather for a little while, but your pride will soon be eclipsed by subzero temps and precipitation that blows sideways. Just in time, Buck Mason has released its super-warm Donegal collection to keep you all warm, toasty, and content. The line includes a…

By Amos Kwon
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Travel
The House from Home Alone is on Airbnb

Kevin (Macaulay Culkin) may be all grown up now, and it may have all just been a movie. But at least the house from Home Alone is real. Now, you can stay in it, courtesy of Airbnb. The Winnetka, Illinois home seems to have been permanently decorated for the holidays…

By Amos Kwon
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BMW Is Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the M Marquee with Special Edition Throwback Badges Next Year

While the changing of the calendar year to 2022 will mark the end of the nonsense from the past few years for most of us, it also marks the 50 year anniversary for BMW's M Performance division. BMW M Series vehicles have always outperformed even their German brethren in the…

By Cooper Fleishman
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