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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 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
By Travis Haley
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Outdoors
The Best Gear for Life on the Trail, According to the Couple Who Wrote the Book on It
By Lola Méndez
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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

Pack your bags...

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Holiday
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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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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Stussy x Tekla Loungewear Collection

Despite the fact we had no idea what typography was, nor did we care about it, at 10 years old, every single one of us and all of our friends knew how to draw the Stussy "S." That 14-line classic piece of iconography is very much an "if you know…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Balmuda’s The Speaker Delivers 360 Degrees of Sound

With so many top-quality Bluetooth speakers hitting the market, any new release needs to balance form and function. We're tired of seeing the same identical styles in audio tech. We want to see something new. Well, Balmuda delivered with their newly released The Speaker, a rechargeable Bluetooth speaker. The Speaker…

By John A. Paradiso
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Accessories
The New Dango MC01 Titanium Money Clip Is the Next Evolution of the Wallet

Whether you're talking wallets, watches, pens, notebooks or any other pieces of your EDC, if there's a piece of equipment you're carrying on the daily, it's a fair bet that Dango makes a better version than what you're using right now. Case in point--the Dango MC01 Titanium Money Clip, a…

By Pat McLaughlin
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The Cool Material Guide to Bourbon

While whiskey is made and enjoyed all over the world, bourbon is distinctly and proudly an American-made spirit. Hoarded, beloved, and highly sought after, this complex elixir is at the pinnacle of connoisseurship. We believe that everyone should at least have a passing knowledge of bourbon. We also think that…

By John A. Paradiso
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Gear
Daggerfish Single-Origin Black Walnut Handreel

There's nothing quite like a day out on the lake. Fishing rod in one hand, beer in the other. But modern fishing gear often feels a little too high-tech for the bucolic scene I'm trying to set. If you're looking for a more rustic way to catch your fish, check…

By John A. Paradiso
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