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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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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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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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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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Starbucks 50 Year Anniversary Blend

It's hard to believe Starbucks coffee has been pumping caffeine into the arteries of humans since 1971. Since then, they've come to dominate the consumer coffee world like a boss, and they're celebrating 50 years with a special Anniversary Blend. It's a limited edition dark roast that's a “bold blend…

By Amos Kwon
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Your Home Will Smell Better Than Ever With Alfred Lane Room & Linen Sprays

Whether it’s cologne in solid or roll-on format and hand sanitizer, Alfred Lane has always impressed with their best-smelling and best-selling scents. And now, they've taken their five audience favorites--Bravado, Brio, Vanguard, Verve and Gusto--and turned them into Room & Linen Sprays that freshen up your spaces, linens, rooms, and…

By Cooper Fleishman
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1973 Ford Bronco

This modded 1973 Ford Bronco might just convert us over to lime green paint. Up for sale from the fine car-lovin' folks at Bring a Trailer, this Bronco is clad in arresting Limestone Green Metallic over a black interior, and it's got all the right bits. Not only does it…

By Amos Kwon
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Trafford Watch Co. S.O.E. Roadster

British watch lover and designer Nathan Trafford has a thing for vintage racing cars, old-school espionage, and history. And he imbues his line of S.O.E. Roadster watches with all three. Inspired by the WWII Secret Operations Executive in England, otherwise known as Churchill's Secret Army, three daring racers (William Grover-Williams,…

By Amos Kwon
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‘Patented’ Chronicles a Century of Fascinating Product and Industrial Design

Whether you're talking about beer, brutalist architecture, chairs, living on water, the universe America, coffee or just about anything else, it's a fair bet that renowned publisher Phaidon has published at least one hardcover tome on the subject. Their latest is the upcoming Patented: 1,000 Design Patents that will be released…

By Cooper Fleishman
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