Watches, like clothing, are varied in sizes, colors, styles, materials, and a myriad of other accents and factors that make each piece unique. Here, on Unwound, we often talk about the mechanics, history, and design of watches themselves, but we don’…
Recently, we asked our friends Sid and Ann Mashburn, founders and leaders of the namesake brands and stores, to curate a Capsule Collection from Crown & Caliber. They settled on categories for their watches to create a wholistic collection in jus…
Regardless of whether a watch enthusiast is new to the hobby or has a massive collection, each of them tend to remember when and how they got into watches. There is always a particular watch that “sparks” the hobby. Maybe it was the Seamaster their g…
Today, I have some very exciting news to share with you. After eight years of building the #1 solution for buying and selling pre-owned luxury watches, Crown & Caliber has been acquired by HODINKEE, the industry leader in the world of watches. B…
Some of the world’s most popular and well-known watch brands in the world reside in Switzerland, a country whose history is rich with watchmaking. That concentration of watchmaking genius is a truly special thing, but the Swiss are hardly the only Eu…
The Tudor Black Bay 79230n - A Modern Interpretation of Vintage Styling Tudor is a special brand that has a history and heritage that many watchmakers would love to claim. Rolex founder Hans Wilsdorf created the brand in 1926, but the company has gro…
The Grand Seiko catalog is packed with so many great models that it’d take a year to cover them all. The company’s watches are versatile and are all exercises in modern designs without betraying the precision and heritage that characterizes high-end…
Video Transcription Hey everyone, it's Nathan with Crown & Caliber and today we're going to talk about the OMEGA Speedmaster Professional. Well at least for a little bit or at least in context of that watch. The OMEGA Speedmaster Professional is…
Video Transcription NATHAN: It's a new watch day. It's a new watch day. Guess what? We have a bunch of new watches. Hey guys it is Nathan with Crown & Caliber and if I was excited a couple of weeks ago because we had a new Submariner then I am e…
Video Transcription Hey everyone. So today we are back with another buying guide and in today's buying guide we are going to be looking at an entire brand. We're going to be looking at a brand from Germany. Today we are looking at Nomos. Now, there a…
Video Transcription JONATHAN: Rolling! NATHAN: Hey, it's summer, and the summer means the ocean, and the ocean means diving, and diving means dive watches. JONATHAN: We're playing a game of word association. NATHAN: Hey everyone this is Nathan with C…
Video Transcription Oh hey! I didn't see you there. Just brushing up on my Rolex terminology. And that's got me thinking. Rolex terminology is a great primer to understanding the watch industry as an individual. What I mean by that is Rolex has been…
Video Transcription NATHAN: Hey everyone its Nathan with Crown & Caliber, and today I am answering questions and I'm answering questions that you guys have asked whether it was in YouTube comments or from some of our other social channels we basi…
Video Transcription NATHAN: Hey everyone it's Nathan with Crown & Caliber, and today we have something really exciting, something fresh, something new. Today we're going to be looking at the new Black Bay Fifty-Eight Blue. How we have this new wa…
Video Transcription NATHAN: Another day another buying guide. Hey everyone, it's Nathan with Crown & Caliber. And we are back, as I said, with another buying guide, and today we are going to be looking at Cartier. Now specifically we're going to…
Video Transcription Hey everyone, its Nathan with Crown & Caliber and we are back with you guessed it another Rolex video, but let me first give some context to this video. Recently we did a video on how to speak Rolex in which we went through an…
Video Transcription Hey guys it's Nathan with Crown & Caliber, and we're back with another buying guide, but this buying guide is a little different. Today we are looking at an entire brand. Today we're going to be looking at a TAG Heuer. Now the…
Video Transcription NATHAN: Hey everyone its Nathan with Crown & Caliber and today I am answering questions. And I’m answering questions that you guys have asked. Whether it was in YouTube comments or from some of our other social channels. We ba…
Video Transcription Hey guys it's Nathan with a Crown & Caliber and what I have here is an Apple Watch Series 5 and what I have here is a 15-year-old Datejust. And for the next couple of weeks I've decided to wear this instead of this so I can gi…
Video Transcription Okay! So there is no fictional character more synonymous with watches than James Bond. He's the coolest guy on earth with the best gadgets. One of which is always a stylish, drool-worthy timepiece. And in the spirit of the new Jam…
We believe that time is best used to give back. COVID-19 has affected people on a global scale and so we created the Giving Time Auctions to help people and communities impacted by the pandemic. To do this, we auction luxury timepieces, donated by ge…
Video Transcription You know how much we love a model guide on this channel. And I'm excited to bring you this one specifically. Today we are talking about the Tudor Black Bay. And even though the Black Bay launched only a few years ago in 2012, the…
Video Transcription On this channel we talk a lot about watches. We geek out about the nerdy details. All the little intricacies that make these things so marvelous, and so marvelous in fact that Crown & Caliber was basically started to make thes…
Video Transcription So today we're talking about grail watches. Now, we see a lot of watches here and sometimes we kind of forget that a Submariner or a Carrera is a lifelong achievement for a lot of people, it is for me as well. We get to see these…
Video Transcription All right let's do this. What you need to know before picking a Submariner: take one. So here we go another video on the Submariner, but before you decide to stop watching this video has some very helpful points to navigating pick…