Erik & Max are coming in hot this week, discussing our top 3 watches which have most fallen from grace in their contemporary iterations as opposed to the original vintage flavor, a discussion which holds no punches. No institution is safe, with assaults on every house from Rolex to Patek, AP, and everything in between. We cool down in the form of a chat around the differences between US and European watch culture, and why we spent the early part of this century catching up. Finally, our first listener-submitted Only Wrist that gets hilariously dark. Buckle up. 

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https://hairspring.com/finds/orange-boy-11630-heuer-autavia/

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