If you?ve been tuning into the 2022 Winter Olympics, and more specifically the USA Curling team holding it down at the Beijing National Aquatics Center, then you may have casually noticed that the entire team is sporting a watch from an independent brand that we have covered extensively here on the pages of W&W. And that brand is none other than Oak & Oscar. In addition to the Hardline curling brooms and Columbia branded USA jerseys, Oak & Oscar will also be a part of the USA Curling team kit, providing a special edition Team Shuster Humboldt 12-HR limited to only ten pieces.

The Humboldt 12-HR is Oak & Oscar?s offering for a durable, travel (and of course Curling) ready stainless steel sports watch. It checks all the boxes with its 200 meters of water resistance, a 12 hour rotating steel bezel to track another time zone (or the score of the bonspiel at hand) and a reliable movement in the ETA 2892-A2, all wrapped up in an easy wearing 40mm steel case. The Humboldt 12-HR, and all of the watches in the O&O catalog for that matter, have their own unique design cues such as their distinct numeral font for their hour markers and their signature orange seconds hand with an ?O? on the end, that distinguishes the look of their watches from others, and makes it even easier to spot out in the wild or on tv during an Olympic curling match.
Turning the watch over displays the Ailsa Craig granite centerpiece of the Humboldt 12-HR. The granite used in each...