?Watches, Stories, and Gear? is a roundup of some of our favorite watch content on Worn & Wound, great stories from around the web, and cool gear that we?ve got our eye on.
This installment of ?Watches, Stories, and Gear? is brought to you by the Windup Watch Shop.

Worn & Wound

Making a Tool Watch: A Basic Guide to ISO, DIN, and Related Industry Standards

Sometimes, the design of a watch is somewhat arbitrary, and left to the whims of whoever is in charge of finalizing a watch?s look and feel. But in the realm of serious tool watches, everything you interact with on the watch has a purpose, and the watch may have to meet certain technical standards to be properly classified as a pilot?s watch, for example. In this week?s Watches, Stories, and Gear, we?re bringing you a story originally published nearly two years ago, in which contributor Oren Hartov takes us through the ins and outs of how tool watches get certified by the various standards organizations that control such things. It?s a good reminder that there?s a reason your watch has a particular resistance against magnetism, and why that running seconds hand could actually save your life.  Read it here

 

The Ringer

The Jordan VHS Collection
Last week, ESPN started airing The Last Dance, their long anticipated documentary about the final championship run of Michael Jordan?s Chicago Bulls. Any basketball fans who are old enough to remember this period are sure to get a major hit of nostalgia over t...