Lifestyle

Charabanc’s stencilled steel pomander, hand-spun by talented craftsmen in the West Midlands in the shape of a classic alloy wheel and capped with Spanish artisan leather, is an object of aesthetic and tactile beauty.

The New York-raised creative mastermind Matt Hranek exhibits a lust for life that’s nothing short of awe-inspiring. After kindling his career in the world of photography, he founded the William Brown Project as an online blog in the late 2000s as a means of documenting his unpredictable lifestyle. The topics varied from well-tailored clothes and great, simple food cooked outdoors to trout fishing, antiques foraging and off-the-beaten-track travel. And the blog struck a chord with like-minded men around the world, truly hitting the zeitgeist.

It was an Omega Speedmaster affixed to the wrist of his grandfather that Benjamin Clymer can attribute his lifelong passion for watches to. In 2008, he founded Hodinkee (the name deriving from ‘hodinky’, the Czech and Slovak word for wristwatch) and has expertly grown the website into an international brand, benchmark publication and thriving e-commerce platform truly at the forefront of the horological world. But as ingrained in the watch world as he is, Clymer also boasts a discerning eye for design, fashion and, of course, classic cars. We’re thrilled that he will be joining our host J.