“Watches, Stories, and Gear” is a roundup of our favorite content, watch or otherwise, from around the internet. Here, we support other creators, explore interesting content that inspires us, and put a spotlight on causes we believe in. Oh, and any gear we happen to be digging on this week. We love gear.
Resident Evil Trailer
After the success of his last two horror films, director Zach Cregger is bringing his talents to the Resident Evil franchise. Released this week, the new trailer shows Austin Abrams as Bryan, a medical courier sent toward Raccoon City just as the T-virus outbreak begins to unfold.
Given the originality of both Barbarian and Weapons, I’m curious to see how Cregger balances the source material with something wholly his own. To keep to Cregger’s talents, this might explain why Resident Evil isn’t a direct retelling of the video game, but instead an in-universe story that takes place alongside the events of Resident Evil 2. While I’m going in fairly blind for this one, I do have one hope: that Aunt Gladys has a brief cameo.
The film is set to hit theaters September 18.
Predicting the Weather
When I was younger, I used to be obsessed with the idea of divining rods. This was mostly due to my deep conviction that I was a wizard after reading Harry Potter one summer, and because I had undiagnosed ADHD at the time. The apple tree in my backyard, which served as my wand supply, was just a bonus. In a sense, you could say I was way ahead of my time, considering this New York Times article, in which Heidi Julavits argues that, in an age of sudden, strange, and often unpredictable weather patterns, relying on a weather app can only tell part of the story.
In reality, our weather patterns continue to be skewed by rising global temperatures, wildfires, and the almost constant assault corporations wage on the natural world. Statistics and prediction-based modeling can tell us a lot, but they can’t tell the whole story. Instead, Julavits turns to natural weather forecasters, people who read clouds, wind, water, and other environmental cues to anticipate sudden storms, suggesting that what we observe around us may offer a fuller picture than relying on technology alone.
J. Crew x American Museum of Natural History
I wish I was a precocious kid – hell, I wish I was a precocious adult. I’m jealous of all those cool little Upper East Side schoolchildren you see lugging their backpacks around The Met. I’m jealous of anyone who grew up in a city and had access to all that culture in their backyard (I mean, I was excited about an apple tree, people). And don’t even get me started on the Royal Tenenbaum kids sleeping at that museum! I was sick with envy.
Even so, I guess it’s never too late to fake it. J. Crew just launched their latest collection with the American Museum of Natural History and it has some of the best gift shop-but-make-it-fashion clothes out there. Within the 20-piece collection, there’s an array of children’s clothing including apparel emblazoned with T-Rex skeletons and butterfly embroidery, as well as more vintage-inspired adult options. My personal favorite? This sweatshirt that uses the 1983 logo from the museum’s archives. Oh, and this baseball cap. And, you know what? Throw this keychain in the cart while we’re at it.
Jaeger-LeCoultre Colognes
Working as a marketing director myself, I am no stranger to embellishment or the superfluous adjective now and then. I love a good spin, a bit of grandiosity in my writing. And even still, I think the term “olfactory signatures” has to take the cake for me. But that, dear Reader, is exactly how Jaeger-LeCoultre has described their new collection of colognes, made by master perfumer, Nicolas Bonneville.
Within the collection are three scents: The Adventure Spirit (woody-spicy), The Dream Shaper (floral and leathery), and The Sound Maker (woody-rose), each inspired by the maison’s universe. While not currently for sale, the Swiss watchmakers will offer these fragrances – excuse me olfactory signatures – as special treatments for select clients and have hinted at being part of future private events, too.
From the Archives: Seiko “Monster” SRPD25
Often, the term “monster” has some pretty negative connotations. That song where everyone loves Nicki Minaj’s verse and hates Jay-Z’s. The energy drink that one woman thought was Satanic. But other than Mike Wazowski, are there any good monsters? Well, yes, there are. Seiko made one, in fact.
Fresh off Zach Kazan’s owner’s review of his Seiko Orange Monster, we went back into the archives to revisit his 2020 review of the later SRPD25. Across its iterations, much of the Monster’s charm has come from its unusual shape, shrouded bezel, and wearability, despite its chunky appearance. The SRPD25 introduced a few small upgrades, including a slightly slimmer profile, a narrower ceramic bezel, and rectangular hour markers in place of the earlier shark-tooth design, but the character of the Monster has never changed.
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