J. Press’ Vintage Watches

New York Fashion Week wrapped this week, and I was lucky enough to attend a few shows, most notably J. Press, which is now under Jack Carlson’s leaderhsip. From my front-row seat, there was plenty to take in, from the Fall-Winter 2026 collection and the debut of J. Press womenswear to John Slattery from Mad Men sitting across the runway from me. But once the show started, I was more focused on the models’ wrists than anything else.

For the show, Jack Carlson worked with Eric Wind and Wind Vintage, who brought a collection of 50 vintage watches to New York for Carlson to choose from. Pieces from Rolex, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Heuer, Universal Genève, Tudor, and Dunhill found their way onto the runway, selected and paired with looks throughout the collection. Now showing his second season, Carlson’s vision for the brand is coming into focus, where his knack for worldbuilding and getting the fine details perfected continue to shine through.

Insta360 Luna Pro

I’m going to be 35 years old in two weeks and, I have to tell you, thank God I’m not any younger. I grew up at the perfect time for being online. While I’m not a digital native, I’d say I’m a digital green card holder. I’ve been online long enough to understand the lingo, but I didn’t grow up completely immersed in the culture.

Had I been, I definitely would have had a YouTube channel. And an embarrassing one at that. I would have sung on there (à la Millie Bobby Brown), tried my hand at A Day in My Life vlogs, and I can’t imagine what I would have posted while pursuing a poetry degree. I probably would have even done makeup tutorials — I shudder at the thought.

Luckily, vloggers today know that everything they put online will inevitably stick around forever, making them, for lack of a better word, media trained. So if I were ten years younger and perhaps just as fame-hungry as I am today, I’d be adding the Insta360 Luna Pro to my Christmas list this year.

Released earlier this month, the Luna Pro is a new gimbal camera co-engineered with Leica, pairing a Leica Summicron lens with a 1-inch 8K sensor. It can shoot 8K Dolby Vision video, 4K vertical video, and 4K slow motion at up to 120fps, while three-axis stabilization and AI-powered tracking help keep the subject in frame. There’s also a detachable two-inch OLED touchscreen, 47GB of built-in storage, and up to four hours of battery life.

The Luna Pro is available now in Cosmic Black and Stellar White, with the standard bundle starting at $599.99.

Nashville International Airport Renamed in Honor of Dolly Parton

If my memory of a sixth-grade standardized test serves me, Dolly the sheep, the first mammal cloned from an adult cell, was named after Dolly Parton. Rather crudely, this was because the cell used to create Dolly came from the mammary gland of a Finn Dorset sheep, and one of the researchers suggested Parton’s name because of the obvious association.

And while that’s a funny little bit of trivia, I’m very happy to hear that the late Dolly Parton may soon receive an honor much closer to home. The Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority voted unanimously to begin the process of renaming Nashville International Airport in her honor. The 6-0 vote follows a resolution from Nashville’s Metro Council requesting the name Dolly Parton International Airport, though the final name has not yet been determined, and with a few more bureaucratic hurdles to get through before the change is officially made.

In any case, I, for one, can’t wait to see what merch the local Hudson News is going to carry. 

From the Archives: Bremont’s New Direction

With Zach Kazan’s review of Bremont’s new 35mm Terra Nova Jumping Hour watches published this week, we went back to his 2025 conversation with CEO Davide Cerrato. At the time, Bremont was still working through the response to its 2024 rebrand, which brought new ownership, a new logo, and the introduction of the Terra Nova collection. Cerrato acknowledged that the launch had gone poorly with both the media and parts of the watch community, while arguing that collectors needed more time with the watches and a fuller view of the collection before judging where Bremont was headed.

A year later, Zach’s review shows how much the Terra Nova line has developed. He called the new Jumping Hour models the best watches Bremont has made since the rebrand, with the smaller cases making the aperture layouts feel more proportional and giving the montre à guichet version more of the vintage character the design had been aiming for. He also notes that the collection, viewed together now, feels far more coherent than it did at launch. Maybe Cerrato really did just need us to trust the process.

Next Weekend is Lancaster Watch Weekend

If you happen to be around and are itchin’ for a horse and buggy ride, or perhaps a game of stick-and-hoop is more your speed, bring the whole family over to Lancaster next weekend for Lancaster Watch Weekend. Returning for its second year from September 25 through 27, the three-day event brings together collectors, watchmakers, and brands across Lancaster County, which has a surprisingly deep history in American watchmaking. Hamilton was founded in Lancaster in 1892 and produced watches there for decades, helping establish the region as an important part of American watchmaking history (and a place where you can pick up really good Amish-made donuts, too).

The weekend includes an RGM open house, Horology 101 classes from the Horological Society of New York, a RedBar gathering, and the Lancaster Watch Fair at the NAWCC Museum on Sunday. This year’s fair includes Czapek, Grand Seiko, Bell & Ross, J.N. Shapiro, Seiko, Vortic, Weiss, RGM, and others, with demonstrations from RGM and Jean Rousseau also on the schedule. Some workshops and tours require advance registration, and a few are already full, so be sure to check the schedule before making the trip.