![]() I like the little things about watches that you can connect to your past, to your future, to your family. I can put meaning to anything: she’s a Scorpio, and I got the red edition. It’s a 38mm watch, cream dial, and hopefully down the line it will be hers now. My daughter was born on November 11 (11/11). Eventually I managed to get the red ‘100 Years of Bauhaus’ edition, and it just happens to be No. Each sold out, but recently there was a secret page on the Nomos website, and each day they’d put up one watch at a random time every day. They released three colors, each a limited edition and numbered out of 100. Right now I’m wearing a Nomos ‘100 Years of Bauhaus’ Limited Edition. Q: Are there any recent watches you’ve picked up that have a story behind how or why you acquired it? When you can talk to someone about a watch and you can see them light up because no one ever asks about it, I love that moment. I like the story of the watch, no matter the price point, and how they can mean so much to someone. He was super stoked about it because for 40 years, probably no one has asked him about his watch. But when I asked him to take photos of his watch, his face lit up. And you can see it in the watch: It’s beat to shit. When I was out or on tour, I’d see someone wearing a watch and just ask them ‘why are you wearing that?’ I’ve seen people wearing gold Day-Dates with a bark bezel and Presidential bracelet, all the way to one of my favorite ones: this guy in his 80s wearing a gold-plated Seiko with the alma matter of his college on the dial. They’re all stories about why people have their watches and how they’re connected to them. Modern.patina I think of as crappy photos but great stories. Q: Can you talk a bit about your Instagram account modern.patina and what it’s all about? If everything is perfect and clean it just looks like a watch someone else has. I could also tell that eventually switched out the bezel insert because there was a place where the bezel had a big chewed-up mark. ![]() It wasn’t a super clean dial, it wasn’t a total eggshell patina on the indices, it’d been polished and worn. I really like that idea of collecting vintage and spotting the little things that are very different. It’s since been sold, and I’ve seen that specific watch on a few other Instagram accounts. A lot of those dials really bubble up and get a little too chewed up, but the one I had had just a light spotting, and I liked that when I looked at that watch I could tell that it was that specific example. The watch I wore when I did Hodinkee Radio was a blue Tudor Submariner ‘Snowflake’. Q: When you’re looking for vintage watches, what is it you’re looking for that makes you want a particular watch or example? There’s that connection between the objects and their provenance that give you that little emotional connection and that flashback in your head, and you’re part of that conversation for a moment. I had a friend who was working on a song and he was using Elliott’s Smith’s acoustic guitar to write it. Like when I got to try on a quarter-million dollar Daytona - I will never own that watch, but I got that high from just being around it and talking about it - it’s the same high as being around somebody that collects guitars. When you’re at a watch meetup or hanging out with a dealer: you get that same kind of high. The crossover between the two is in the passion for the actual objects that you’re using to make the art of music or to build a collection and that high you get. One thing that connects a lot of music to watch collecting: if you talk to a musician about their guitar or their amp - for example, I remember we were recording and we were testing literally different guitars cables to see if they sounded different. Do you find any similarities between the two followings? Pop-punk bands like Motion City Soundtrack also often developed cult-like followings. I’m still talking to some of these people even though I’ve only met them once or twice. The relationships I’ve made with fellow collectors have been extremely supportive, especially now being isolated. I’ve spent the past 10-plus years collecting, researching, and buying and selling watches. As I’ve passed the 40-year-old mark, all that has led me to watches. I’ve collected poker chips, backgammon boards, vintage board games, records, Japanese toys. It’s pretty amazing the things I’ve been able to do just being a weird guy.Īs far as watches: I’ve always been a collector of everything. It’s been a crazy, fun, weird life, but it’s afforded me the opportunity to see the world. We’ve been lucky enough to tour the world, tour with awesome bands like Blink-182. ![]() We’ve put out 6 albums over the past 16-17 years. I play in a band called Motion City Soundtrack, which will either get a shrug of the shoulders, some people might think it’s cool. I’m Jesse Johnson, some people know me as Jesse Mack. Q: Let’s start with a quick introduction to you.
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