As much as we love and lust after Swiss-made timepieces, you have to applaud a company that chooses to bring manufacturing jobs to the good old U.S. of A., and that’s why we’re happy to see that legendary designer Oscar de la Renta has picked Detroit-based watchmaker Shinola to make his latest line of fashion watches.
Shinola, known in the past for their shoe polish, has hit the market hard in the last year and has created quite the buzz since. Building handmade bicycles, leather goods and now watches, Shinola is bringing back the term “Built In The United States”. With the recent craze over the new American brand, we had to experience it for ourselves. I put in a request for The Runwell 47mm,...