The Comprehensive Watches & Wonders MEGA-SODE w/ Griffin Bartsch Ep. 11 (Part 1)

(PART 1, part 2 tomorrow) The comprehensive Watches and Wonders 2026 MEGA-SODE is here! This week, Devin Pennypacker is joined by Griffin Bartsch to thoroughly breakdown this year’s watches and wonders, hitting on over 100 new watch releases from over 30 watch brands. At the end, they are challenged to draft a 5 watch team using watches from this year’s show, ultimately picking what they thought was the best release from Watches and Wonders 2026. Don't forget to let us know who won the draft!

Because this is a VERY long episode, each brand and topic is timestamped below to help you jump in and out! There is also a full video recording with reference photos if you want to follow along. Thank you so much for listening.

Watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/v_7XATforbE

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Timestamps:

0:00 Intro 

1:18 Wristcheck

4:50 Podcast Updates

7:24 Omega 

14:40 Credor

27:29 Universal Geneve

33:18 Sinn

36:28 Nivada Grenchen

40:50 Watches & Wonders

41:26 Rolex

1:15:57 Tudor

1:37:25 Ulysse Nardin

1:41:07 TAG Heuer

1:50:07 JLC

2:02:30 A. Lange & Sohne

2:10:00 Zenith

2:16:28 Cartier

2:25:00 Singer 

2:29:15 Chopard