Our watches are strap monsters. They're versatile and look good on almost every type of strap out there. Changing your strap will give your watch an entirely new look and feel!

Our Director of Watchmaking, Nathan, walks you through how to change your strap between our Horween leather band and our nylon strap. Enjoy! Continue reading

We love our bracelet and are pretty confident it's one of the best ones out there. We also want to make sure you know how to properly size it to your wrist so it fits perfectly—so we made a video! Continue reading

We're very excited to head out west for the 2022 Worn & Wound WindUp Watch Fair this April 22nd through April 24, 2022!

The event will be located at 511 Harrison Street in the Terra Gallery—you'll find our booth in the back by the bar, naturally. Come check us out and see the Humboldt GMT and Olmsted in the metal! Continue reading

We're beyond excited to welcome back The Horological Society of New York (HSNY) to the Oak & Oscar HQ for a weekend of watchmaking classes!

Meet us at our HQ in Chicago on April 30th or May 1st for a morning or afternoon class. We’ll talk about mechanical watch movements, studying the gear train, winding and setting mechanisms and escapement—it’ll be super fun, we promise!

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A behind the scenes look at the Humboldt GMT. 

We sat down with the Oak & Oscar team and chatted about what makes the new GMT so special and why we're so darn proud of it. Click through the watch the video!

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It's not often you'll find us getting political but we couldn't just sit around and do nothing at a time like this. 

Read more to learn how the watch came about, why we did it and how much money was raised to help support the ICRC in their efforts to fight the growing humanitarian crisis in Ukraine.

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To celebrate our partnership with Team Shuster as they defend their Olympic gold, we’re releasing an incredibly limited edition of the Humboldt 12-Hr—the same watch they’re wearing on the ice right now at the 2022 Beijing Winter Games—with a piece of a real curling stone from an Olympic competition set into the caseback.

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Before changing your strap, make sure that you're using the right springbars!

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You can't just buy watchmaking tools from the hardware store. Sometimes, you have to take the problem in to your own hands. Continue reading

The Jackson Big Eye is a classically quirky chronograph driven by the beautiful and manually wound, Swiss-made EMC 3907M with a 60 hour power reserve, column wheel, flyback reset and a stacked register at 3 o'clock that tracks both minutes and hours. The Jackson Big Eye is limited to only 50 pieces and is our first publicly available chronograph without a date. Continue reading