The shorter, colder days of fall mean less daylight. Our advice? Invest in a quality timepiece to live each day to the fullest. This season, we plan to use our cell phones less and our watches more. We challenge you to do the same. Below you’ll find a roundup of our 10 favorite men’s and […]
Tag: Watches
Introducing The Petoskey Stone Collection
The Petoskey stone is a unique fossilized rock found exclusively along the shores of Lake Michigan. Millions of years and ice ages ago, Michigan was covered with warm sea water and living coral, which eventually turned into the petrified Petoskey stones found today. Hard to spot and very collectible, the legend of these stones have made them […]
How to #MyShinola with Hayden Stinebaugh
#MyShinola is one of the ways we get to view our watches in action after they’ve left our factory. Show us where your timepiece has traveled by tagging your photos with #MyShinola on Instagram and Twitter, and we’ll repost our favorites to our own channels. To give you some inspiration, we asked Detroit-based photographer Hayden Stinebaugh to share some tips […]
THE FIRST LADY OF DRAG RACING: INTERVIEW WITH SHIRLEY MULDOWNEY
Shirley Muldowney, a living legend, was an American auto racer and the first woman to receive a license from the National Hot Rod Association to drive a Top Fuel Dragster. A hallmark of femininity in a male-dominated sport, she was known professionally as “Cha Cha” or the “First Lady of Drag Racing”. Shirley’s perseverance and […]
A Summer Wedding Watch Look with Shinola
It’s up to the bride if she plans to follow the charming ritual of wearing “something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue”. Earlier this month, Detroit-based photographer Ali Lapetina chose to wear a watch on her big day—Shinola’s Canfield with Diamonds 32mm. Catch a glimpse of her Detroit wedding style below. “I wear […]
Introducing the Bedrock Timepiece
The Bedrock is our first dress watch collection featuring a clean, crisp design. Now offered with a chronograph function for split-second precision, choose from the Chrono’s Argonite 5020 high-accuracy Quartz movement or the classic Argonite 1069 Quartz movement. Shop all new styles from this collection below. The clean design of the classic Bedrock, with the forest green […]
Our Watch Factory: It All Started with a Movement
The quartz analog movement that makes our flagship timepiece tick is made up of 40 delicate components and requires 16 steps to build. It’s called the Argonite 1069, and it’s the caliber—or tiny engine—that taught us how to be Shinola. All Shinola watches are built in the U.S. with Swiss and other imported parts. Elements […]
Say Nice Things About Detroit: The Story of Emily T Gail
Emily T Gail might not have a Detroit address anymore, but she’s arguably more of a Detroiter than most. The creator of the famous 1970s movement “Say Nice Things About Detroit,” — and the inspiration for our newest watch — now lives more than 4,000 miles away in Kailua-Kona Hawaii. Distance has not stopped her […]
5 New Women’s & Men’s Watches of the Season
This new year brings new watch styles into play. Whether you have one of our watches yet or not, this list is a good starting point with different watch and strap options for you to explore. Let us know what you think of the new color combinations and don’t forget about our Willard Program, where […]
Men’s Lookbook with The Everyday Man
Glasgow is the biggest city in Scotland and one of the most up-and-coming places to live and visit in Europe. Our watches and leather goods can now be found here inside Glasgow’s popular 18Montrose shop, in addition to our London store. We asked lifestyle blogger John Robertson from The Everyday Man to style a few of his favorite products for his […]