Keeping Seconds

Michael Berrios
  • 5.0 (3)
  • Design

Keeping Seconds is a podcast about watches — and everything around them. Hosted by Michael Berrios & Noah Williams, the show looks at watches from two different sides: how they’re designed, developed, priced, and brought to market — and how they’re actually worn, collected, photographed, discussed, and understood once they enter the real world. Expect thoughtful conversations about brands, design, collecting, watch culture, business, style, and the people shaping the industry. We don’t need to read you another press release. We’re more interested in why a watch works, why it doesn’t, and the decisions that made it what it is.

Episodes

  1. 1d ago

    Episode 3: Inside Atlanta Watch Salon

    Recorded on the drive home from Atlanta, Michael and Noah unpack a full day at Atlanta Watch Salon and the watches that stuck with them most. From Lederer’s obsession with the sound of an escapement to NORQAIN’s new Wild One Titanium, Toledano & Chan, 1776, Pragma, Grand Seiko, Atelier Wen, Mauron Musy, Lang & Heyne, Maurice Lacroix, Schwarz Etienne and more, the conversation is less about specs and more about what changes when you finally handle a watch in person. Plus: a Farer and Aquanaut wrist check, why the salon format made six-figure watches feel surprisingly approachable, the Watch List, and one idea Michael can’t stop thinking about: what a mechanical watch actually sounds like.

  2. Oct 8

    Episode 2: What Makes a Watch Wear Well?

    Why can a 41mm watch wear smaller than a 39mm one? Michael and Noah dig into the dimensions that actually shape how a watch feels on the wrist — diameter, lug-to-lug, thickness, dial depth, case architecture, weight, and more. Plus: the beginnings of a Keeping Seconds watch-wear calculator, the Wren Vessel, Omega’s latest James Bond Seamasters, and a look ahead to Atlanta Watch Salon.

  3. Oct 1

    Episode 1: Why Watches Have to Be Seen in Person

    In the first episode of Keeping Seconds, Michael Berrios and Noah Williams look back at Intersect Charlotte and use it as a jumping-off point for a bigger question: what do you actually learn about a watch when you finally see it in person? They talk about why specs and photography can only tell you so much, how meeting the people behind independent brands can change the way you see the product, and why “buy the seller” might apply just as much to microbrands as it does to the pre-owned market. Michael also shares how he unexpectedly went from Bernhardt collector to helping steward the brand, and what designing watches taught him about the phrase “I’d buy it if…" Plus: what’s on the wrist, the first edition of The Watch List, upcoming shows in Atlanta and New York, and what Michael and Noah are still thinking about this week. Keeping Seconds is a podcast about watches – and everything around them.

  • 3 Episodes

Ratings & Reviews

5
out of 5
3 Ratings

About

Keeping Seconds is a podcast about watches — and everything around them. Hosted by Michael Berrios & Noah Williams, the show looks at watches from two different sides: how they’re designed, developed, priced, and brought to market — and how they’re actually worn, collected, photographed, discussed, and understood once they enter the real world. Expect thoughtful conversations about brands, design, collecting, watch culture, business, style, and the people shaping the industry. We don’t need to read you another press release. We’re more interested in why a watch works, why it doesn’t, and the decisions that made it what it is.

Information

  • Creator
    Michael Berrios
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    3
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Michael Berrios

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