Why WristBuzz exists
I've been collecting watches for years and every morning followed the same ritual: open Hodinkee, then Fratello, then Monochrome, then Worn & Wound, then Time+Tide, then SJX, then Quill & Pad, then a couple of YouTube channels, then back to my email. Fourteen tabs. Different layouts. Same handful of releases reported in slightly different ways.
I built WristBuzz because I wanted what didn't exist: one feed, one layout, hourly updates, every important publication in one place. No subscriptions, no popups, no auto-playing videos asking for my email. Oh, and a bunch of fun video channels alongside it as well, because watch life can't be serious all the time.
"A watch-enthusiast site, made by a watch enthusiast who got tired of bouncing between fourteen tabs every morning."
If a piece of news shows up across multiple publications, you see it once with the source clearly marked. If a brand has a dedicated brand page, you can jump straight there. Same with the iconic-watch deep dives, the wiki, and the comparison pieces I've put together over time. Everything cross-links, nothing is paywalled.
How it works
Every hour a small script pulls the public RSS / Atom feeds from each source publication, deduplicates against what's already on file, extracts the headline, source, hero image, and snippet, then writes the result to a single JSON store. The homepage reads that JSON and renders cards.
YouTube videos work the same way: a daily script walks the channel feeds for each curated channel and writes them to a videos store. Click a video card and it opens in an embedded player on the page, no jump to YouTube needed.
No personal data is stored. There's no login, no newsletter, no signup wall. The "Trending this week" strip on the homepage logs anonymous click counts only (no IPs, no cookies) and resets weekly.
Working with the publications, not against them
This site is built to send readers to the original sources, not pull them away from them. Everything you read here points back to the publication that wrote it.
Every article on WristBuzz is fetched from a publication's own public RSS or Atom feed, the feeds these publications publish for exactly this purpose. We pull the headline, hero image, source name, and a short snippet of the opening paragraph (the same preview the publication itself ships in the feed), then link straight to the original article on the publisher's domain. Clicking a card opens the source's own page; that's where the body, photography, comments, ads, and any subscription pitches live. The full article isn't reproduced here, ever.
The same goes for videos: every clip is embedded with YouTube's official iframe player on the no-cookie domain, which gives the channel owner full credit, view count, and ad revenue. We don't re-host any video. Click "Watch on YouTube" or hit the channel name and you go straight to their channel.
All trademarks, logos, photography, and editorial copy belong to their respective owners. We use brand names and a small descriptive line to organise content; we don't sell merchandise, we don't run sponsored content, and we don't accept payment from any brand or publication for placement. Every WristBuzz card is purely chronological by publish time.
If you're a publisher and you'd rather not be aggregated, drop us a line via the contact form below. Your source gets removed from the index and the existing articles get pulled. We'd rather not have you on board than have you irritated. Same for any individual article a brand wants taken down: we honour it without questions.
Get in touch
Spotted a publication that should be added? A brand page that's wrong? A wiki entry that needs a correction? Just want to say hi? Drop a note. Replies usually within a couple of days.