EST. 2026

A podcast about watches – and everything around them.

A podcast about watches – and everything around them.

A podcast about watches – and everything around them.

Hosted by Michael Berrios, with Noah Williams

The Show

Not another press release.

Not another press release.

Keeping Seconds looks at watches from both sides of the wrist.

Michael Berrios brings the perspective of what happens before a watch reaches your wrist – how it’s designed, developed, priced, manufactured, and brought to market.

Noah Williams approaches watches through photography, writing, style, collecting, and the way people actually experience them once they leave the brand and enter the real world.

Somewhere between those two perspectives is Keeping Seconds.

We talk about design, collecting, watch culture, business, style, and the people behind the watches.

The details matter. So do the decisions behind them. Keeping Seconds explores both.

Keeping Seconds looks at watches from both sides of the wrist.

Michael Berrios brings the perspective of what happens before a watch reaches your wrist – how it’s designed, developed, priced, manufactured, and brought to market.

Noah Williams approaches watches through photography, writing, style, collecting, and the way people actually experience them once they leave the brand and enter the real world.

Somewhere between those two perspectives is Keeping Seconds.

We talk about design, collecting, watch culture, business, style, and the people behind the watches.

The details matter. So do the decisions behind them. Keeping Seconds explores both.

Keeping Seconds looks at watches from both sides of the wrist.

Michael Berrios brings the perspective of what happens before a watch reaches your wrist – how it’s designed, developed, priced, manufactured, and brought to market.

Noah Williams approaches watches through photography, writing, style, collecting, and the way people actually experience them once they leave the brand and enter the real world.

Somewhere between those two perspectives is Keeping Seconds.

We talk about design, collecting, watch culture, business, style, and the people behind the watches.

The details matter. So do the decisions behind them. Keeping Seconds explores both.

The Hosts

MICHAEL BERRIOS

Collector, designer, and host of Keeping Seconds. Michael spent the last several years working across watch design, development, manufacturing, pricing, and product strategy, bringing a product-side perspective to the conversations on the show.

NOAH WILLIAMS

Photographer, writer, and collector with a longtime perspective on watches and personal style. Noah’s work focuses on watches, how they’re worn and photographed, and the people and stories around them.

NOW PLAYING

What Makes a Watch Wear Well?

What Makes a Watch Wear Well?

Episode Two

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.

Previous Episodes

Episode One

Why Watches Have to Be Seen in Person

Fresh off Intersect Charlotte, Michael and Noah talk about why watches often have to be experienced in person, what specs and photos can’t tell you, and how meeting the people behind independent brands can change the way you see the product.

Plus: Michael’s path from collector to watch design, the phrase “I’d buy it if…,” the idea of “buying the seller,” and the first edition of The Watch List.

KEEPING SECONDS LAB

How will it wear?

How will it wear?

A watch doesn’t wear like any one measurement. It wears like the relationship between all of them.


Start with a watch you already know — or enter its dimensions — and see which watches across the industry share its proportions.

Where to Listen

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