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Hey, it's me James Stacy and this episode of Hodinke Radio was inspired by a story that Nick,

R. E.P. of content, recently wrote about why modding watches is so uncommon within the greater

scope of the watch industry.

Wanting to dig deeper into this interesting topic,

I invited Nick and recent Talking Watches guest Cooper Zelnick on the show to chat about it.

Cooper is the founder of Cloister Watchco, a brand that modifies vintage watches in a manner that

reimagined designs that might have been.

We chat about the world of watch mods, OEM customization, the value of customization in luxury goods, and even a few wish list modifications

that we'd love to see become a reality on some of our favorite watches.

Who knows, maybe we'll change or modify your mind on the topic.

Let's find out.

All right, Nick, Cooper, thank you so much for being on the show.

I'm really looking forward to this.

Hey, James, great to be here with you.

Thanks for having me.

Nick, I think we need to start with a little bit of background just in case somebody hasn't

read your post about watch customization or hasn't, for whatever reason seen Cooper's lovely talking watches that you guys both did.

Once you give people a little bit of background on what brought us to this kind of controversial

but largely kind of accepted concept of like why

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