Mark Cho (Founder, The Armoury & Drake's)
HODINKEE Podcasts
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4.7 • 960 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2019
⏱️ 83 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're going to be. I love people who get obsessed with things. You can tell so much about what makes |
| 0:19.3 | someone tick by the things that they just can't get out of their heads. Mark Cho is the co-owner and |
| 0:24.4 | co-proprioter of Classic Men's Wear Mecca, the Armory, and the London-based Haber Dranks. |
| 0:29.4 | He's a tough man to track down though, splitting his time between Hong Kong, London, New York, and Japan. |
| 0:34.8 | But from the beginning, we always knew he was going to end up on Houdincky radio. |
| 0:38.4 | And this week, it's finally happening. |
| 0:40.9 | Over the years, I've had the pleasure of getting a lot of text and emails from Mark that starts something like dude you got to check this out and I always know that when I swipe right I'm going to be greeted by something that's equal parts awesome and esoteric. |
| 0:52.0 | Mark knows the classic, sure, but he tends to be interested |
| 0:55.8 | in the strange variations of things that have a special story and are just a tiny bit different |
| 1:00.1 | than the thing you think you already know. On the orological side of things, he's more than a little obsessed with smaller watches, |
| 1:06.0 | even conducting a nearly thousand-person survey of risk sizes and watch preferences |
| 1:11.0 | to see if his theories were correct. |
| 1:12.0 | You've got to stick around |
| 1:13.7 | to the end of the episode to hear all about that one. We also get some tips remark |
| 1:18.0 | on the pieces of clothing that every guy should rely on, his love of Dieter Rams, and even how a silent meditation retreat may have been some |
| 1:25.1 | of the most productive time of his life. |
| 1:28.3 | I'm your host Stephen Pulverman, and this is Hcky Radio. Hey Mark, thanks for joining us. |
| 1:37.0 | Hello Stephen, how you doing? |
| 1:39.0 | And we got Kara here? |
| 1:40.0 | Hi guys. |
| 1:41.0 | Hi, hi. |
| 1:42.0 | So Mark, where did you most recently get off a plane from? |
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