Talking Watches With Massimo Frascella, Head Of Design At Jaguar And Land Rover 

This guy is great! Spent 10 years with one watch before he made the plunge into collecting, and he still maintains that modesty through refined design and meaningful choices.

This is what talking watches should be, not whatever the last one was!

I’m still waiting for a guest who whips out a HODINKEE Travel Clock and proclaims it to be the pinnacle of their collection

Great job getting Talking Watches back on track Cole! 👍

What a beautiful collection. So nice his wife supports him and buys him watches!!

I would love to watch the full uncut interview, because that looked like a real watch collection with a little something for everyone, loved it

Fantastic interview by Cole! He really did his homework on Jaguar & Land Rover. I appreciate the monotone voice and precise questions. Thank you for this insightful interview with Massimo! Bravo!

Cole always does such a great job on these.

Could be my favourite episode to date. So cool to listen to a designer talk about others' designs.

I love that he loves simplicity. There is a true elegance with the simplicity of every piece which is just sweet and beautiful…

This was a great episode. Well done for getting back to the original idea. No more of that garbage from last week, please.

What a fantastic episode of talking watches. Great guest and as always, Cole has done a great job. Can’t wait for the next!

Fantastic. Just Two collectors talking real watches. And not in their pajamas. Great job Cole.

A great conversation. You can really tell the theme of simplicity and purpose throughout the collection as well as in the cars he designs. Certainly one of the most influential designers of our time. In a way the Defender and Range Rover are the Submariners of the car industry.

Talking watches is back on track! Great to see someone with passion and personal style 👍🏻

If Hodinkee is remembered for nothing else, ‘talking watches’ should be it. There are other, very good YT watch channels with similar segments, but Honinkee executes personal interviews to perfection. For this one in particular, I love how a guy who spends his time and talents designing machines with hundreds, if not thousands, of moving parts and probably 4 different internal computer systems, has a watch collection whose theme seems to be - simplicity executed to perfection.

Very sweet guy. Love the variety of this collection. Cole always does a tremendous job. So sincere and genuine.

Great interview. Its refreshing to hear a guest who can passionately describe his watches along with the story of how he bought it.

Great episode. Cole has a wonderful interview style that allows the interviewee to talk instead of the interviewer dominating the conversation.

It's awesome to see him sketching on a pad with pens.

Always an impeccable job from Cole! One of the best Talking Watches 👏 This is 100% Hodinkee

This was a brilliant episode! Great to see a proper talking watches again

Gotta respect a man who has respect for seiko and their ingenuity

Tag Heuer Kirium was my first nice watch also. Blue dial on bracelet and i wore it for 15 years straight as my only watch.

I could listen to this gentleman all day,very well spoken with a collection befitting his status and personality

I really like Massimo’s taste in watches. The simple and easy-to-read dials are what I gravitate towards. Also, the movement of the second hand on that Grand Seiko was so smooth. No downgrading from Alton Brown if he sees you wearing that one.

Excellent episode, really enjoyed this. Thanks guys!

thanks for bringing it back cole

Best Talking Watches in a long while!

Fascinating! Love the series keep ‘em coming .

Excellent episode, beautiful collection. Love how it started with a Tag

My favorite series! Please make more!

Really enjoyed Mr Frascella & his collection. Very tasteful and personal.

Loved this episode. Bravo Cole!

What an amazing collection

What a collection! Great episode

Great episode! Really enjoyed this one 👍

Great Video ! We however would love to see the full uncut video! I can see many watches like a Seiko Alpinist and a Zenith around 2:10 and I think discussions on those watches would have been great :)

The perfect example of how to enjoy watches to their fullest.

TW is back! Great collection, love that Tag and the Calatrava, oh and that double logo Snowflake is so pretty!

Stoked to watch this, great to see a variety of brands/styles instead of 40 Rolexes (though that's fun sometimes to)--thanks for the vid!

Great episode!

Can we get a Part 2 to go thru the whole collection? This was great. Nice job by everyone.

Loved all the different buying stories, the way it should be...

Why is Cole's voice so soothing?

Probably the best talking watches excluding the John Mayer ones 👍🏻 Well done team!

Wonderful episode!

One of the best episodes ever.

Now THAT's a Talking Watches. Well done.

An instructive collection to guide a new enthusiast.

This is classy gentleman with good taste. Even his shirt and jacket have the right stance and proportions, and his pocket square is arranged nicely. You can tell this is a man who likes simplicity but also appreciates subtle details. I think he also might appreciate some of the simpler recent Tudors and possibly some classic Cartiers. He is evidently drawn to strong, simple and distinctive design language, which makes sense given his job designing iconic vehicles. We share a lot in common in our design sensibility. I also have 2 Unimatics, a steel Rolex diver (D Blue), Panerai Luminor, field watches and a few others in my collection (some JLCs, Breitling, and Omega Moonwatch, etc.) APRO and GS with Spring Drive are also high on my wishlist, although sadly, PP now seems out of reach! No matter the price point, I also want to collect watches that have a strong design language and ideally, are iconic. These will never go out of style.

Awesome episode. Love it

2:28 - Look how beautiful that vintage Submariner is, against the gnarly looking new version!

Interesting episode as in the past... & ... great to see Cole Pennington again !

With the Defender JLR are going through their quartz phase.. best tech for telling time but hey not what our hearts want. Like many I’ve both. Love my quartz daily wear but my heart with the auto mechanical that hasn’t changed in 50 years.

Land Rover and Rolex are similar I always think in that decades ago they made tool watches or tool vehicles... nowadays they may luxury watches and luxury cars.

Un designer italiano dal buon gusto tutto italiano. Collezione varia, ponderata e di gran pregio.

Wow that seiko monopusher is incredible! State is incredible

Interesting no mention of the Bremont Jaguar collaboration. Thought that certainly would've been brought up.

That Patek at 16:58 is scary tight on his wrist lol

Once again HODINKEE. Great video however toooooo short. There were at least another 20 pieces I’d like to know more about

I really wish this was longer going through each watch on the table.

Great episode. He should get the original domed crystal for his explorer. The boxed service crystals diminish the beauty of the 1016 a little.

Loved it 😍

I like Massimo Frascella watch collection. The Tag Heuer Kirium is one of my favorite watches, I think is one of the most beautiful watches ever designed. I like Massimo Rolexes, The IWC Grand Pilot, the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak, and the Grand Seiko.

The collection here is winning

that patek was beautiful

we will miss you cole

Brave of Cole Pennington to venture into Coventry! When German bombers blitzed the city during WW2 it was estimated afterwards that the raids had caused 10s of £ millions worth of improvements.......))) There's also a saying in the UK that someone can be "Sent to Coventry" - meaning that no one should talk to them, and everyone should act like they no longer exist..... Enough said)) Nevertheless, a really good episode of Talking Watches with a great guest, a very likeable genuine guy with interesting stories, told with passion about the hobby. Kudos to Cole for knowing to sit back to allow Massimo to talk about his watches and the history behind them. Nice to see an episode from outside the US, and a good one at that!

That's a great collection. Too bad they did not have time to talk about other watches in his collection. Great episode anyway.

Cole's real calling in life is being an ASMR artist

GS Forever Baby!

Nice collection, only missing a Casio

Great watches.

Cool episode.. makes me shed a tear of pure sadness that times where you could walk into AP boutique, ask if they have something you can walk out with, and they actually do, are gone and likely never to return 😢

I was really expecting to see the Bremont Jaguar collection in here.. I guess he didn’t get any discount.

Cole you need to create some audiobooks. I'd pay double.

Let’s get more of these types of stories over pop stars

Great collection. The coolest watches he had, however, were, by far, not the most expensive.

thoughts on the new defender body style??

I wanted to see every watch on that table

I love ware on that AP

Is that the new LR Defender? So it is not just another Land/Range Rover? Wow! Would've never guessed that: paused to see that's what is written on the hood!

About time Grand Seiko got some shine on TW.

He didn’t bring back the defender, he destroyed it 😭

Interestingly enough the IWC has kind of a 44 GS case!🤩

We like this.

A P(iece) of art. Loved that one :)

Nice varied collection. Glad it wasn't just a parade of Rolexes.

Sad! Not all the watches were shown

Simplicity, not complexity, is a sign of good design

Ahh there were so many other amazing watches on the table. This one could have gone another 5-10 mins. Missed opportunity :(

Only this guy and Howie Kendrick really have good watch collection not a boring Rolex or AP watch collection what you mostly see in Hodinkee.

why did you destroy the legacy of Landrover Defenders?

Great, and I own a 05 XJ8 which gets more compliments than my Bentley. I own two Jags........

I saw the title and I was like "Hmm, he might have some interesting takes..." And then boom! The GS Snowflake in the first shot hahah I was right

You need a Seiko Alpinist

Excited to see more obscenely wealthy people show off their trophies. This hobby has become nothing more than the ability to buy whatever is respected at any given time.

Didn't Cole leave HODINKEE?

Mannnn - why is there like 100 watches on the table and you only talk 10 of them?