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Farer’s Lander IV features a beautifully-reflective sea-green sunray dial with highly legible digits and Super-LumiNova for nighttime visibility. It has a precise Sellita SW330-2 movement with a 56-hour power reserve, date functionality, and a see-through back. A luxurious St Venere leather strap completes the sophisticated look.

Based on how we pack, this spacious weekender bag would probably hold enough clothes for four or five days. It’s got 33 liters of storage capacity, plenty for multiple pants, shirts, underwear, and socks. The bag is made from lightweight Dyneema with mil-spec webbing and long-wearing Hypalon handles.

Casio celebrates 30 years of its Master of G FROGMAN with a special watch inspired by the tiny but deadly poison dart frog. The 200-meter diver’s watch has a carbon monocoque chassis, a red, black, and blue striped bezel, and a black dial with bold red markings. Its band is speckled with polarized ink to mimic the frog’s skin.

This limited-edition of the skeletonized Bell & Ross BR 05 watch looks fantastic with a warm golden hue across its face. Its multilayered approach lets you see through its sapphire crystal to its rhodium-plated mechanism. Just 500 of the watches will be made, with either a rubber strap or steel bracelet for $500 more.

At just 1.9 mm thick, the Stealth Boost is the slimmest wallet we’ve ever seen. It’s made from an incredibly durable material called UHMWPE which won’t tear or stretch and repels water. It’ll hold up to eight cards and paper currency and protects from RFID scanning.

Accutron’s 1960s Astronaut was the watch of choice for CIA agents working on the A-12 spy plane. This new automatic version does away with the finicky electric mechanism of the original and looks awesome in black and silver. It has a 56-hour power reserve, a sapphire crystal, and Super-LumiNova markings. Limited to 300 pieces.

The latest everyday belt from Arcade Belts features a new buckle system that’s easier to feed through belt loops and offers a comfortable contoured fit. Like their other models, the belt’s performance webbing stretches and moves with you, and its buckle is metal-free so you don’t have to take it off at TSA checkpoints.

Process X takes us inside the Ishii Sports shoe factory to see how artisans create boots by hand. Each shoe starts by cutting shapes out of leather, refining its edges, then gluing and stitching the pieces together, adding lace rivets, and nailing it around a wooden form before sewing on its insole and attaching the layers of its sole.

Watch shop IFLW and The Dial Artist create customized timepieces by meticulously hand-painting their dials and markers. Among their collection of bespoke G-SHOCK models is this see through “Jellyfish” analog/digital watch with rainbow markings and bezel lettering. It also comes in black or full metal.

Gerber’s hyper-minimal wallet consists of a stainless steel frame and an elastic strap. It holds up to seven cards and/or paper currency, and has a built-in bottle opener. Its bottom edge has a built-in bumper to align cards and keep them from falling out.

Chrome’s latest camera backpack is ready to carry and protect your photography gear in the field. Its side- and top-access main compartment has modular dividers for holding a large camera, lenses, or a drone. It’s got room for a 15″ laptop in its padded sleeve, and multiple pockets for organizing small accessories.

Leather and other textile-based wallets look nice, but they wear out over time. If you want a wallet that will last decades, consider a metal wallet. Everyday Carry picked eight of the best metal wallets you can buy, from the rugged, skeletonized Trayvax Contour to the sleek and minimal Machiner Era Co. Ti5 titanium wallet.

The Timex Expedition North TW2V22200 is loaded with features for outdoor activities. The watch has an analog compass, a thermometer, a tide tracker that counts down to low or high tide, and INDIGLO lighting. Its nautical display is set into a stainless steel case with a dark green strap. It also comes in grey/blue.

This rugged bag is perfect for carrying everyday accessories and has space for a 13″ laptop or pro-series tablet. It’s made from waxed canvas with full-grain leather trim with metal hardware. It has an interior zipper pouch and two 6″ pockets for carrying notepads, phones, or external hard drives. Nutsac also makes a 15″ version.

The buttons on our clothing are one of those things we take for granted. But it’s somebody’s job to make them for us. All of World Process takes us inside of a factory that cranks out buttons by the thousands. They pour liquid plastic into tubes or sheets, slice or cut out button shapes, then drill and tumble them until shiny.

New Zealand’s Wētā Workshop takes us behind the scenes to look at the incredible costume work that went into Avatar: The Way of Water. The outfits took an average of 200 hours each to create, and artists applied over a million beads. Each real-world costume was then digitized for use on CGI character models.