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This Week in Style and Gear: A Watch That Chimes, a Coat Worth Queuing For, and G-SHOCK Goes Analog

Pinstripe Staff
By Pinstripe Staff
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A camel car coat, a folded denim jacket, two watches and skincare bottles on a walnut table by a window

Five stories that earned a second look this week: a wristwatch built to be heard, a car coat you could only buy in person, the toughest watch in the business learning to dress up, two workwear classics given a leopard bite, and a four-step grooming routine with roots south of the border.

Each item below is summarized in Pinstripe's own words from the original reporting, with a link back to the source so you can read the full story and see the brands' own photographs. Every link here is a plain link to the original story. Pinstripe has no affiliate tags on these links and received nothing for including them.

1. Audemars Piguet builds a watch that chimes

Illustration of an intricate mechanical watch movement with polished gongs on a watchmaker's bench
Illustration: inside a chiming movement — gongs, gears and patience.

Audemars Piguet opened November with sound. On November 2 the house added three Minute Repeater Supersonnerie watches — two Royal Oaks and one Code 11.59 — built around its patented acoustic system, in which the gongs are anchored to a dedicated soundboard instead of the mainplate so the chime carries louder and clearer. All three run the hand-wound Calibre 2953, with a small seconds counter at six o'clock and a 72-hour power reserve, and all three are sold only through the brand's own boutiques in restricted numbers, because the acoustic tuning is slow, manual work.

The two Royal Oaks wear 42 mm cases with the familiar octagonal bezel and integrated bracelet: one in titanium with a smoked green sunburst dial at 351,100 Swiss francs, the other in pink gold — a first for this line — with a brown Grande Tapisserie dial at 391,400 francs. The Code 11.59 chiming watch comes in white gold with a smoked sapphire dial that lets the movement show through, at 325,000 francs. Alongside them, two quieter 38 mm Code 11.59 models put natural stone on the dial: gold obsidian in a yellow-gold case at $57,500, and black onyx with diamond hour markers in pink gold at $68,500, both on the Calibre 5909 with 60 hours of reserve.

The Pinstripe read: almost nobody reading this will buy a chiming watch, and that is not the point. The point is the direction of travel at the top of the ladder — complications you experience rather than photograph, and materials chosen for how they look in low light. Aspiration is a legitimate beat for a men's magazine, and this is the reference end of it. For the watches most men will actually wear this winter, start with our guide to the best everyday watches under $500. Read the full launch report at Robb Report.

2. Palace meets Burberry — and you had to be there

Illustration of a man in a honey-beige car coat and check scarf outside a London storefront with stained-glass windows
Illustration: the car coat goes home — beige, checked, and only sold in one shop.

On Thursday, November 5, Palace opened its new London flagship at 8 Poland Street in Soho — and marked the day with a joint capsule with Burberry, sold in person at that one shop only, with no online release reported. The capsule runs to roughly ten pieces. The lead item is the Camden car coat in honey beige, finished with a screen-printed graphic drawn from the British countryside. Around it: a cashmere scarf in the Burberry Check carrying both brands' marks, and a run of House Check pieces — a cap, a shirt, short- and long-sleeved T-shirts, a hooded jacket and a skateboard deck — plus a polo shirt embroidered with a Poland Street graphic, the only piece that names the new shop directly. Neither brand announced prices ahead of the launch.

Palace also released a separate London line built around the number 8 from the shop's address, headlined by a Gore-Tex jacket. The shop itself replaces the old Brewer Street store, runs over two floors, and takes its design cues from the British Museum and church stained glass.

The Pinstripe read is about the coat. Strip away the collaboration heat and the headline piece is a beige car coat — the same quiet, single-breasted shape this magazine keeps recommending as the backbone of a winter wardrobe, here blessed by both a skate institution and a heritage house at once. When two brands this different agree on a garment, the garment is the story. Our own case for building the wardrobe around one strong coat is in the complete guide to the pinstripe standard. Read the full release breakdown at Soleback's summary of the Hypebeast reporting.

3. G-SHOCK goes full analog

Illustration of two octagonal analog watches, one black resin and one full metal, on concrete
Illustration: the octagon, cleaned up — hands only, no digital window.

G-SHOCK's newest line, the 2500 Series, launches in Singapore on November 7 — and the headline is what is missing: there is no digital display. Inspired by the original DW-5000C of 1983, the series keeps the octagonal silhouette but softens its edges, streamlines the dial and tells the time with hands alone. Under the cleaner face sit a three-cell Multi-Mission window at three o'clock that can switch between date, mode and stopwatch minutes, a fully automatic calendar good through 2099, and a shock-release hand structure that uses a magnetic hold to absorb impacts instead of fixing the minute hand rigidly to its shaft.

The ladder is simple. The full-resin GAC-2500 starts at $189 in Singapore pricing, in black, dark green, white and yellow. The G-STEEL GMC-2500 pairs a metal exterior with a resin strap from $349, and the full-metal GMC-2500D tops the range at $449 with a matching bracelet, in black or blue dials. It is the same trade-up logic, at everyday money, that the Audemars Piguet story above runs at the reference end.

The Pinstripe read: an analog G-SHOCK is the beater watch grown up — the one you can wear under a cuff without the outfit turning sporty. If you are building the kit it travels in, our everyday carry guide shows where a watch like this earns its place. Read the full launch details at Great Deals Singapore.

4. Two workwear classics get a leopard bite

Tokyo label WACKO MARIA's latest FW26 delivery folds in two American outerwear institutions at once: a Lee Denim Storm Rider and a Wrangler Corduroy Wrange Jacket, both dropping November 7 at WACKO MARIA stores, stockists and the label's online store with worldwide shipping. The design discipline is restraint. Each jacket keeps its heritage pattern — the cuts, the hardware, the fabrics — and takes its edit at the collar and the cloth.

The Storm Rider comes in black and indigo denim with brass buttons, its usual collar swapped for leopard-print pile that also lines the inside of the front placket, so the print flashes when the jacket is worn open. The Wrangler moves to cotton corduroy: a black version with copper snaps, oversized patch pockets and a wide leopard pile collar, and a beige counterpart that flips the formula — leopard-print corduroy all over, grounded by a solid black pile collar. Hypebeast's report quotes no prices, so none are quoted here.

The Pinstripe read: this is how a collaboration should work — the guest label brings one unmistakable signature and leaves the host's bones alone. A leopard collar is a lot of personality confined to exactly the right square inches; worn with plain trousers and a plain knit, either jacket is a complete outfit decision. Pieces like these are also why the season's gift lists reward a second look before the holidays — start with the 2026 holiday wish list. Read the full story at Hypebeast.

5. A four-step routine with Latin roots

The grooming story of the week is a system, not a gadget. Setú Personal Care for Men — a dermatologist-developed skincare line co-founded by Ricardo Aranda and his sister, board-certified dermatologist Dr. Jennifer Aranda — marked its New York debut in a November 5 announcement covering its Brooklyn launch and its role as the official men's skincare brand of NYFW United, where attendees received kits of the complete routine.

The routine is four color-coded steps with Spanish names: LÁVATE, a daily cleanser; PROTÉGETE, a vitamin C serum; RECUPÉRATE, an eye cream; and HIDRÁTATE, a night cream. The formulas pair dermatological development with botanicals sourced from across Latin America — moringa, yerba mate, camu camu, açaí, maca, guaraná and achiote among them. The line is sold in the United States through the brand's own site and Amazon. Consistent with how this magazine covers grooming, we are describing the routine and its ingredients as the brand presents them — what any product does for a given man's skin is a question for his dermatologist, not a headline.

The Pinstripe read: the men's grooming shelf has spent years selling either a single miracle jar or a twelve-step ritual nobody keeps. A numbered, color-coded four-step routine a man can actually remember — cleanse, protect, recover, hydrate — is the same systems thinking we apply to a wardrobe or a carry kit, applied to the bathroom shelf. For the hardware side of recovery, see our wellness tech gift guide. Read the full announcement at EIN Presswire.

That is the week: listen for the chime, respect the coat, let the beater watch dress up, keep the leopard at the collar, and run the routine in order. Next Friday, the same roundup returns with the stories that mattered — and the ones worth skipping.

Sources & further reading

These summaries were written in Pinstripe's own words from the reporting linked below. Follow the links for the full stories, specifications and photographs.

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