Spokane, WA & the Inland Northwest
A GMT watch on wrist, warm amber light, olive NATO strap
A personal journal

Watches, basalt, and the backroads between.

Notes on watches from someone who spends most weekends somewhere in the scablands or the Selkirks — where the wrist shots have a lot more rock in the background than studio light.

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Sam Read at a basalt outcrop
Sam Read
I got into watches the same way I got into rocks — by paying too much attention to things most people walk past.

This is a personal record of events that overlap: watches worth writing about, and the Pacific Northwest places they end up going with me — basalt coulees, alpine lakes, logging roads that shouldn't be attempted in the car I attempted them in.

If you want the shorter version, it's on Instagram @basaltandbezel.

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