Benjamin Clymer, founder of the watch website Hodinkee, has been in love with watches ever since his grandfather let him wear his Omega Speedmaster MK40 (and then gave it to him when Clymer was 16). Ian Scheffler’s snappy, colorful portrait traces Clymer’s journey from a young collector of phones and radios to a bored investment banker to a passionate watch blogger to a graduate journalism student at Columbia to the founder of a company worth more than a $100,000,000.
From the Judges
Judges noted the sharpness of the writing and exceptional clarity and tightness of the profile. Among the strongest written pieces of those submitted.
