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A God-Tier Americana Collector Shares His Trove of Vintage Field Watches

A God-Tier Americana Collector Shares His Trove of Vintage Field Watches

This is an edition of the newsletter Box + Papers, Cam Wolf’s weekly deep dive into the world of watches. It’s currently being manned by Jeremy Freed, watch writer extraordinaire, while Cam is on parental leave. Sign up here. If there is such a thing as a collector’s gene, Evan Morrison definitely has it. His office in Greensboro, NC, contains a museum’s worth of accumulated treasure ranging from antique industrial sewing equipment to WWII flight jackets to vintage bourbon. A former vintage clothing picker with a passion for classic Americana, Morrison is the proprietor of Hudson’s Hill, a Greensboro-based retailer of American-made clothing, and the co-founder of the White Oak Legacy Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving the legacy of Greensboro’s legendary Cone White Oak denim mill. He’s also one of the country’s foremost experts on Draper shuttle looms, which he uses to weave selvedge denim for Greensboro’s Proximity Manufacturing Company. Given Morrison’s proclivity for vintage clothes and machinery, as well as his tendency to go full Pokémon on his areas of interest, it shouldn’t …