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FRAZIER THARPE Senior associate editor, GQ US Growing up in the ’90s, Frazier Tharpe witnessed Beyoncé Knowles-Carter’s meteoric rise from girl-group member to solo star. To prepare for his cover interview with Beyoncé, he rewatched her documentaries. “The recurring theme for the last 10 years has been her commitment to pushing past her limits,” he says. Office Grails…

RIGHT NOW, the only thing standing between me and vacation is writing this editor’s letter. And I have to confess: Filling up this page is the hardest part of my job every month. When I started my career in magazines, in my head I was a writer. I remember thinking: If I can figure out how to pay my landlord (and the bartender) by writing, I will be the happiest man alive. Magazines were the obvious place to do that. Really, the only place as far as I could tell. So after scoring an internship at a music magazine called The Fader two weeks before graduating from college, I got busy writing. Here’s how it happened: In week two of that unpaid internship, I marched up to the editorial director…

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FOR TOMMY CABRERIZO, a Miami-based collector, landing one of his dream watches from Richard Mille was just the start of the fun. Soon after, Cabrerizo found himself deep in the wormhole of authorized dealers and secondary market sellers to find the perfect complement to his new timepiece. Because, when it comes to a watch, the bracelets and straps can be just as important, historic, and beautifully designed as the head. “It’s part of the chase,” Cabrerizo says. “The same way I was excited to receive the RM 67-02, there’s that same buildup leading up to getting the straps—that same high.” Cabrerizo is already planning a trip to Geneva, mapping out how he’ll come home with a few extra bands. To get any of RM’s coveted straps—which come in fabric and rubber…

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“OLD CARS ARE beautiful, but they’re not functional,” Rob Howard told me one day this spring. “People don’t really elect to admit it, that they’re a pain in the ass. And you tend to find reasons not to drive them.” Howard isn’t immune to their charms, to be sure: He has a small collection of cars he tinkers with, including a 1957 Chevy Bel Air wagon and an ’88 Toyota Land Cruiser. But to commute to and from work, he admitted, he drives a Rivian R1T electric truck. It’s just easier. We were speaking in his office, not far from San Francisco, surrounded by beautiful old cars in the process of being made functional. Howard is the founder and CEO of a small but growing company called Kindred Motorworks, which…