Gary Shteyngart: Fly Away Home Gary Shteyngart describes his childhood obsessions with maps and with the toy airplane that he imagined would bring him back to his native city, Leningrad. Confessions of a Watch Geek. Gary Shteyngart is the New York Times bestselling author of the memoir Little Failure and the novels Super Sad True Love Story, Absurdistan, and The Russian Debutante’s Handbook. Watch geeks can be offered money, fame, and fortune—but for them, a well-engraved balance cock is still more important. Since the late nineteen-seventies, most watches have used a quartz movement, which is battery-powered and extremely accurate. The award-winning writer has jumped into the horological deep end and shares tales of pawn shop finds, appreciating fine movements, and the joys of the hunt. Why once-frugal author Gary Shteyngart started spending $10,000 a year on watches Published Tue, Mar 21 2017 10:05 AM EDT Updated Tue, … He's a watch collector and watch enthusiast, certainly, but he's also a world-famous, award-winning novelist who's written about watches and watch collecting, and about what watches can mean to us in a larger context. His writing has also appeared in a plethora of publications, including Travel + Leisure, Esquire, GQ, The New York Times Magazine, and The New Yorker.

Gary Shteyngart: A watch geek is a person with an unhealthy love of watches that cannot be satiated by anything else. Gary Shteyngart: A watch geek is a person with an unhealthy love of watches that cannot be satiated by anything else.

Gary Shteyngart is well known to the HODINKEE community for a reason.

Watch geeks can be offered money, fame, and fortune—but for them, a well-engraved balance cock is still more important. HODINKEE Radio Episode 2: Gary Shteyngart.