Welcome to episode two of the Gray Nado, a loose discussion of travel, adventure, diving, gear, and most certainly

watches.

I'm Jason Heaton, a Minneapolis-based freelance writer for a number of gear, travel,

and timepiece publications, including Gear Patrol, Hodinke, Revolution, and Men's Journal.

And I'm James Stacy.

Base in Vancouver, I call myself a professional enthusiast.

I write about watches, cars, and almost anything that catches my eye for a blog to watch.

Com, Nuvovo magazine and more.

Today our main topic is origin stories. We're basically going to discuss where we got our

start in watches. It's kind of the common thing that comes up at a cocktail

party or you know a get-together with other watch guys and gals and I think it's

something that is probably best covered in an early episode of the Grey NATO so

Jason where did you where did you kind of get into watches what led you to watches and

how long has this been you know essentially some sort of a problem in your life as far as your love of watches?

Yeah this feels like a therapy session. No doubt. You know I was wore a watch. I'm sort of a I was a teenager in the 1980s and I always had sort of cheaper watches time X

Iron Man's and and Cassios and things like that but there was one point in the

mid-80s when my friends and I used to that

but there was one point in the mid-80s when my friends and I used to as teenagers or want to do hang out at the mall and I remember

walking by a jewelry store there and there was there was this big steel dive watch in the window and

it was a Pepsi bezel you know the red and blue bezel it was it was a seaco and

I'm not sure exactly which reference it was it might have been one of the

seven zero zero two references but at that time it was just so different from anything I'd

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