Welcome to episode 4 of the Grey NATO, a loose discussion of travel, adventure, diving, gear, and most certainly watches.

I'm James Stacy based in Vancouver.

I call myself a professional enthusiast and I write about watches, cars, and almost anything else that catches my eye

for a blog to watch.com, newvo magazine, and more.

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

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

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description and you can see all those sweet sweet links and with that housekeeping out of the way

let's move on to the main topic.

You know James the elephant in the room is Basel World

and actually as this podcast goes live on Tuesday

you and I will be winging our way to Switzerland for a week or more of meetings and

events with a lot of watch brands.

I did a final tally just yesterday of all the appointments I've got and I have exactly 50 appointments booked over the five days that I'm at the show.

What does your schedule look like?

I bet you've got even more than I do.

Yeah, I try not to look at the schedule because it is it is an absolute assault you know I'm there for seven

days and it's just seven days of show coverage obviously including some travel but yeah I

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