Welcome to episode five of the Gray NATO, 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 Stacey.

Based in Vancouver, I call myself a professional enthusiast and I write about watches a piece and I have literally no idea what time it is right now.

So we're going to call this the jet lag special and we're going to get right into it.

Jason, you had a couple extra days in Switzerland.

How are you feeling coming down off the high that is Baselworld or you just kind of crashing as you got home?

Well, I'm just sort of clinging to being awake these days.

It's good to be back to Curry and the cats and a normal bed.

I was on an air mattress for for six or seven nights there so

definitely good to be home but you know I personally I thought it was a fantastic

Basel world it was it was grueling it was a lot of walking for my perspective my perspective, it was a great show.

This was my third Basel world, and I thought it was a really strong showing from a lot of brands.

And I don't know, what was your kind of initial takeaway from from the whole show I thought it was an amazing show you know I was there with with a blog to watch you there with gear patrol and

We had a great team this year with the blog to watch huge coverage lots of success on

Instagram people seem to really be excited about quite a few of the watches I don't think there was

necessarily like one major winner but the general level of watches both in terms of

companies that have tried something new and companies that are further kind of

iterating on something that was successful I think we saw both sides of that coin, lots of new

colors and versions certainly that seems to be the popular theme right now.

Yeah there was a lot of red and black this year. Yeah exactly a lot of red and black still we're still seeing a lot of blue. Obviously bronze is a thing.

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