Hello and welcome to another episode of the Grey Nato.

The Gravel Nato.

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Grey Nato.

A loose discussion of travel, adventure, diving, driving, gear, and most certainly watches.

This is episode 384 and it's proudly brought to you by the always-growing TGN supporter crew.

We thank you all so much for your continued support, and if you'd like to support the show, please visit the newly redesigned and launched website at thegraynado.com for more details. My name is Jason Heaton, and I'm joined as ever, but seldom in person by my friend and co-host James Stacey, who happens to be sitting right across for me.

James, here we are.

Here we are, yeah.

Our voices are a little toasted.

We had an evening of loud talking, which we'll get to in a moment on Friday, and then

lots of loud talking over a boat motor.

And breathing bottled bottled air, too, which dries you out a bit, too.

Yeah.

I hope everybody's good with an extra gravelly sort of uh sort of run on the show here there's a but yeah we're here in

chicago we're here for uh wind up and uh the wind up in a lake and a bunch of hangouts and a

great event with citizen uh where do we start i, this won't be a normal sort of episode.

We should probably remind everybody that we're going to take two weeks off after this episode. So we get to hang out together here in Chicago this weekend. And then we're taking the rest of July off. We'll be back something like August 6th, I think, was the... I think it is. Whatever that first Thursday in August is, we'll be back. So we appreciate people kind of allowing us the time to take a little break. It's nice to do in the summer. Jason, I mean, Chicago, it feels like a show we've been to before. Yeah, it's good to be back, you know, and it's always, you know, we just got back from a walk for a coffee and it's hot and humid, you know, I mean, it's it's kind of classic Chicago July. It was good to get out on the water yesterday and, you know, get underwater, cool off a bit. And yeah, it's, it, in some ways it feels so familiar. And every time we come, it's something new, new, a few new people, obviously some new watches. And it's just, it's exciting. I love being here. Yeah, and a new one for me, because it's the first time I've done the wind up in a lake. Oh, yeah. First time I've done any major actual diving, certainly off a boat in Great Lake. Yeah, right. So definitely we'll get to all of that in a moment. It was a full day. That's for sure. Do you want to kick it off with a quick?

Sure, yeah, very fitting one for both of us here. I am wearing the watch that I got to take diving yesterday, which is the citizen pro master diver, the legendary Ecozilla. It's the BJ 8050-08E

in steel with the Destro Crown, just a massive thing

with the big long rubber strap, which didn't even need an extension to fit over my 7-mill

wetsuit sleeve yesterday. Just incredible loom. We torched it up on the boat on our evening

cruise back yesterday. Everybody was kind of doing that with their citizens because a citizen was kind enough to sponsor that that dive outing yesterday that wind up in a lake. And so everybody had these bright, glowing citizens on the boat, which was really cool. But yeah, that's what I've got on. You know, this watch brings back a lot of memories because I, back in my kind of early days of collecting, I remember it, and I'm sure you do too on the forums. This was one of those watches that people just, you know, the orca. Yeah, the orca. I forgot about the orca. I had an orca too, right? And I had an Autozilla, which was kind of the more exotic cousin of this one,

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