Hello and welcome to another episode of the Gray NATO, a Hodinck

podcast that's a loose discussion of travel, diving, driving gear and most certainly watches. My name is James Stacy. I am joined as ever with

Jason Heaton and this is episode 116 and we thank you for listening. How you doing Jason?

Pretty good, yeah, really good.

Been a good Monday, I think. Good weekend, good Monday.

Yeah, it was a good week all around. I mean, even, you know, we just aired a few days ago and

I announced the winning bid for that eunomatic that I auctioned off for Big Brothers Big Sisters and I'm happy to report that I

sent off the check to Big Brothers today and the watch is on its way to Maldives.

It's probably just a couple days away now.

And no sooner than that's off my plate.

You have some exciting news about the Haleos auction. Yeah, so for those who may have missed the last episode or don't do the Instagram thing that heavily we auctioned off or I auctioned off my first series

Pastel pastel dial 12-hour Bezel, Halleo, C-fourth, a favorite watch of mine, but one that I also

thought would earn a respectable amount of money for this sort of scenario and I gave the option for the high bidder to pick from a

and I gave the option for the high bidder to pick from a few different charities they

ended up selecting the Innocence Project and the total came out to 2,800 bucks.

That's amazing.

Which is more than 4X, the original retail for that watch.

And I think a really impressive result,

especially when you consider that we put up two watches that maybe together would have cost

$1,500. Yeah, right. And we're at about five grand.

Cheese. Yeah. So I'm really happy with this and I've already been conferring with the high bidder and that's how I got the receipt of their donation to the Innocence Project.

I'm really thrilled about this. It really put a lot of gas back in my tank.

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