Welcome to episode 19 of the gray native a loose discussion of travel, adventure, diving, gear, and most certainly watches.

I'm James Stacy and I'm Jason Heaton.

Today's topic is watch accessories, that is tools, loops, winders, cases, travel bits, bracelets, pretty much anything you could add to or use with a watch.

James, I think we got a lot to cover here. Let's jump right in. I think maybe the best way to

organize this is to kind of kind of nip off you know different

categories one by one and I think the logical place to start is probably with

straps yeah let's do straps. Under which, you know, there are categories within that category as well.

I mean, I think, you know, given the name of our show, The Gray NATO, I think you and I are both

big NATO strap fans and, you know, I'm wearing a NATO strap right now and I'm guessing you are as well

For sure a lot of brands out there. I've got a bag I've just got a massive zip lock full of NATO straps and every time I think I've got enough I see another cool

one or another color or some size that I need that I end up buying another one.

Yeah, NATO's are kind of a strange thing because it actually, I don't know, I don don't know about you but it took me quite a few years to come around to NATO's.

Yeah me too when I first got into watches it was all about the bracelet and and then I quickly kind of learned that depending on the time of year, bracelets aren't that great.

And you know, when you first, at least when I first started, I was starting with very entry-level watches and the bracelets could be very rough.

Yeah. I think too, I think bracelets are, you know, they're, well, now I guess we're going into bracelets, but I mean,

bracelets are easy to kind of, the easy thing about bracelets is taking on and off,

but I don't think they work well in really sort of active situations which is I think where NATO straps

really shine. Yeah for certain and yeah like I said it just took me a while to get to get to NATO's but now that

now that I'm there it's it's easily my favorite way of wearing a watch and you can go just by changing the color you can really change the kind of vibe of the

NATO from kind of eccentric with a say a bright red or a yellow to something kind of

more stoic like the gray or a little warmer like a brown or a sand or you know

khaki all they all have the kind of their own topics and I think anyone that follows my

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