Welcome to episode 24 of the Grey NATO,

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

I'm Jason Heaton.

And I'm James Stacy.

Has it been a year already?

Like, 24, this was 24th episode, last episode of 2016.

So we thought we would do kind of a look back at the best bits of 2016.

Don't worry, it's not like a clip show.

We're not going to cut together things we already said.

We went through our notes for the last 23 episodes and kind of picked out our favorites.

So if you're kind of just getting to the show in the last few episodes,

or maybe you just kind of want to catch up, bring you up to the new year,

I think this will be a fun episode for you.

But before we get to that, I do want to remind everyone that we're running a giveaway with our buddy Max,

who's at Watch Max on Instagram. We're giving away a Patty edition, Seco, S-R-P-A-2-1, the Prospex Diver. You have to follow Watchmax, you have to follow the Grey Nato, and then you have to comment on a specific post. It's in our Instagram feed by the time you're listening to this. With a secret hashtag, we told you in episode 23 and your favorite adventure buddy as a tag.

The It's in our Instagram feed by the time you're listening to this. With a secret hashtag, we told you in episode 23, and your favorite adventure buddy as a tag.

The giveaway runs until the end of the year, and we will pick a winner in early January and get you the watch.

Also, a quick note about scheduling to better synchronize with SihH, the big watch show in Geneva in January. Episode 25, the first episode for 2017, won't be out on the third of January, but rather the 10th. So you'll have to wait an extra week. That's going to be the one week that we take as a bit of a break. We were really worried about having an episode come out mid-S-I-H-H-H-H and having really no reason for half the stuff we talk about.

We will be back on the 10th with a pre-S-I-H-H-H episode,

and then we're headed to Geneva and should see some really great watches

and have plenty to talk about a couple weeks after that.

So on with the show.

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