Hey guys and gals, James here with a quick note at the top of the show to let you know that we're going to be taking a holiday break just like last year so there'll be no new episode on the 26th.

Episode 50 will go live on January 9th, 2018 and will help us to better align with S.I.H.

And with other travel concerns over the holidays.

So happy holidays from Jason and I, please be well, and we'll chat to you soon in 2018. On with the show.

Hello and welcome.

Hello and

welcome to another episode of the Gray NATO, a loose discussion of travel, adventure, diving, gear,

and most certainly watches.

This is episode 49 and we thank you for listening.

How's it going? Nice to see your face. You look younger I guess?

Yeah, face to face. It's the mountain sunburn. It's makes me look a little younger.

Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. So we're in Colorado and we're here for the 2018 Basel World Preview with Ores, which is an event they're doing in an area just adjacent to Vale, this Beaver Creek.

Bachelor Gulch.

We're actually at the Ritz-Carlton in an eighth floor, really nice suite.

It's actually, we're doing a fireside chat. The

faniest space we've ever recorded in for certainly. That's for sure. And yeah we've got

a nice fireplace and we've had a really like a really full day. It's a you know it's a tight schedule to come out. It's a short event. You know it was a

Sunday to a Tuesday and you know today was Monday and we spent the morning skiing. Yeah and then we spent the morning skiing.

Yeah.

And then we spent the afternoon having some lunch and then looking at watches.

Yeah, it's been a pretty ideal trip.

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