Hello and welcome to a special episode of the Gray NATO. The following is a Chad and

Q&A with real-life watchmaker Jason Gallup of Vancouver's Roldorf and Co.

We recorded this Chad in Jason's Land Rover on Cypress Mountain in Vancouver and

Jason was kind enough to share his watchmaking story and

answer a bunch of your questions.

For those that sent questions in, please know that we had far too many questions for just

one chat and we'll be sure to have Jason on again soon for a second round of

Q&A so if we didn't get to your question just sit tight. You can find out more

about Jason and his watch retail and service business at rolledorf.co on the web or you can go to Instagram and follow him at

Roldorf but without further delay let's tune into the land rover. Jason, how's it going? It's going really well. Thanks for being back on the show. We had you a while back with Merlin. I think I've been promising people for a while that we'd have this chat with a watchmaker and that watchmaker is of course you and it's something that I've been very keen on doing because I get we get a lot of emails asking sort of watch service related questions and I think it's going to be fun to

answer some of those questions and also you have what I think is a very

interesting story and then on top of that it's a diverse story it's a diverse story but it's also a very

TGM sort of story your interests as you and I have got to know each other your

interests have like repeated overlaps which I've always like so so in brief you today run and operate

Roldorf and co the watch store and service provider in Vancouver but if could could you give us kind of an origin story where you came from and how you got all the way to a watch store on the West Coast.

Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, it's a it's it's kind of a long story. It starts when I was

17 and a half I guess I didn't quite know what to to do with my life. My father was a goldsmith so I'd had the industry around me

but but a very heavily weighted towards goldsmithing kind of experience. Okay.

Which is not something I really wanted to do.

I was the kind of kid that built McConnell and LEGO when I was a kid.

I was just fascinated by mechanical things and that.

So my dad suggested watchmaking to me I think

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