Welcome to this watch live. Hi,
I'm Lydia Winter. And I'm Boo Booey. And
hopefully you're not in Sweden right now because
apparently it's gonna snow tonight. Oh,
the old April flowers bring Swedish snow, saying. We're
apparently going to get seven centimeters of snow
tonight here in Stockholm. My
neighbor texted and just the grumpiest text, seven
centimeters of snow tonight. Oh,
yeah, that puts everybody in a angry mood. Well,
you know, we're used to getting like one last
hurrah of like winter trying to get to us in
April. Just not usually the last few
days of April. I don't know. I
feel like it has snowed on my birthday in Sweden many
times, which is just the 22nd, so the 25th. Yeah,
well, so are we talking about what you're just
saying? Who cares? Yeah,
you're just saying who cares because you're in the
warmest weather right now. Yeah,
I'm not actually sure. I'm just going to stay here in
my snow. OK, enjoy your snow. All
right. Well, today we have an awesome
voice message. Hi, Lydia and who it's Chris,
and so this popping crowns on Instagram. And
I wanted to talk about weird habits for a second.
I know watching enthusiasm
collectors, well, collectors of anything, I guess, have
weird little rules that they make up for
themselves. And one of my weird little
rules is that I do not wear the same watch two
days in a row. So if I want to wear a watch
again, I have to wait at least one day in between
when I wore it last to wear it again. I
think this is my crazy attempt to try and wear as
many in my collection as possible, but to also not
be boring to people that might see me two days in
a row. So yeah, that's one of my
weird little rules. And I was wondering if you all
have any weird little rules too. Yeah,
first of all, Chris, thank you so much for this
question, but more so for this topic. I
love it so much. Yeah, I mean, I love the fact
that you're trying to be considerate to like just
people you see two days in a row and you're like, I
don't want them to be bored with my wrist. If
only people noticed. I'm like, hmm, maybe, maybe he
knows people who actually notice wrists. Yeah,
there was one time when I first started working in
Sweden where like three days in a row, all of
like multiple guys in the office. It
was just me and a bunch of guys were wearing the
same shirt. And finally, I asked as
themselves, not as each other, but like each day
that they were wearing the same clothes that they had
more. And so I asked the CEO, like,
are they playing a joke on me? Like
this is a funny thing. And he was like, no, he just
asked one of the guys and they said, oh, it's winter.
You don't really sweat that
much. But then I thought I'm the
person who Chris is talking about who would be like,
oh, stay and watch snooze. Show
me something new. Okay, so but his question is, do
we have weird watch habits or watch rules? So
what have you got? So minor more habits. The
first one is the opposite of Chris. I
just wear whatever's new until I get something else.
And then I kind of just wear
that and it's it is it's in the bad habit side
where I'm just like become lazy and I'm just like,
and I like the new thing. So
that combination of liking liking something new plus
extreme laziness creates the perfect storm of just I'm
boring people left to right. Well,
here's the thing, though. I mean, we've talked a lot
about it lately. You have gone through a period
of great acquisition. The past few years have been
like the pace at which you've acquired watches is
impressive. Not sustainable. If
you didn't wear your newest watch, when would you get
a chance to wear it because soon enough, you're
going to have a newer watch. So
that ends up at least for the last two years because
those were your really bigger years, right? 2022
2023. It kind of made sense that
you'd always wear your newest watch because that
was only going to last for a number of months. It
adds up that no watch gets that much time because I
have too many watches and too little wrists. Okay,
well, it's too few. Okay, what's yours? There
are ankles. Mine. One of mine is like, I
like to try to keep the watch dial centered on my
wrist at all times. So it's not just if I'm. So
I want when I look down at my wrist, okay, that my
watch is perfectly posed on my wrist. Like
I don't like it to be at all off center. I
want it to be like photo ready. Like
if I had a camera in front of my face, I could
just take a picture right away. Like
I don't like it to not be perfectly centered and look
ready for a photo. So I'm always fidgeting with
my watches, at least ones that move around a little
because I do have some that stay tight. But
yeah, so it makes me constantly fidget with my
watch to make sure that when I do look at it,
it's perfect. It will surprise no one to
know that I just turned my wrist over and my BB 54
is like sitting on the top corner of my wrist. It
kind of looks like it could just fall over the
waterfall side and just. Okay,
okay. So evidently, I'm not as
concerned about that. I think it's just, yeah,
okay. Well, he did say weird little
watch habits. Yeah, like it's an interesting
one. I think yours is the better
way and I do sometimes adjust, but I think
overall, let it fall where it might. What's
interesting is I've never thought about this until I
was trying to say because I was like, oh, I don't
have any. I didn't know that about you
weird watch habits. And then as I started to think
about it, I was like, oh, yeah, maybe that's probably
not what everyone's doing all day. No,
I mean, probably me. I think one of your weird
watch habits is the setting the watch to the second.
No, that's just the way
everyone should be. I don't know. I
think the fact that you have like an extra app
that gives you the seconds so that you can set your
watch to the second. If it like you have to have
a special. But I don't use that anymore.
Oh, you don't. How
do you do it? I don't even know how I use
the Apple Clock because I mean, it's set to an
atomic clock. It's not going to be off more
than a fraction of a second. Okay,
you know, I can't man this just in fraction of a
second off. Lucy goes to move. Well,
no, I don't actually know how often the iPhone sinks.
Okay, time. So
I assume that I mean, okay, I don't know. Yeah,
it's probably at least once a day. Probably.
And so then it's probably never off by more than
like point zero zero one seconds or something like
that, like a very small amount. Okay.
So that's good enough. That's
that's just good enough for me. Okay,
my other one is kind of a two for because the first
one is looking at risks before I look at faces.
Okay. That has become a thing I
do. Yeah. But the second one paired
with it is just staring at risks too long, like
uncomfortably wrong so that people notice that I'm
looking at their risk. There
was a guy recently and I just was trying to figure
out what was on his wrist. So
long that he was like, Hey, what's up? And
then I said, Oh, no, this is not a coffee shop.
Yeah, this is my nightmare. And
so then I was like, Oh, sorry, I was trying to
look at your wrist. I mean, that must have felt
weird and he's like, Oh, no, you have your
sunglasses on. So I just saw you staring at
me like I was it just looked actually weirder. He
couldn't tell I was. Yeah. No, that's actually. So
my thing is I'm always afraid and there's no
reason for this. Okay. I'm afraid that if I am
looking at someone's wrist that they will think that
I'm scoping it out because yeah, you always talk about
that. And I don't want someone to be
uncomfortable. Like I try not to make people
think I'm a criminal. Well, I think people think I'm a
weirdo by just staring at them. They're
like, Oh, that person must recognize me. I'm
like, No, I'm trying to see what is on your wrist,
but my eyes are hidden behind. Glasses.
Sunglasses. So I'm giving you nothing. I'm
staring at you. That's way creepier. I'd
rather be seen staring at someone's wrist than just
generally at them. Yeah, I it's a it's a real
thing I need to think about now. The
glass is being on because at least then it could
look like if you see my eyes, maybe I'm looking at
the coffee or the book that you have or your
wrist at the table. But you got a side eye at it,
you know, because if you've got the sunglasses on and
you side eye look at someone's wrist, then it
looks like you're looking somewhere else. Boo.
What we always say that like me trying to be
subtle is like, don't be suspicious. Don't
be suspicious. Like I'm always suspicious.
Always. If I tried to side eye,
it would probably I'd like pull the glasses down.
Yeah, it would be worse. Okay,
so that is my other weird habit. Yeah.
Okay. Kind of combined. Yeah.
And what I like. So, okay, you know, the habit
I talked about, you know, centering my my watch
constantly all day. That's annoying, but only to me.
Oh, wait, you're going to say
my habit is annoying to other people. I
mean, you were saying that, you know, someone might
think that you're staring at them and not everyone's
going to be like, cool. But
now he follows me on my watch. Instagram.
We have a rich shot together. Get
your father wanted to say like, let me know what
watches you want to see. I'll
bring them to the coffee shop. So
I felt like it was a win. Even
though it started out as probably he thought I was
trying to pick him up. I'm just staring. That's
obviously I've never dated because that's what I would
do. Just stare stare. We
just stare and it's like, oh, hey, we both like
watches. Yeah. Cool. Yeah.
I guess the only other one that I could think of is
that I track each where. Yeah.
Weird. I don't know about weird.
Here's the thing. Okay.
So here's what I would say is it could be uncommon.
Like or but it's weird because
there are not a lot of other things you track the
use of. Hmm. Yeah, I guess that's true.
Even though you love like your
boots, you actually don't track them. You'll
probably start to after this. No,
I thought about it before, but I thought that was too
far. I do think it's it's
interesting. It can be interesting with
other items, but I think that there's not like that
dedication level as there is to watches. But
I think part of that is just because watches are so
valuable, like monetary wise that it and and and my
goal is always like, hey, I want to get used out of
these. So when I originally started
tracking, I was thinking like this will help me
identify if there are watches that I don't really
like as much as I think I do. Yeah.
I don't know if it's done that though. I
thought of another weird watch habit, but it's kind
of gross. So I'm not sure I should say
it. What that I. Oh,
yeah, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, oh, like
that when I like, I never wash my watches. Yeah,
I know separately. I only wash them when they're
on me in the shower. That OK. And
I only do that when I think they're dirty like
yesterday. I was like, oh, I was near
the water at the beach. I should probably. Yeah.
I should probably wash it in the shower. But
otherwise, I don't. But the thing is, I think that
body soap like bar soap probably doesn't rinse off
fully cleanly. It's probably not a problem
because you're talking about like what once or twice a
month. You know, I thought watches
were self cleaning. I mean, what do you know
that is self cleaning? I don't know. It's
like, I just, I just assume. Yeah.
So my watches are dirty little babies. That's
basically what I'm saying. That's
a that's a weird. That is probably a bad one.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
For sure. Yeah. For sure. Well,
I think my tracking has actually big. I
think it's a bad thing for me because. Like
my original intent was mainly to discover are
there watches that maybe I don't don't like as much
as I think I do. But what it's made me do is
wear them anyway. Because since I'm tracking, you're
trying to like, you're like, oh, no, I got to
bring the numbers up on that one. That's
exactly what I think. I'm like, oh, numbers are too
low on this one. Okay. You know, who do I need
to move up the list? It's, which is like the total.
Yeah. Yeah. That's
not good. So I often am choosing a
watch. Not because I want to wear it
that day, but actually because it's too low in
the rankings. Yeah. Okay. I
have an idea that we turn these weird watch habits,
all of you listeners submit yours. We
turn them into challenges and we all try each
other's weird watch habits for a week. Huh.
So what, well, you can't try Chris's right now
because you're in Florida and you don't have a bunch
of watches. But I really like the idea of
changing watches every day and like committing to that
because it would make me stop being lazy. On
this trip, I do have only the BB 54. Yeah.
I just miss switching even though there's no reason
because I never switch. Yeah.
It's kind of like because I don't have the choice.
If I wanted to, probably I
would just drag the other watch around and only wear
the BB 54. Probably. But knowing that I only
have one watch, I'm like, I don't like it. I
want to have more. I sometimes find, so when we
were in Geneva, I only had the Pepsi and I missed a
couple of my other watches at certain times, but I
find that that happens to me a lot. Like,
I'm often just out during the day. I'm
not talking to be even being on a trip. Just
like, oh, we went to the city for the day or I
went to the office and something will make me
think of a watch that I own and really miss it and
wish I was wearing that instead. It
just happens. But I mean, a weird watch
habit is we have some friends who switch their
watch like three times a day. That
is true. To me, that's weird. I
think that's the thing like weird is all relative, but
I'm super curious about the weird watch habits that you
all have. And so you can submit a voice
message. It can also be a question
through our contact page on thiswatchlife .com, but we
would love to know more about how weird you are or
if you have any of our habits and that you
probably think I'm gross. Well,
I don't think anyone's going to tell you that
they think you're gross, but I also don't think any
of these things are weird because we all have things
we do that most people, most other people don't do.
So then if everyone's weird,
then no one's weird. Oh boy. How
about that? Bye. Bye bye. Bye
bye. It's going to be really odd
because I have a little like bye. Have
a great week. Bye. Have a great weekend. Bye.
Bye. Bye. Bye.