Welcome to this Watch LIVE. Hi, I'm Lydia Winters.
And I'm Boo Booey and the Wong Watch asks a very relevant.
Question. Yes, I think so.
Is it stressful to come up with content for your daily podcast?
Is it no way? I actually think the vast
majority of the time it's no. Yes, that's true.
That's true. But there are days, yeah, where
we prepped nothing, Yes. And just, you know, life gets in
the way. Yeah, you kind of wake up
feeling uncreative and you're like, oh, wait.
The the funniest thing is sometimes like right before we
go to bed, I'll be like, Boo, the topic for tomorrow is X like
skeleton. Watches.
Yeah, you come up with a topic. And then in the morning, who
wakes me up? He's like, I don't remember, I
don't remember. All you said.
And I'm like, oh man, I need to like send this as a text
message, not just say it out loud 'cause you never remember.
No, no, I, I even when I, because, you know, obviously,
well, we don't take turns and like, it's an interesting way
that we come up with topics for this because in the beginning,
I'd say the first month, yeah, we were like way in advance.
Yeah. Coming up with things so far in
advance, like weeks in advance. We had planned out basically the
first month of content. Yes, I had this little Apple
board. What is it called The?
Freeform. Freeform and I made like posted
notes everywhere. But I mean, we just populated it
with so many ideas. That's the start of any project
though. You're like woohoo this is
great. In the beginning we were way
ahead. Then I think we fell into a week
ahead type of thing where over the weekend we would figure it
out. And these days that still
happens. It's a little.
More loosey goose, but. It's a little more loosey
goosey. Most of the time we come up with
the subject the night before and sometimes the morning.
I tell you the subject and then you're like, what is it again?
I can't remember. OK.
It's not like every night you're telling me the subject for the
next day. No, but occasionally you have
done that. And I never remember in the
morning what you said. And occasionally I'll tell you
what the subject is in the morning and I never remember
what I said. True, both things are true.
You don't remember either way. It's not that booze ignoring me,
he just has no memory whatsoever.
Well, especially sleeping. Yeah.
Well, OK, so an interesting thing is like when we talk about
this podcast to non watch people, they well, actually
sometimes even to watch people actually they're like what?
Actually, to everybody. Yeah, everyone is like, what
could you possibly talk about? And I think you had a really
great way with our friend recently.
You're like, well, what do you like?
Like what? What is a hobby?
And she was like, oh, I love horseback riding and horses.
And it's like, well, yeah, you can talk about.
I mean, you could also have a daily podcast about that, about,
you know, the different saddles and OK, I don't know that much.
About, but you can imagine. Horse training.
That there's so much to talk about, kind of any subject if
you're really passionate. If you're really excited about
it too. And so I think that's the the
fun thing is like I keep learning more things on the
podcast. I have more I want to learn and
talk about, and also there's always things like popping up in
the community new. Stuff's happening all the time.
And then, like today, we're going to answer 3 questions.
This was one of them. Directly from our listeners,
yes, this is the first one. And I, I love doing Q&A.
Yeah, like I love when people ask us questions.
Well, 'cause it also shows that there's a never ending supply of
things we all want to talk about with watches.
Yeah. And it's always have more and
more and more that we you want to talk about.
Yeah. And it's clear from the
questions and the people who ask them sometimes, Like, it's not
like people are asking questions they don't know the answer to.
Yeah. It's like, hey, instead of me
Googling this, will you just tell me?
Yeah, it's more about. That's what Mindy does to me and
my sister. Well, yes, she does that.
I'm not saying no one does and she's.
And then I Google it and then I send it back, which is very
inefficient for me, but very efficient for her.
It is very efficient for her. She has a personal assistant.
Yeah, exactly. But she's to ask me the question
I. Think what's nice is like we all
like to hear what other people think about things.
Yeah, that is true. It helps us to maybe reformulate
our thoughts or make our own decisions.
It's like you want more opinions and data points.
Yeah. And for a lot of us, like we
want more watch friends to actually like bounce stuff off
of and say like, hey, what do you think about this?
Is this a good idea or not? Should I buy this?
Everyone says yes. But so the OK, the final, final
answer to this question, I'm going to say no, it's not
stressful because anything can be sometimes stressful, but that
doesn't make it overall. It's mostly fun.
It's mostly occasionally stressful.
Occasionally I'm like, what are we going to talk about?
There are just times when you know you got nothing.
That's life, and that's kind of the even collecting can
sometimes feel stressful, but the overall of any hobby should
feel happy and exciting. But to be clear, we do not feel
like we've run out. No.
And even our free form, which we probably haven't looked at for
like a month, and it has a. Lot of ideas.
It still has a ton of ideas, but the ones that are left are all
the ones that require way more research.
I have a lot of notebooks full of ideas actually scattered
around, but they're like one word and then later I'm like,
what? What did I mean?
Rotor What what what? What was the what was the
episode about? Rotor.
It's just like watch words written randomly.
I'm not great at taking notes, no, and I'm not great at
remembering things. So.
The problem is, I have ideas for episodes fairly often, but I'm
not good at recording them in a way that I can recall it later.
No, Who also says I had a I had a really great idea, which
that's very hard to disprove. Maybe it was a great idea, but
since it didn't actually turn into anything, it's funny
little. Sometimes what you remember is
the feeling. This is a great idea like, but
you don't remember the idea itself.
You know what? I had the feeling of pure
brilliance. You're gonna have to trust me on
that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And it was probably true. OK.
Late Sunday asks should open case backs be standard?
Oh, late Sunday isn't she is such an amazing photographer in
the and in the watch world. So she she does both.
Oh, OK. So open case backs.
I think honestly you have a better answer to this.
You don't want to put put yourself out there, no.
No, no, I actually I kind of feel similarly, but I I think
that open case backs are a nice to have for me.
They're not unnecessary, but I know they're like hotly debated
it. Is hotly debated.
I don't think it should be. So what I often hear, especially
from longer time collectors is you should only have an open
case back if you have decorated the movement in a way that's
worthy of an open case back. Yeah, right.
Where that line is drawn is gonna be different for different
people. Which is in fact a very
privileged position. It is a.
Privileged position. And what I would, what I would
say is I remember my first open case back, right and it was not
a decorated movement, right? Well or machine finished
movement, right. Not at all.
What today I'd consider a beautiful, well decorated
movement. But at the time it was magic.
It was beautiful and I absolutely loved it.
And I wouldn't take that away from people and say somehow that
if it's not this gorgeous, incredibly expensive movement,
then you shouldn't be able to see it.
Yes. I would love to see more
companies do what Nomos does, which is to just give the
customer the choice. Yeah.
I I do like whenever there's a choice, because then you can
decide like, is this something I would really like to see or is
this something that doesn't really matter to me?
And to me, if it doesn't matter, the only real maybe that I can
see in this moment exactly. So someone's going to say, oh,
there's better reason. But right now as I think about
it, like one nice reason to not have an open case back is to do
an engraving. Yes, that's true.
Right. You have more room for
engraving. People do engrave open case back
watches, but you just have so much less room, if any.
And so I could see people wanting that solid case back so
you can engrave it. But other than that, let's say
you have an open case back on a movement that you don't think is
at all special. You're interested.
Guess what? Don't turn it over.
Don't turn it. Over what are you?
What are you flipping your? What I guess, I guess back to
the question, should they be standard?
Maybe the option should be standard or you know.
Become more standard or more more.
Prevalent. More prevalent because I do
think I agree with you. It gets you into, I think it
really reminds you that it's mechanical, that you're looking
at something, you know, like when you have this watch.
And for a lot of people that can become that first curiosity
point. So as someone who wants more
more more more people to get into watches, open case backs in
more starter watches could be that beginning.
Yeah. So mainly I don't want to see
like open case backs be somehow price point regulated.
That. Cheaper watches with less
finished movements don't have them because they're nothing to
look at. They may be nothing to look at
for some people, but especially for a new watch person they
could be absolutely mesmerizing and get them into more
mechanical watches. But I also think I want more
open case backs on Grand Seiko courts.
They've done them on some limited editions, but standard
they have closed case backs and I want them to be open.
Yeah, my brother, he gave me the 1987 Swatch for my birthday and
the on the back it's kind of clear and you can see like the
battery and parts of the movement with it.
And I thought it was really cool.
Like it made me really excited to look at something and be
like, oh, this is awesome. So more open case backs.
More open case backs. Less snobbery.
That's just in general. OK, watch Ecology asks.
OK Black Bay fans, 4158 or 54, which is the favorite and why is
like the easiest question you've ever had to answer.
Yes, I have a very, I have a very clear favorite.
Well, I'll start by saying I did have or I I do have a need to
sell the BB58IN silver, the 925 and I actually really liked a
size and I used to wear your BB 58 before that.
It's a great size, but it has nothing on the 54.
I love the 54 so much. This is like I think the BB 54
is a perfect one watch collection.
Like. Go anywhere, do anything but
also the the fact that it has the guilt on the dial gives you
that little bit of gold. So our friend Hannah Magpie
memoirs, she loves jewelry. She wears gold jewelry with it.
It doesn't look out of place. It doesn't go too far into a
tool watch. I've talked about this little
chameleon watch. Every person that I've seen wear
it, it looks amazing on them in their individual style.
Like this watch just kind of blows my mind.
I love that the bezel is clean because again, it like takes it
away from being too too much. No guilt on the bezel.
Yeah, no guilt, no numbers, just very chill.
I think all of that really just wins out against any other Black
Bay in the series because it is perfect.
It's wonderful. Unisex.
I love it so much. OK.
All right, so. Tell us your wrong answer.
Wrong answers only. Boo.
Go ahead. I don't disagree that the BB 54
is a more universal one. Okay, okay, and suits more
people. That is just.
Period, Right. Yeah, because it definitely
works on smaller risks, better than obviously the 41, but even
the 58, but also on larger risks.
It just looks a little more. Different taste.
Which is cool. But it has that vintage look.
It used to be that no matter what size wrist you had, you
were wearing like a 36 or a 34mm watch, right?
Or smaller. And so we can't say that those
watches don't work on bigger wrist.
It's that modern taste. Don't maybe not everyone likes
it on bigger wrist, however. Yeah, I it they work.
Oh, I should also say the the actual rubber strap from Tutor
Oh yeah is awesome. Yes, and that gives it a little
more versatility. Yeah, you even made the mistake
of buying it on the rubber strap instead of the bracelet and then
later having to pay a lot more to get the bracelet.
Yeah. Oops, don't recommend.
No, just buy things on bracelet. But when you bought it for me,
you bought it on the bracelet, so I guess I just paid for a
really expensive rubber. I don't know.
OK, so having said that, I I'm still a BB58 like absolute fan.
OK, I love the BB 58. It was the original smaller
Black Bay. True, right?
And as you've said, it works great on your wrist.
Our friend Britt Pierce has an even smaller wrist than yours,
and her Black Bay 58 looks amazing on her.
Yes, but she has turned towards the she does.
For the 54 and where's the? 54 but.
For three years, she wore that Black Bay 58 with no issues.
True. Gorgeous watch.
Works great even on small wrist. I think, you know, obviously the
54 opens up to even smaller wrist.
Yeah, but the 58 is still quite a versatile watch.
And what I like is that you have so many options currently with
the 58. That's true.
Even. Even GMT now.
Right. Yeah, that's.
True. So many options.
So as a line, the Black Bay 58, you have the original black,
which also has the gilt accents. You have the blue, which gets
rid of gilt entirely and looks like a much more modern watch
because it's just blue and a silvery color, right?
You have the new GMT, you also have it in gold, you have it in
silver, you have it in bronze. You have to have a lot of
options for that to really make people want it.
You know, what's really funny is watch ecology just as like,
which is the favorite and why? And we're like, and this is now
a head to head competition. Okay, so I'm going to say I'm
going to go back and say the favorite Black Bay is the one
that you love wearing. Oh, the 41, the 58, just the. 54
Love the 54. Oh yeah, but.
That's my. Favorite I know.
My favorites? The 58, however.
We didn't actually have to go head to head is what I'm saying.
No, no, no. It's like immediately
competition. Yeah, but I will say the two new
40 ones, right, The burgundy which came out last year, yes.
And then the they call it a monochrome I guess, which came
out this year. They have a new K shape and
size, right? Like they have really refined
it. So it's much less chunky than it
used to be. I also like you cannot go wrong
with them and that Burgundy calls my name every once.
In a while. So you're saying I'm right the
best Black Bay is the one that you love wearing?
Yeah, I I can easily see someone just owning all three.
And. That someone could be me.
OK, that's a very loaded. You're like, you're like, I
know. I definitely think this is
acceptable for anyone. Yeah, especially this anyone.
Oh. Especially this anyone?
OK, open case bags and black bays.
Tell us your thoughts. Bye everyone, bye.