Chanel Seiko and AP (393)¶
Published on Mon, 25 May 2026 21:53:07 -0700
Synopsis¶
In this episode of the 40 and 20 WatchClicker Podcast, hosts Andrew and Everett discuss various new watch releases while navigating a delayed recording schedule due to Everett's jury trial obligations. They explore an eclectic mix of timepieces including Chanel's surprising J12 Super Leggera chronograph, Seiko's 5 Sports with compass bezels, Swatch's unconventional Royal Pop pocket watch collaboration with Audemars Piguet, and Citizen's retro bullhead chronograph. The conversation also touches on Squale's perfectly-sized Sub 37 Legend and Oris's refined Atelier Date 38mm dress watch.
The hosts examine the tension between watch enthusiast expectations and broader market appeal, particularly when discussing the Swatch x AP pocket watch collaboration. They appreciate both accessible pieces like the $250 Citizen chronograph and more premium offerings, while maintaining their characteristically candid commentary about design choices and market positioning. The episode concludes with Everett's "Other Things" segment recommending two small Etsy makers: Alpine Elements (Dyneema pouches) and Gear by Julian (canvas tool bags), encouraging listeners to support these independent creators.
Links¶
Show Notes¶
- Chanel J12 Superleggera
- Seiko 5 Sports Compass Bezel
- Swatch X Audemars Piguet “Royal Pop”
- Citizen Tsuno
- Squale SUB-37 Legend
- Oris Artelier Date 38mm
- Ready or Not
- AlpineElements gear pouch
- GearByJulian EDC Bag
Transcript¶
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| Everett | Yeah, fuck it. |
| Andrew | Hello, fellow watch lovers, nerds, |
| Everett | enthusiasts, or however you identify. |
| Andrew | You're listening to 40 and 20 the WatchClicker Podcast with your hosts, Andrew and my good friend Everett. Here we talk about watches, food, drinks, life, and other things we like. Everett, how are you? |
| Everett | I'm kind of like I'm kinda like amped |
| Andrew | up. I think you can tell. I couldn't tell, no. |
| Everett | I'm in the midst of a I'm in the midst |
| Andrew | of a jury trial. Um a |
| Everett | s uh what a week and maybe a half long jury trial if we go to the mats uh all the way. And uh yeah, I mean I I've been eating, drinking, breathing this case. This is like my first substantive break from the case in several days. Uh so it's it's weird, man. I actually feel really weird. I feel a little wired. I feel a little like |
| Andrew | you maybe should go back and like you've got things that |
| Everett | you oh need to do. That is definitely true. That is definitely true. But I'm gonna have some beers. I'm actually gonna try not to work tonight, which means I probably have to wake up a little early tomorrow. That'll be fine. I do better in the mornings anyway. So I'll go home and |
| Andrew | you are a little hyped, a little pumped. |
| Everett | Yeah, it's weird. I mean, I I think you know, different lawyers handle different circumstances. You know, I hear lawyers say occasionally like, I don't like to be in, uh, you know, I don't I don't go to court. I don't like want to be in court. And at at some level I can appreciate that because court's stressful. Um but I gotta tell you, man, there it is like the thing. It is the you know, like in fishing they say the tug is the drug. I like it's the Super Bowl. It is it it's yeah. I I mean it's it's like the thing that that is like oh, this is why we do |
| Andrew | it. Yeah, this is why we do |
| Everett | it. This is freaking um anyway. Yeah, no, so I'm I'm a little pumped up, I'm a little like juiced. But yeah, other than that, I'm all right. How are |
| Andrew | you? I'm I'm good. I'm just, you know, limping on along. Uh feeling pretty okay. Uh we're we're obviously a couple days late and so we are going to apologize in that uh |
| Everett | yeah, up a couple days late. Listen, uploads |
| Everett | are gonna have been weird for like two and a half weeks. There's gonna be like the timing and uploads is all weird. Just you're gonna get all your episodes. Yeah, you just don't know when you're gonna get them. Okay. |
| Andrew | We're kind of like a surprise package right now. But we've we've had uh you know Everett's in trial. I had a weird |
| Everett | we're gonna get back on schedule, but it it's not this week. |
| Andrew | No, no. It might be next |
| Everett | week. Good chance. I mean at least |
| Andrew | high likelihood. A chance. Yeah. High likelihood. |
| Everett | At least a likelihood. At least a possibility. |
| Andrew | Yeah, I accept that. We'll work on it. Yeah. But we're |
| Everett | we're not actually sorry. We're just acknowledging |
| Andrew | that, you know, you didn't you didn't have us on Tuesday morning. And we understand that that's important to you. But you know what? You get us |
| Everett | on a few Tuesdays. You maybe haven't had us, you know, for you know you think, oh well this is this has been way too long. It's been a week. It listen, you're gonna be okay. |
| Andrew | Yeah. The tug is your drug. And we're |
| Everett | and we're gonna be okay. Yeah. And we're gonna be okay. Um okay. Well, shall |
| Everett | we? I think we shall. Shall |
| Everett | we? Uh can I start with something uh |
| Andrew | that kind of hate that I really like? |
| Everett | Oh, uh these are my favorite. |
| Andrew | Um brand called channel. |
| Everett | Channel, yeah. Has |
| Andrew | a new J twelve |
| Everett | super Legura. Oh uh |
| Andrew | and it's all blacked out. It's |
| Everett | sized in a really |
| Andrew | appropriate way, given like this type |
| Everett | of sport watch. So it's 42mm case, |
| Andrew | a matte black ceramic, and black coated steel with 200 meters of water resistance. Caliber 12.1 automatic movements with 70 hours of power reserve. Uh I saw this and then read that it was made by Chanel and had trouble reconciling those two things. Like this, this could come out of any of our favorite watch brands. Uh, and even some of our lesser favorite watch brands, and be an absolute banger. So it's a Cosk movement. And so this is a black ceramic, just a really simple |
| Everett | round case with |
| Andrew | a steel bezel insert, steel, inner ring on your bezel, good fonts, a red uh kind of timer bar, a five-day date window with an arrow pointing to where you're at. Like everything about it works, |
| Everett | and I struggle to accept |
| Andrew | that it's a Chanel watch. Uh, and then you see the price tag, and you're like, oh, well, it's Chanel, so you know, $13,750 money makes sense. I think for not Chanel, that's a hard one for me to that's a hard pill for me to swallow. But I I I hate that really like this watch, and I really like this watch. It's a very classic, kind of fieldy pilot, really sporty, good colors. Uh Not what I expected from Chanel. I wasn't familiar with the J12 line ahead of it. But this is uh this is a nice introduction coming from you know a fashion design house with like I mean a baller watch, right? We have a 70-hour Cosk certified, not Cosk plus, that's important. Um |
| Everett | this a lacquer |
| Andrew | dial? Like what the what? |
| Everett | Yeah. Yeah. Is um is it is it a monocock case, Andrew? So |
| Everett | uh did you did you s did you see |
| Everett | the the case back? |
| Andrew | Yeahes. So it doesn't |
| Everett | have it's got a crystal on the case back, but it doesn't have an actual at least I don't believe that they that there's a removable case back. Rather, it appears to be |
| Everett | that the case back is all one piece. |
| Everett | It does look with the |
| Everett | crystal having been mounted inside of it and there's screws that come in from the back but they look like they attach they look like they run through the watch attaching something on the front, I assume or, perhaps they they test I I I mean I think that this is a front mounted movement. |
| Everett | It it does have |
| Everett | that appearance. Mm-hmm Uh I think it has |
| Everett | to be. Yeah. I I mean I I I don't know. This is a cool watch. I it you know, I'm I'm kinda I'm I'm with you. |
| Everett | I I mean it's a weird this is a weird |
| Everett | watch. I I really so okay. One uh I like to watch. Like just like Me too. I would 10,000 feet. I like to watch. Uh the font specifically, the Super Legera |
| Everett | font, is phenomenal. The |
| Everett | Chanel font is just Chanel. But |
| Everett | the the numerals, I'm I'm I'm good with all the numerals. I |
| Everett | believe it's superlegra. Superlegra? |
| Everett | Excuse me? Yeah. It's like pumped |
| Everett | up. Uh this Viagra. This steel bezel on a blacked out case with like oxide coated metal, steel, and black ceramic down with it. Uh red and black, down with it. It it's a little it it's a little sort of like douchebro, but |
| Everett | it is a little bit douchebro. But |
| Everett | oh okay, I'm fine. I'm a little I'm a douchebro too. Uh but then |
| Everett | but then also I'm like I |
| Everett | may just don't get it. I I maybe just don't I think I don't like the date window. I yeah, I I've |
| Everett | I think what I don't get is that I it it's it's from Chanel. |
| Everett | It doesn't look like a Chanel watch. No. |
| Everett | No. And and and this is a big update in the J twelve kind of line of modernizing this as a watch. Like this this line. |
| Everett | Yeah, I mean I think of J twelve as sort of like a |
| Everett | oh well uh certainly like a more dressy or I don't know, even like a women's watch. Like |
| Everett | but this is like clearly super |
| Everett | masculine. You know, the the links on the bracelet |
| Everett | are super long. Did you notice that? Yeah, |
| Everett | they're really, really long. I wonder how comfortable that bracelet's gonna be. |
| Everett | I bet in ceramic it's just gonna feel really supple. |
| Everett | Yeah, I don't know. With links that |
| Everett | long, I'm not sure how supple it could feel, |
| Everett | but um It |
| Everett | it's a confusing watch to me. |
| Everett | Yeah, I don't hate it. Yeah. I I |
| Everett | I would really like to see one of these in person. Cause I think it's really neat. |
| Everett | It looks like a Hamilton. That's what it looks like. |
| Everett | It looks like a really nice Hamilton. |
| Everett | Oh, I was thinking like Oris or like a movie prop like |
| Everett | like made for a movie. Like |
| Everett | a Hamilton. Yeah. I guess. |
| Everett | Or like tag or like Sure. |
| Everett | Oh yeah. It could be a tag. Yep. Yep. Um. |
| Everett | Maybe even like an L E Tudor. |
| Everett | Yeah. Yeah. No, it's fucking, it's really cool, man. |
| Everett | It just doesn't make sense to me. The crown guards are like just they're they're present, but |
| Everett | also really subtle. The crown size |
| Everett | is really good. Yeah. Uh it's just |
| Everett | it's I don't get it. Yeah. |
| Everett | Uh I'm gonna take some I'm gonna take some low hanging fruit. Is that is that okay with you, Andrew? |
| Everett | As long as it's mine. I'm |
| Everett | going to do I'm gonna take the um Sequo V Sports with Compass Bezzle. Yeah. Uh so you know, Sego Five Sports sort of carpet |
| Everett | bombing iterations, which I'm fine with that. Uh that's |
| Everett | what they're that's what the the five sports line is is four. |
| Everett | right now It's just carpet bomb |
| Everett | skews and varieties and sell the |
| Everett | billion watches that they've produced this year. |
| Everett | Yeah and and I hate to say that they've taken a quantity over quality approach with the Psycho Five sports because I don't think that's totally fair, but there's some truth to that, right? There's sort of like what's gonna what's gonna be popular? Which that's nice, right? It's sort of like the Seiko 5 method of old, which really turned Seiko into a beloved, you know, entry-level enthusiast brand, right? Uh it's sort of it it feels a little like seiko sort |
| Everett | of getting back to those |
| Everett | not not seiko's roots but those seiko five roots that |
| Everett | I think many of us gr grew up in that environment you know I |
| Everett | or at least cut our teeth on. I would say all but the sort of very |
| Everett | oldest or or perhaps |
| Everett | the youngest watch enthusiasts sort of came up |
| Everett | in that world, right? And so |
| Everett | um this this feels like a part of that. And you know, I've always been a little critical of compass bezels because uh especially on a dive bezels, |
| Everett | I I think that it's a little hard to justify them, |
| Everett | but I'll be damned if this |
| Everett | isn't attractive enough that I really don't care all that much. |
| Everett | Uh this is a pretty sweet looking |
| Everett | watch. |
| Everett | Yes. Sorry. |
| Everett | I can say more if you'd like to I was in the middle of a |
| Everett | yawn. Uh it was clearly my turn to talk, but the yawning was happening. Um yeah, you know, I have reservations about compass |
| Everett | bezels uh pretty universally. I think |
| Everett | that practically speaking, it's a weird decision. |
| Everett | Yeah. Uh, because you just objectively don't need |
| Andrew | a compass bezel. |
| Everett | The the watch is already doing the thing. Uh you you don''tt you don need it. Um I feel like a timer is probably definitely a more uh |
| Everett | practical complication to |
| Everett | add. Yeah. And you know, you could you can do |
| Andrew | some math uh and and use a |
| Everett | a compass bezel as a timer. Uh but in the way of the the Seiko 5 sports, I I think it's I |
| Everett | think it works for me because |
| Everett | of what the Seiko 5 Sports is, which is |
| Everett | fun, affordable, well-manufactured |
| Everett | watches with an adequate movement that |
| Everett | come in so many varieties |
| Everett | that you get exactly what you want. Nobody is going to the Seiko 5 sports |
| Everett | catalog and not finding |
| Everett | something they want and they like. And I think this just opens the the it it widens the tent for the people who are like, oh man, I want to, I want a compass |
| Andrew | bezel. I don't know why you want one. |
| Everett | But you do, and you should be able |
| Everett | to get it at an affordable price in a well-manufactured, adequate movement watch. I think this is a cool addition. The colors that they added I'm for |
| Everett | a really good Arctic white. Yep. |
| Everett | A black. And then uh what do they call in this uh kind of taupey green? |
| Everett | Yeah. There's a green and then like copy |
| Everett | green. Kind of like a muddy green. Yeah. I'm gonna |
| Everett | say brown and green, but the brown leans a little green and the green loans a little brown. Um |
| Everett | these come on these come |
| Everett | on straps. They're not it's |
| Everett | not uh a pass-through strap, it's it's a two-piece strap. So okay, wait, wait. So the the white and black versions both come on a three-link bracelet and they both look great on it. The earthy dials both come on textile straps. These textile straps have leather that like leather trim that is reminiscent of Hamilton's khaki pass-through. Um which |
| Everett | are two piece. It's damn fine, but they're two-piece. |
| Everett | That's right. Um we've got I think the earthy versions have a black bezel in the green and sort of a bronzy brown on the tan. Really good executions. |
| Everett | That brown is actually really dynamic color. Yeah. Um because the green is green. It's |
| Everett | the brown copper or gunmetal in some pictures. Uh the brown is I'm I'm with you, Andrew. Super dynamic. |
| Everett | Uh I I was gonna say these have kind of like a C63 feel to me. Like they're kind of experimenting with that light |
| Everett | catcher idea of pulling |
| Everett | light into the dial in a in a way that I I feel like is um a little different. |
| Everett | Yeah, you maybe lost me a little bit with that |
| Everett | one. Uh they're they're kind of light catchery. |
| Everett | Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, |
| Everett | I agree. You lost me with a couple. I |
| Everett | I mean I I I don't I don't |
| Everett | think I see that. But I I I I do |
| Everett | understand what you're saying. They are catching light at a lot of different angles. I I think I really like uh they went with a really simple execution on this, which is sort of their big sort of |
| Everett | psycho numerals, a really classic |
| Everett | 13 to 24. And unless you're because of the way the compass bezel |
| Everett | is laid out, uh, from a distance, it gives it's giving me uh |
| Everett | like explorer two vibes from a distance, |
| Everett | actually. Um, kind of GMT. |
| Everett | That's right. Of course, it's not a GMT and it's not a 24 hour dial or bezel, but um it it has |
| Everett | that feel to it. Um |
| Everett | so uh I think these are coming at |
| Everett | forty-one forty-one |
| Everett | millimeters by forty-eight and |
| Everett | a half long, which okay, |
| Everett | 1385 thick, which is a lot, but it's a Sickle 5. Um |
| Everett | 4R movement. Four R movement and |
| Everett | and what? Like MSRP ride at about |
| Everett | 500 bucks, I think. Um, which means these will be you know in that 300. |
| Everett | Yeah. This is like the sweet spot for Seiko five. And I think that we're both getting v vibes off of up market, |
| Everett | like way up market watches. Yeah. Is |
| Everett | is indicative of of what they're trying to trying to achieve here, which I I I think is is a little bit different. You know, Seiko's very much been a beat of their own drum and kind of define like they create the icons and they stand by them. So I I think that's an interesting move. Um In dropping a five that is is so inspired by other things that are inspired and not just purely Seiko. |
| Andrew | Yeah, I think that is sort of the way with the |
| Everett | say you know, I mean what I I I meant what I said earlier when I said this this watch for me really sort of it it it it's not that this watch |
| Andrew | in particular, but I feel this the like this |
| Everett | watch on the heels of the more recent sort of I said carpet bombing really |
| Everett | does this this one made me feel |
| Everett | like you know what Seiko is getting they're reclaiming that brand in a way that I find really attractive. You know, when I remember when they reintroduced the Seiko 5 Sports dive watches, |
| Everett | and people were like, oh, the, you know, |
| Everett | 5KX and uh you know that they've neutered the SKX I don't know if Seiko knew what they were gonna do with that with that brand or that you know you know that line at the time, but if you'd have told me then Seiko's relaunching Seiko 5 the way we used to have it, but they're but they're doing it with their modern movements. And I I would have been way more excited about it. You know, of course, that's five years ago, six years ago |
| Everett | at this point. Um, but |
| Everett | it's like, okay, we're getting back there. Now, now prices are |
| Everett | different. Prices on everything is different. I paid six twenty-five or six thirty-five for gas this morning, right? But um |
| Everett | Yeah. You know, it it you |
| Everett | know, people say, oh, you can't get them for a hundred bucks anymore. Like, yeah, well, you also can't buy a dozen eggs for a hundred bucks, so fuck off. |
| Everett | You I mean I'll sell you a dozen eggs for a hundred bucks. Right |
| Everett | now. You know what I mean. Hit |
| Everett | me up. I will make how much is a six |
| Everett | pack of beer these days? It's like 1.5 |
| Everett | bucks Yeah. Yeah. Crazy. Remember when you could buy a six pack of beer for five |
| Everett | bucks? I'm just too I'm older than you. |
| Everett | A little bit, yeah. I used to get the |
| Everett | shoulder tapping required a little bit of |
| Andrew | incentive. I used to get pure like |
| Everett | twenty-two's of pyramid IPA. I used to get them at the corner store |
| Everett | for a buck. Uh |
| Everett | no it, was it was more than that. I think I think it was two ninety |
| Everett | p two ninety nine apiece. But that was I mean, that wasn't all even all that long ago. |
| Everett | No. When I was in law school, it was two ninety |
| Everett | nine for twenty two. You get two of 'em for six bucks and get fucking tat totally good. So |
| Everett | I used to call it Birger King. I would go get a 22 of Total Dom and Burger King and take it home and have Birger King. What's next? Uh it's the thing, right? Everyone's talking about it. Uh Swatch BioCeramic has unveiled its new collaboration with |
| Everett | AP in the Royal |
| Everett | Pop and it is |
| Everett | a pocket watch. |
| Everett | And I I don't get it. I think they're really fun. They're really cool. There's, I don't know, about eight colorways. Two, four, six. Oh man, good guess. Eight colorways. Uh these are a uh uh 12 o'clock crown, 12 o'clock clip |
| Everett | with uh I mean |
| Everett | they're they're uh a royal oak, but as a pocket watch. I don't get |
| Everett | it. Do you |
| Everett | four20 bucks. They have some three o'clock crown versions, 12 o'clock crown versions. I up to this point, all of the bio ceramic collaborations have made sense. You know, we have the speedy, we have |
| Everett | the fifty fathoms. |
| Everett | Um those those make sense to me. This does |
| Everett | not. Who's buying |
| Everett | this? I mean, can |
| Everett | you get the are you gonna be able to get them? I probably not because |
| Everett | you're gonna have to sleep on the sidewalk in front of us watch. This is one of |
| Everett | those this is one of those releases that comes out that makes you say, you know, |
| Everett | I fucking hate watches, I'm out. Yeah, you w you know, and it it |
| Everett | it's really, really easy to forget that the enthusiast |
| Everett | Yeah, you know, I uh uh I I |
| Everett | Andrew, did you know I started a watch brand at one |
| Everett | point? Yeah, it's called Forty |
| Everett | and Twenty The Watch Quicker Podcast. My |
| Everett | business partner in foster was not an enthusiast. I mean, he he likes watches, but he wasn't a watch enthusiast in the way we are, certainly, or the way most of the folks listening to this show are. Um, and he used to, I think lovingly, uh, really sort of poo-poo the watch enthusiast crowd because he had come from traditional marketing, traditional margins. Um and and he's |
| Everett | like, God, watch people are suck. |
| Everett | We do. That that's a fair assessment. |
| Andrew | But he would say that in the sense that |
| Everett | like, you know, watch people critique, you know, oh like like they know so much about |
| Everett | watches that they're really hard to sell things to |
| Everett | right like in order to sell a watch to a watch person you you really have to hit a lot of boxes. You know, |
| Everett | it it's much easier to sell a watch to the public, |
| Everett | right? It's easier, it's |
| Everett | easier to sell a watch |
| Everett | to a guy that's gonna buy his watch at the shopping mall than it is to sell a watch to a watch enthusiast. |
| Everett | And and and and that's true in some ways and |
| Everett | not in others and I and I realize that's subject to criticism, but it it's really easy to |
| Everett | forget, I think, that we |
| Andrew | represent this teensy |
| Everett | and the most important part teeny |
| Everett | portion of the market, the market at large. And so it it's an important part, right? |
| Everett | We're members of the media. That Nixon has sold a gazillion watches. And it's |
| Everett | not because they make good watches, right? And and so |
| Everett | it's maybe because they don't. I don't think this watch lives in a funny space, |
| Everett | which is to say they're gonna be watch people that buy this because it's interesting. |
| Everett | There are gonna be lots of non-watch |
| Everett | people that are gonna buy this because it's interesting. There are gonna be AP people that buy this because it's interesting. There are gonna be swatch people to buy this because it's interesting. And and and those those Venn diagrams don't, |
| Everett | you know, they're A not mutually exclusive, and B, they don't |
| Everett | line up, the those four circles. And so it |
| Everett | it's I I mean, uh look, |
| Everett | I this is definitely not a release aimed at the the true, like the classic watch enthusiast, like sort of |
| Everett | the center mass watch enthusiast. I don't think. |
| Everett | With with that said, I think they're gonna sell a billion of them. Maybe not literally a billion, but you know what I mean. |
| Everett | So a gajillion would be an |
| Everett | interesting thing that I think will will perhaps be the the carrot for watch people is the movement so this is a brand new and proprietary movement with 15 patents the system 51 uh it's made it it is produced yeah that's |
| Everett | cool that it's a system to one. It |
| Everett | it it's produced through an entirely automated system. Uh and that's cool. It's a ninety hour power reserve. Um it's got like AP technology in the movement. Uh it's so not being a plug and play, I think, is is really interesting. And then maybe like mesak this even kind of weirder in that this is |
| Everett | a place where AP is |
| Everett | highlighting technological advancements in a weird pocket watch |
| Andrew | partnership with swatch. |
| Everett | Ah I'm I I I don't really know. |
| Everett | I mean I the size is great. It's a 40 millimeter |
| Everett | case. Yeah. It's got a the with the the clip kind of wrap it's like a it's like a uh a shroud clip that wraps around it that brings it up to 44 and a in a in a little bit, 44.2 um, 8.4 |
| Andrew | thick. I mean, everything about |
| Everett | it is really cool. Only 20 meters of water resistance though, versus their typical 30. Um Um but I I don't uh |
| Everett | I don't understand what's happening. That's not impact. |
| Everett | I don't get it. I I I love the idea of this collaboration and I think a bio ceramic royal oak would be |
| Everett | so cool. The |
| Everett | the royal pop is a miss for me. |
| Everett | You can I do understand that you can swap |
| Everett | out the watch from the clip. So if you get more |
| Everett | than one, you can you |
| Everett | can take the watch out of the clip. So it's got yeah, you |
| Everett | know, the watch is housed in a Yeah, it's |
| Everett | got its like popabout shroud. |
| Everett | Yeah. Yeah. But |
| Everett | you can't wear it. So unless we're gonna go back to wearing |
| Everett | sure you can. You just can't wear it on your wrist. |
| Everett | Unless we're gonna start going back to wearing, you know, jackets and vests. Well. If this brings back the like early 2000s vest-wearing sans shirt and jacket in order to show off your royal pop. I will I I I actually I'm not gonna tell |
| Andrew | you. Hear me out. Hear me out. |
| Everett | You're an ER doc who can't wear |
| Everett | a wristwatch. They all wear wristwatches. I don't know. |
| Everett | Uh I I mean I think uh I I |
| Everett | think this is fun. It it's not aimed at the wristwatch enthusiast necessarily. |
| Everett | But that's what all these Swatch X brand like things have done. The fifty fathoms and the and the Speedmaster. They're |
| Everett | hitting other markets. I I I appreciate the I appreciate the game. |
| Everett | I appreciate if this |
| Everett | is an indicator of frosted tips and Vest No Shirt coming back, I'm I'm gonna throw a fucking tantrum. |
| Everett | You know, just the other day, actually, uh just the other day, I was um riding to work on my penny farthing and I thought, you know, I really need a pocket watch. |
| Andrew | That's not a true story. Um, |
| Everett | he was wearing skinny jeans and |
| Everett | As you do, as you do. |
| Everett | Um you know I think since we've talked about Seiko and we've talked about Swatch, I think it's time for us to talk about |
| Everett | citizen. Oh, yep. We're |
| Everett | just we're climbing the ladder here. |
| Everett | In particular, the new Quartz Citizen Challenger to Suno? |
| Everett | Suno? Yeah, the the |
| Everett | challenge timer Suno. |
| Everett | Challenge Timer Suno, which is a quartz bullhead corngraph. Uh a design that a design that is |
| Everett | very, very, very nineteen seventies. |
| Everett | U Which has both the crown and the pushers at twelve o'clock. |
| Everett | Yeah, if it's a good if you don't know what a bullhead chronograph is. The Suno is the Japanese name for horn. |
| Everett | Oh. Yeah. So it's uh |
| Everett | it's if you speak Japanese, this |
| Everett | is a is a pretty clear description of the |
| Everett | watch. Yeah. My I don't. My |
| Everett | nickname in college was Sunodog. |
| Everett | Mm-hmm. That's not true. That's what all the boys called you. |
| Everett | Uh it's a thirty eight millimeter 38mm case, |
| Everett | uh which uh sort of |
| Everett | allows you to keep those uh you know 1970s proportion uh we've got a |
| Everett | 369 layout |
| Everett | with a date window that's been I think problematically tucked in |
| Everett | at four fifty. |
| Everett | Yeah, four t four yeah fifty, four forty-five. It |
| Everett | it it it it's not it |
| Everett | it doesn't uh index |
| Everett | with anything the the date window it doesn't index with |
| Everett | the markers or the subdials and and |
| Everett | I don't like it for that reason. If if they pulled |
| Everett | it up 15 minutes and made it of like a 430 day window, I'm I'm all in. |
| Everett | I just don't understand why it's it's where it is, |
| Everett | right? It doesn't index with anything. Um |
| Everett | yeah. So this is a look. This is a |
| Everett | like $250 watch, |
| Everett | which is just absolutely |
| Everett | tremendous. Um, it |
| Everett | comes with a single row folded bracelet, |
| Everett | which is an oddity in and of itself in 2026. |
| Everett | We've got citizens uh in-house |
| Everett | courts 510 movement, |
| Everett | uh 12-hour chronograph |
| Everett | at a one second resolution. Um |
| Everett | I think it's plus or minus 20 seconds |
| Everett | a month. Uh two dial |
| Everett | variants is a white panda uh and |
| Andrew | mint chocolate chip. And mint |
| Everett | chocolate chip, yeah. That that's right. I don't know what they actually |
| Everett | call it. It doesn't matter what they call it. |
| Everett | It it's sort of like pastel green with orange |
| Everett | subdial hands. Maybe pistachio. |
| Everett | Pistachio, I love it. I love it. And it is full looned, which is fucking rap. So |
| Everett | here's my one gripe. And I'm not usually a thickness griper. This is 117 thick for a quartz chronograph. And eleven seven for a a chronograph is a is a really reasonable space |
| Everett | in and of itself, yeah. For a quartz chronograph |
| Everett | is problematic. And then when you look at this thing from the side, |
| Everett | yeah. Yeah, it's a little slab. The |
| Everett | the placement of j just the shape of the lug and then the placement of the spring bar in the lug puts this |
| Everett | all above the bracelet. |
| Everett | That's right. Yeah. Because it's a bullhead, |
| Everett | the the lugs have to the the actual bracelet connection |
| Everett | has to sit down low. |
| Everett | So you you've kind of got like it's not a pebble, uh, but |
| Everett | it's got some sort of pebble esque elements to the tonneau case. |
| Everett | Like like you were suggesting, that bracelet sits |
| Everett | all because they have to have the crown |
| Everett | and the pushers above the bracelet, the bracelet's pushed all the way down to the bottom. So yeah, this thing |
| Everett | just sits loud and proud. It's gonna |
| Everett | it's gonna wear thick. Yeah. |
| Everett | Which I I think uh uh you know w one of the |
| Everett | things that I've They're |
| Everett | hooded lugs too so it yeah like I think that'll like |
| Everett | exacerbate the the |
| Everett | thickness of that wear. Some |
| Everett | watches want to wear thick, right? You know, that's a reality. You're wearing your dox at |
| Everett | a night. Mm-hmm and and that's a watch that really |
| Everett | wants to kind of sit proud. You know, i |
| Everett | i it's a watch that wants to sit up on |
| Everett | your wrist. And that's part of the idea |
| Everett | of it. You know, not all watches need to be wrist huggers. Not all watches need to be, you know, 10 10 nothing thick. Um but you just going into this, if you're gonna buy it blind, based on our recommendation, just know it's gonna sit high. And also don't fucking do that. |
| Everett | Yeah, it's gonna sit real high. This full loom though, look at this loom picture. |
| Everett | It's cool. Yeah. That's good. Uh and you know, |
| Everett | because it's citizen, it's gonna be a pretty okay |
| Everett | bracelet. Yeah, I think so. Yeah. |
| Everett | Uh I mean it it it's gonna |
| Everett | be an objectively antiquated bracelet, but |
| Everett | I don't think that means bad. No, |
| Everett | but Citizen doesn't overlook their bracelets like many other |
| Everett | Seiko. They overlook |
| Everett | them in different ways. They overlook them |
| Everett | in different ways. But I think generally speaking, our ch |
| Everett | our our criticisms of cheap |
| Everett | citizen bracelets have have been |
| Everett | like, this is pretty good. It's not expertly finished, but it's |
| Everett | comfortable and it articulates well. |
| Everett | And you can size it. Yeah. Without the |
| Everett | side. I don't think I think this thing's gonna be a pain |
| Everett | in the dick to size personally. Probably. Yeah. I I I you know of course I don't know, but it that's my guess. |
| Everett | Should I look at the sizing technology on it? |
| Everett | They don't they don't give us any there's no um |
| Everett | these these no good product pictures of these old |
| Everett | style folded bracelets all have terrible sizing. |
| Everett | But just swap it out and get |
| Everett | a twist of flex. Probably probably |
| Everett | easier than a uh probably |
| Everett | easier than like uh an old Christopher Ward. Well, maybe that, but I or even |
| Everett | Doxa shit, man. We we I was thinking |
| Everett | your timex Q. That's the one I was thinking about. Oh, that was |
| Everett | a nightmare. Uh or Q timex. We we blew out two bits trying to size the Doxa bra |
| Everett | Yeah, I I actually just warrantied the bit that we broke. Oh you did? Yeah, I I broke a Wi-Ha bit sizing that Doxa and I warrantied it. I they s yeah you know they said I could d do it. I emailed them forever ago and I was supposed to take pictures of it and I just didn't get to it. So I finally did that and I've got they've sent my new my new bit isn't in route. Thanks We Haw. And Doxa. And Doxa. |
| Everett | For putting these things in with fucking impact wrenches. |
| Everett | It I think it had uh it had Loctite on it, right? Didn't figure that |
| Everett | out? No, uh my uh my Vortex red dot had Loctite on it. These fucking guys at Cabela's. They they and they installed a a pistol red dot and uh they put Loctite. |
| Everett | Like red Loctite, right? Yes. |
| Everett | They put Loctite on the the zeroing uh set screws. So like I blew out a bit on it and I twisted another one. I'm like, what the |
| Everett | fuck? D they warrantied that, right? |
| Everett | Uh no, I got it I got it sorted, so I didn't have to |
| Everett | vortex warranty. Uh I |
| Everett | still might, just cause it It's okay. |
| Everett | It's kinda fucked up, right? It's kinda fucked it up. Alright, what's |
| Everett | next? Okay, next up for me. Hmm. Not that |
| Everett | many choices, kiddo. Can we talk about the squale |
| Everett | sub thirty-seven legend. |
| Everett | Yeah. And that that was for you, Luke. |
| Everett | Uh yeah. I said it right probably. |
| Everett | You did. Well, I didn't. You said it right-ish. |
| Everett | I got close. I don't |
| Everett | as right as as right as we're gonna say it as |
| Everett | right as we're gonna say it so this is a return to ex existence of the sub thirty seven legend, and it is a squale, but |
| Everett | it's sized so perfectly. |
| Everett | What we have here is a 37mm by 112 thick because of its crystal. It's 10-7 |
| Everett | without a crystal, 45.5 lug |
| Everett | to lug, 300 meters of water resistance, Slita SW200 movement, the elaborate grade with no date, and it is everything you want in a small stature squale dive watch with Fotina. But I love it. Um I have exactly no notes. This is what I want. Squally, like for me, is it tends to be |
| Everett | too big. So now we've got |
| Everett | this down to a 37, |
| Everett | ele11 just over 11 thick. It is yes. |
| Everett | Yes, please, and thank you. Andrew, |
| Everett | is the top so so is the top |
| Everett | plane of the mid-case of this watch completely flat? It looks like it could |
| Everett | almost be concave. |
| Everett | I there I don't have a real good |
| Everett | profile picture of it. Yeah. |
| Everett | But it is. I think that it is if |
| Everett | it's not a perfect plane, |
| Everett | it is as close as I've ever seen a watch. Yeah. |
| Everett | But because of the shape of the watch, it |
| Everett | doesn't look like it's going to lie flat. I think it's going to have a great, a great wear, but that it |
| Everett | it makes the lugs uhh kind |
| Everett | of blow out a little bit. Yeah. Like balloon. With a |
| Everett | great, great ceramic |
| Everett | or or maybe what is this, a sapphire insert maybe on the on the bezel? |
| Everett | You know, I I understand they released this as |
| Everett | a limited edition in 2024, and I think we we missed it. Or at least I |
| Everett | I missed it. Um I'm with you, man. I think this is a |
| Everett | really cool release. It it's |
| Everett | all the things that I've really liked and and and really continue to like about Squale uh |
| Andrew | without any of the like just kind of |
| Everett | small misses. The size is perfect. I'm totally down with fotina |
| Andrew | in this application it's got |
| Everett | the uh oh the hollow fkm |
| Andrew | strap what do they call it doesn't |
| Everett | matter. 20 to 16 on it. It's just everything we love about 1970s |
| Everett | watches. Yeah, I mean, can you give me a bracelet? Can you give me a f like a folded link bracelet? Can they hook up with citizen and hook me up with a fucking Japanese like folded link bracelet? |
| Andrew | Yeah, I'd fuck with that. But I'm I I would |
| Everett | wear it on rubber. Like that's what I would wear it on anyway. I just want it like the bracelet at that point is just because I want to have it. This is cool. Not because I want to wear it on it. Because I want this on |
| Everett | It's a really weird watch and I like it a lot. I'm with you. |
| Everett | Um I don't even I don't even mind the Fautina on this. I I think it |
| Everett | looks really nice. This |
| Everett | is sort of like the watch that I should like that |
| Everett | I do like. Not like the channel |
| Everett | watch that we talked about earlier? A little bit like |
| Everett | that, actually. A little bit like the channel |
| Everett | watch. Because this is kind of all the things you hate. |
| Everett | Well. Th'eres no bracelet. It's |
| Everett | got Fotina. |
| Everett | There's way too many logos |
| Everett | on the dial because Squale wants a dozen logos on the dial. There's three server, yeah. There's three logos. |
| Everett | That's just squally. Yeah, but that's too |
| Everett | many. |
| Everett | Yeah. But I I I love this. |
| Everett | And I love it. It's in a 37. Squally, like I've always kind of like been reluctant to dive into because it's they I don't know the size just has never spoken to me, but bringing in a 37, this is uh this does a thing to me makes me feel some things south |
| Everett | of the border if you know what I mean |
| Everett | my wallet's feeling heavy and these are uh seventeen hundred and fifty US money. So, you know, right right where you expect it to be. |
| Everett | Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Uh so a few weeks ago Oris released their Atelier |
| Everett | complication watch that everybody was like, |
| Everett | well, we didn't talk |
| Everett | about it in the show because I just didn't think it was that interesting. Um |
| Everett | maybe it was interesting. I just uh I just don't want to. I just don't want |
| Everett | to. I I didn't. And and Andrew, you didn't |
| Everett | because In ca'use you didt want to, I guess. |
| Andrew | I had the same thing happen, yeah. |
| Everett | Uh it was like But then this week they released their uh Atelier |
| Everett | date thirty eight millimeter |
| Everett | and all of a sudden I kinda wanna |
| Everett | all of a sudden the the my interest is piqued. |
| Everett | I kinda wanna. Okay, so let's. Um |
| Everett | you know, Oris obviously uh they're a weird brand. I uh you know, they don't have |
| Everett | that many watches, |
| Everett | but I have so many. But I can't |
| Everett | think of another brand that |
| Everett | is so I don't want to say spastic, |
| Everett | that's not the right word, but is so like |
| Everett | all over the place with their watches, you know. The the |
| Everett | Pro Pilot X is |
| Everett | such a like bleeding edge watch, you know, with like its its |
| Everett | seat buckle clasp and you know titanium and |
| Everett | angles and mo you know |
| Everett | really sort of pushing pushing the envelope and and then they've got and and then they got the Aquus, which is like |
| Everett | maybe the weirdest maybe |
| Everett | the weirdest dive watch on earth, but |
| Everett | like really awesome and beloved. |
| Everett | And and then they've got the like the 65, the pointer |
| Everett | date, which are these like almost |
| Everett | like retro dress. |
| Everett | Yeah, that's like it it's like a modern 1920s |
| Everett | bar. The one thing you can't say about any of those watches, at least those four that I've just brought up, is that they're is that they're |
| Everett | boring, right? None |
| Everett | of those watches are even remotely |
| Everett | boring. The |
| Everett | Ortellier 38mm date is |
| Everett | boring. And in a good way. So refined. |
| Everett | This is unlike this is the first Aurus I've looked at. I'm like, whew. Okay. |
| Everett | And this isn't a new release. Let's be clear. The |
| Everett | Artellier date uh it's a a historic model for Oris, uh, but certainly not one that's |
| Everett | gotten a lot of attention recently. That's obviously changed here now with with two releases in a matter of a month uh in the line. It seems to me that Oris is like, hey, this |
| Everett | is this is a direction we want to |
| Everett | point our wagon. Um we've got a smaller watch |
| Everett | previously previously |
| Everett | 40 down to 38, which is a great move. |
| Everett | I I would have gone 36 if it's if it's my my ship to steer, I go 36 |
| Everett | with this. It's not, and so it's |
| Everett | a 38. Yep. Uh 10-9 thick, lug to lug of |
| Everett | 44, which is terrific because this is a watch that could very easily have two long lugs and it doesn't. Uh very, very polished. Big box dome crystal and polish makes this thing look like jewelry. It has a bezel if you look really, really closely. With |
| Everett | a loop, yeah. It has a bezel. |
| Everett | Uh we promise. You may not see it in the pictures, but I promise it's there. Uh it |
| Everett | comes in three colors: dark blue, white, and chocolate |
| Everett | black, which I feel slightly uncomfortable saying I |
| Everett | don't know why. Another |
| Everett | really dynamic black though, if you look at the different colors, uh the different photos of it, it it really interacts interesting ways with the light. And I think part of it is because of the really unique texture on both the blue and the black. |
| Everett | It's a stamped texture, but it it sort of evokes |
| Everett | sort of like a geometric guillosh. Yeah. Like a radio guiosh. Umray. Yeah, |
| Everett | but it's uh rather than being kind of arky |
| Everett | or floral y, |
| Everett | it is uh like markers alternating like high and low points and uh it's something I just just look at pictures of it. I'm not gonna be able to describe this geometric pattern. |
| Everett | Yeah. Uh the white dial has |
| Everett | more of like a sandy texture. It's got |
| Everett | the uh a texture medallion in the middle, like the blue and the black, but |
| Everett | it's more sandy. It doesn't have that |
| Everett | same papery geometric |
| Everett | ridge. Uh yeah, no, that's good. Paper is good. Um the markers |
| Everett | are wild, |
| Everett | highly polished silver markers. |
| Everett | I don't know, not not uh silver the metal, but but silver ice. |
| Everett | Maletlic silver. Yeah. With but they're they're wedge shaped. That they come to like Yep. They come to meet the the dial on the inside and on the outside of the marker are much higher. |
| Everett | 200 dash movement, 200-1 Salita, 200-1 movement, which allows |
| Everett | them to keep the price on this relatively |
| Everett | reasonable. Look, this is a 1,750 franc watch, which I think means it's a |
| Everett | $2,000 watch |
| Everett | on a strap or a little bit more, |
| Everett | $2,200 on a bracelet. Not cheap. But |
| Everett | that's horse money, though. That's horse |
| Everett | money. Um, and it's really, really pretty. I I mean, this |
| Everett | is more than an |
| Everett | entry-level dress watch, right? Undeniably, it's more than entry-level, but this is a |
| Everett | this is a cocktail time or or perhaps a bambino and I think there's a lot of |
| Everett | there's a lot of people that could Mature into a watch like this. If you've been a guy who's had a cocktail time for |
| Everett | you know the last 15 years, |
| Everett | and you're like, you know, that cocktail time |
| Everett | was a little too big when I bought it, and right now |
| Everett | it's actually just way too big. |
| Everett | And I'm just ready for something a little nicer. I make a |
| Everett | little bit more money. Uh I I |
| Everett | I I want something a little bit more mature. This this is gonna scratch |
| Everett | all of that itch vertically, not |
| Everett | horizontally. Yeah, right down to the bone. |
| Everett | And and and I I just I I think you could do so much worse than this. |
| Everett | It this does come with a bracelet if you're so inclined, and |
| Everett | it's a really lovely H-link |
| Everett | bracelet with polished center links, and it |
| Everett | is really dynamic and beautiful. This is just a terrific watch. I |
| Everett | the texture on this blue, it's good on the black. The really delicate papery texture on the white is good. But but this this stays |
| Everett | on, ande reference. Chocolate rain. Oh yeah, chocolate well, I know, but this is chocolate black. Uh okay. Carry on. |
| Everett | Uh this texture on the on the blue just has me. |
| Everett | Andrew, in there any other watches you want to talk about? Nah. Then take me to church. What other things, what you got? Okay. |
| Everett | So uh uh not too long ago you recommended the movie Send Help. I watched it. |
| Everett | Loved it. It's so good. I |
| Everett | I probably won't watch it a second time. It |
| Everett | it's a m i it's like the most surprising movie, right? You're like |
| Everett | the whole time. Like the everything and nothing makes sense. This the the story unfolds at this |
| Everett | really great pace |
| Everett | uh I loved it it it kind of had the uh no we we talked about it already so I watched that movie and at the conclusion of that movie I got a recommendation of like hey you might also like |
| Everett | like an AI like a Netflix AI recommendation like you |
| Everett | might also like Like uh the movie that it recommended to me |
| Andrew | was Ready or Not. Oh, |
| Everett | yeah. Oh my |
| Everett | gosh, it had it was like so. I love this movie. It's a 2019 movie. Uh it was uh it's directed by Matt Betanelli Olpine and Tyler Gillette, uh written by Guy Busick and R. |
| Everett | Christopher Murray. Don't care. |
| Andrew | It had like it |
| Everett | was the same kind of mindfuck movie where |
| Everett | you don't exactly |
| Everett | expect what's about to happen, but then it happens. It felt like get out, it felt like uh a good classic slasher, but without being a slasher until it became one. Uh I loved it. It was |
| Everett | so different from anything I've ever seen. Maybe a little bit more predictable than |
| Everett | send help or get help or whatever it's |
| Andrew | called. Definitely more |
| Everett | predictable once |
| Everett | you get there. |
| Everett | Right? Like when you when when the |
| Everett | when when they open their kimono, you're like, oh yeah, I I I saw that coming. |
| Everett | Yeah. But you didn't until they did. Yeah. |
| Everett | Right. Uh it's it's almost like you look back and you're like, oh, I should have seen that coming. And then and then and then once you hit that threshold, everything uh everything makes sense. But it felt kind of like get out. Uh it felt like a it uh oh shoot, what's his name? Key. King |
| Andrew | King Michael Key. It felt like one of his movies. |
| Everett | Yeah, a little bit. Um the the |
| Everett | it was like a super well cast |
| Everett | movie where all of these supporting actors |
| Everett | just did exactly what you wanted |
| Everett | them to do. There was weird mysteries that never |
| Andrew | get solved, and you're like kind of okay with |
| Everett | that. Uh it was super fun. |
| Everett | Probably an also another movie I I |
| Everett | I only need to watch once. Right? This isn't one that that that you go back to. Like it's not like Black Mirror or or even uh Squid Game. |
| Everett | I think I I I've been long enough since I saw Send Help that I would watch it again today, I think. |
| Everett | Okay. A different perspective going in the second time, right? |
| Everett | Because like, yeah. Okay. I I |
| Everett | know. But I would watch it |
| Everett | again today because it's yeah. It's I mean I think the second time, you know, movies like that, right, where you you learn the story, like like you understand what's happening, when you go back, you can really appreciate the performances the acting and the the relationships |
| Everett | beautifully acted I like that that's that's peak both of those |
| Everett | actors uh but |
| Everett | this this was very much like that. You recognize some people, but because they didn't go big on like anybody but one person, you're you're experiencing all of these performers for the first time in the context that you're watching this movie. It was super fun. A like it has like kill bill |
| Everett | kill bill feels, like just all of these |
| Everett | really familiar storylines and cinematography. I |
| Everett | loved it. It was fantastic. |
| Everett | Highly recommend. It's on Netflix. Uh oh no it's on Hulu is where I watched it um because it it goes through the Disney app. So when you bundle your Hulu and ESPN in Disney your, Hulu app no longer works. So you have to watch things through Disney, which does make it problematic in telling my kids, no, you can't watch this because it's not on Disney. Um but whatever. It was really fun. Highly recommend if you're looking for like a kind of psychological thriller light. |
| Everett | Yeah, lots of blood. It never gets really scary |
| Everett | extreme violence, but not scary. But but and not quite Tarantino blood and violence until the very end. Kind of Tarantino-esque in the way that it's like all build up and then just like |
| Everett | Yeah. Dust still non bloodbath. Yeah. Yeah. |
| Everett | Super fun. Yeah, good, good pick. |
| Everett | Uh that's a fun one. Yeah. Uh I I don't remember. I think I watched that with Betty. I |
| Everett | watched that with my teenage daughter. That |
| Everett | seems her flavor. Yeah. Totally her flavor. |
| Everett | Uh Andrew, for other things today, I've got two other things. They are of a of a close enough theme |
| Everett | that I'm gonna consider them one other |
| Everett | thing. As always, be cheating. Just cheating. But I think more uh |
| Everett | more importantly, I gotta do something that we don't do often enough on this |
| Everett | show, at least recently, which is I am going |
| Everett | to direct you, you at home, yes, I'm talking to you. |
| Everett | I'm going to direct you to two |
| Everett | very, very small makers on Etsy. Creators. |
| Everett | Creators? People that make things. Uh on Etsy. Specifically, what I have is |
| Everett | two bags. |
| Everett | Two bags. Pouches, |
| Everett | bags that I've picked up recently. So I'm gonna hand you the first one. So the first one is a very small what what is the dimensions on that, Andrew? Uh I think it's roughly three by five. Three by five, that's what I was gonna say say. I'd uh just a |
| Everett | sub three by five. I'm gonna be like two and a half by four and a half. It it yeah. It's uh |
| Everett | I think it's I think it's actually three and a |
| Everett | half. Anyway, it's roughly three |
| Everett | by five pouch that is made by |
| Everett | a store on Etsy, a maker on Etsy called Alpine Elements. There will be a link |
| Everett | to this in the show notes as ever. Alpine Elements. This is a very small flat gear pouch |
| Everett | made of Dynema. Do you know what Dynema is, Andrew? |
| Everett | It feels like a collagen casing for sausage. |
| Everett | Dynema is a really interesting material. It's stronger by weight than steel. Uh, it is a it works |
| Everett | really well in uh rope |
| Everett | applications, it can be laminated |
| Everett | for body armor. Um, |
| Everett | there's all sorts of applications, but in particular, outdoor enthusiasts in the last handful of years have |
| Everett | taken to using Dynema for just |
| Everett | about everything for backpacking because it's so light and it's so strong. It does have some weaknesses. It is uh a very expensive to produce, so it's more expensive than like a you know like a Gore-Tex fabric. Um |
| Everett | it is uh |
| Everett | uh not impervious to heat uh or temperature fluctuations, so it |
| Everett | can be damaged by by you know any sort of real high heat can damage it, but |
| Everett | it is relatively waterproof, it's super strong. I've actually purchased this for the uh boo-boo bag |
| Everett | that I've got in my iFac. Uh so it is inside of this thing I've got, you know, band-aids and some moleskin and |
| Everett | uh other things that sort of you keep together and you can pull it out quickly and say, oh, you need a band-aid for your boo-boo. Here you go. Um, it's just fantastic. It's got a great sort of sealed |
| Everett | laminated waterproof zipper. And the welded |
| Everett | zipper is uh really impressive. |
| Everett | It it's just great. I bought this thing for $14. This is oh, so it's three and a half by five inches. It is the small flat gear pouch made |
| Everett | of ultralight dynama zipper Diddy bag. Three |
| Everett | and a half by five. They have it in the |
| Everett | Diddy bag. She has it in four |
| Everett | sizes. So seven by ten, five point five by eight, four point five by six, and |
| Everett | three and a half by five. Um, but |
| Everett | she's got a whole bunch of other stuff. She's got uh let's see. Uh let's see. Follow sh nope, don't follow the shop, go to shop. She's got like uh other pouches, different dimensions, different sizes. Anyway, it's the type of thing you take a flyer on, because I think I paid fourteen bucks and you're like, yeah, but w whatever. And then I got it and I was like, oh, this is just terrific. And I'm gonna go back and buy some more in some different sizes. I'm not quite sure what I'm gonna do with them. That's the |
| Everett | problem with something like this. You're like, I want that. I don't know what I'm gonna do with it yet. |
| Everett | I'm gonna put shit in it. I I |
| Everett | bought this one very specifically to to accomplish a task and |
| Everett | it's done that perfectly, but now I'm like, I want more of these things because it's just |
| Everett | great. Like and it looks like this is like techie. Like if someone saw this, they'd be like, what is that? That's cool. I want to get that. |
| Everett | Because it's really well manufactured. |
| Everett | That's right. That's right. Super well made and it it''ss just just great. I I |
| Everett | love it. Um okay, |
| Everett | so that's that's one of two. The second one I have, this is from a maker called |
| Everett | Gear by Julian. So oh wait. |
| Everett | Um Alpine Elements, she |
| Everett | is in Highlands |
| Everett | Ranch, Colorado. Gear by Julian. He's a seller out of Seattle. I gather that he is like a like a Honda Element and FJ Cruiser enthusiast. And he got his start by making accessories for Honda Elements and FJ Cruisers, but he has made a small tool bag. I actually think this is a design. I think this is an old military tool bag design. But he makes these small canvas, I think it's a hemp canvas tool bags with nylon |
| Everett | webbing reinforcement |
| Everett | and handles. And this is, I don't know, I I think it is, I figured this out at some point. I think it's 10 inches long by a four inch diameter circle. It's a it's a tubular |
| Everett | it's a tube duffel. It's a tube duffel. |
| Everett | It's 10 inches long by I think four inches on the circle diameter. And it's just |
| Everett | great. It's just great. |
| Everett | I got two of these things that he sells them. They come with little patches. He makes his own like uh patches. |
| Everett | Morale patches. Morale patches, which I |
| Everett | took off immediately. But um because I'm like I don't want to Honda Element Morale patch. Uh with that said, this thing it I just love it. So I um I've been putting together this is something I I don't know if I've talked about on the show, but I'm putting together toolkits for my kids to give them when they move into their first place. |
| Everett | So I'm, you know, I'll I will |
| Everett | buy tools if I see a good deal on something, but they're all like really nice, sort of |
| Everett | Gucci, not super over the top, |
| Everett | but like nice stuff. So I bought a couple of these because I've put together like one component of the and I was like, oh, I want something. And I found these on Etsy and I was like, oh, I'll give these a try. I'm gonna order a whole bunch of these because |
| Everett | it's just awesome. These |
| Everett | are awesome. I it you know what what fits in them i i've got these and inside of them i have a pair of linesman applier a pair of diagonal cutters a pair of wire strippers and |
| Everett | three different screwdrivers, all made by clients. So nine-inch, nine-inch linesmen's, |
| Everett | three full-size screwdrivers, and |
| Everett | it all fits in there. Like it's not stuffed in there, right? |
| Everett | No, there's ample room for more. |
| Everett | You could you could stuff a bunch of shit in there, but |
| Everett | if you've ever tried to fit a nine inch |
| Everett | linesman plier into anything |
| Everett | besides like a full size toolbox, they don't fit in things. They're just big enough |
| Everett | that they don't fit in anything. It fits easily in here. Um |
| Everett | and you know, a a pair of uh like a pair of nine-inch linesmen is a big motherfucker. And it just like it almost like looks like a clown car when it comes out. It's like how did |
| Everett | that what? |
| Everett | Um Justin Wilman over |
| Everett | here. And and the case just I mean this |
| Everett | thing doesn't feel like it will |
| Everett | ever break. You you know, I I don't know |
| Everett | the zipper. I don't think is the |
| Everett | nicest zipper on earth. |
| Everett | No. But because of the |
| Everett | construction, it would you could replace the |
| Everett | zipper in 20 minutes with a sewing machine. |
| Everett | And And because of the construction, it's a top zip |
| Everett | duffel. Yeah. Uh you're |
| Everett | you're not gonna put much pressure on that zip. |
| Everett | That's right. Yeah. I I mean you yeah, no, I think that's right, Andrew. This thing is great. A |
| Everett | side zip rather than top zip? Yeah, side zip. If we're if we're looking at a duffel bag. The tube, it's a vertical tube zipper. |
| Everett | And I've got all these like uh I've got like weight |
| Everett | when you buy a savior bag, they always send you like four or five of the |
| Everett | thousand of the Velcro |
| Everett | that you can ride on, or these you know, hook and loop things that are made for writing on |
| Everett | with Sharpie. So I have like fifty |
| Everett | of these at the house. So I just put a |
| Everett | one of those Savior hook and loop. It's like this is great. |
| Everett | It it looks like a a dainty little purse that you would carry your Pomeranian |
| Everett | in. You totally could too, but it's pretty |
| Everett | I mean this is pretty butch the green canvas and webbing like um okay |
| Everett | so just just so you know just |
| Everett | so you know at home gear by Julian has 963 sales. Alpine Elements, one point nine K sales. So |
| Everett | um I think for a matter |
| Everett | of established and |
| Everett | and you know frequent |
| Everett | makers. Sure. But you can get a |
| Everett | you can get one of the gear by Julian bags for 12 bucks. You can get two |
| Everett | of them for 22 bucks. |
| Everett | You could get an alpine Elements |
| Everett | three and a half by five |
| Everett | bag for fourteen, fifteen for the medium, seventeen for the large, nineteen for the extra large. Blow these guys |
| Everett | up. Just go buy something. Go buy |
| Everett | something from one of these buyers. Blow these guys up. I want them both to be like, what the fuck just happened? Wouldn't that be fun? Wouldn't that be fun if everybody who listened went and bought one of these things, it |
| Everett | would be if these guys were like, How did I have |
| Everett | just twenty percent of my forever sales in one week, go buy one of these things? They're fucking great. And these are these are people that I think deserve to be supported. |
| Everett | Uh does the does the gear by Julian sizes do they have different sizes? It's |
| Everett | all the same size. Okay. So all this |
| Everett | like miniature |
| Everett | I want him to I want him to make more |
| Everett | bags in different sizes. So yeah, nine by five by four is the dimension on this. |
| Everett | So I I would love it if he |
| Everett | made a slightly bigger size. I think this would slay in like a fifteen inch, fifteen by six. Yeah Yeah. |
| Everett | Yeah, put some put some D-rings on it for the ends. That's a that cause that would be like That's |
| Everett | all of a sudden like a like a serious tool |
| Everett | bag. Or like a a ball or |
| Everett | gym bag. Yeah, I I think you'd need bigger |
| Everett | for a gym bag, but it wouldn't you? I think you need like 18 inches, maybe |
| Everett | I think you could get by with 15 inches uh you know for a a pair of shorts, a shirt, a pair of |
| Everett | shoes. Um I |
| Everett | mean 15 inches is like the width of this room. |
| Everett | Uh that's all I got. Huh? |
| Everett | Well Andrew, you want to add anything |
| Everett | before we go? Nah, I'm out |
| Everett | of things. Hey folks, thanks for joining us |
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| Everett | Bye-bye. No, no, no. |