WEBVTT 00:00:00.049 --> 00:00:02.871 Audio and video here. 00:00:03.871 --> 00:00:04.793 Greetings everybody. 00:00:05.192 --> 00:00:11.077 We are live and we're going now. 00:00:11.518 --> 00:00:13.439 Quiet numbskulls, I'm broadcasting. 00:00:16.582 --> 00:00:17.963 This here is a true story 00:00:18.583 --> 00:00:21.725 about crossing the pond at 00:00:21.786 --> 00:00:23.968 night in the world's 00:00:24.007 --> 00:00:27.751 smallest cockpit on the tanker 00:00:28.864 --> 00:00:29.606 Through the weather. 00:00:30.626 --> 00:00:33.029 Oh, and to the tanker crew who did that. 00:00:33.749 --> 00:00:34.250 Thanks a lot. 00:00:34.289 --> 00:00:35.371 We really appreciated that. 00:00:38.173 --> 00:00:38.954 I'm just kidding. 00:00:39.094 --> 00:00:40.496 No, I'm not. 00:00:40.536 --> 00:00:51.265 Well, there I was, crossing the pond, 00:00:51.326 --> 00:00:52.426 and you could see that I 00:00:52.487 --> 00:00:53.828 wasn't exactly fond. 00:00:55.646 --> 00:00:57.807 So there I was sitting at my 00:00:57.847 --> 00:01:02.350 desk around June of twenty, twenty three. 00:01:02.950 --> 00:01:04.290 I received an email from 00:01:04.990 --> 00:01:06.590 from a fellow down at Pax. 00:01:07.212 --> 00:01:08.552 His name was actually said I 00:01:08.572 --> 00:01:10.433 could use his name, Mike Chick, 00:01:11.192 --> 00:01:13.334 and he's affiliated with 00:01:13.853 --> 00:01:14.715 the Harrier program. 00:01:16.343 --> 00:01:18.284 He had an idea to celebrate, I guess, 00:01:18.304 --> 00:01:19.323 their sunsetting it 00:01:19.424 --> 00:01:20.364 officially sometime in 00:01:20.403 --> 00:01:21.185 twenty twenty seven. 00:01:21.605 --> 00:01:23.364 And he knew the plan ahead 00:01:24.006 --> 00:01:24.865 and he wanted to 00:01:25.046 --> 00:01:26.406 commemorate it with a watch. 00:01:26.445 --> 00:01:28.527 He was a watch fan or watch guy, 00:01:28.587 --> 00:01:29.888 and he ran it up the 00:01:29.927 --> 00:01:31.147 flagpole to his boss. 00:01:31.168 --> 00:01:32.769 His boss liked the idea. 00:01:34.388 --> 00:01:35.930 He reached out to me and. 00:01:38.149 --> 00:01:40.849 We started talking and he 00:01:40.870 --> 00:01:42.549 knew the store and knew my channel, 00:01:43.209 --> 00:01:44.930 knew I'd done batch runs 00:01:46.191 --> 00:01:47.311 for things like this. 00:01:47.551 --> 00:01:51.271 And there started a, I don't know, 00:01:51.290 --> 00:01:51.911 probably a twelve to 00:01:52.031 --> 00:01:53.512 eighteen month design cycle 00:01:53.572 --> 00:01:55.111 of back and forth and 00:01:55.971 --> 00:01:57.731 government stuff and how 00:01:57.751 --> 00:01:58.912 that goes and how long 00:01:58.953 --> 00:02:00.852 things can take to get approvals. 00:02:00.933 --> 00:02:03.492 And just to obviously use the Harrier name, 00:02:04.093 --> 00:02:05.453 it needed Boeing's approval 00:02:05.493 --> 00:02:06.274 and whoever else. 00:02:07.623 --> 00:02:08.883 yeah now here we are we got 00:02:08.903 --> 00:02:10.164 a uh we got a watch to 00:02:10.205 --> 00:02:10.944 limited run we're only 00:02:10.965 --> 00:02:12.907 gonna make as many as we 00:02:12.926 --> 00:02:15.187 get orders for uh so taking 00:02:15.228 --> 00:02:16.209 pre-orders the pre-orders 00:02:16.229 --> 00:02:19.131 will close september so 00:02:19.610 --> 00:02:21.271 about four weeks or so from 00:02:21.352 --> 00:02:23.133 now um four and a half 00:02:23.174 --> 00:02:24.754 weeks or so uh go to 00:02:24.775 --> 00:02:26.075 production then we're gonna 00:02:26.496 --> 00:02:28.217 ship them out uh to whoever 00:02:28.417 --> 00:02:30.959 whoever wanted one wow I 00:02:30.979 --> 00:02:32.960 want one yeah right now I'm 00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:33.901 gonna put my order in 00:02:34.587 --> 00:02:35.848 I ordered one I may order 00:02:35.908 --> 00:02:36.908 another one I'll tell you 00:02:36.929 --> 00:02:38.430 what this is cool greetings 00:02:38.490 --> 00:02:39.909 everyone repeat here kind 00:02:39.949 --> 00:02:41.010 of a departure from our 00:02:41.091 --> 00:02:42.230 usual format because we 00:02:42.290 --> 00:02:43.331 usually have aviators but 00:02:43.692 --> 00:02:44.491 actually we do have an 00:02:44.551 --> 00:02:47.052 aviator yeah 00:02:47.073 --> 00:02:49.033 congratulations in fact an 00:02:49.093 --> 00:02:50.313 aviator he got his private 00:02:50.334 --> 00:02:51.055 he's working on his 00:02:51.094 --> 00:02:52.455 instruments so that's very 00:02:52.495 --> 00:02:53.936 cool we'll talk to you 00:02:53.955 --> 00:02:55.135 about some of that too a 00:02:55.195 --> 00:02:56.016 little bit but uh 00:02:56.997 --> 00:02:59.277 So, yeah, we had a group chat. 00:02:59.818 --> 00:03:01.139 Our show a couple weeks back 00:03:01.180 --> 00:03:02.881 was with the Young Guns 00:03:02.901 --> 00:03:04.020 from Five Forty-Two. 00:03:04.100 --> 00:03:05.461 They threw the link to your 00:03:05.502 --> 00:03:07.743 video in the group chat, 00:03:08.003 --> 00:03:09.905 and it immediately piqued my interest. 00:03:10.305 --> 00:03:11.686 And, oh, cool, 00:03:11.765 --> 00:03:13.227 we'll put a link in the show 00:03:13.247 --> 00:03:16.149 notes with this, too, on the blog post. 00:03:17.455 --> 00:03:18.776 This is a cool watch, folks. 00:03:18.836 --> 00:03:20.056 I would go look at this thing. 00:03:20.256 --> 00:03:22.037 And, oh, by the way, two things. 00:03:22.056 --> 00:03:24.617 One, this is not an advertisement. 00:03:24.698 --> 00:03:26.098 He's not a sponsor. 00:03:26.258 --> 00:03:27.120 We love this thing, 00:03:27.139 --> 00:03:28.219 and we wanted to let people 00:03:28.259 --> 00:03:30.040 know about it before the window closed, 00:03:30.100 --> 00:03:31.961 and you got screwed by not being there. 00:03:32.442 --> 00:03:33.862 And secondly, this is repeat. 00:03:34.223 --> 00:03:35.043 Thanks for joining us. 00:03:35.062 --> 00:03:36.163 Where's my co-horse, Fig? 00:03:36.443 --> 00:03:39.245 Hey, I am straight from the fucking DMV, 00:03:39.284 --> 00:03:39.686 baby. 00:03:41.586 --> 00:03:43.407 And I don't mean that in a bad way. 00:03:43.467 --> 00:03:44.108 Yes, I do. 00:03:44.747 --> 00:03:47.068 Yeah, I've been delayed, and I apologize, 00:03:47.109 --> 00:03:48.248 but it's really a pleasure 00:03:48.269 --> 00:03:49.808 to have Mark with us. 00:03:49.829 --> 00:03:50.490 Thank you. 00:03:50.509 --> 00:03:52.250 Mark from Long Island Watches, right? 00:03:52.330 --> 00:03:52.729 Long Island? 00:03:52.750 --> 00:03:54.050 Yeah, you got it. 00:03:54.371 --> 00:03:55.091 Yeah, that's where I am. 00:03:55.191 --> 00:03:55.850 Yeah, Long Island Watches. 00:03:55.871 --> 00:03:57.632 And I'm excited, first of all, 00:03:57.651 --> 00:03:58.431 to talk to you about this 00:03:58.651 --> 00:04:00.252 specific watch because in 00:04:00.271 --> 00:04:01.793 the link that he's talking about, 00:04:02.312 --> 00:04:03.312 I watched it yesterday 00:04:03.353 --> 00:04:04.552 morning while I was shaving 00:04:04.573 --> 00:04:05.533 about five in the morning 00:04:05.574 --> 00:04:07.753 at some undisclosed 00:04:07.813 --> 00:04:09.074 location that I was working, 00:04:09.314 --> 00:04:10.895 and I was like, holy shit, 00:04:10.955 --> 00:04:11.794 I got to have one of these. 00:04:12.395 --> 00:04:13.596 So let's talk about this. 00:04:15.186 --> 00:04:17.226 yeah very cool well first 00:04:17.247 --> 00:04:19.146 and foremost um so the 00:04:19.187 --> 00:04:20.288 origination of the idea was 00:04:20.348 --> 00:04:21.927 out of uh out of pax river 00:04:21.947 --> 00:04:23.588 yeah and and working with a 00:04:23.629 --> 00:04:27.750 guy on on design items um 00:04:27.870 --> 00:04:28.889 we had a question and I 00:04:28.910 --> 00:04:30.091 know it's too late now to 00:04:30.310 --> 00:04:31.790 to incorporate it was there 00:04:31.831 --> 00:04:32.911 ever any consideration of 00:04:32.951 --> 00:04:33.711 putting the squadron 00:04:34.696 --> 00:04:36.918 patches on anywhere for the 00:04:36.937 --> 00:04:39.500 you know so I'm not too 00:04:39.560 --> 00:04:40.482 well versed you know like 00:04:40.502 --> 00:04:41.723 in the program itself but 00:04:41.783 --> 00:04:42.603 you know the case back's 00:04:42.624 --> 00:04:44.305 got the the four country 00:04:44.404 --> 00:04:46.367 consortium that's involved 00:04:46.708 --> 00:04:47.769 and that was kind of where 00:04:47.848 --> 00:04:49.370 it you know the only 00:04:49.430 --> 00:04:51.351 branding I guess or yeah 00:04:51.372 --> 00:04:52.814 plain branding that you know 00:04:53.353 --> 00:04:54.654 that they really wanted to do. 00:04:54.935 --> 00:04:57.516 I think maybe it just leaves it more open, 00:04:57.677 --> 00:05:00.999 I guess, because originally, you know, 00:05:01.059 --> 00:05:02.059 it was just going to be 00:05:02.079 --> 00:05:03.360 open to their community. 00:05:03.540 --> 00:05:03.819 Right. 00:05:05.120 --> 00:05:06.461 And then they let me open it 00:05:06.502 --> 00:05:07.322 up to the public, 00:05:07.862 --> 00:05:09.384 which was very nice of them, like, 00:05:09.543 --> 00:05:11.024 you know, to sell it to my customers. 00:05:11.045 --> 00:05:11.464 Yeah. 00:05:11.584 --> 00:05:12.925 You know, I don't know how big 00:05:14.110 --> 00:05:14.629 I don't know how big the 00:05:14.670 --> 00:05:17.050 audience is on your side, but on my side, 00:05:18.190 --> 00:05:18.350 it's, 00:05:18.451 --> 00:05:20.571 I preach to watch guys and a lot of 00:05:20.591 --> 00:05:21.651 watch guys also happen to 00:05:21.670 --> 00:05:23.351 be either their pilots or 00:05:23.372 --> 00:05:24.552 their wannabe pilots, 00:05:24.632 --> 00:05:25.752 aviators kind of thing. 00:05:25.791 --> 00:05:27.673 So it might scratch and itch for them. 00:05:27.733 --> 00:05:29.552 And then I guess the third prong is, 00:05:29.992 --> 00:05:31.692 you know, I'm, I'm born in seventy six. 00:05:31.872 --> 00:05:33.093 So the Harrier is kind of a 00:05:33.173 --> 00:05:35.093 plane that I grew up with in the eighties, 00:05:35.973 --> 00:05:37.033 eighties, early nineties. 00:05:37.093 --> 00:05:38.475 And to me, that was another thing. 00:05:38.535 --> 00:05:40.074 I was like, wow, that's another audience. 00:05:40.095 --> 00:05:40.634 Just these 00:05:41.331 --> 00:05:43.031 whatever generation I am of 00:05:43.071 --> 00:05:44.992 people that kind of remember this thing, 00:05:45.012 --> 00:05:45.211 you know, 00:05:45.232 --> 00:05:46.232 doing the vertical takeoff and 00:05:46.252 --> 00:05:47.233 landing when we were kids. 00:05:47.632 --> 00:05:48.833 And that was, you know, so cool. 00:05:48.872 --> 00:05:49.733 So it was kind of like three 00:05:49.773 --> 00:05:50.853 prongs that we could attack. 00:05:50.874 --> 00:05:52.274 Nice. 00:05:52.473 --> 00:05:53.473 Nice. 00:05:53.733 --> 00:05:53.913 Yeah. 00:05:53.954 --> 00:05:55.134 I remember the first time I 00:05:55.175 --> 00:05:55.954 ever saw the Harrier, 00:05:55.995 --> 00:05:57.495 it was on television and I went, Oh, 00:05:57.514 --> 00:05:58.096 that's fake. 00:05:58.115 --> 00:05:59.396 And yeah. 00:05:59.435 --> 00:06:00.336 Right. 00:06:00.355 --> 00:06:00.495 Yeah. 00:06:00.516 --> 00:06:02.036 I was like, uh, no, actually it's not. 00:06:02.096 --> 00:06:02.476 That's real. 00:06:02.497 --> 00:06:02.737 I'm like, 00:06:03.406 --> 00:06:04.427 Jets can't do that. 00:06:07.752 --> 00:06:07.992 Yeah. 00:06:08.473 --> 00:06:08.754 I was like. 00:06:08.793 --> 00:06:09.514 Eleven or twelve. 00:06:09.555 --> 00:06:09.795 And then. 00:06:09.935 --> 00:06:10.096 You know. 00:06:10.295 --> 00:06:10.716 Went on to. 00:06:11.036 --> 00:06:11.958 Fly one of those things. 00:06:12.019 --> 00:06:12.379 I had no idea. 00:06:12.399 --> 00:06:13.980 It would be my life's path. 00:06:15.122 --> 00:06:17.446 Um. 00:06:17.485 --> 00:06:17.805 So. 00:06:18.187 --> 00:06:18.307 Uh. 00:06:19.041 --> 00:06:20.463 Folks, you got to go look at the video. 00:06:20.923 --> 00:06:26.428 The illumination on this alone is, 00:06:26.908 --> 00:06:28.310 it looks like an instrument panel. 00:06:28.331 --> 00:06:29.211 Yeah, it's cool. 00:06:29.752 --> 00:06:31.793 Super Luminova C-III. 00:06:31.954 --> 00:06:33.836 What the hell is that, Mark? 00:06:34.156 --> 00:06:34.875 Are we all going to die of 00:06:34.896 --> 00:06:37.137 cancer for looking at our new watch? 00:06:37.156 --> 00:06:37.216 No. 00:06:37.317 --> 00:06:40.437 It's crazy how things are so 00:06:42.557 --> 00:06:43.639 basic in watches. 00:06:43.658 --> 00:06:45.079 I guess they're just unknown 00:06:45.119 --> 00:06:46.478 to people outside the community. 00:06:46.499 --> 00:06:48.439 So Superluminova, well, 00:06:48.500 --> 00:06:49.259 I guess if you want a 00:06:49.279 --> 00:06:49.920 little bit of history, 00:06:49.959 --> 00:06:51.060 to take you back to you 00:06:51.100 --> 00:06:52.721 mentioned cancer and everything else, 00:06:53.180 --> 00:06:54.240 you're thinking of the 00:06:54.281 --> 00:06:58.583 radium girls who were painting dials for, 00:06:58.903 --> 00:06:59.642 I guess, World War II. 00:07:00.223 --> 00:07:01.343 and they were taught to put 00:07:01.363 --> 00:07:02.543 the bristles on their 00:07:02.603 --> 00:07:03.785 tongue when they did the 00:07:03.805 --> 00:07:04.824 radiant paint on the dials 00:07:04.845 --> 00:07:06.346 and radium obviously we 00:07:06.386 --> 00:07:09.607 know today is radioactive 00:07:09.826 --> 00:07:11.048 and they all got some kind 00:07:11.067 --> 00:07:13.769 of a cancer and died I and 00:07:13.788 --> 00:07:14.728 then they they switched to 00:07:14.749 --> 00:07:15.970 something safer which was 00:07:16.589 --> 00:07:18.071 tritium which is an isotope 00:07:18.110 --> 00:07:19.531 of hydrogen and that was a 00:07:19.571 --> 00:07:20.732 paint that they applied to 00:07:20.752 --> 00:07:22.252 dials tritium I want to say 00:07:22.293 --> 00:07:23.452 fell out of favor in late 00:07:23.473 --> 00:07:24.312 seventies early eighties 00:07:24.333 --> 00:07:25.593 because still radioactive 00:07:26.603 --> 00:07:27.423 And then a compound was 00:07:27.463 --> 00:07:28.504 developed that you guys, 00:07:28.685 --> 00:07:30.526 everyone knows is glow in the dark, 00:07:31.146 --> 00:07:31.245 right? 00:07:31.286 --> 00:07:32.665 Superluminova is just a, 00:07:32.826 --> 00:07:34.427 it's a Swiss or it's part 00:07:34.447 --> 00:07:35.466 of a Swiss company that 00:07:35.487 --> 00:07:36.468 just makes this paint. 00:07:36.567 --> 00:07:37.747 And it's called, um, 00:07:38.007 --> 00:07:38.788 whereas like radium and 00:07:38.809 --> 00:07:40.249 tritium is photo luminescence. 00:07:40.689 --> 00:07:42.589 This stuff is radio luminescence. 00:07:42.850 --> 00:07:44.211 This stuff is photo luminescence, 00:07:44.230 --> 00:07:45.091 which means it absorbs 00:07:45.130 --> 00:07:46.072 light when it sees it. 00:07:46.411 --> 00:07:48.692 And it just lets it go when it's dark. 00:07:49.033 --> 00:07:49.492 So that's what you see. 00:07:49.533 --> 00:07:51.434 You see the green, it lives forever. 00:07:51.533 --> 00:07:52.454 It doesn't degrade. 00:07:52.754 --> 00:07:53.875 At least not in our lifetime. 00:07:54.536 --> 00:07:55.658 And it doesn't give off any 00:07:55.718 --> 00:07:57.019 harmful particles or 00:07:57.040 --> 00:07:58.021 anything that'll permeate 00:07:58.041 --> 00:07:59.444 your skin or any stuff like that. 00:07:59.463 --> 00:08:00.966 Thank goodness. 00:08:01.005 --> 00:08:01.427 Yeah, don't worry. 00:08:01.447 --> 00:08:04.071 I mean, it looks so cool. 00:08:04.091 --> 00:08:05.692 I'm like, man, and it's bright. 00:08:05.752 --> 00:08:06.593 Obviously, you know, 00:08:06.613 --> 00:08:08.237 you put a light on it for the video. 00:08:08.297 --> 00:08:08.798 Yeah, of course. 00:08:09.398 --> 00:08:11.439 it would display well, but I mean, 00:08:11.459 --> 00:08:12.959 it is absolutely gorgeous. 00:08:13.379 --> 00:08:14.500 And the other idea I had, 00:08:14.740 --> 00:08:16.680 I have a really nice Seiko aviator, 00:08:17.721 --> 00:08:18.761 a citizen aviator rather. 00:08:19.380 --> 00:08:21.262 And the bezel on that got 00:08:21.302 --> 00:08:22.502 scratched up pretty quickly. 00:08:22.562 --> 00:08:23.742 I like your idea there. 00:08:24.083 --> 00:08:25.142 Tell us. 00:08:25.523 --> 00:08:25.762 Yeah. 00:08:25.802 --> 00:08:27.242 So the bezel insert itself 00:08:27.303 --> 00:08:28.004 is what's called it. 00:08:28.124 --> 00:08:28.923 It's Sapphire, 00:08:28.963 --> 00:08:30.324 which basically is the way it sounds. 00:08:30.745 --> 00:08:32.445 Same thing as the crystal on the watch. 00:08:32.485 --> 00:08:34.566 So Sapphire is a nine on the 00:08:34.586 --> 00:08:35.385 hardness scale and, 00:08:35.785 --> 00:08:36.307 So pretty much the only 00:08:36.326 --> 00:08:36.746 thing that's going to 00:08:36.787 --> 00:08:38.508 scratch it is another 00:08:38.548 --> 00:08:39.708 sapphire or a diamond. 00:08:40.389 --> 00:08:42.051 So the bezel inserts, 00:08:42.091 --> 00:08:43.412 the bezel itself is is is 00:08:43.493 --> 00:08:44.432 three sixteen steel. 00:08:44.874 --> 00:08:46.654 And then the the bezel 00:08:46.695 --> 00:08:48.476 insert is a piece of sapphire. 00:08:48.496 --> 00:08:49.496 So there's an annual ring of 00:08:49.538 --> 00:08:51.139 sapphire and it's painted 00:08:51.178 --> 00:08:54.181 from the underneath. 00:08:54.721 --> 00:08:54.841 Yeah. 00:08:54.861 --> 00:08:55.101 So thank you. 00:08:55.121 --> 00:08:55.402 First of all, 00:08:55.461 --> 00:08:56.383 it's not going to scratch 00:08:56.682 --> 00:08:58.085 because it's sapphire. 00:08:58.264 --> 00:08:59.105 But then the paint's not 00:08:59.125 --> 00:09:00.567 going to scratch because, well, 00:09:00.586 --> 00:09:01.606 the paint is underneath. 00:09:02.128 --> 00:09:04.210 So just it just shines right through. 00:09:04.990 --> 00:09:07.974 oh so that's the that's the 00:09:08.094 --> 00:09:10.196 bezel itself yeah so the 00:09:10.216 --> 00:09:11.758 thing that turns in in both 00:09:11.778 --> 00:09:13.279 directions um yeah I mean 00:09:13.320 --> 00:09:14.260 I'm wearing a watch so this 00:09:14.280 --> 00:09:15.543 thing that turns this one 00:09:15.562 --> 00:09:16.644 happens to be steel the 00:09:16.683 --> 00:09:18.666 insert yeah yes the insert 00:09:18.706 --> 00:09:19.988 itself is is sapphire 00:09:21.134 --> 00:09:22.936 what are you wearing it's a 00:09:23.096 --> 00:09:24.895 I got a gmt master so 00:09:24.916 --> 00:09:27.037 you're how old uh it's a 00:09:27.057 --> 00:09:29.057 ninety so so that is 00:09:29.238 --> 00:09:30.258 aluminum they were using 00:09:30.278 --> 00:09:31.697 back then so that will 00:09:31.738 --> 00:09:32.859 scratch and everything else 00:09:32.918 --> 00:09:33.899 oh it does hey they've 00:09:33.938 --> 00:09:35.559 moved to what cerakron now 00:09:35.600 --> 00:09:36.559 that was a few years ago 00:09:36.799 --> 00:09:38.039 where they're now ceramic 00:09:38.301 --> 00:09:38.921 and ceramic is like 00:09:38.961 --> 00:09:40.360 sapphire ceramic doesn't 00:09:40.640 --> 00:09:42.322 scratch but ceramic 00:09:43.243 --> 00:09:44.063 Rolex figured it out, 00:09:44.104 --> 00:09:45.865 but you can only fire 00:09:45.926 --> 00:09:47.027 ceramic in certain colors. 00:09:47.307 --> 00:09:48.629 That's where sapphire comes in. 00:09:48.649 --> 00:09:49.490 Sapphire is paint. 00:09:49.769 --> 00:09:50.630 It's not painted underneath. 00:09:50.650 --> 00:09:51.351 You can kind of paint it 00:09:51.371 --> 00:09:52.232 whatever color you want. 00:09:52.273 --> 00:09:53.495 But yeah, same thing. 00:09:53.554 --> 00:09:56.638 So that little disc inside 00:09:56.677 --> 00:09:58.259 the bezel is just sapphire. 00:09:58.980 --> 00:10:00.302 Far out. 00:10:01.023 --> 00:10:01.344 Nice. 00:10:01.908 --> 00:10:03.070 Well, all right. 00:10:03.090 --> 00:10:03.429 What else? 00:10:03.570 --> 00:10:04.951 Let's see. 00:10:05.010 --> 00:10:06.010 Why the limited run? 00:10:06.370 --> 00:10:07.451 Is it a cost issue? 00:10:08.572 --> 00:10:09.613 No, it's not. 00:10:09.653 --> 00:10:10.734 It was one of the requests 00:10:11.134 --> 00:10:14.615 from PAX was to make it that way. 00:10:14.676 --> 00:10:15.735 Yeah, just make it limited. 00:10:15.755 --> 00:10:16.996 They want it shut off after 00:10:17.017 --> 00:10:17.918 a certain period of time. 00:10:17.937 --> 00:10:18.518 And as I said, 00:10:18.538 --> 00:10:19.177 that was one of the things 00:10:19.197 --> 00:10:19.999 that they mentioned to me. 00:10:20.019 --> 00:10:20.298 They're like, 00:10:20.339 --> 00:10:21.580 you can open it to your audience. 00:10:22.539 --> 00:10:23.480 Because I guess they didn't 00:10:23.500 --> 00:10:24.681 know what the response was going to be. 00:10:24.701 --> 00:10:26.402 They didn't know how many 00:10:26.841 --> 00:10:27.383 were going to sell. 00:10:27.503 --> 00:10:27.682 I mean, 00:10:27.743 --> 00:10:29.163 I really need to make a hundred to 00:10:29.203 --> 00:10:29.663 kind of keep 00:10:30.600 --> 00:10:31.880 everybody happy, you know, 00:10:32.020 --> 00:10:33.441 kind of financially and everything else. 00:10:34.701 --> 00:10:36.182 Are you going to get there? 00:10:36.763 --> 00:10:37.682 We've surpassed it already. 00:10:39.384 --> 00:10:39.964 As of this morning, 00:10:39.984 --> 00:10:41.563 we sold like a hundred and ten or so. 00:10:41.845 --> 00:10:42.684 Oh, that's fantastic. 00:10:42.945 --> 00:10:43.965 So, yeah, so I'm happy. 00:10:44.044 --> 00:10:45.025 But, you know, like I said, 00:10:45.046 --> 00:10:46.225 there's like a month left. 00:10:46.365 --> 00:10:47.506 And with people like you, 00:10:49.520 --> 00:10:49.880 You know, 00:10:50.581 --> 00:10:53.403 it's kind of just like Sam in the 00:10:53.423 --> 00:10:54.323 program office said and 00:10:54.384 --> 00:10:55.565 Mike in the program office said. 00:10:55.764 --> 00:10:55.845 No, 00:10:55.904 --> 00:10:57.125 it's just like kind of like these 00:10:57.186 --> 00:10:58.706 spider webs are all starting to form. 00:10:59.067 --> 00:10:59.986 We're going to double your 00:11:00.126 --> 00:11:01.048 order right now. 00:11:01.307 --> 00:11:01.548 Right, 00:11:01.567 --> 00:11:03.028 it's growing legs because people 00:11:03.068 --> 00:11:03.970 like you never would have 00:11:03.990 --> 00:11:05.049 heard about it if some of 00:11:05.070 --> 00:11:06.630 these other people didn't mention it, 00:11:06.650 --> 00:11:06.831 right? 00:11:06.870 --> 00:11:07.871 Because you don't, I mean, man, 00:11:07.892 --> 00:11:09.232 my channel's got a lot of followers, 00:11:09.413 --> 00:11:11.033 but if you don't follow it, 00:11:11.053 --> 00:11:11.813 you don't follow it. 00:11:12.075 --> 00:11:14.275 What is the actual link? 00:11:14.676 --> 00:11:16.537 Is it longislandwatches.com? 00:11:16.557 --> 00:11:17.057 That'll work. 00:11:18.892 --> 00:11:19.673 own that one it's long 00:11:19.732 --> 00:11:21.534 islandwatch.com but I kind 00:11:21.615 --> 00:11:22.436 of own every very long 00:11:22.817 --> 00:11:25.841 there you go all right yeah 00:11:25.860 --> 00:11:26.721 something else something I 00:11:26.741 --> 00:11:29.664 learned a long ago yeah buy 00:11:29.705 --> 00:11:31.847 all of those oh my god yes 00:11:31.888 --> 00:11:37.354 yeah very cool um all right uh so 00:11:38.543 --> 00:11:40.024 You told me pre-show that 00:11:40.065 --> 00:11:41.025 you were an aerospace 00:11:41.086 --> 00:11:42.807 engineer working with other programs, 00:11:42.847 --> 00:11:43.589 and so that's how you had 00:11:43.629 --> 00:11:46.530 some familiarity with PAX River. 00:11:47.091 --> 00:11:48.552 How did you get into the watch gig? 00:11:48.613 --> 00:11:48.793 Oh, wow. 00:11:48.832 --> 00:11:50.475 And specifically, 00:11:50.495 --> 00:11:52.317 how did you wind up – and 00:11:52.397 --> 00:11:54.418 I'm assuming you've done other – in fact, 00:11:54.458 --> 00:11:54.719 I know. 00:11:54.739 --> 00:11:55.620 I've looked at your website. 00:11:55.639 --> 00:11:57.041 You've done other aviation watches. 00:11:57.061 --> 00:11:57.421 Oh, yeah, for sure. 00:11:57.441 --> 00:11:59.322 I mean, I've – 00:11:59.523 --> 00:12:00.743 always loved aviation 00:12:00.863 --> 00:12:02.024 personally but no so I 00:12:02.043 --> 00:12:02.984 wound up being I was an 00:12:03.004 --> 00:12:04.184 aerospace engineer at um 00:12:04.764 --> 00:12:06.424 bae systems which is like 00:12:06.445 --> 00:12:07.065 the former british 00:12:07.144 --> 00:12:09.066 aerospace north america 00:12:09.086 --> 00:12:13.307 division for from to uh and 00:12:13.346 --> 00:12:15.607 then shortly after I 00:12:15.628 --> 00:12:16.368 graduated college I 00:12:16.408 --> 00:12:18.948 graduated in um always been 00:12:18.989 --> 00:12:21.429 a fan of wristwatches like I'm you know 00:12:21.635 --> 00:12:22.437 Just loved them. 00:12:22.476 --> 00:12:24.178 I wouldn't say loved them, but liked them. 00:12:24.239 --> 00:12:26.000 And my dad had a decent 00:12:26.020 --> 00:12:27.743 collection of a couple of nice watches. 00:12:28.484 --> 00:12:30.346 And it just so happens that one day, 00:12:30.567 --> 00:12:32.528 I was meeting my college 00:12:32.548 --> 00:12:33.389 buddies for lunch. 00:12:33.409 --> 00:12:35.172 We were just chatting. 00:12:35.211 --> 00:12:36.212 And one of them was wearing 00:12:36.253 --> 00:12:37.274 an interesting watch. 00:12:37.315 --> 00:12:38.495 I said, what the hell are you wearing? 00:12:39.157 --> 00:12:39.918 He showed it to me. 00:12:41.229 --> 00:12:42.089 what'd you pay? 00:12:42.269 --> 00:12:43.649 Eighty bucks, blah, blah, blah. 00:12:43.690 --> 00:12:44.409 Where'd you buy it? 00:12:44.570 --> 00:12:45.571 eBay in Germany. 00:12:46.410 --> 00:12:47.532 And I was like, wow. 00:12:47.892 --> 00:12:49.072 I'm like, I could sell that. 00:12:49.211 --> 00:12:49.711 I don't know why. 00:12:49.731 --> 00:12:51.413 It just kind of popped into my head. 00:12:51.572 --> 00:12:51.832 You know, 00:12:51.952 --> 00:12:53.033 I was already working as an 00:12:53.073 --> 00:12:54.094 engineer for like three years. 00:12:54.474 --> 00:12:54.835 I was like, 00:12:54.855 --> 00:12:55.774 I could get a side hustle 00:12:55.815 --> 00:12:56.654 selling something like that. 00:12:56.674 --> 00:12:57.535 And that's kind of what I did. 00:12:57.916 --> 00:12:58.936 You know, I contacted the seller, 00:12:58.956 --> 00:13:00.256 bought ten, sold them on eBay, 00:13:00.277 --> 00:13:01.476 some of the profit, some of the loss. 00:13:02.057 --> 00:13:03.957 And it's literally rinse and repeat, 00:13:04.378 --> 00:13:05.479 twenty years late, you know, 00:13:05.538 --> 00:13:06.318 twenty years on. 00:13:07.340 --> 00:13:08.440 Same seven hundred dollars 00:13:08.500 --> 00:13:10.561 and parlayed it into, you know, 00:13:10.581 --> 00:13:10.961 what it is today. 00:13:12.028 --> 00:13:14.029 Nice. 00:13:14.149 --> 00:13:14.850 Very cool. 00:13:14.870 --> 00:13:15.910 All right. 00:13:15.990 --> 00:13:16.231 Well, 00:13:18.212 --> 00:13:20.914 I'm both excited and bummed that it's 00:13:20.936 --> 00:13:22.197 going to be a limited run, right? 00:13:22.256 --> 00:13:23.498 I mean, everybody wants to watch. 00:13:23.538 --> 00:13:24.337 It's more valuable. 00:13:24.357 --> 00:13:25.639 Yeah. 00:13:25.678 --> 00:13:25.799 Well, 00:13:25.820 --> 00:13:28.000 that's why you and I need to buy two. 00:13:28.020 --> 00:13:28.162 Right. 00:13:28.182 --> 00:13:30.683 And the ones we're not going to wear, 00:13:30.744 --> 00:13:32.946 we wait until everybody got to have one, 00:13:32.985 --> 00:13:33.785 can't get one, 00:13:33.846 --> 00:13:35.868 and then we pay for the ones we bought. 00:13:35.888 --> 00:13:36.008 Yeah. 00:13:39.191 --> 00:13:39.471 Right. 00:13:39.551 --> 00:13:40.091 Exactly. 00:13:40.748 --> 00:13:41.807 And what about, 00:13:41.827 --> 00:13:43.109 so all the collaboration 00:13:43.129 --> 00:13:44.308 details on the design that 00:13:44.328 --> 00:13:45.509 was all done with, 00:13:46.208 --> 00:13:47.909 you said Mike Chick down at PAX River? 00:13:48.250 --> 00:13:49.009 Yeah, pretty much. 00:13:49.029 --> 00:13:51.431 So designer that works for me, Ryan, 00:13:51.610 --> 00:13:53.331 and a guy that he works with, Silvio. 00:13:54.030 --> 00:13:54.971 These two guys kind of just 00:13:55.011 --> 00:13:55.772 went back and forth. 00:13:55.871 --> 00:13:57.511 All different varying ideas. 00:13:57.552 --> 00:13:59.192 You know, Mike had some ideas. 00:13:59.452 --> 00:14:00.613 Ryan had ideas. 00:14:00.653 --> 00:14:02.493 And just constantly going 00:14:02.513 --> 00:14:03.793 back and forth and figuring 00:14:03.953 --> 00:14:06.114 out what's best, what looks best, 00:14:06.173 --> 00:14:07.195 what's manufacturable. 00:14:07.215 --> 00:14:08.335 That's obviously the big one. 00:14:09.676 --> 00:14:09.975 And yeah, 00:14:09.995 --> 00:14:10.996 we kind of landed up on the 00:14:11.017 --> 00:14:12.157 design that you see today. 00:14:13.378 --> 00:14:14.318 Well, fantastic. 00:14:14.499 --> 00:14:15.919 It's a gorgeous watch. 00:14:15.940 --> 00:14:18.142 So I make an order. 00:14:18.162 --> 00:14:18.402 I agree. 00:14:18.542 --> 00:14:19.643 And not tell mama. 00:14:19.663 --> 00:14:22.063 Yeah, I know. 00:14:22.105 --> 00:14:22.825 Right. 00:14:23.504 --> 00:14:23.605 Yeah. 00:14:23.645 --> 00:14:24.145 They're all going to be 00:14:24.166 --> 00:14:25.667 serialized after we get it done. 00:14:25.826 --> 00:14:26.768 You know how many we have. 00:14:26.788 --> 00:14:27.707 We're going to make that many. 00:14:27.849 --> 00:14:28.729 I mean, to be honest, 00:14:28.788 --> 00:14:29.710 I'll probably make another 00:14:29.950 --> 00:14:31.691 two or three percent just in case. 00:14:31.711 --> 00:14:32.792 I always like to have extras 00:14:32.912 --> 00:14:34.533 just just in case something happens. 00:14:34.613 --> 00:14:36.053 Somebody's lost in shipment or something. 00:14:36.375 --> 00:14:38.035 I can't say, oh, I can't make another one. 00:14:38.635 --> 00:14:39.397 Yeah, right. 00:14:39.817 --> 00:14:40.837 Oh, what a concept, yeah. 00:14:40.918 --> 00:14:41.238 Yeah, 00:14:41.258 --> 00:14:42.639 I always err on this side of caution 00:14:42.678 --> 00:14:43.759 and make a couple more. 00:14:43.779 --> 00:14:46.881 But other than that, yeah, it'll be done. 00:14:46.902 --> 00:14:48.163 So you're not going to put a 00:14:48.182 --> 00:14:49.364 serial number on the watch, though? 00:14:49.504 --> 00:14:51.184 No, on the case back. 00:14:51.225 --> 00:14:51.946 Yeah, on the case back. 00:14:52.005 --> 00:14:52.586 It'll be numbered. 00:14:52.645 --> 00:14:54.726 Let's say we make... Let's 00:14:54.746 --> 00:14:55.768 say we make two hundred and 00:14:55.788 --> 00:14:56.869 thirty-seven watches. 00:14:57.188 --> 00:14:58.470 It'll say yours is number 00:14:58.509 --> 00:14:59.691 thirty-two out of two 00:14:59.711 --> 00:15:01.032 hundred and thirty-seven. 00:15:01.052 --> 00:15:01.812 Literally. 00:15:01.971 --> 00:15:02.653 Is there any chance to get 00:15:02.773 --> 00:15:03.754 one with the number two 00:15:03.793 --> 00:15:05.375 twenty-three on the back for repeat? 00:15:06.197 --> 00:15:08.259 So I always tell people, 00:15:08.299 --> 00:15:09.520 and I'll just be honest with you, 00:15:09.561 --> 00:15:11.702 that I don't reserve serial 00:15:11.743 --> 00:15:13.683 numbers because it's such a 00:15:13.703 --> 00:15:14.424 pain in the ass. 00:15:14.664 --> 00:15:15.264 But however, 00:15:15.426 --> 00:15:17.047 if I make at least two hundred 00:15:17.086 --> 00:15:18.628 and twenty three and there's one of those, 00:15:18.648 --> 00:15:22.431 then, yeah, you son of a bitch. 00:15:22.831 --> 00:15:24.332 He just snaked that from out 00:15:24.352 --> 00:15:25.693 from underneath me, Mark. 00:15:26.073 --> 00:15:26.855 Well, he's live. 00:15:26.914 --> 00:15:27.556 I can't tell him. 00:15:27.615 --> 00:15:29.017 No, the customer is always right. 00:15:30.474 --> 00:15:31.054 Beautiful. 00:15:31.455 --> 00:15:32.236 Hey, you got the lighter. 00:15:32.277 --> 00:15:33.518 You got the Zippo lighter, Fig. 00:15:33.577 --> 00:15:35.500 Well, if you play your cards right, 00:15:35.520 --> 00:15:36.562 you're going to get one too, 00:15:36.602 --> 00:15:37.403 you sumbitch. 00:15:38.625 --> 00:15:39.687 Well, if you play your cards right, 00:15:39.746 --> 00:15:41.068 I may give you, I don't know, 00:15:41.109 --> 00:15:41.870 two thirty one. 00:15:44.803 --> 00:15:45.664 The odds of getting three 00:15:45.725 --> 00:15:46.105 long in their 00:15:46.125 --> 00:15:47.485 five-forty-two seem pretty low. 00:15:47.505 --> 00:15:47.927 You're killing me. 00:15:47.947 --> 00:15:50.969 Oh, my gosh. 00:15:51.288 --> 00:15:51.548 All right. 00:15:52.190 --> 00:15:54.410 I have a question about the 00:15:54.490 --> 00:15:56.371 technical question about the watch itself, 00:15:56.451 --> 00:15:56.692 Mark. 00:15:56.712 --> 00:15:57.572 Go ahead. 00:15:57.732 --> 00:16:00.554 I remember this was a long time ago, 00:16:00.674 --> 00:16:02.876 about twenty-six hours ago 00:16:02.917 --> 00:16:05.639 when I was listening to your video. 00:16:06.254 --> 00:16:07.033 uh, the, 00:16:07.374 --> 00:16:09.335 the movement is automatic movement 00:16:09.375 --> 00:16:10.115 made by Seiko. 00:16:10.134 --> 00:16:10.294 Right. 00:16:11.956 --> 00:16:13.657 And where is the, 00:16:13.777 --> 00:16:15.576 where is the watch going to be assembled? 00:16:16.057 --> 00:16:16.197 Yeah. 00:16:16.236 --> 00:16:17.477 So that we just covered that before. 00:16:17.557 --> 00:16:18.898 So even though the movement is, 00:16:19.119 --> 00:16:19.899 is Japanese, 00:16:19.938 --> 00:16:20.879 the watch will be assembled 00:16:20.899 --> 00:16:22.460 in China in one of my factors. 00:16:22.919 --> 00:16:23.879 Okay. 00:16:24.139 --> 00:16:26.221 And I don't know anything 00:16:26.260 --> 00:16:27.081 about that movement. 00:16:27.181 --> 00:16:29.361 Is that a good, is that a reliable? 00:16:29.741 --> 00:16:31.663 So when you get back into, 00:16:31.842 --> 00:16:32.783 when you get back into my 00:16:32.842 --> 00:16:34.524 space here where I live, um, 00:16:35.240 --> 00:16:36.500 seiko is pretty much the 00:16:36.580 --> 00:16:38.341 workhorse of the affordable 00:16:39.221 --> 00:16:40.461 automatic watch I mean this 00:16:40.481 --> 00:16:41.682 isn't automatic right yeah 00:16:42.101 --> 00:16:43.402 much like your watches yes 00:16:43.621 --> 00:16:44.822 and you know for all the 00:16:44.863 --> 00:16:46.082 popularity that we think 00:16:46.123 --> 00:16:47.202 automatics have they still 00:16:47.222 --> 00:16:48.063 represent probably less 00:16:48.083 --> 00:16:49.644 than five percent of the 00:16:49.683 --> 00:16:50.864 overall watch market really 00:16:50.884 --> 00:16:51.745 people don't understand oh 00:16:51.804 --> 00:16:53.205 yeah you know you gotta you 00:16:53.225 --> 00:16:54.586 gotta wind it or wear it to 00:16:54.605 --> 00:16:55.985 get it to run and keep 00:16:56.046 --> 00:16:56.905 running it has about forty 00:16:56.926 --> 00:16:59.326 hour power reserve this and that um 00:17:01.437 --> 00:17:03.577 so it's either seiko is 00:17:03.597 --> 00:17:04.298 going to be your movement 00:17:04.338 --> 00:17:05.699 or going to be miyota which 00:17:05.719 --> 00:17:06.559 is owned by citizen 00:17:06.640 --> 00:17:08.201 everybody knows citizen so 00:17:08.320 --> 00:17:09.661 miyota watch miyota watch 00:17:09.701 --> 00:17:10.721 group or miyota movement 00:17:10.741 --> 00:17:12.202 group uh it's the seiko nh- 00:17:12.222 --> 00:17:15.484 thirty-four is the only 00:17:15.565 --> 00:17:17.305 affordable gmt movement 00:17:17.346 --> 00:17:18.786 that has come out of japan 00:17:19.326 --> 00:17:22.228 in the last uh thirty forty 00:17:22.268 --> 00:17:23.868 years um so yeah they 00:17:23.989 --> 00:17:25.170 released that movement back 00:17:25.250 --> 00:17:26.690 in twenty about twenty 00:17:26.710 --> 00:17:27.611 twenty or so twenty twenty one 00:17:28.555 --> 00:17:30.256 And dual time zone movement, super cool. 00:17:30.536 --> 00:17:32.336 Twenty-four joules, hand-wind, tacks, 00:17:32.416 --> 00:17:33.097 forty hours. 00:17:33.518 --> 00:17:36.579 It is in a good deal of the 00:17:36.619 --> 00:17:38.141 Seiko watches that we sell. 00:17:38.661 --> 00:17:41.782 So Seiko, when they make a movement, right, 00:17:41.823 --> 00:17:42.502 so this is, 00:17:42.923 --> 00:17:45.884 you correctly identify it as the NH-XXIV. 00:17:46.244 --> 00:17:48.165 When Seiko uses it in their watches, 00:17:48.365 --> 00:17:50.146 it's called a XR-XXIV. 00:17:50.527 --> 00:17:52.407 It's the same movement, just unbranded. 00:17:52.548 --> 00:17:53.489 Okay, okay. 00:17:53.884 --> 00:17:55.125 They're in the movement business. 00:17:55.145 --> 00:17:56.425 They're in the watch business first, 00:17:56.445 --> 00:17:57.286 but they're also in the 00:17:57.306 --> 00:17:58.067 movement business. 00:17:58.207 --> 00:18:00.748 And they sell their movements to, you know, 00:18:00.968 --> 00:18:01.488 to the trade. 00:18:02.189 --> 00:18:05.289 And a lot of them at that. 00:18:05.309 --> 00:18:06.549 What do you mean by jewels? 00:18:06.609 --> 00:18:07.891 What does twenty four jewels 00:18:07.971 --> 00:18:08.550 mean in the watch? 00:18:08.570 --> 00:18:08.871 Sure. 00:18:09.291 --> 00:18:09.471 So. 00:18:11.213 --> 00:18:12.034 I mean, we could go forever. 00:18:13.575 --> 00:18:15.115 I also have a series on the 00:18:15.134 --> 00:18:15.954 channel called Watch and 00:18:15.994 --> 00:18:17.036 Learn that's ninety-seven 00:18:17.096 --> 00:18:18.096 or so issues deep, 00:18:18.135 --> 00:18:19.736 so you can go into that catalog. 00:18:20.036 --> 00:18:21.636 So in automatic watch, right, 00:18:21.757 --> 00:18:23.297 it runs on a spring, right? 00:18:23.376 --> 00:18:24.237 Power is all stored in a 00:18:24.257 --> 00:18:25.458 spring and that power is 00:18:25.478 --> 00:18:26.938 transmitted from the main 00:18:26.978 --> 00:18:29.878 spring all the way finishing the training, 00:18:29.939 --> 00:18:31.278 you know, pretty much to the second hand. 00:18:32.598 --> 00:18:34.619 And it's a powerful spring, but 00:18:35.705 --> 00:18:37.086 it still is subject to friction. 00:18:37.146 --> 00:18:38.126 As things get smaller, 00:18:38.186 --> 00:18:39.207 friction gets larger and 00:18:39.267 --> 00:18:40.008 larger and larger. 00:18:40.347 --> 00:18:41.667 So the effects of friction 00:18:41.708 --> 00:18:43.108 get massive when you get 00:18:43.128 --> 00:18:44.088 down to the scale of what 00:18:44.108 --> 00:18:44.890 we're talking about. 00:18:45.930 --> 00:18:46.869 So to counteract that, 00:18:47.611 --> 00:18:49.991 every important gear, if you will, 00:18:50.571 --> 00:18:51.612 or they call them wheels, 00:18:51.711 --> 00:18:52.972 you'll notice a gear. 00:18:53.532 --> 00:18:55.555 is mounted on artificial or 00:18:55.595 --> 00:18:57.277 synthetic rubies and that's 00:18:57.297 --> 00:18:59.179 a jewel so a typical 00:18:59.519 --> 00:19:00.820 three-handed watch needs 00:19:00.861 --> 00:19:03.163 seventeen jewels that's it 00:19:03.223 --> 00:19:05.605 being jeweled to like the 00:19:05.686 --> 00:19:06.768 second wheel or something 00:19:07.910 --> 00:19:10.090 Seven in the regulating 00:19:10.131 --> 00:19:11.251 mechanism and then for a 00:19:11.291 --> 00:19:12.451 bunch of the wheels that go around. 00:19:13.031 --> 00:19:13.712 For something like this, 00:19:13.732 --> 00:19:15.113 it's got an extra GMT hand. 00:19:15.133 --> 00:19:15.834 It's got a date, 00:19:15.854 --> 00:19:17.153 a couple other complications. 00:19:17.173 --> 00:19:17.994 Complications meaning 00:19:18.035 --> 00:19:19.375 anything other than time. 00:19:20.615 --> 00:19:21.355 Twenty-four joules. 00:19:21.655 --> 00:19:22.476 So there's twenty-four 00:19:22.516 --> 00:19:24.376 little synthetic rubies in the movement. 00:19:24.676 --> 00:19:26.018 It's not really a mark of quality. 00:19:26.773 --> 00:19:28.515 Back in the early two thousands, 00:19:28.555 --> 00:19:29.536 people kind of considered a 00:19:29.576 --> 00:19:30.376 mark of quality. 00:19:30.856 --> 00:19:32.417 Oh, thirty jewels must be better. 00:19:32.498 --> 00:19:32.958 It's not. 00:19:33.798 --> 00:19:35.380 But twenty four is pretty much standard. 00:19:35.440 --> 00:19:36.500 Anywhere from like seventeen 00:19:36.519 --> 00:19:38.080 to twenty six is what most 00:19:38.121 --> 00:19:40.222 watches is what most watches will have. 00:19:40.623 --> 00:19:41.503 OK, that makes sense. 00:19:41.544 --> 00:19:42.403 So because you can't build 00:19:42.443 --> 00:19:44.105 ball bearings that small. 00:19:44.424 --> 00:19:46.446 That is one hundred percent on point. 00:19:46.767 --> 00:19:46.906 Yeah. 00:19:47.007 --> 00:19:47.106 OK. 00:19:47.186 --> 00:19:48.347 All right. 00:19:48.847 --> 00:19:49.749 Very cool. 00:19:49.769 --> 00:19:51.109 Well, you have any more watch questions? 00:19:51.289 --> 00:19:51.450 Yeah. 00:19:52.728 --> 00:19:54.969 So stand by because I'm 00:19:55.009 --> 00:19:56.130 going through my list. 00:19:56.549 --> 00:19:56.890 Oh, sure. 00:19:56.930 --> 00:19:57.651 Take your time. 00:19:57.671 --> 00:19:58.851 I want to make sure we haven't. 00:19:59.971 --> 00:20:02.113 Well, so I saw that it comes with two. 00:20:02.993 --> 00:20:04.493 Is it the option to get two 00:20:04.534 --> 00:20:05.075 different bands? 00:20:05.095 --> 00:20:05.595 You get it. 00:20:05.615 --> 00:20:06.394 It just comes out. 00:20:06.494 --> 00:20:07.496 It comes that way. 00:20:07.715 --> 00:20:08.656 And so you get the you get 00:20:08.676 --> 00:20:10.156 the bracelet and the leather strap. 00:20:10.317 --> 00:20:11.917 And so that you don't need 00:20:11.958 --> 00:20:13.199 tools to change them. 00:20:13.219 --> 00:20:13.898 They're going to have what's 00:20:13.919 --> 00:20:15.299 called QR pins on the back, 00:20:15.339 --> 00:20:16.200 quick release pins. 00:20:16.560 --> 00:20:17.320 And you can pretty much just 00:20:17.340 --> 00:20:18.000 pinch it with your 00:20:18.020 --> 00:20:19.701 fingertips and the pins 00:20:19.741 --> 00:20:21.123 will retract and you can swap it out. 00:20:22.236 --> 00:20:23.836 that's awesome that's also 00:20:24.116 --> 00:20:26.479 hot okay so the face uh 00:20:26.578 --> 00:20:27.980 looks like the fan blades 00:20:28.539 --> 00:20:31.501 yes right uh you know for 00:20:31.541 --> 00:20:33.364 the pegasus engine and I 00:20:33.423 --> 00:20:35.125 noticed uh from the video 00:20:35.184 --> 00:20:36.865 the canopy itself when you 00:20:36.925 --> 00:20:37.926 turn the lights off the 00:20:37.987 --> 00:20:40.147 canopy also glows yes which 00:20:40.208 --> 00:20:41.568 is which is a nice touch 00:20:41.888 --> 00:20:44.290 yep and what was the other thing um 00:20:45.855 --> 00:20:46.636 Of course, on the back, 00:20:46.676 --> 00:20:48.657 it's got the flags of all 00:20:48.678 --> 00:20:50.098 the countries that flew it. 00:20:50.480 --> 00:20:51.480 And is there a date? 00:20:51.540 --> 00:20:52.780 Is there a date on the back? 00:20:52.800 --> 00:20:53.481 Like the date? 00:20:53.501 --> 00:20:55.663 There's a date on the bottom 00:20:55.683 --> 00:20:56.805 of the dial on the front. 00:20:56.884 --> 00:20:58.486 It says since nineteen seventy one. 00:20:59.185 --> 00:20:59.227 OK. 00:20:59.386 --> 00:21:01.808 That's that's bad ass. 00:21:02.308 --> 00:21:02.729 Yeah, it is. 00:21:02.749 --> 00:21:04.711 I don't know. 00:21:04.750 --> 00:21:05.070 That's it. 00:21:05.111 --> 00:21:05.590 That's the end. 00:21:05.832 --> 00:21:06.471 That's all I got. 00:21:07.113 --> 00:21:07.512 All right. 00:21:07.553 --> 00:21:07.873 Cool. 00:21:07.952 --> 00:21:09.575 So here here we go. 00:21:09.835 --> 00:21:11.375 So you did aerospace engineering. 00:21:11.395 --> 00:21:12.497 Did you study that in school? 00:21:13.351 --> 00:21:13.951 Yeah, I did. 00:21:14.050 --> 00:21:15.290 I went to a little place 00:21:15.330 --> 00:21:16.991 called the Cooper Union in Manhattan, 00:21:17.672 --> 00:21:18.991 got my bachelor's there, 00:21:19.031 --> 00:21:20.113 graduated in ninety eight, 00:21:20.353 --> 00:21:23.153 worked in aerospace till twenty eleven, 00:21:23.173 --> 00:21:25.054 also got my master's and my 00:21:25.534 --> 00:21:26.614 New York State professional 00:21:26.634 --> 00:21:27.433 engineering license. 00:21:27.513 --> 00:21:28.334 This worked for a while. 00:21:28.673 --> 00:21:29.474 And then, you know, 00:21:29.494 --> 00:21:30.795 basically the transition 00:21:31.035 --> 00:21:32.174 out of engineering was 00:21:32.654 --> 00:21:34.816 simply because my oldest, 00:21:35.336 --> 00:21:36.875 who was getting into kindergarten, 00:21:37.355 --> 00:21:38.297 we had someone to put him 00:21:38.356 --> 00:21:39.356 on and off the school bus. 00:21:40.196 --> 00:21:42.317 So I kind of decided to stay home. 00:21:42.337 --> 00:21:43.538 My wife stayed working. 00:21:44.417 --> 00:21:45.939 And then I grew the business from there. 00:21:45.959 --> 00:21:46.778 And today is actually his 00:21:46.838 --> 00:21:47.778 nineteenth birthday. 00:21:48.038 --> 00:21:51.180 Hey, yeah. 00:21:51.200 --> 00:21:51.700 Happy birthday. 00:21:52.039 --> 00:21:52.441 Thanks. 00:21:52.661 --> 00:21:55.540 And yeah, so that's it. 00:21:55.602 --> 00:21:57.582 I just grew the business from from there. 00:21:57.622 --> 00:21:59.563 And eventually my wife ended 00:21:59.603 --> 00:22:00.623 her career and what she did. 00:22:00.643 --> 00:22:01.722 She was a controller at a 00:22:01.782 --> 00:22:02.624 private equity firm. 00:22:03.683 --> 00:22:04.963 She came to work for me as well. 00:22:04.983 --> 00:22:06.785 Now I've got, you know, 00:22:10.000 --> 00:22:10.222 Right? 00:22:12.239 --> 00:22:12.920 Very cool. 00:22:13.119 --> 00:22:13.640 All right. 00:22:13.680 --> 00:22:16.561 So you got your private pilot last year. 00:22:16.662 --> 00:22:18.403 How long did it take you to get your PPL? 00:22:18.423 --> 00:22:19.364 When did you start doing that? 00:22:19.403 --> 00:22:20.605 So unfortunately, 00:22:20.924 --> 00:22:22.965 that took me longer than I wanted it to. 00:22:23.026 --> 00:22:26.028 I started that in May of 00:22:26.048 --> 00:22:27.048 twenty twenty two. 00:22:28.750 --> 00:22:30.030 And then I got that towards 00:22:30.050 --> 00:22:31.192 the end of twenty four. 00:22:31.271 --> 00:22:32.211 There was an eight month 00:22:32.251 --> 00:22:33.452 stint where I never stepped 00:22:33.492 --> 00:22:35.454 into a plane due to a back issue. 00:22:36.414 --> 00:22:37.336 This back issue. 00:22:38.436 --> 00:22:39.616 And but yeah, 00:22:39.656 --> 00:22:41.739 so after I finally got all that sorted, 00:22:42.199 --> 00:22:43.500 I got my head back in the 00:22:43.519 --> 00:22:47.403 game and started in earnest, 00:22:47.502 --> 00:22:48.763 got my PPL just before 00:22:48.804 --> 00:22:50.005 Thanksgiving of last year. 00:22:50.585 --> 00:22:51.086 Nice. 00:22:51.385 --> 00:22:52.006 What'd you fly it in? 00:22:52.606 --> 00:22:53.227 One seventy two. 00:22:53.787 --> 00:22:54.107 Nice. 00:22:54.508 --> 00:22:55.608 Well, congratulations. 00:22:55.628 --> 00:22:57.009 And thank you. 00:22:57.049 --> 00:22:57.410 Thank you. 00:22:57.430 --> 00:22:59.672 That's that's that's no small feat. 00:23:00.251 --> 00:23:00.913 No, I know. 00:23:01.093 --> 00:23:02.513 I know it was it was cool. 00:23:02.534 --> 00:23:02.634 Yeah. 00:23:04.734 --> 00:23:06.616 What was the what was the hardest part? 00:23:08.776 --> 00:23:10.096 and you know what believing 00:23:10.376 --> 00:23:12.077 believing confidence in 00:23:12.097 --> 00:23:14.219 yourself honestly hundred 00:23:14.239 --> 00:23:15.380 percent that was it 00:23:15.980 --> 00:23:17.261 landings everything else 00:23:17.281 --> 00:23:19.262 sure difficult as hell you 00:23:19.282 --> 00:23:20.023 know the thing that scared 00:23:20.044 --> 00:23:21.203 me the most when I started 00:23:21.223 --> 00:23:22.224 though was not any of that 00:23:22.305 --> 00:23:23.625 it was so we you know we 00:23:23.665 --> 00:23:24.926 were talking before I I 00:23:24.987 --> 00:23:25.748 learned that right here at 00:23:25.768 --> 00:23:27.969 Republic and the airspace 00:23:28.028 --> 00:23:29.529 is you know it's a Delta 00:23:29.589 --> 00:23:30.891 but it's super freaking 00:23:30.911 --> 00:23:33.012 busy yeah it is and the 00:23:33.032 --> 00:23:34.473 comms were the big thing 00:23:34.493 --> 00:23:37.375 that worried me the most okay and now 00:23:37.875 --> 00:23:38.576 I'm like, wow, 00:23:38.596 --> 00:23:39.257 I can't believe you were 00:23:39.277 --> 00:23:39.896 worried about that. 00:23:39.957 --> 00:23:41.057 You couldn't land for damn, 00:23:41.096 --> 00:23:41.978 but you were worried about 00:23:42.018 --> 00:23:43.077 talking on the radio. 00:23:43.958 --> 00:23:44.317 Right. 00:23:44.638 --> 00:23:45.878 It's amazing how many people 00:23:45.939 --> 00:23:47.159 go at non-controlled 00:23:47.219 --> 00:23:48.319 airfields that are just 00:23:48.380 --> 00:23:49.240 terrified of actually 00:23:49.259 --> 00:23:49.940 having to talk to 00:23:49.980 --> 00:23:51.800 controllers because they 00:23:51.820 --> 00:23:53.321 all speak English and that's hard to do, 00:23:53.402 --> 00:23:53.721 I guess. 00:23:55.521 --> 00:23:56.423 I definitely understand. 00:23:57.461 --> 00:23:58.240 I definitely got it. 00:23:58.280 --> 00:23:59.241 And then it took a while. 00:23:59.281 --> 00:24:01.603 But that was that was my number one fear. 00:24:01.803 --> 00:24:03.263 And you know, landings, 00:24:03.324 --> 00:24:04.365 I don't think have still come. 00:24:04.444 --> 00:24:05.244 So it doesn't matter. 00:24:05.265 --> 00:24:07.205 Yeah, no, not for any of us. 00:24:07.306 --> 00:24:10.347 But you know, exactly. 00:24:11.548 --> 00:24:13.630 So all right, any any close calls, 00:24:13.690 --> 00:24:15.171 scary moments or funny moments? 00:24:16.451 --> 00:24:16.991 Oh, wow. 00:24:17.832 --> 00:24:19.113 In aviation? 00:24:19.212 --> 00:24:19.452 Yeah. 00:24:20.847 --> 00:24:23.489 You know, one of my solo, one of my solos, 00:24:23.868 --> 00:24:24.068 you know, 00:24:24.128 --> 00:24:25.289 when I was just endorsed for 00:24:25.349 --> 00:24:26.849 solo doing the pattern, 00:24:26.869 --> 00:24:27.691 there was some guy 00:24:28.030 --> 00:24:29.751 literally going the wrong way, 00:24:30.231 --> 00:24:31.551 doing all sorts of things. 00:24:31.873 --> 00:24:32.893 And they actually asked me 00:24:32.932 --> 00:24:35.473 to exit the Delta until 00:24:35.513 --> 00:24:36.815 they can figure out what to do with them. 00:24:36.835 --> 00:24:38.015 It was just me and him in the pattern, 00:24:38.035 --> 00:24:38.795 which was unheard of. 00:24:38.835 --> 00:24:39.816 It's usually very crowded. 00:24:40.375 --> 00:24:41.616 And they told me to exit the Delta. 00:24:41.636 --> 00:24:42.396 And I'm like, what? 00:24:42.777 --> 00:24:44.317 I'm like, I'm a student. 00:24:44.396 --> 00:24:45.336 I got to, okay. 00:24:45.416 --> 00:24:46.417 They're like, yeah, you got to leave. 00:24:46.438 --> 00:24:47.377 They're like, you know what you're doing. 00:24:47.397 --> 00:24:47.817 You got to leave. 00:24:47.857 --> 00:24:48.837 I was like, okay, I'll leave. 00:24:49.417 --> 00:24:50.778 And I came back a couple minutes later. 00:24:50.798 --> 00:24:51.519 That was about it. 00:24:51.719 --> 00:24:52.838 You know, other than that, 00:24:52.898 --> 00:24:54.078 I've just been having fun doing stuff. 00:24:54.098 --> 00:24:54.499 It's okay. 00:24:54.638 --> 00:24:55.558 That's okay. 00:24:55.898 --> 00:24:56.419 You know, 00:24:56.618 --> 00:24:57.960 you don't have to have a lot of 00:24:58.019 --> 00:24:59.559 excitement with that kind of thing. 00:24:59.660 --> 00:25:00.720 Exactly, exactly. 00:25:01.200 --> 00:25:02.661 I'm okay with that. 00:25:02.681 --> 00:25:03.780 I mean, I've had, obviously, 00:25:04.701 --> 00:25:05.881 aircraft issues. 00:25:06.340 --> 00:25:08.001 The airspeed indicator 00:25:08.061 --> 00:25:09.942 pegged at forty no matter what I did. 00:25:10.963 --> 00:25:12.165 know kind of some weird 00:25:12.205 --> 00:25:13.488 things but that's that's 00:25:13.508 --> 00:25:15.590 some that's schools in it 00:25:15.611 --> 00:25:16.573 for profit for you sure 00:25:19.618 --> 00:25:20.759 We actually had that recently. 00:25:20.818 --> 00:25:22.000 We wanted, we landed, 00:25:22.400 --> 00:25:23.380 we couldn't get past about 00:25:23.400 --> 00:25:24.840 sixty knots no matter what we did. 00:25:25.040 --> 00:25:26.020 And it turned out there was 00:25:26.101 --> 00:25:27.682 a big old bug right in the 00:25:27.721 --> 00:25:28.342 middle of our pitot tube. 00:25:28.362 --> 00:25:28.461 Weird. 00:25:28.481 --> 00:25:29.422 It's usually what happens. 00:25:31.603 --> 00:25:32.823 Yeah. 00:25:32.883 --> 00:25:34.022 I don't think in forty-three 00:25:34.044 --> 00:25:35.503 years of flying until about 00:25:35.604 --> 00:25:36.384 three weeks ago, 00:25:36.903 --> 00:25:38.325 I've ever taken a bug 00:25:38.365 --> 00:25:39.585 directly into the pitot tube. 00:25:39.924 --> 00:25:40.005 Yeah. 00:25:40.025 --> 00:25:44.146 That'll do it though. 00:25:44.307 --> 00:25:45.207 Oh, man. 00:25:45.867 --> 00:25:47.089 Well, I'm excited, Mark. 00:25:47.130 --> 00:25:49.474 Thank you for coming on and 00:25:49.795 --> 00:25:51.057 telling us about this watch. 00:25:51.798 --> 00:25:54.604 I am ordering one as soon as we hang up. 00:25:55.224 --> 00:25:55.486 Awesome. 00:25:56.799 --> 00:25:57.180 Beautiful. 00:25:57.259 --> 00:25:58.540 And yeah, so people know. 00:25:59.301 --> 00:26:00.122 So we're closing in 00:26:00.142 --> 00:26:01.423 September twenty third and 00:26:01.844 --> 00:26:02.663 I expect to deliver 00:26:02.703 --> 00:26:04.144 sometime in the middle of December. 00:26:05.365 --> 00:26:06.207 I'm hoping earlier I 00:26:06.307 --> 00:26:08.647 actually do the popularity for Christmas. 00:26:08.949 --> 00:26:10.209 Yeah, I do the popularity. 00:26:10.390 --> 00:26:11.911 I kick started a whole bunch 00:26:11.971 --> 00:26:15.452 already just to get production rolling. 00:26:15.913 --> 00:26:16.473 But yeah, 00:26:16.493 --> 00:26:17.934 that's kind of like the goal right now. 00:26:17.974 --> 00:26:20.676 Very cool. 00:26:20.737 --> 00:26:22.317 Well, I'm super excited. 00:26:22.377 --> 00:26:23.159 I guess I'm gonna have to go 00:26:23.259 --> 00:26:24.019 out and order about one 00:26:24.038 --> 00:26:24.819 hundred and ten of them to 00:26:24.839 --> 00:26:26.381 get close to my two twenty three number. 00:26:30.701 --> 00:26:31.520 facts but no you know I 00:26:31.540 --> 00:26:32.102 don't think I'm going to 00:26:32.122 --> 00:26:33.201 have to I think once people 00:26:33.221 --> 00:26:34.222 hear this and the word gets 00:26:34.323 --> 00:26:35.203 out I think there's going 00:26:35.243 --> 00:26:36.164 to be some more coming in 00:26:36.224 --> 00:26:37.125 trying to get as this 00:26:37.165 --> 00:26:38.286 widely disseminated as we 00:26:38.306 --> 00:26:40.488 can so very cool well mark 00:26:40.508 --> 00:26:41.209 thank you for taking time 00:26:41.288 --> 00:26:42.369 out of your day to join us 00:26:42.410 --> 00:26:43.750 we're deeply appreciative 00:26:43.851 --> 00:26:44.691 that you could and we're 00:26:44.750 --> 00:26:45.731 really excited that you 00:26:45.771 --> 00:26:47.032 decided to build build a 00:26:47.053 --> 00:26:48.795 watch dedicated to one of 00:26:48.815 --> 00:26:51.356 the greatest attack jets ever made ever 00:26:51.977 --> 00:26:52.297 Yeah, I agree. 00:26:52.376 --> 00:26:54.439 Very cool. 00:26:54.459 --> 00:26:55.059 All right. 00:26:55.079 --> 00:26:56.000 Well, thank you for your time. 00:26:56.340 --> 00:26:57.181 Thank you, everybody. 00:26:57.501 --> 00:26:58.501 Take care of yourselves. 00:26:58.702 --> 00:27:01.045 And until next week, stay safe. 00:27:01.525 --> 00:27:02.244 See you. 00:27:03.886 --> 00:27:14.335 And we'll see you. 00:27:14.375 --> 00:27:14.454 Well, 00:27:14.494 --> 00:27:17.097 there I was crossing the pond and you 00:27:17.117 --> 00:27:19.019 could see that I wasn't exactly fond. 00:27:20.355 --> 00:27:23.916 Of all the shit I was wearing on that day. 00:27:25.397 --> 00:27:27.878 Now an F-Sixteen is cramped enough, 00:27:28.038 --> 00:27:29.420 but it's even worse. 00:27:29.440 --> 00:27:31.299 With all that stuff supposed 00:27:31.319 --> 00:27:32.401 to save your life. 00:27:32.941 --> 00:27:35.221 But we knew there was no way. 00:27:35.582 --> 00:27:37.782 Because when you're going 00:27:37.823 --> 00:27:39.384 down in the North Atlantic, man, 00:27:39.443 --> 00:27:40.044 it's over. 00:27:42.484 --> 00:27:42.664 Hold on. 00:27:42.704 --> 00:27:43.325 What did he say, Spig? 00:27:43.664 --> 00:27:44.365 He said it's over. 00:27:44.385 --> 00:27:47.307 That's a dumb question. 00:27:47.326 --> 00:27:47.686 Skip that. 00:27:48.990 --> 00:27:50.051 We're out. 00:27:50.432 --> 00:27:51.413 That's a dumb question. 00:27:51.453 --> 00:27:52.354 Take care, everybody. 00:27:52.454 --> 00:27:53.375 I'm going to end this. 00:27:53.476 --> 00:27:54.517 It was a dumb question. 00:27:54.656 --> 00:27:55.798 That's a dumb question. 00:27:55.837 --> 00:27:56.238 Skip now. 00:27:56.278 --> 00:27:56.999 We're out. 00:27:57.619 --> 00:28:00.163 And, oh, Badass is going to buy one. 00:28:00.202 --> 00:28:00.722 Very cool. 00:28:00.942 --> 00:28:01.103 Hey. 00:28:01.124 --> 00:28:01.564 Take care, everyone. 00:28:01.644 --> 00:28:02.404 He's in. 00:28:02.444 --> 00:28:02.984 He's in. 00:28:04.026 --> 00:28:04.987 He's got about seven 00:28:05.087 --> 00:28:06.288 thousand pictures of him. 00:28:06.848 --> 00:28:07.170 All right. 00:28:07.230 --> 00:28:07.750 Exactly. 00:28:07.951 --> 00:28:08.611 Maybe more. 00:28:08.810 --> 00:28:08.932 Shit, 00:28:08.971 --> 00:28:10.153 he might have a hundred thousand 00:28:10.192 --> 00:28:11.173 pictures. 00:28:11.213 --> 00:28:11.914 Take care, Badass.