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