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