Welcome to this Watch live. Hi, I'm Lydia Winters. And I'm Vu Bui. So Vu, how has the reaction been to the pink piglet? The reaction has been incredible. But like, it's OK. So you know, I I don't know do does everyone do this, But usually after I buy a new watch, I immediately go and look at every review and piece of I. Do not do. That and announcement that I can find on it, but usually before I buy the watch, I've already looked at most of it.
So then it's just you. Just like want to relook at it? A little bit, but not mostly. It's like trying to find those last little tidbits, but in this case. I thought you were trying to, like, correct them because now you have it on the wrist and you're like, that's wrong. Oh, Yep, that's. Wrong. Oh, no, I do that the whole time. But the the interesting thing to me is, like, in this instance, this isn't a watch that I've been looking at stuff about.
Because I did that years ago when it came out, and then I didn't really think it was just gonna appear for me. Definitely not right now, or maybe even ever. So, like, I wasn't prepared. I hadn't been doing my deep, deep, deep dives of finding everything that anyone has ever said or written about it. So now I've been doing that after the fact. Yeah, I like that. There's just a lot of discussion about the different design
points. Even this morning in the car again, listening with my parents, my mom was like, I would have preferred the day wheel to be black because that would have matched the subdials. And I was like, you know what? Actually, OK, I could. I could see that a lot of discussion around the red, which I am. I'm also a bit not, that's not my favorite thing. I'm like pink and red should be a little further apart.
But it's so it's a it's kind of fun because there's actually a lot to talk about in the watch besides just the color pink. Yeah, that's true. That's what I enjoy. All these other opinions, though. Wrong. Mm hmm. They're wrong. Oh, oh all of my my. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What you were sharing about how, oh, this could be different, That could be better. Wrong. Wrong, OK? That's that's what I have to say about that. You know what? I like it, I say.
You stand beside, you stand behind that little piglet and you say you're amazing. Here's the thing, Even when I'm watching these videos and someone would be talking about it and then I'm just like, you're wrong. See, I told you. OK, right? I said that you are rewatching those so you can critique if you think that their critique is right or wrong. I don't tell them. And now you're actually doing that though. You're. Saying you admitted. It, but I'm not naming anyone.
No, but you're. That's why you're rereading things. No, no, no, no. I think it's part of when we make a big decision, then it's like you want to feel like you made the right decision, so you seek out ways. So you're like. Confirmation bias. Yeah, you seek out ways to confirm, but then if someone goes off track. And like me, like I did. Yeah, like if they didn't get the memo that hey only say amazing things about this 'cause I already bought it. Yeah, that's true.
They didn't get that memo and they go off track, off mission and then I'm like, no, no, no, no. You obviously know nothing about anything. Good to know. OK, so 6th? Gray asks. Are GMTS more useful to Americans? I seldom travel outside Europe. I'm mostly in GMT or CET. That's Greenwich Mean Time or Central European Time. London is only one hour behind Oslo and I feel like I'd figure out the time difference before I even located the GMT hand on the dial.
I'd love at GMT, but would I ever use it for Americans or expats with several time zones in a single country? I really get it. Sorry for the long question, I couldn't fit it in the Q&A box. Oh, this one really tripped us up because when we started talking about it, we we have on record on this podcast many times said that a GMT complication is the most useful, however. However. I seldom I I don't always wear my GMT. No. Therefore I have memorized the conversion.
Yeah. For the things that are most important to you. For for the time zones that are most important to me, like 6 hours for my family, 9 hours for work colleagues, so and I'm not wearing a GMT enough to get used to it. So when I look at the GMTI, just look at the regular time and then do the math because it's what I'm most used used to. So is it the most useful? Yes, but hold on, hold on. Let's go back to the question
first. OK. OK. So I see you know in this question I think there's assumptions about the US and travel and time zones. So I see the US and the time zones in the US as somewhat similar to the EU and the time zones in the EU, right, like the EU has three main time zones, right. And like the US has four for mainland US, so that's that's similar And you can travel within the EU or at least within the Schengen zone, like without passports and that kind of stuff.
So it's similar to traveling in the US, you get on a plane, you get off on the other side, you're not traveling between countries in the same way, right. So it still feels easier for travel, but I don't have that same feeling. But I hear about it a lot that Americans, they have this massive country, which is the US and the reason they don't travel as much internationally is because the US is so big and they're always traveling all over the country and. You don't have as much time off
work. And well, I think that's the bigger thing. Yeah, that's the. Main one the the truth is to me, I don't think most people are traveling all over the US either. Just like in other places as well, most people aren't traveling that much. It's so I see this more less as a Americans or Europeans or Asians issue and more of just an individual thing. There are people who do more traveling and there are people who do less.
And I don't know how well that's divided across like American, European lines, but I definitely know that I know lots of people in both the US and in Europe who don't really travel at least not far enough to cross time zones and definitely not far enough to cross more than one time zone. Because yes, you can do that conversion very easily. I think it is much more about, like you said, the type of job you have. Like for us, we're talking to colleagues 9 hours apart.
I need to know what those times will be. But again, have them memorize family, same thing. I need to know what time. Have them pretty memorized, but you can imagine if you were traveling, if you're a traveler who you travel a lot for, for work or for pleasure, and you're going through many different time zones, but maybe that's not There's not one that's like the kind of consistent. You could imagine this being very, very useful. And that doesn't really matter where you started from.
It's just about having that time You taught me the most useful thing in the world, though. Oh, in the whole world. Well, for me actually, because you were like, well, since the main time zone, I think about a lot is my family six hours away, You said just move, just think about the hour hand going halfway back or halfway forward. Yeah, it's just pointing at the. Opposite direction, Easy. I was like, I'll never need a GMT again. No, I'm like, oh.
My God, as long as no one moves, I I think The funny thing is, even when I did wear my Explorer 2 as my main watch and we did travel, I don't think I really used it except when we'd go to new places, kind of like what you're saying. So like if we go to Vietnam, we'd go to Japan, which aren't time zones that I'm typically tracking, then I would use it. But it's also what do you need it for, right?
So if you have family at home, let's say you travel for work, but your family or your partner or your kids or whoever is staying back, then it's probably really important to know what time it is. It is back home. But if you're traveling with your family, with the people who are important to you, So yeah, like if you and I travel and we go to Vietnam, we don't really need to know what time it is in Sweden. No, I need to know what time it is in Florida. Exactly.
Right. So unless, unless we're working, but I'm talking more the kind of vacation travel then kind of home time doesn't matter anymore. So I think it's so individual, but I think your initial point was the most important is that we we, I think we just own too
many watches, right? Like if you owned a GMT and you wore that thing every day, you'd probably be so used to using the functionality that it would be second nature to use it and you wouldn't have gotten used to doing calculations in your head. Similarly to if I wore a chronograph every day, I'd probably time things with it. But because I'm not used to having a chronograph on my wrist, then it's it doesn't come naturally to go there to time things.
So the problem is, if you own many watches with different functionality, you never get just completely used to using any of those functions. Yes. Also one of our followers, Ted Speaker actually wrote about this and he said there's a hack. I tried to look at it and I was like what about using a dive bezel? It's. Not that bad, but it's more math. It's more. Math than just and there's more math. There is. More math. Again, very happy for whoever that works for.
Like, super awesome. If you're wearing a dive bezel and you want it to function as a GMT, then maybe find that hack. I am not. Going to be good at dividing by 5. No. That's all you have to do. OK, that's not that bad, no. And and it's everything is divisible by 5. OK, are you gonna explain how this works 'cause I tried to read it and I was like my eyes just glassed over because there were so many numbers and I was. Like that. Explaining it in words makes it difficult.
I think it'd be more easy visually, but essentially you use the dive bezel. You would turn the PIP at 12 right backwards or forwards. The number of hours that the time zone you wanna track is away. So let let's say you're you're in Florida right now, I'm in Sweden, so if I wanna track where, oh, you're wearing your BB 54, right? So I need to go forward. I'm. I'm. So this is live now. Click the pip down to 6:00 'cause we're six hours different.
Oops. I went I. I already it's unidirectional hold on go to 6:00. No, it's not unidirectional. Not the BB50. 40 Nice. Wait, now I got it stuck somehow. That that doesn't make any sense. I can't move it anymore. What? What? How did you? Is it because you got it full of sand? Uh. Oh. All right, well, moving on everyone. Got to hear that Live Lydia has now gotten her DB 54 bezel stuck. OK, OK. It's going to the six, it's going slowly. So yes, probably a little bit of.
Probably some sand in there. OK, so now that it's at 6:00, you look at where your hour hand is pointing, which is the 2:00 for you right now, right. And so there there should be a 40 there on the bezel. Divide the 40 by 5 that that's eight. Yeah, I was gonna. Say 8, so it's 8:00 here. Yeah, I'm definitely not doing this hack. I gotta say, I will just blink, stare at this and be like, but OK if you are I I guess that's not even mathematically inclined since it's very simple math.
You're more mathematically inclined than me. That is a cool hack. I really like that. Thanks, Ted. OK, that I, I I do like the hack. But again, I find it's it's one of those things I think you have to be inclined to want to do that, like to want to do the math for that. Yeah, now it's just really bothering me that the pip is at six. I don't like it. Like my whole watch. Are you not able to to turn it back? Is it stuck down? No, no, no. Did this happen live?
You broke your BB 54. No, no, no, I didn't. I was just trying to think. Of how? There. OK, there we go. It's clicking all right, Adrian? TPT asks. Hey, love the show. It's made my morning commute just that bit more pleasant. Thanks. Thanks, Adrian. Yeah. Something I've been pondering lately in a largish collection. Can a gotta watch get the attention it's due? Case in point, my silver dial OP doesn't get as much wear sitting alongside a box full of more specialized pieces.
Have a brilliant day. OK, this this is like the exact thought process that got rid of my explorer too. Oh. No, Adrian, do not get rid of your silver OP. It's too beautiful. Don't listen to Boo just. Sell it, get rid of it, trade it for something big. So I feel like we, we have talked about this before, right? But to go anywhere, do anything, watch it, it can go anywhere and it can do anything, that makes it the kind of Jack of all trades, master of none, right?
It is if you own specialized watches and go anywhere, do anything watches, then when you're in the situation that the specialized watches would be great for, then you're going to choose the specialized watch probably, right? Like I do, at least. So then you're got to watch. It's relegated to those tasks to which you do not have a specialized watch for. And as you get more and more specialized watches, those things, Oh yeah, become less.
The default you de special like you make it less special for yourself because you're like, oh that's the one you could always wear. Yeah, so then you wear it less. That's how my Explorer 2 became my hiking watch somehow over the years. Adrian and I talked about this a bit, and he was saying that, you know, he he listened to the episode where I gave my dad the silver OP.
And that was really what started him thinking about this, because we talked about how it is, I mean, such an amazing watch. Every time I look at it on my dad, I'm like, I could have only that watch and be very, very, very happy. I agree. But if I had it, I might be in the same situation. I think you would be the thing.
OK, everyone's different and they're probably like there are people who take a completely different approach than me, but using the way that I am and the way I know you are. So yes, that watch would be perfect, right? But only if it was one of very few watches that you owned. If it just jumped into your current collection, you'd wear it non-stop for a while because it's new.
And then you'd buy something else and then it would go in the box, but it wouldn't get picked out much because it's not specialized enough that when you do these, because even when you're wearing your newest watch, you you, right. Like even when you're doing that, you'll still go to the specialized watches when some event or you know you're going to do something, like right now you're traveling, you're wearing your BB 54. It's not your newest watch.
But like for this trip, it made the most sense for you. So like I think this watch would end up being the same for you and that it kind of goes back to Adrian's question is like, can these pieces really fit into a collection that is otherwise quite a bit more specialized? And I of course it depends on the person, but with me it can't. It they they don't, they don't work as well.
So it's either I do have to just have a bunch of gotas and then I just choose which one I want to wear for the day, or a bunch of specialized pieces. Oh, interesting. So you're you're saying for you, you you either would go with all Goddas because they all are this, you know? Then I'm just choosing what I like that. Or all specialized? Yes 'cause then. But no cross between them, no. I I don't think it's no cross.
I I think if you have mostly specialized watches, then you shouldn't have too many gotta watches. Or I should I I I need to say this about me because I'm sure there are people who are like, I have exactly that and I love it and that's cool. But this is my personality. I cannot deal with that, right? So now what I've been doing with my collection is moving everything a little bit more specialized. Yeah, I actually, I mean I can
say that I've done that too. And in thinking about when I call my collection, most of the things that are staying are in that more specialized vibe. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This is I this. We make up all of this. None of this. Adrian's like, have a brilliant day and we're like I. Don't know, Like you gotta sell that watch, dude. No. That do not that silver OP is perfect. It is perfect. It is an amazing watch.
It's a watch. The thing is I do think you, if you should have a gotta one gotta at least in a specialized collection because you do want something that you could just grab and go and you really feel like this. I love the way it looks. I love the way it fits. I, you know like it has all of the specs that I need that I don't have to worry about. So you always need at least one. It's once you get. I think 1 is good, yeah.
Yeah. Yeah, which I've sold my Explorer too, but I still have got us laying around. I'm good. I got us. Would love to know your thoughts on.