The Grey NATO – 352 – Picking Birth Year Watches

This week, the TGN boys are digging into an ever-popular topic in watch collecting: the appeal of the birth-year watch. Jason and James each get to pick three watches that they think would make ideal birth year options for themselves, and a further one watch for each other. Jason goes deep on chronographs, and James decides to ignore the reality of his financial situation.

Stay in the mix for a Final Notes featuring a new documentary about a special automotive shop in Tokyo and a comedy act from TikTok that also makes some pretty great music.

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2:22 Tactile Turn TGN CPN1 Pen Pre-Order
2:48 Stay Calm Industries
4:28 Ludvigson Explorer Collection
4:52 Olight OClip Ultra
7:40 Rolex Submariner 14060M
8:23 Longines Spirit Zulu LE for Hodinkee
12:40 Heuer Monaco
15:52 Rolex Sea-Dweller 16660
19:30 In-Depth: Bob Barth’s Historic SEALAB Rolex Submariner, For Sale
20:14 Doxa Sub 200 T-Graph
24:10 Chronosport UDT
24:15 Breitling Aerospace
24:20 Citizen Aqualand C0023
26:30 Seiko 6139
28:55 Audemars Piguet Royal Oak QP 25654BA
32:40 Tudor Oyster Date Chronograph 7031
35:23 Porsche Design by IWC Ocean 2000
35:25 The Ocean 2000 that Analogshift has for sale
39:45 “One of One” (2025, Bertucci, Documentary, Apple TV)
42:35 Ben Bertucci on Instagram
42:41 Naito Engineering on Instagram
43:48 Petey USA
46:00 “The Yips” - Petey USA

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