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Haven’t had one of these since 2019. I know it’s not going to be like old days, but it will never come back if we keep not going.

In my opinion, Tudor, Breitling and Tag are more of a "low high end" to me. they make quality stuff but they don't really have stuff like Rolex, Omega, Cartier, Panerai, or IWC. Tudor, Breitling, and Tag remind me of like Acura, Lexus, and Lincoln whereas the others are more like BMW, Audi, Merc, etc. (obviously not the compact FWD ones) My personal daily watch. Seiko 5 Sports. I'm not sure why when I add the wrist shot it rotates it 90 degrees clockwise not not the caseback picture. Oh well.

Its Dee-troy-it afterall. From their famous potholes and the crimes

It takes two to tango in the sense that automakers should also put effort in making autoshows work again. Maybe not in the same way that GM's Motorama once was and autoshows took that formula for the next 50/60 or so years. The pandemic accelerated the direction of car reveals, as how you stated in your timeline, in that internet reveals became that biiiiig event. The reveal of the Corvette C8 countdown comes to mind. And if my memory serves me right, Dodge revealed the Hellcats streaming it on the webs and it wasnt the traditional autoshow reveal. Another nail in that autoshow coffin, was how Acura was strongly awaiting for its NSX reveal and Ford comes along and literally blowing Acura and everybody away with their GT reveal negating any attention to Acura and the NSX. Sure it was great for Ford, but because there was another media way to showcase a surprise or long awaited reveal, automakers now had a very safe a nd legit way to monopolize ALL the attention: Live streamed internet reveals. I agree, journalists and fans MUST attend big car shows like Detroit, LA, Geneva etc. in order for them to continue, but the Genie has been let out of the internet streaming bottle. I am looking forward to your findings and journalism surrounding the show, I have to admit.

This one belongs in here...

You and I both!!! Oh...BTW

lol, we might need a fitness thread too. I have never been built, I was always the trim/cut swimmers build right up until 2020 when the pandemic, a very sedentary job, and my 40s conspired together to build a dad bod and I gained 35 lbs, none of it muscle. In mid-July, work started a weight loss challenge where participants can win up to $500... so that made cookies really not worth it. At 5-weeks in, I'm down 17.4 lbs on a strict diet + swimming laps 3 times a week. The goal for the contest is being down 25 lbs by October 2nd, and shockingly, I'm in 5th place. After the contest is over, I'm going to keep it going and I'm aiming for 35 lbs down by November 7th, my birthday. I might aim for 50lbs down by Christmas with the goal of a swimmers body by then.

Here's my Sturhling Bar Automatic, my favorite watch, I mentioned yesterday

Ah yes. The good ole days of car shows. Especially the ones from Deee-troy-it. The car of tomorrow today when the future was full of hope. Ahhhhh.... the irony. The parallels of living life then and living life today almost mirror each other. Threat of ww3 and nuclear fallout. The West against the East is in full swing. But. We actually HAVE the cars of tomorrow...today. A little glimpse of how fun cars used to be. But none of that humour is tolerated today. Agree with it or not, find it funny or offensive, ya'll got to agree, the mother-n-law ALWAYS needs to get the shaft...

Yeah!!! You are right about that. I dont know why I put Omega in the mid tier. I guess I was thinking Seiko when I wrote it and ommitted Omega with the high end. But yeah. Guilty as charged and correction accepted. I also wanted to include Tudor and Breitling with the high end stuff but I guess when all those brands were swirling in my mind, I got mixed up with all that info because I had a LOT more to say. Tongue tied and brain fart we will chalk that up to.

I have to disagree here. Omega is muuuuch more of a Rolex/Tudor/Breitling/Cartier competitor here Speaking of GS, one of my dream watches is a "snowflake" Grand Seiko. I finally got to see one in person about a month ago. Boy-o-boy is it a beautiful piece! (not the one I saw in person FYI)

I like all kinds of watches. Pedigree is somewhat important, but not a factor. I DO want a watch from a legit watchmaker, not from these so called fashion watch corps such as Armani, Diesel, Guess, Hugo Boss, Gucci, Michael Kors... GaaAWD DO I HATE MICHAEL KOR WATCHES!!! I like simplistic watches. I like complicated watches with all kinds of complications on the dial. I wouldnt wear a too busy one, but I like 'em none the less. I like cheap legit watches like a Casio or Timex or even Swatch but nothing that you buy from a Walmart/Target/Dollar Store turn-a-rack display and the watch is made in China/Taiwan. I prefer the mid-level watches like an Omega, Seiko, Bulova, Citizen, Longines, Tissot... I like the horology engineering in the very high end watches like a Rolex, Piguet, IWC, A. Lange and Sohne, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Panerai, etc Noting that several brands have been bought by other brands and are part of a bigger umbrella now-a-days. I like military face style watches like a Hamilton. I like the naked face look. I like the really wierd styled high end stuff too. I like automatics and I like quartzes. I like digital. I even like smart watches although Id NEVER consider buying one. I like round and I like square and rectangle. Leather straps or metal. Gold too. But not plastic nor tissue. I like classic styled watches like the Longines watches classic original and reissue I posted in the car thread. I like a gaudy diamond encrusted 18k Gold Rolex Presidential. Id wear one too if I was a Russian Oligarch kissin' Putin's ass... Or a Wallstreet weenie boy bilking billions from like minded @$$h8le$... Or If I was a New York Yankee or Dallas Cowboys owner. Same style of shytty arrogance. Did I just paint the Steinbrenners and the Joneses like murderous, cantakerous theives? I guess I did... These are my personal watches. The far right one was my dad's. Its a Waltham. I have no information on it. I tried fixing it last year. Cost me 200 CDN bucks. Stopped working again 3 months later. I guess its too old. But I LOVE it. Its a 21 jewel self winding automatic. The other 2 are Bulova Quartzes. The one of the left is solar. Its titanium and its a 36mm I think. Cost me around 500 CDN at the time. The one in the middle is 40mm but not that expensive. My wife bought for me as a XMAs gift and it was on sale for 160 CDN. I would want to upgrade to the reissue of a Bulova Jetstar. I really really like Bulova's Precisionist mouvement. Its a less expensive Grand Seiko style quartz movement and even more precise. I like an automatic for its horology engineering, and I LOVE the sweeping second hand. But I love a battery powered watch in that I dont have to wind it up... I had LOTS of hand wounding watches as a kid. When I got my hands on a quartz watch in the 80s, and I had several digital ones at that as well, I never looked back. Kinda like a manual transmission versus an automatic one. I dont like a manual transmission either... Roughly $500 versus $5000. But yeah...the Grand Seiko is classy and awesome non-the less. This GS is simply gorgeous!

Great movie, bummer for that lovely car.

Thanks, nothing like a good crunch recycle series.

78 Olds wagon. None of these rides is worth repairing, but cool to see old iron get crushed once in awhile. That wagon in good shape would be a lot of fun. Hurts watching this Buick get crushed.

Outstanding write up Drew. Look forward to your reporting from the show. Thank you for taking the risk that many will not take and stay safe.

Sadly their habit is their habit. Stay focused on the dinning experience and if the service is top notch, then tip top notch and let them deal with their own bad habits. Kinda reminds me of the medical industry, it is amazing how many medical professionals smoke.

That was a favorite of mine growing up. This was another favorite.

Watches in terms of telling time is dead. Watches in terms of fashion is heading in an upwards direction. Smart watches actually started this trend. Because it made fashionable people aware that a watch, a real watch, could be a nice thing to wear to showcase. Timex reissued their iconic Marlin... Casio reissued ALL their classic stuff from the 70s and 80s. Casio even went the route of product placement in movies. not as work watches as how the G-Shock originally was, but as a cool accessory that could take a beating while you save the world. The Apple watch and watches of that kind replaced the work watch. The Timex if you will. But Casio and Timex countered with their cheap offerings and made them fashionable... And this is where the high end watches also got a second boost in sales. As an accesory. And this is where I can explain the next watch I posted in the beautiful car appreciation thread. I had a similar watch as a teenager. I cant remember if it was a Casio or a Timex. I paired that Casio up with a Delorean. Apparently it was also in a movie... I just posted it because of memory of me having a similar watch as a teen. Timex or Casio...no difference.

My initial random thought: So, you try not to be a cheapskate and start accepting that tipping levels have moved up from 15% to 18% and upwards. I went somewhere for lunch today, the server was very good, and I left a tip between 18% and 20%. (I always round them to get to a total in whole dollars or half dollars ... possible indicator of OCD, not sure.) I then head to the parking lot behind the restaurant and see that server on a smoke break. I then wished I had left a little less than what I left because I feel like I just funded at least half of the cost of his pack of cigarettes.

Major cities and progressive (or more with it) companies and businesses in red states have more recycling options. That's true. It's just frustrating when you're at a hotel or a coffeehouse and you have to throw your plastic and paper stuff into the car and then wait to find some place you can recycle it. I tend to have a small collection of this stuff sitting on the floor in the passenger side footwell until I find such a place. Correct as to the exceptions to the rule. I could see Austin recycling in general. It's "good luck" when you cross Florida, Texas, and some Midwestern states and you pull into a rest area and a good many of these rest areas do not have recycling options. A rare few do.

I don't think it will be dead, but I think it will be more specialized. My daily wear watch is my Apple watch because I track health stats with it. I have to aggressively remove apps that send too many notifications to it.

I don't have much knowledge of watches and don't really care about pedigree. I'll never buy a watch just because of the name brand. I tend to like them in two styles. I like either a classic, minimalist, Deco style, or as a skeleton style. I always prefer an automatic and don't really shop outside of that category ever. One thing I've never liked is metal watch bands. I find they snag on my arm hair or just about anything else that's around. My favorite watch I've had for about 6-8 years now is a Sturhling Bridge Automatic. They still produce the bridge model, but no longer as an automatic. I'll get a picture of it when I'm home. This Stauer Dashtronic is one I've admired for a while and not sure why I haven't pulled the trigger on it yet.

36mm - 40mm is the sweet spot for me. I'm sure some 41-42mm cases would be fine as well because each case shape and lug to lug differences can make smaller cases fit larger or larger cases fit smaller so I don't want to draw a line in the sand at a specific number without trying it on. Well, it's certainly a beautiful piece! Breitlings are "okay" to me. Some I like more than others but in that price range, I'm going with comparable Omegas or Tudors. I'm a huge Tudor fan and I'd really like to get my hands on a Black Bay 58 blue within the next couple years. SOME Rolex are gaudy but absolutely not all of them. It's only gaudy if that's what you're choosing. There's nothing gaudy about a stainless Submariner or most of their Datejusts.

Ahh, Olds is a Petite man!