..It's a small watch after all, it's a small, small, waaatch!

The new watch isn't actually that small at 39mm, but that blasted song has been stuck in my head for a few days now

The Fieldwalker Socal vacay was fantastic!

Watch related highlights: an NWA, I viewed some Habring2 watches in person, and I visited with my kind friend (and our sites most charitable soul) @Mr.Dee.Bater!

However, being on a trip mostly devoted to family, it wasn't all horologic goodness. Not much freedom to geek out.

I missed out on the plethora of high end watch salons in LA. I missed out on an Orange County Chrono get together that Jack @FlatteryCamp was kindly going to sneak me into. I missed Paul’s @TheHoroSexual Montage Crunch meetup that happened the same night I arrived 😢

Ok, Back to the highlights:

A GS acquisition: The Ryusendo aren't just caves in Iwate prefecture anymore!

Preamble - I love watches with a date complication, very useful at work. I don't like dress watches. I prefer watches with 200m WR (big safety factor always appreciated) but fine with 100m and a screw crown (i.e. the SBGA413 Shunbun ) and I dislike watches with push pull crowns and 100m or less WR. At least In my mind, I dislike dress watches.

So, this watch is dead wrong for @Fieldwalker... but...I lean peacock when given the choice. And am an unabashed GS fan. In this case, the peacock power of this watch overpowers all other concerns and crushes them under it's little 3 toed foot.

I am also gaga for the case - it's inspired by a powered up jib or mainsail and is wrist hugging and absolutely beautiful.

58 grams on strap! I love light, and this one is light alright. My GS Shunbun, in Ti, also a lightweight wonder, is 2 grams heavier! (ok, the 413 has a rotor, so it gets a pass on the extra 2 gm)

Yes, just regular stainless case and it's a mechanical hand wind movement. However, I value design and style, and this watch has it in spades 🤩

Watch also came with a framed degree, which I plan to hang on the wall.

As my first mechanical GS - the degree might actually be nothing special, but the spring drive GSs I'm familiar with don't have it, the undereducated watches they are.

2) Visiting with Brandon of Horology by the Sea. He’s the distributor of Habring2 watches. Habring “2” is because it's operated by a loving husband and wife watchmaking team in Austria.

Mechanical and creative genius in the models I saw. In house movement development and has won several GPHG awards, the Felix Top Second most recently. I plan to own a Habring2 someday!

3) Last fun detail - we survived a family day at Disney! $800 CAD for our 3 one day tickets before any food, parking, etc, ouch! 🤕

Some of the rides I remembered from 40 years ago... though with minor modern PC tweaks. Long lines but still silly fun to do again.

Newer rides have embraced technology. The Indiana Jones and Star Wars rides were fantastic and made my day/night.

MAD1 seemed the best choice of a watch for a day of Disney mayhem (it's a MAD world!), it got lots of crazy spinning as the day passed 🤪

Thanks for reading 👍