The Grey NATO – 260 – Deep Dive: How A Thrift Store Breitling Navitimer Found Jason

This episode launches a new series for TGN called “Deep Dive,” in which Jason and James (and possibly a guest) offer an in-depth conversation about a specific and special watch. For the inaugural outing, the TGN Boys are chatting about a very early example of a Breitling Navitimer found at a thrift store (for so much less than you’re thinking) before finding Jason by way of the watch grapevine. Jason and James chat about Jason’s interest in the Navitimer, the backstory of this specific watch, and its possible future in Jason’s collection.

Stay in the mix for a Final Notes that will have you reliving a more intense take on the afterschool cartoon while you hit YouTube to plan your next moto-camping adventure.

Click here to play episode 260 from your browser – Thanks so much for listening.

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2:30 Training Tall Row 20 Series (Youtube)
7:10 Dubai Watch Week
7:48 Sweetwater 
10:00 Marathon Navigator In Steel
14:44 History of Breitling Navitimer
18:26 The Compleat TGN (transcriptions)
21:18 Navitimer Montbrilliant 
23:34 Seiko SNA411
26:01 The Right Stuff - Tom Wolfe
28:47 Scott Carpenter 
29:58 Carpenter’s Breitling Cosmonaute
33:18 Blood Diamond (2006, Zwick)
34:13 Breitling 806 LE
37:15 Valjoux 72 movement 
42:35 “Touching The Face Of God” (Jason’s Substack post about the Navi)
45:08 The Ray-Ban Olympians that come with the Navi
46:50 Garatacle Moto Camping videos (YT)
51:50 Invincible Season 2 (Amazon Prime)

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