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Greetings everyone Craig Hester here with R2Awatches.com. And thank you for joining us as we continue on our journey through all the watches and accessories that are available at R2Awatches.com. If you are watching this on YouTube, be sure to hit like and subscribe or ring that bell. I never know where the heck that bell is, but I'm sure you can find it. I hope so. And that'll give you early …

Greetings everyone. Craig Hester here with R2Awatches.com. And thank you for joining us today. As we continue on our journey through all the watches and accessories that are available at R2Awatches.com. If you are watching us on YouTube, be sure and ring that bell. So you'll get those early notifications. When we first post up a new video, if you're watching this on Facebook, you want to join …

This was my 12th Baselworld watch fair this past March. My first was 2006 (I skipped one year) but have visited the watch fair every year since up to now. Vostok-Europe, Sturmanskie, Tsikolia and others were all there as usual. Though Vostok-Europe was the only brand actually to have a both in the fair.For me, the Basel watch fair is in a lot of ways “just part of my job.” That is NOT to say that …

Taking a little time from watch designing and thinking about our next watch project, I was reading about the origin of the band name Toad the Wet Sprocket. That's an interesting enough story in and of itself.  Turns out it came from a 1970s Monty Python skit, where Eric Idle was trying to come up with a name so ridiculous, nobody would ever really think it could be a real band. Boy, was …