Giles and Alex hit Japan - May 2026

[Matt]

I’m happy to do the translating while you guys are here.

[Matt]

[Oaktavia]

@Matt we pronouce "Wabash" as "Wabaeyesh"

[jordanscollected]

@Giles my favorite part is the greasy parchment and old ass sheet pans in that cafe they happily display on. They’ve made a roll or 2 thousand.

[Giles]

H has been dropping hints for ages that he really likes the deck that @Bailey made for the IHUK office. So he made him one of his own.

[Giles]

H made it to the office before me and @Alex this morning.....

[Giles]

Our car is quite so on-brand

[jimcord]

So very fit!

[jimcord]

Giles, Since you like quality watches….Just curious…….are the prices of Grand Seiko’s set world wide or is there a yen/us dollar benefit?

[Giles]

Way cheaper here......This was at least 40% less than US retail.....And the Yen is weaker now than when I bought it.

https://search.rakuten.co.jp/search/mall/grand+seiko/

[Alex]

[NomadCrow]

@Alex Is this the Iron Heart museum? Where pieces are stored for preservation and safe-keeping?

[Alex]

Indeed

[Alex]

How to optimise office parking

[Oaktavia]

@Alex holy shit

[Matt]

So are you thinking UHF or 9 oz selvedge for that 10 re run?

[Alex]

@Matt what do you think would be good? Maybe 9oz…

[Matt]

They’re so versatile.

[sabergirl]

Yaaaaas please make a 10. Mine is too small.

[Alex]

@NomadCrow said in Giles and Alex hit Japan - May 2026:

@Alex Is this the Iron Heart museum? Where pieces are stored for preservation and safe-keeping?

The flannel rails above are the ones under the orange line. You can't really see much due to all these boxes of leather jackets waiting to be QCed, but the room has rails on every wall, some of them 3 deep, all full of archives