A hit song can take years of chaos to earn and sometimes only a few hours to record. From Nashville, we sit down with Lincoln Parish, writer, guitarist, and producer known for his work with Cage The Elephant, to unpack what those moments really feel like from the inside and why it can take a decade to realize how big it all was. We talk about the early grind and building momentum overseas, the strange reality of success feeling like another workday, and the producer mindset that avoids templates in favor of putting the artist’s DNA on the record. Lincoln shares a vivid studio memory of hearing “Ain’t No Rest For The Wicked” back for the first time and knowing it would connect, plus his philosophy on making albums that can actually be played live without smoke and mirrors. Then we pivot into watch collecting and the deeper reason so many creative people obsess over mechanical timepieces. Lincoln walks us through a Rolex-heavy collection, the choices behind pieces like the Daytona, Day-Date, and GMT, and the long-game patience of waitlists and grail hunting. We also hit what’s next on his radar, from Zenith to Cartier to a dream meteorite dial, and why the watch community can bring unlikely people to the same table. If you enjoy Rolex, luxury watches, music production, and creative career stories, this one delivers. Subscribe, share it with a friend, and leave a review with your current daily watch and your grail.
Lincoln Parish On Hit Songs, Rolex Waitlists, And Why Slow Craft Still Wins
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About this episode
Key Takeaways
- Breakout success often feels ordinary in the moment and only looks big in hindsight.
- Lincoln's producer philosophy is to build around the artist's DNA instead of forcing a formula.
- The hardest records to make are often the ones that stay with people the longest.
- Mechanical watches matter to Lincoln because they connect effort, ritual, and memory.
- His collecting lane is Rolex-heavy today, with Zenith, Cartier, JLC, IWC, Panerai, and Zodiac still on the radar.
Who is Lincoln Parish
Lincoln Parish is a songwriter, guitarist, and producer best known for his work with Cage The Elephant. After helping shape the band's early breakout era, he moved deeper into production and songwriting in Nashville, where he now applies the same analog, artist-first mindset to records, gear, and collecting.
""If you want to know the exact time, look at your phone. If you want to know how much time you got, that's what you look at your watch for.""
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Episode Summary: Lincoln Parish on Slow-Build Success and Collecting with Intention
Lincoln Parish doesn’t frame success as a single trophy moment. He describes it as a blur of tour days, soundchecks, interviews, and work—a long stretch of discipline and friction that only makes sense in hindsight.
The Slow Build Behind The Breakout
In the episode, Lincoln walks through the early Cage The Elephant years in the UK: tiny rooms, relentless touring, and the reality that so-called breakthroughs rarely feel that way from the inside. Songs that later seem inevitable were, at the time, just part of showing up and doing the work.
His perspective undercuts the fantasy of clean, obvious career steps. The work compounds first; the meaning usually arrives later.
Why The Best Records Fight Back
Lincoln argues that the records people still talk about are often the hardest to make—not because of complex gear, but because they demand patience, identity, and conflict to resolve into something real.
As a producer, his goal isn’t to impose a template. It’s to find the artist’s DNA and make the record feel inevitable in their own voice. That lens applies beyond music: in design, collecting, and brand building, the strongest work comes from sharpening what’s already true, not copying what’s already popular.
Watches as Memory, Restraint, and Motivation
The watch conversation mirrors the music conversation. Lincoln talks about watches the way he talks about guitars and analog studio gear: the object matters because of the life around it.
A mechanical watch is about friction, upkeep, ritual, and memory—not just telling time.
“If you want to know the exact time, look at your phone. If you want to know how much time you got, that’s what you look at your watch for.”
That line anchors the episode. Watches slow you down, reward attention, and remind you that some of the best things in life only keep working if you keep showing up for them.
Lincoln’s Current Collecting Lane
Lincoln’s collection leans heavily toward Rolex, but the interesting part is how he talks about use. Different watches fit different studio days, moods, and risk levels. Gold pieces stay home when he’s moving amps. Daily wear is about practicality as much as desire.
His collecting itch is still active. Zenith, Cartier, JLC, IWC, Panerai, and playful pieces from brands like Zodiac are all on his radar. It’s not a checklist—it’s an evolving taste, refined in real time.
Why This Episode Lands
The episode never separates work from taste. Lincoln connects hit records, old gear, watches, and long-term ambition under one idea: the things worth keeping are usually the things that ask something of you first.
That makes this more than a guest interview. It’s a conversation about patience, perspective, and why a slower kind of craft still wins.
Listen to the full episode for:
- The story of hearing “Ain’t No Rest For The Wicked” hit back for the first time
- The reality of stepping away from tour life
- The watch references Lincoln still has in his sights
Key Idea: The Things Worth Keeping Ask Something of You
Lincoln ties together touring, record-making, and watch collecting with a single throughline: the most meaningful things—careers, albums, objects—demand patience, friction, and ongoing care before they reveal their full value.
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Hear the Full Conversation with Lincoln Parish
Dive deeper into Lincoln’s stories from the road, the making of early Cage The Elephant records, and the watch references that keep him inspired.
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Key Moments
Introductions And Lincoln’s Timeline
Lincoln's long arc from early band life to his current producer role sets the frame for the conversation.
Building Cage The Elephant Momentum
He explains how momentum built slowly in the UK and why breakout moments rarely feel dramatic while they are happening.
Watches As Memory And Motivation
Lincoln traces his watch interest from childhood Fossils to the way watches now mark progress, discipline, and perspective.
When Success Feels Routine
The band’s biggest years felt like another workday until distance made the scale of that era visible.
Producing With The Artist’s DNA
Lincoln outlines a producer mindset centered on identity, patience, and making records that feel truthful to the artist.
Stepping Off Tour Life
He reflects on leaving the road and shifting fully into a creative life built around the studio.
The Night Dave Grohl Drummed
A vivid studio memory underscores how intuition, collaboration, and timing can lock in a record’s emotional center.
Inside Lincoln’s Rolex Collection
Lincoln explains what actually earns wrist time, how he thinks about risk in the studio, and why practicality matters as much as desire.
Next Watches Zenith Cartier And More
The conversation widens into Zenith, Cartier, JLC, IWC, Panerai, and the kinds of watches still pulling him forward as a collector.
Closing And Next Guest Tease
The episode closes by tying the conversation back to curiosity, taste, and the next stories worth chasing.
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Lincoln Parish
So I've been in the music industry professionally for 20 years now. I think one of the coolest things, like somebody told me the Santos just feels too like Pablo Escalant. You think you can get me a black dictator that's like a million and a half.
Chad Tsagris
This is off the clock with Watchang. I'm Chad Sagris. I'm with my co-host, Blake.
Blake Rea
Blake Ray, what's up? Today we are still in Nashville, and we are sitting down with a close personal friend, Lincoln Parrish. Let me kick off Lincoln's little intro. The year is 2009, and Back Against the Wall became Cage the Elephant's first Billboard Alternative Number One Vatican single in a breakout moment that was part influenced by writer and guitarist Lincoln Parrish. Uh Lincoln would go on to help craft Grammy nominated in chart topping records. And in 2013, in the high-bye momentum, and just after the re the release of Melophobia, which also went platinum, by the way. Uh, he stepped away from touring to focus on producing and and songwriting here at Siena Series Nashville. Today, Lincoln works behind the scenes founding Talkbox Rodeo, which you know brings the same intensity that he had on stage into the studio. And of course, we are sitting down with Lincoln. Welcome to the show, brother.
Lincoln Parish
Thanks for the intro.
Blake Rea
For having me. Yeah.
Lincoln Parish
Excited to do this.
Blake Rea
Yeah, this is uh this is cool because we've been talking about doing this for And here we are. Maybe two years or so. I think I think I met you. We were talking about September in Vegas last year. Yeah. Yeah, I think I think I met you maybe three years ago, and then we got connected, and then I mean pretty instantly we just kind of like just grew pretty close. And and then, you know, you've been to Vegas now maybe like three or four three times a day to see me. Yeah. And and this time now we're we're here to see you.
Chad Tsagris
Here in my hometown. I think that once a year to Vegas, because just the right amount of Vegas and everything.
Lincoln Parish
Yeah, I I would agree with that. I say no more than three days in Vegas.
Chad Tsagris
You were yeah, but Nashville, look, you guys got the nickname over here is like Nat Vegas almost, right?
Lincoln Parish
Yeah, I think it's uh they say we're uh drinking town with a music problem, which we would also check out.
Blake Rea
Yeah. So Lincoln is also uh a watch collector, and and right now you probably can't see unless you're tuning in from that camera, but he's got some sick watches, and I think we're gonna save those for people that decide to hang on and hear your story. So maybe it might might end up in a reel or some shit. But uh let's talk about like, you know, back in, you know, in 2000, I think 2009, when back in the wall came out, um, you know, hit number one alternative release. Like, what did that change for you as as an artist?
Lincoln Parish
Um, well, actually it was uh it didn't go what I think topped out at number three, uh, but Ain't a Rest of the Wicked was their first sort of breakout moment in the US. Um, and that came out right when the album came out in 2008 because we were we started in the UK in 2006. And we're we had a residency guild there with EMI and uh lived in a house together over there and like toured the UK and all of Europe, you know, together and just kind of like started there. I mean, we first went there, we were playing for like the bartender and like our tour manager. Sure. And then uh, you know, they kept running the circuit, and after a year we were, you know, year and a half by the end of the two years, we were headlining and selling out like two, three thousand people Benese.
Chad Tsagris
Wow. I I remember seeing, I think like it's probably earlier when you guys were in there, you're touring with like black keys. Oh yeah, on the brothers album. Yeah, and I was probably like I was like, this band is better than better. But you know, I there's been like probably three or four times I can think of where I've seen a band and that the opening act, I'm like, yeah, that's like like that's what I came here for.
Lincoln Parish
Yeah, yeah, definitely.
Blake Rea
I was I was on the YouTube channel, and when I was doing research for the pod, like I saw some of the old, like little like it looked like you guys were filming with like a fucking like handicam or some shit. And you guys were in the other and and yeah, you guys were just recording and just to see how like how young you were back then, and uh and it dude, it was kind of like a surreal moment, yeah. Because I was like now I've I've known you for the past three years or so, and just to see a side of you that I never really like knew was kind of like right.
Lincoln Parish
It's crazy because I'll I'm turned 36 this month in March twice since then uh yeah, uh so I've been in the music industry professionally for 20 years now, and I'm only 36, so it's it sometimes it feels like I've lived three different lives, you know. It's like I had my childhood, the band era, and then like what I do now, which I've been doing since you know, full time since basically the end of 2015.
Chad Tsagris
So were you into watches and collecting when you were touring? Because it's always fun to look in vintage stores and different stores.
Lincoln Parish
So I I've always been into watches, like even before touring.
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Yeah.
Lincoln Parish
Um, you know, I would we would go on these like family vacations when I was a kid, and my parents would give uh one sister and they would both give us like$200 apiece at the beginning of the vacation. They'd be like, that's it, you know, like if you spend it, it's gone, you know, like you're uh give me more money. And um so my thing kind of became like this is big back when like fossil was a big deal, and like especially for you know kids, and so I would kind of save up and like almost like every trip that we would go on, I would like get a fossil. And it was when they came the little tens, because yeah, like tens were they're super cool, yeah. They were like kind of they looked like vintage and stuff, but like they were those were kind of collectible, you know, on their own. And then uh yeah, I'd always get a watch to like when I look back at pictures when I was a kid, I always had a watch on it. And uh, and then so then I quit wearing there was a few years where I quit wearing one, and then the band as we started to get more popularity and uh we got to work with like some stylists. I remember we did some photo shoot, and like you know, they had they would lay out all this stuff, like everybody kind of like goes and tries out what they like. Just kind of fun day, right? Yeah, and uh, you know, and some of the stuff that you had to give back, and some of the stuff they can keep that or whatever, but um uh there was a Nixon watch that was like a black ceramic Nixon. Yeah, yeah. Um, and I wore that for several years. And then I kind of for whatever reason, I think once like iPhones started to become the thing, like I was like, Well, who needs a watch? You know what I mean? Because that tells me everything I need to know. But like one of the coolest things, and sorry with the sidetracks, but um one I think one of the coolest things, like somebody told me one time we were talking about watches, was like the guy goes, um he goes, you know, if you want to know the exact time, look at your phone. He goes, if you want to know how much time you got, that's what you look at your watch for.
Chad Tsagris
I actually I I can't agree with that more because it's what it is. It's it's it's it's it's there to essentially slow you down. Yeah, right, and and to appreciate time. Appreciate time because you know, it's like in today's society, we're running, we're doing like, you know, we're doing three jobs, we're running around this, we're going here, we're traveling, we're we're living this Instagram life that's beyond uh what expectations of what it was like maybe 40 or 50 years ago. And this this little device on your wrist, it does go let's slow down, let's just kind of enjoy a beer and relapse and let life roll.
Lincoln Parish
Yeah, yeah, and definitely. And you know, even for me, it's like you know, when I look down a watch that you know worked hardcore, like it makes me appreciate all the things that got me to that point, but also makes me want to work harder so I can keep buying them. Like a a sickness. No, but no, it's like, well, if I work this hard to get to this point, then like why should I stop? Like I need to go further and further. Um, at least that's sort of what it helps remind me of, I think.
Blake Rea
Yeah, I mean, coming from like music, like you know, obviously music is all about really like curated taste and like tones and like textures. Like, how do you feel like being in the music industry kind of like defines you as a collector?
Lincoln Parish
Well, I mean, I would say it's pretty similar to I mean, I have like well, definitely have more guitars than have watches, but like over 40-something guitars and like all different kinds, and you know, there's a couple that are duplicates or you know, like I might have two gold tops or three left paws or whatever it is, and like, but they're all you know, I always say they're like different paint brushes and hammers, you know. It's like he would, you know, um not use the same screwdriver on every screw, you know what I mean? So like they all serve a purpose in a different way, and like I think where it kind of ties in as far as to the collecting thing, at least for me, is like what I love about guitars and watches and you know, gear and like old analog gear in general is like it only works if you work it. Yeah, you know, and like things that like aren't just gonna run forever on their own, you know, it's like you've gotta you gotta move it. You know, it's like you gotta move the strings and make the forward and you know whatever that is, and like with these watches, you know, it's like if you don't wear them, they yeah.
Chad Tsagris
It's the they they need to continuously be used, loved. And it's also the enjoyment of the experience.
Lincoln Parish
Because the guitar is the same thing. If you don't play a guitar for a year, you're gonna have to take it and get it set up because the next kind of all, you know, the intonation and you know, things just yeah.
Chad Tsagris
I'm a big fan of like analog cars, right? Like I like when I look at like having like a new Porsche or having like a Ferrari or something. Nothing personally made in the last 15 years really interests me. Like I'm looking at something from the 80s and 90s, I'm like, ooh, that like that G-Wagon from 1999 looked really, really, really cool. And it's like you're asking for a headache, but it's a uh passion of love. Well, yeah, more than anything.
Lincoln Parish
Yeah, you gotta put some some elbow grease into that thing to like, you know, it's it's gonna make you fight for it a little bit, you know, which is a little bit, right? Yeah, I mean, even with like I always say like the best records that I produce or work on, or even with the cage, but like the one that everybody talks about was the hardest to make. And not so much like really from a technical aspect, they're just like pain in the ass as far as like band dynamic, you know, it's like yeah, good things don't usually come easy, you know what I mean?
Blake Rea
And and you guys were so young too that it's just like it kind of kind of wins me to a question, like, I mean, obviously, like you have had this huge success, like in in your past, and still obviously in the future is more success to come, but you know, is it once you'd reached that kind of like peak, did you feel like you had earned it, or did you just feel like you kind of had like fell into it?
Lincoln Parish
No, uh it's you know, to be honest, it was like I always say when you're in it, I can almost see it more now or see the success for now and the and perception of it from the back end than I could like like while it was going on, which was when it was happening, it was just like, oh, it's Thursday, you know what I mean? You know, like hey, this is you know, we got where do we gotta be at like you know, we gotta be at Soundcheck 2, and then we got this radio interview before that, and you know, it's just sort of you know, I don't want to say going through the motions, but it just seemed like another Tuesday, you know, and um I think it was like it took some time to like sort of zoom out from all that, even for all of this, not just me and the band, but like you know, talked to some of the other guys and even recently, and it's like we didn't realize like how big it had gotten at that time, but then like looking back 10 years later, it's like oh shit, like that, like we did something, you know. Like, but a lot of people, you know, like we always say like there was way better bands than us, and like we weren't like technically the best, but like I guess we had a thing that resonated with people, and it was the right time, right play, yeah, and you got to do something really cool, yeah, and give something to the world, it was fun, yeah.
Chad Tsagris
And that they all the people all around the world enjoyed, and that's I think the unique thing about doing anything at the highest level that you can get to is like you can kind of years later go, yeah, that was really fun, that was cool, yeah.
Lincoln Parish
You know, yeah. I'm I mean, I'm forever, you know, grateful to the band and everything. You know, there's no bad blood, you know. It's like you know, we actually so uh ran into one of the guys the other night and it's like, and we did something like really special, like, you know, should we proud of that? And like we wouldn't have had that conversation 10 years ago, you know what I mean? Because it's just but you know, we've all so all grown up good bit, matured in a lot of different ways.
Blake Rea
And you ever like look back at like your your portfolio and like do you ever have those like vivid like memories of like what you were doing when you were doing like what you were thinking? You know, because as a creator, like obviously I do I do video work that totally different from from music production, but you know, you're looking at creative work as you're trying to take something that's like abstract and and create something tangible for somebody to grab onto, right? And so, like what that means as a creative, like you explore sounds and rhythms and riffs and all this stuff. Like, so like looking back and listening back to your old music, do you do you like can you vividly remember like creating these moments? Like, and and yeah, and like if obviously looking like hindsight's 2020, but like be like, why the fuck did I do this? And then and then and somehow this fucking worked, you know?
Lincoln Parish
Like no, definitely. Um, I mean, I pretty much all the albums and songs I can remember the day we did it. I mean, one of the most vivid memories is when we first heard Ain't a Rest for the Wicked back in the studio, which that was on our first record album, so like you know, it was cool to just hear everything back. But I remember we we recorded that song in like four and a half hours. Wow. And then like the Jay Joyce, our producer, was like, Y'all get the fuck out of here. And um, be back tomorrow at 11. And so we came back at 11 and he'd kind of done the quick cool like rough mix on it, and listened back, and like we all just kind of like looked at each other like that's gonna be a hit. And like it was just not even arrogant, not to sound arrogant anyway, but it was just like one of those like you could just feel it. Yeah, it was like we were we were even like goosebumps, you know. Well, when you know Yeah, when we were we were like we were like there's in we're like there's no way that's not gonna be a huge shit.
Blake Rea
It it's weird too, because in at least in video production, and probably the same, like you leave the studio and it's like like you you're putting together a puzzle. Like I remember when me and my family used to do puzzles, we were like pour all the pieces down on the table, like flip them the right way up so you could see the colors, and then like when you start putting stuff together, it starts to take shape later. So, like when you leave the studio, I mean Jay Joyce is fucking amazing, by the way. Like, I was looking looking at like all of his work and and his portfolio, and um and then you come back and and did it sound the exact same way you remembered it, or you're like, Whoa, this this is totally new, yeah, next level shit.
Lincoln Parish
No, uh, I mean a little bit of both. Like I remember it's funny, like on the first album, whenever we got like the first round of mixes back from Jay. Um, of course, you know, I grew up on 90s rock, a lot of that stuff, which those records sound incredible. But when I heard Jay's mixes back, I was a little disappointed because I was like, it wasn't but it wasn't the mix, it was just like it was embracing who we were as a band. Sure. And like I had to realize that we weren't Matchbox 20 or we weren't the Wallflowers, and like so we weren't gonna sound like that, and like that was actually a good thing, you know, that because that's what made us unique and stand out from you know, because I think a lot of people are almost just trying to recreate stuff that other people have already done, and it you know, it takes a lot of balls to you know be like, oh, we're kind of stepping into uncharted territory with a sound that like it isn't popular, and you know, like I've said in other interviews before, it's like oh I say you're not cool until you're cool, but it's but it's also it's become its own generation of rock now.
Chad Tsagris
Oh yeah, and there's people replicating what you guys were doing back then, yeah, and trying to make that sound now.
Lincoln Parish
Yeah, I think I hear it sometimes so I'm like that's weird, it's weird, it's cool. Yeah, you know, it's it's like it's people are like, Oh, you're not getting mad. I'm like, no, it's like as it's like a almost a respect thing, like as at least that's how I take it. Like, I was like, I don't get offended by it. I mean, let them I mean that's cool to say like you inspired a generation to do something else, you know.
Chad Tsagris
And that's what we and I think that that's the whole evolution of what we're doing is create in as humans, we're trying to create and do better and better and better and redo things in our own opinions and ways, and that's why it's art.
Lincoln Parish
Yeah, and it's everybody's interpretation of that, you know what I mean? So, like the way you might hear something, the way Blake might hear something is like too totally different.
Blake Rea
I don't hear shook. I don't hear shit.
Chad Tsagris
Like, I'm like fucking ringing in my ears and shit. There's some great bands right now that are like and and it's funny, it's like because we're here in a studio and you and you love doing studio work, yeah. And now there's musicians who are really great, they produce amazing albums, but they're studio musicians. Like they like when you see them in concert, you're like, that's a studio album to be listened to in the studio.
Lincoln Parish
Right, yeah. I mean, there's you know, when I'm producing working with artists and bands, I always try to say, like, we gotta make a record that is where you're at in your career. Yeah, you know, and like if I if we do this record, I want the record when you guys go play it live. Like, yeah, there might be some little ear candy things missing, but like it should generally feel and sound like the artist, yeah, and not like be so produced. Like, don't put a 40 piece string section on a band that's like gonna go play like the grog shop in Cleveland. You know, it's two or and they're not they can't afford to take strings players out, so it's just like, why are you gonna put it all over the record? You know, um, so I I think it's because I look at albums as like capturing a moment in time, yeah. Exactly, you know, and it's like a picture to me. So it's like that's where those people are at. And if you listen to our records, even it's like we progress. I mean, we we always agreed, like we never wanted to make the same record twice. And like, so we constantly, you know, tried to evolve and be something not totally I mean it kind of had a similar uh thread, like it's these guys, but like we didn't it just tried to keep the ball moving forward, you know, and like um and each album was sort of like a different picture of us in different like eras, and like um I remember with the melophobia and it came out. You know, it was you know, compared to the first two records, it was a little more chilled out, a little more mid-tempo, like not as we had a couple like heavier things on there, but like it wasn't as like our second album was real punk and it's hard, yeah. Yeah, it was kind of brash, and like I remember some people standing and they're like, I mean, what happened to all the you know the Sabretooth Tiger and like all the that kind of stuff? And I was like, and you know, I was like, it's hard to be angsty and pissed off when you know, like you start making some decent money, and like you know, it's like you have a nice house. Like, I was like, we're just not that pissed off anymore. That's fun. That's you know, but you know, when you're like I was 15, 16, the band was first starting, we're all like full of piss and anger, and like yeah, we were like fucked, yeah.
Chad Tsagris
So I got a nice car, I got a house, I can buy a watch nap. Not really much really to be upset about. Let's have a little more fun.
Blake Rea
So something to this kind of has me kind of spinning is like you know, obviously, like when you were start getting into music and you were young, and and you know, as a creative, like to me, I look at like putting my fingerprint kind of on something, and like whether in music it's like defining your sound or like you know, divine defining what makes Lincoln like sound like Lincoln. So like now, like you're working with so many different artists, you know, you're you're not kind of conforming to the same sounds that you've been working on. It gives you kind of a a a wider portfolio per se. So like yeah, so so like what is it? That you look for when you're looking like working with a new artist, and like what is the Lincoln fingerprint like sound like, look like, feel like? Like, do you do you find yourself finding finding similarities in between each each of your projects?
Lincoln Parish
Or you know, I think there's um there can be like if you really listen for it, like some sort of thread that you know, if you really listen to all everything I've done, that you might be like, oh, this sounds like a Lincoln thing. Um but generally, like I always say, like, I I want every artist I work with, and because the artists I work with are so different, like I want their DNA to be on it, like more than my like, you know, I don't want it to just be like, oh, I put them through the Lincoln machine. Like whitewash it or something. Yeah, yeah. And just like made everybody the same. Yeah. You know, because there's some producers out there that, you know, they just put their treatment on and they it's just sort of almost like a template, you know, whereas like I don't do templates with anything, like everything starts fresh. Um, for me, as far as like deciding like who and what I'm gonna work on, um even if it's not something I would have liked liked, maybe or it has to be I had to find a common thread of like there's something about this I really like, yeah. Not like what I would typically listen to, you know, but it's like you the song's gotta be good, you know, the singers, there's there's something in there that makes me believe in it. Yeah, you know, and like I think that's that's the most important to me.
Blake Rea
Is that part of the reason also why you kind of like moved on from like working and touring and all that, like from the band, because you just wanted to try something new or different, or just kind of wanted to express yourself in a different creative direction? Kind of all that.
Lincoln Parish
I mean, um part of it was I was sort of over touring. Yeah. Um, I always say like the band was like my college, you know, like yeah, Chad's on fucking tour.
Blake Rea
I don't even know how he does that, right? I'm on toural work. Yeah, those guys are tour at touring me touring watch sensation here.
Chad Tsagris
It's all but you know, I but I've done that whole touring life too, and it it's it's fun. Yeah, until you get until you don't do it.
Lincoln Parish
No, yeah, yeah. When I'm like, whenever you're gone 300 days a year, um, you know, I was like, even the Ritz Carlton's not where you want to be. Not so Ritzy. Yeah, exactly. Like, even though the hotels got nicer, it's like yeah, I just want to be home.
Chad Tsagris
It's uh I think that it's really interesting though, that full circle that you came back, you did this, now you're getting into a hobby of collecting watches, which is just another added of perfection, right? It's like music trying to get some perfect sound, the perfect notes, and now you're on the journey, also, it looks like, to buy the perfect watch.
Lincoln Parish
Right, which you know from your fossil to Robux, it looks like, yeah, yeah, and you know, the itch never uh stops, you know. You always say, Oh, this is the grail, and then you get it, and then and there's never the thing that it's never you know, I I I uh but I that's also how my whole career spin is like, and I think that's always what's sort of driven me forward, is like I've never been content, you know, which is uh probably you know, some people would argue that's probably not a good thing, but like I don't know, complacency is uh I feel like uh that's uh I I'm I'm right up there with you.
Chad Tsagris
Yeah, that and it it's fun and chasing that grail watch or chasing that grail job or anything if if you have that entrepreneurial shift and that spirit, it's never enough. You just want to keep going and going and going and going.
Lincoln Parish
Yeah, because like I always say with the band, I remember we first started, we've but we were like, Man, if we could just sell out 500 a night venue, you know, and then and then we did that, and then it was like, Oh, if we could do a thousand a night, then we made it. And then it was like then five thousand and then arenas, you know, it just kept nothing was ever enough, you know. Which what was the biggest crowd you guys ever played for, you think? Uh like 80,000 people, 80,000 sucker stadium in South America.
Blake Rea
Yeah, you did like Coachella and like Bonnaroo and like all that stuff.
Lincoln Parish
Yeah, all the um we did Ball of Blues of South America.
Blake Rea
You did the Jay Leno show, right?
Lincoln Parish
Lenero Letterman. We did uh Letterman like three times when I was in the band. And yeah, I mean basically got to tour with all my heroes and who's the biggest hero that you guys took with. Foo Fighters was definitely oh shit, yeah. And unfortunately, during that tour, um our like second show in our drummer's appendix burst. Oh shit, and he had to like get like life flighted from like Utah back to like na uh Nashville and then he had got infected, and anyway. So like so, like we were like this second day of the tour, and we're like, Well, what are we gonna do? Like, and so we called a friend out that was out in LA as like a fill-in drummer, but he couldn't come out, like he couldn't be out until like the next day. And so like we're like on the bus, and like we were gonna have our monitor play drums because he's like, I played drums in high school. Like it, like pretty sure the food fires got a couple good drummers. Well, well, uh so we're on the we're on the tour bus, and like our tour manager comes from the back lounge and he's on the phone and he goes, Hey guys, he's like uh somebody wants to talk to y'all and puts it puts it on speaker and it's Dave Roll. Oh shit. Yeah, and and Dave goes, Here y'all need a drummer. I was like, Yeah. He was like, he goes, Well, he goes, I've been sitting on my bus with my drum pad, and he goes, I've already like aren't we all set. Oh shit. He was like, Y'all mind if I play with you guys tonight? And he was like, and also like we were doing the four two nights with him at the forum in LA. Whoa, and uh he said he was like, I always want like to do something special at one of the LA shows. So he goes, Can I play with y'all one night in LA too? We were like, Fuck yeah.
Blake Rea
I was like, bro, just yeah, stay stay stay in the hospital back for like a couple weeks, like and this is how great he was.
Lincoln Parish
Is he um even that afternoon, this is like probably noon or one o'clock, and you know, we I think went on at like 7 30 or something because you know, we were second on or something. And uh he um he's like, All right, well, he's like, Yeah, we'll get the crew to like set up a practice room. And he came in and like ran the set with this twice. Oh shit. They came and sound checked with this, and like um definitely the coolest band and like the most humble band out of all the bands we ever toured with.
Blake Rea
Dude, I gotta I gotta ask, like you're you're playing a fucking guitar in front of 50,000 people. Like I can't dude, I can't even like talk in front of like 10 people in a room. I put like I couldn't keep there. Dude, I probably get put a guitar in front of me. I can't even imagine like your like your body, like your nervous system, like are you like fight or flight? Like, are you like sharp as fuck? Are you like distorted as hell? Like, like how do you like what does your body like tell you in those moments?
Lincoln Parish
So I think in that at that point, it just sort of went into autopilot mode and it was like all muscle memory, you know? So like he didn't really have to like think about it. And that was the best, like if I do play any shows out now with anybody or just even f play on a song or something that I've done. I like you know, I don't think you can ever over-rehearse, but I like I make it to where it's like muscle memory so that like when I get up there I'm not thinking about it.
Blake Rea
But then then once you get off stage, is it like you just like be like, oh fuck, like I didn't even experience that.
Lincoln Parish
Like the I mean some of them some of them were kind of like religious experiences where you're like what just happened. Yeah. Then others were sort of just like another night, you know.
Blake Rea
Um, but like there's really I think we fed off the crowd energy and like what they were giving back to us, you know, and like you know, there'd be some nights that were a little weird, but I I was thinking about like um this last trip that you did to Vegas and like I came with you to the the festival, yeah. And like, you know, there I was like I have had cage stuff on my Spotify for like a couple years now, since I met you. Like, I was I'm not like very musically inclined, right? But then like getting to see you play your song with Marty Frederickson, like I was like, this is probably like never gonna happen like in the real world ever again. Yeah. And and I was just like, I was telling I was talking to my wife about and I was like, like I this is like probably like once in a lifetime thing.
Chad Tsagris
And that's the beauty of music, and it's a it's a it's now we can record it, but like it's like it's at that moment in time, yeah.
Lincoln Parish
Like, you know, well, I mean, it's like music and you know, watches too. Like, I mean, I've I've met so many people through the watch community, like Blake being one of them that like I would have probably never met otherwise, you know, and like that's what I love about it is like I've seen um, you know, partisan watch groups or whatever, and like I've seen you know, 30 dudes in a room that like literally would you would be like on paper this shit, yeah. Yeah, you know, and you would think it would just be like you know, a big ego contest, and it's not, you know, and everybody's just so cool, and it's like that, it's like that breaks down the barrier, you know, to like everything.
Chad Tsagris
The way Ed describe a lot of watch meetups and watch events and people who collect watches is if it was a high school, nobody was eating lunch. They were they were yeah, everyone was at different tables, and somehow as adults, we're like, Do you see that? That this really ticks me well. This guy would be kicking that kid's ass, and like this would be the one that threw like you know, steals your lunch money, like that's one table, this is another table, that's table. But now as adults, it's like we're all we can all eat together, we can all eat together and really enjoy this hobby, yeah. And somehow there's a crown, you know, on that table is that brings a lot of people together as that Rolex crown as yeah, the bridge.
Lincoln Parish
Yeah, for sure. That's fun.
Blake Rea
Yeah, I mean, I think it's we're just leading right into watches at this point, like like you know, look looking at your collection, like clearly you're a long-term sh it's like that's eight months, like that's a six-month wait, like that's a four-month await. Like, clearly you're thinking long term. So, uh so yeah, we're gonna have to do some cut-ins here, but walk us through what you brought, and it's very Rolex heavy, as some of you guys will see.
Lincoln Parish
It's mostly what it is, that's all.
Blake Rea
Besides, just RR.
Chad Tsagris
It's not a terrible thing, Dana.
Lincoln Parish
I do love other brands, I just haven't got there yet. Um really want to get some myself. Are you are are you yeah, I love that.
Blake Rea
Are you uh kidding yourself that you I remember because we were in um the one adventure? He was about to buy like a L'Oreato or something, right? Oh the black foramic.
Lincoln Parish
Yeah, and because it reminded me of that old Nixon.
Blake Rea
Yeah, and he he was like, Blake, what do you think? I was like, I was like, oh, retail, like I don't know, bro. Like maybe not, you know. You still think about that lodge, or is it just yeah, think of well, oh that you're talking about the one the GP. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, the chrono. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it was a GP ceramic Laureado Cron drive.
Chad Tsagris
I think there's a time that you'll get that, but yeah, but uh retail.
Lincoln Parish
Yeah, and then Zenith. Um it was the DeFi Lux for Am I sorry, super nice. Um I got really close on both of those that trip. Uh yeah.
Chad Tsagris
Either drink more or hit the tables harder.
Blake Rea
And then and then and that's what maybe when it was like he was a couple drinks in at that point, and and I was like, bro, like I love you. Please don't buy this right now. Like I would hate to see you piss your money away.
Lincoln Parish
Honestly, my my uh my justification was like trying to get something else. It was like I think the retail on it at that time was like 18.9. Yeah, it was high. Yeah, it was high. And you know, the the black uh 126 Daytona was like 15.5. And so I literally texted and called my AD here in Nashville, and I was like, hey man, like I'm either gonna get this little GP or do you think you can give me a you know, yeah. Do you think you can give me a black Daytona within a reasonable you know amount of time?
Blake Rea
Because I yeah, because you had told me that you were considering uh a Daytona. Yeah, and I don't think I've ever seen that you that you own that watch at least until now. Yeah. Um so that's that's like a full circle from all. So yeah, I I was like, and I remember he called me and that he was like, he was like, don't I think they sell GP now too.
Chad Tsagris
Don't not to talk negatively. No, no, no, yeah. But any time that you have a chance to buy a Daytona, just wait. Yeah, yeah.
Lincoln Parish
If there's one in the pipeline, well just wait. Yeah, wait. I felt really good about the relationships that I built with him, you know, at Finks here in Nashville. And so um, you know, I I believed, you know, believed in him and let him. I was like, okay, I'm just gonna hold off. So that that was sort of what made me like wait and not not bite the bullet on the I'm glad you did.
Blake Rea
I'm glad you did it.
Lincoln Parish
That was cool though, because it was like a booker um exclusive exclusive. Yeah. Um, but yeah, I'm glad I waited. This kind of was more gravitated towards the black dial on the new reference. Yeah, right. I think I like the white dial on the previous reference better. Yeah.
Chad Tsagris
Um, but I have both. Um, but both in the white dial. Yeah. So I have a panda and then I have the the big panda. Yeah. Uh huh. I the skinny eyeball panda. I I I like the old reference. I like the first reference that they did in the straight. Yeah, I got it too. I like the thicker for the panda.
Blake Rea
Yeah, yeah, yeah. The thicker liner lined up kind of.
Lincoln Parish
Yeah, it just felt more like me. A little more felt like it was a little more rock and roll.
unknown
Yeah.
Chad Tsagris
What the black is rock or black rock and roll. Let's get it.
Lincoln Parish
Let's go with the leather jacking, you know.
Chad Tsagris
Yeah. Yeah, you guys, you know, rock and roll is a black leather jacket, kind of like, you know, uh vibe, right.
Lincoln Parish
So I would turn a panda down this early.
Blake Rea
If you're listening, um, I think the watch I've seen you wear the most is is the day date. Yeah. Like that just seems to be like glued to your wrists. Yeah, I think.
Lincoln Parish
This was um it was the grail for the longest time, and like to me it was sort of the I guess when you think of a watch or a Rolex or whatever, it was sort of like the you've made it kind of uh more like a milestone of like, hey, like, you know, I'm I've actually done something, you know.
Blake Rea
I can't here's like a an a normal year's salary for some random person. Oh yeah.
Lincoln Parish
When I I remember with the when I now had to call my bank to like oh, they're so weird I'm at race uh and um the lady I deal with this, she's I'm like, yeah, so I need to, and this is back when I got it at retail, it was like 38.5. It's a good price, yeah. So I mean that's that's like melt value now. It's like 10 grand up from that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Um so uh I'm like, yeah, I need like 45k cleared for the day or something, and she's like, hold on a second. And then she like puts me on hold and she comes back and she's like, um, so I'm gonna have to transfer you to like another person because like I can't I can't only clear up to like 20k or whatever. And I was like, okay. And so she transfers me to the other way, other lady, and she's like, um, what's it for? I was like, it's a luxury timepiece, and she's like, Do you need to know that's like as much as some people's cars, right? Yeah, I'm aware. I'm like, dude, I'm stupid.
Blake Rea
This true guy's whole money.
Chad Tsagris
I'm so sorry.
Blake Rea
Why do I have to ask your permission to get my own you are something so fucking funny? Is most people know this, but Lincoln's money manager is a mutual friend, and he's a fucking like that seems like that would be a contradicting. Uh there's times where I'm like, hey, if I had a shot at this watch. Like you have to call you have to call your money. I mean, like, and he's like, he's like, which he's like, which watch is it, Lincoln?
Lincoln Parish
Which watch is it? That's uh I put my name in for a meteorite. Uh the the near one? Oh shit, yeah, yeah. And I mean, I know that's a long shot, but I was um I put my name in for it and I hit my Leah, my money guy. Yeah, money dead. And uh I'm like, so you know, if I get a shot at this, would you would you support that decision? He's like, absolutely. I was like, that's why you get job.
Chad Tsagris
That's how you're high out. He gets it. I yeah, I put my name in for the falcon eye, Ya Master. Yeah, I'd never be called. Yeah, but if you get the calls, yeah, you you have to. You have to. Yeah, it's actually it it's it's for everyone out there, it's bad advice not to buy that. Like financially.
Lincoln Parish
You know, the way I look at it is like, you know, I know I don't really look at the watches as like investments, but at the same time, you know. They're liquid though. Yeah, I could sell any one of these and I'm gonna Do you sell all those tomorrow? I'm gonna that, but like also, like, you know, a car is not gonna be worth shit in 10 years. Yeah. Where I mean, maybe a Porsche, but like Porsche. That's like the only, you know, the supercars are like the only like exception, really.
Chad Tsagris
But to get into that level of car that's gonna be worth something, you've already You gotta waste a lot of money on the way. You've already made it you're already there. Yeah, you know, the nice thing about a Rolex, and this is saying that is wherever you're dropped off in the world, if you needed to eat or have safety, I know what it is. I've heard that, yeah. That's it. Helicopter money. Yeah, yeah. You can literally trade off your wrists. I need to get out of here right now on a helicopter. Boom. That's a Rolex. Yeah. Anywhere in the world.
Blake Rea
Yeah, or just get one of those fucking emergencies like the Bright Ring. I don't know how to send a head tractor for those and then yeah, you'll have to pay for the helicopter. Yeah, no, I mean if you if you use that thing and it's not an emergency, it's like it's like a twenty thousand dollar fine or some bullshit. I don't know if it was uh maybe it is. I I don't know.
Chad Tsagris
Look at Brainling Brailing Emergency or a day date rollouts.
Blake Rea
Also emergency. I'm taking the dick booze. Show show us uh show us some more stuff. So I see like you've got an orchestra penchual, like you've got uh uh explorer two, like uh it looks like you've got a Starbucks there.
SPEAKER_03
Yeah.
Lincoln Parish
Um to show this uh sorry, this is my first one. This is uh day just 36th. Um this is my first one. Um walked into the 80, didn't know. I mean, I obviously I knew about Rolls, but I didn't know how everything worked, and this is like right at the beginning of 2020.
Chad Tsagris
Ah, so so so you're fairly new into collecting watches.
Lincoln Parish
Well, so I I I'd kind of got back into them like 2018. Okay. Um somebody that I was seeing at the time gifted me. It was a fagucci like fashion piece. And uh so that kind of got me back wearing something again. And then like there was an 80 kind of across from the mall, and I was like, see what it's all about. And um that was obviously right in the middle of I mean everybody was so masked up and he and uh you know they told me like nothing was available, but then like the guy brings up a no date, you know, 1240, and like he says, Well, this is in for I'm like, No, it's not. Why is it stickered?
Blake Rea
Uh it's like got the white hang tags there and it's like taped up.
Lincoln Parish
Yeah, I didn't know like what it really would I wanted. And then he was kind of you know explaining how everything worked, and so then I kind of like went home and like went through everything and like for me that watch another thing that kind of what I love about watches is it runs him, uh grandfather, and he would we'd always go on these vacations with our kids and he could never actually afford a real one, but he would always get these folixes and you know get get back to town and like act like it was real. And uh but that one that one in particular reminded me of him. So is that a 36? Looks like a 36 year old both EJs I have are 36.
Chad Tsagris
But I think with the with a with with any day dress, having that 36, it does remind you of your father, your grandfather, of course. That was the size back. It is the size and it to be I I don't mind wearing a 36 millimeter, but it's very interesting because it's like especially in two tone. Yeah, it it's like that was a watch that everyone and and still to this day, look, it's an iconic time piece.
Lincoln Parish
I think I think when you think of like if I didn't know anything about Rolex, like maybe I thought it was Rolex. The f actually the first one that would come to my mind would be the champagne gold dial with two-tone at Poblast one.
Chad Tsagris
Yeah, exactly.
Lincoln Parish
Yeah, exactly. That that's the one that like before I even really knew that's like the one that just comes to my mind, you know.
Chad Tsagris
I think it's you know, like the president or president ban, like it's just like that is the Rolex. Yeah, and it's like Miami Vice or uh you know 80s.
Lincoln Parish
Yeah, you don't think of an Explorer 2. Never mind. Yeah, it's as great a watch as it is, and like, you know, it's the last real tool watch, in my opinion.
Blake Rea
That's of the 42? Yeah, that that that thing is so big for me.
Lincoln Parish
You know, I thought it would be for me, and then like it's weird, it it just works.
Blake Rea
What time? I mean, I what gets the most risk?
Lincoln Parish
I mean, probably the day date, is that um so it depends on what I'm doing, as far as like if I'm if I'm in the studio like Pepsi and working with artists, um, it'll either be like the no-day, um, the Pepsi, maybe the one of the subs or the Daytona. Yeah. Um I try I don't like wearing a lot of the gold stuff in the studio. Yeah, it's kinda yeah, because I don't wanna have I'm gonna be like moving amps that day, sure hit it on something. Um like some days if I'm coming in by myself and I'm just working along and I know what I'm gonna be going, then I'll I'll wear at the day date or um my newest one is this uh the rebeer four rows GMT um which is my most recent pickup that I got this December last year.
Blake Rea
Oh sure.
Lincoln Parish
Nice um yeah, this thing's a thing's a beast, it's a chunky boy.
Blake Rea
Thick too. I I was I was wear remember um last year um in Vegas.
Lincoln Parish
Uh it's like a half pound.
Chad Tsagris
Dude, it it's a br it's it's a br it's uh you ever held an AP brick? Oh yeah, uh yeah. It's like the net you but this is super heavy. And this is a good buy, especially at the old prices.
Blake Rea
Oh yeah. And I got it, I got it right before the ink. When when we were in Vegas and like we did all this, like we did a bunch of events essentially, like all through Vegas, and like um Chad has uh uh a Plutona. And so you know, every literally we were at dinner dinner table. Uh, where where were we? We were at freaking like I think it was Capitol Grill or some shit like that. They like run it out a whole back on that. Oh, okay, okay. But it anyway, anyways, long story short, like um everybody's wearing a Daytona, and I'm the only one, like just a little like Wimbledon Day chess. And then Chad looks over at me and goes, like, oh shit, is that a Wimbledon Day chess? And and I was like, Yeah, he's like, Let me let me try that on for like you know, a little bit. And so, like, like literally like three hours goes by and he's still still wearing my day chess, and I'm fucking wearing his his plutona, and I'm like, Oh yeah, well it's funny with this cushion, then you're like everybody goes to watch in the middle of the day with it.
Lincoln Parish
Yeah, and you're like, that's like million and a half, yeah.
Blake Rea
I think you were at that one. Yeah, and it was just meteorite that that 5790 with the double the guy's diamond factory 5790 wild stuff, double the guys in the group have Lamans, but yeah, that that was I I think I took a picture of like all the meteorite like evolution of meteorite detonas. What what would you say defines you as a collector? So obviously we see all your Rolexes, but like if you could define your your your journey as a collector, like, and then maybe talk about even some of the the timepieces that like are on your radar that like you know ask for I know you talked about the meteorite detonate, some of the zenith stuff. Yeah, like like what else have you been eyeing? And like um definitely the Zenith pilot for a while too. Oh yeah, yeah. The one that your friend has. Yeah, yeah.
Lincoln Parish
Yeah, with the Kedora. Yeah, right.
Blake Rea
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Lincoln Parish
That's so nice. Uh you know, I feel like everybody should have a Cartier Santos. Definitely.
Chad Tsagris
I think that that's uh you know there's certain watches that you need to have. It's like you even if you're not into it, it's like you need a speed master. Yeah, if you're lucky enough to have a Daytona, have a Daytona, you need a submariner, Cartier Santos, and and a day date. And if you really have those, you have the pinnacles to step up to Patha.
Lincoln Parish
I've always I've always said even uh I've said this to Leah a lot. I'm like, I'm like, look, I was like, I don't wanna, you know, I don't want to get rid of anything. But I was like, if I ever had to like whittle it down, I was like, I honestly, I was like, I think it'd be the Daytona, the Day Date, and my Pepsi.
SPEAKER_03
Yep.
Lincoln Parish
And like three piece, yeah. Uh yeah. Three piece milk. I got two sports watches that are different vibes. I mean, if I I'd love, and then I would say the the submariner's dupe one two four zero sixty drive.
Chad Tsagris
It's just no date classic.
Lincoln Parish
Yeah, it's both the symmetry on it, and it's just you know, it's the Steam McQueen.
Blake Rea
What what what would you say is like your immediate like next like purchase? Is it gonna be like like a Cartier or I don't know. Um you see you seem kind of like for that media red. Yeah, uh it's really hard. That's what uh is that what you're just wait waiting to find out, or well I have a I mean I have a name in for like my next three on my list or in whatever order that they're all Rolexes, yeah.
Lincoln Parish
Would for Rolex anyways would be the DJ 41 Matt Green. Oh yeah, that's so good. Fluted Jubilee. Yeah, yeah. Uh Bruce Wayne on Oyster. Yeah. Um just because of I like how like it's kind of bleak. Yeah, Pat Susie. Yeah, yeah. And I thought I could switch the bracelets out, you know, so I can um and then uh then the meteorite. Um, but as far as other brands, I would say uh Zenith. Surprise.
Blake Rea
I do I love to hear that because I'm I'm such a Zenith fanboy, and like I uh on like my other show, like I've interviewed two people with three people from Zenith, and like I'm such a Zenith fanboy. Like I have like maybe like five Zenith watches.
Lincoln Parish
Yeah, they're great. I also love to get you know just some fun stuff like a Zodiac or something, you know.
Chad Tsagris
Just the what Zodiac you want? Uh like super seawolf is super seawolf, yeah. Yeah, I'll send you a super seawolf. But then, yeah, that's hopper. My my CFO might be a little upset. He's like, Oh, Oprah over here, you get a seawolfie, you get a seawolf. Where's it? You know, and they actually just released this really cool little bit edition with a giant mouse. It's like a diet type. Oh, I saw that the point.
Lincoln Parish
I saw fun colors, you know. Like that's what my buddy Tony's got one. He's got like the he bought it here in Nashville when he came out. Uh like the C Foam green one with white, dude.
Blake Rea
Yeah, there was this whole fate. I was talking to chat about this a couple weeks ago, but like um, I found my zodiac out at Ross. Oh, yeah, I saw that. I yeah, I got some of the guys in the club um picked up like four or five of them. And he's like, so I know exactly how they got there.
Chad Tsagris
And we talked about it. So we talked about it. It was like it was like 200, 300 pieces, yeah, yeah. All the like recalled stuff, recalled, returned, and then sometimes like six stone, yeah. But you know, right now we're watching, and we have tons of zodiac rates, and we're doing and and to be honest, it's like I really want to revive the brand back to such a good brand. Yeah, like I want to do like a annual calendar, moon phase, like very weird things that still make it in that collectible, accessible pricing, yeah. Because it's like if you want something like that now for a Swiss made timepiece, it's ten thousand, twenty thousand, thirty thousand, forty thousand dollars. But if you can figure out how to do it for like two to four, kind of like what Christopher Ward's doing with the heritage brand, that's that's really special.
Blake Rea
I think their C Cron or is dude, that thing is remarkable, in my opinion. Like, uh like it's hard to beat a chronograph like for that value, you know? And um trying to think uh the uh the Portuguese or IWC IWC, yeah, yeah, oh yeah.
Chad Tsagris
So uh for me with IWC, as you know, Blake uh his uh we rep Lacko, which is like not a competitor to IWC. IWC is here, Lacko is here, but they have the same heritage and history, yeah. Same design language, same design language being the original sounding pilot watches. Maybe the people at Lacko might be upset if I'm wearing an IWC.
Blake Rea
Dude, they're cool, they're cool, dude. Yeah, they're cool. Chad wears whatever he wants anyway, so yeah. No, like I they're they're such an easy brand to like as somebody from press, like they're so easy to work with. Oh, Lacko's great, and so yeah, like roadmap, right? So I guess you just got a new watch. Um, like after the shoot the super seawolf, zodiac, like Zenith, like what what else? You said Cartier?
Lincoln Parish
Yeah, Cartier, IWC, uh, I love Quest Ute. Yeah, yeah. Like the Super CQ or whatever. CQ. Yeah. Stick watch. Um phenomenal. I love uh I even love Panuraye, you know.
Blake Rea
Like I think I might um me and you might be the only one. Well, I would have I guess so much. I'd want to get it on the rubber strip.
Lincoln Parish
Yeah, I guess so much a Tennessee summers get sticky and yeah, so I don't know that I'd I mean I'll they're beautiful on the leather, but um they're so expensive. I didn't it didn't uh price like what you get. It took me a minute to get into those, but then like I tried a few on, and I was like, once I tried on one that I think it was the what?
Chad Tsagris
Do I?
Lincoln Parish
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Chad Tsagris
So they you know the design language for Panera is so unique, right? But he their heritage comes from Olax. They were using Rolex movements. Yeah, right. Back in the original, so you you kind of do it full circle back to a Rolex and say it was the Panterai.
Blake Rea
I think I think for me, like Rolex was making like the gentleman's watch, and like back in the day, like in the 40s, like Panoraye was like, we're gonna make the fucking like badass like military tool watches. And and and Rolex was doing that too, right? But like yeah, like it just felt more like Italian, like like special forces, like that's just that's what they went into, I think. Yeah, you know, sort of air. Yeah, and they're radioactive, so yeah, right. Yeah, I got my I got my wife to read the um the radio the radio uh radium girls book, where which is where they were I mean, that's what they were painting the the pain, and there's dials, they're paying dials and all blue them and stuff, but like and it's a cool story. The walkthroughs would like lick their brushes like dip it in. All the ladies like got cancer and shit. Like it's a terrible, it's a terrible story. But then after my wife read that, I was like, Oh yeah, by the way, like he knows Panama, right?
Chad Tsagris
In Switzerland, still to this day, they come and they test and they check the factories if they have because they've been some of those factories are hundred years old. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they had radioactive things, so they actually came and they check and they inspect it and make sure it's clean properly. Those look as best though, it's kind of like yeah, yeah. If they find like an old dial, but you you can be a crackle, yeah. Like it's uh it's pretty wild, but yeah, at least now there's no radioactive materials, like tritium, but it's glass tube. At least let me check. Let me check.
Lincoln Parish
You know, yeah, but yeah, I think at some point I would also this would be probably further down the line, but let's get like uh something that you know either like a JLC reverso or a cargo tank, you know, just to have that vibe. I don't know. I got some that is a piece that I feel like is so unique that some sorry. No, no, go please go ahead. All right, I just feel like that's so unique that it's like it's just it is what it is, you know, it's its own thing. It kind of lives in its own world.
Blake Rea
I got the reverso thinking that it would like satisfy like my rectangle watch needs, and then I ended up getting the tank and now I had a tank in a reversal.
Chad Tsagris
So I have a tank and I'm looking to buy a reverso, and then it but I have the tank with the red Stella type of dials where they did like the green, yellow, or that's a green, blue, red, and black. And uh I bought it because I have like a 944 Porsche that's uh maroony red color, and I'm like, I bought a watch to match the Porsche, right? And I'm like there's something wrong here, but yeah, tank.
Lincoln Parish
I always say, you know, it's a little bit of an issue whenever like I spend more time trying to figure out what watch I'm gonna wear than like my clothes that day.
Blake Rea
Yeah, the tank the tank is a weird one too because I have a weird relationship with it because I I I first started off with a steel tank, and then I got a gold tank, and then I had a steel and a gold like out of the same, and then I'm like, this is fucking stupid. Like, why'd I have two? And then I got rose with steel, of course. And now I still have my reverso, and dude, I like between the tank and the Santos, like for me, like it's just the tank, yeah. Like nine out of ten times. I don't know, I don't know what it is, but but it feels like like for me, and I'm probably gonna get murdered for saying this on the internet, but like you know, the the Santos just feels too like cookie cutter, you know, even though the tank is like still exact cookie cutter, but it it it feels more like rare in in Cartier form, you know, because everybody has a Santos, right?
Chad Tsagris
You know, I've never owned one, maybe one day, but um right now I think that we should before we our cameras overheat. Yes, and we want to thank you for coming here. Uh invited us to see your collection and hanging out in your studio as you were saying, right? Yeah, yeah, it's a pretty cool spot. And uh thank you very much for having me. That's a National Matter. Appreciate it, man. And I hope you get that uh meteorite dial soon. Me too. We'll see. Yeah, put it out on the ether. Yeah, put it on the ether, guys. This is another episode of Off the Clock by Watch Gang. And uh check us out next podcast, and hopefully, you uh got some cool guests lined up. Yeah, some pretty cool guests lined up.
Blake Rea
Yeah, awesome. Thank you so much, Lincoln. Thank you for having me.
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