Minutes and Hours: Rich Park on Building a Nationwide Watch Show

From overcrowding a restaurant to hosting 60+ prestigious watch brands across America, Rich Park's journey building Minutes and Hours represents something extraordinary in the world of horology – a genuine commitment to community.

The spark ignited in 2019 when what was supposed to be a small gathering of watch enthusiasts literally burst at the seams, drawing the attention of fire marshals. This unexpected response revealed a hunger for more personal, authentic interactions between collectors and brands. What began as "LA Microlux" quickly evolved into Minutes and Hours, now recognized as one of the premier watch shows in the United States.

What sets Minutes and Hours apart isn't just its impressive brand roster – though with names like Bremont, Christopher Ward, Baltic, Junghans, and dozens more, it certainly demands attention. Rather, it's Park's deliberate choice to limit participation to around 65-75 brands, creating an environment where meaningful connections flourish. "We're not chasing 100+ brands," Park explains, noting how larger shows often leave both collectors and smaller brands feeling overlooked or rushed.

The show has revealed fascinating regional differences among American watch collectors. Los Angeles gravitates toward more exclusive pieces in the $8,000-18,000 range, while Chicago and Austin enthusiasts typically focus on the $3,000-5,000 segment. This type of insight has helped Minutes and Hours craft experiences tailored to each market while maintaining its core mission.

Beyond the main exhibition, attendees can participate in watchmaking workshops where they build timepieces from scratch, attend VIP breakfasts with featured brands, and enjoy post-show gatherings that extend networking opportunities. These elements transform Minutes and Hours from a simple trade show into a comprehensive weekend experience that celebrates every aspect of watch enthusiasm.

The next Minutes and Hours show takes place July 26-27 in Los Angeles, with free admission and exciting hourly giveaways. Whether you're a seasoned collector or just beginning your horological journey, this event promises the perfect blend of exceptional timepieces and the community that loves them.

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Episode Transcript

Blake Rea (00:01):
Hello everyone, welcome to another episode here
of the Lonely Riz Podcast.
I am your host, as always,blake Ray, and here we are
sitting down with a new friend,but an exciting guest
nevertheless probably alreadyknow who I'm talking about.

(00:27):
We have in the hot seat RichPark, who is the founder of
Minutes and Hours, a watch showthat travels across the country
and hosts over 60 brands.
Rich, our friend, is hosting ashow July 26th and 27th in Los
Angeles.
I will be traveling in withsome friends, so I will
certainly come and see you there.
Tickets are free and let's getthe entire story from Rich as to

(00:52):
how this all started.
Welcome to the show, buddy.

Rich Park (00:56):
Thanks, blake, thanks for having me.

Blake Rea (00:59):
Yeah, I'm glad to have met you and got you in.
Yeah, it happened very quickly,it did it.
Yeah, it happened very quickly,it did, it did, it did.
And yeah, so funny story.
I think I already told you.
But my friend was like, hey,are you coming to Minutes and
Hours?
And I was like probably not.
And then of course I startedlooking into the show and I'm

(01:22):
ignorant to a degree.
But then I saw like your rosterand I was like, well, how can I
not like, how can I not go atthis point?

Rich Park (01:31):
Yeah, no thanks.
We are really, really proud ofour brand partners that, um, you
know, we've been fortunate topartner with, I think, uh, yeah,
um, the brand roster I don'tknow how to say it without it's
impressive.
Pretty much it is.
It's very impressive.
Yeah, we're looking forward toit.
We just came off of Chicagothis past April with a lot of

(01:53):
these same brands and they werejust so well-received.
So we're very fortunate.
They've just been really greatpartners.
So really blessed, reallyfortunate and really excited to
bring these brands more than 60brands to LA.

Blake Rea (02:08):
Let's start at the beginning.
What inspired you to createMinutes and Hours?
I read that your first show wasin 2019, which is a weird year
because 2020, we all know havingthe entire world shut down.
But how did you decide to starta watch show and what fueled
that?

Rich Park (02:28):
yeah, so we did a small show in a restaurant, um,
in july 19th to had a couple ofbrands there, um, and it
overcrowded the restaurant.
So it I think the fire marshalscame and said, hey, there's
just too many people here.
So, um, you know it, really, itwas just wall to wall, it was

(02:51):
just it was packed.
We were hoping to get maybe 80people there, but it was a few
hundred there and it exceededcapacity.
So, um, you know, we thoughtthere's there might be something
here, um, and then we proceededwith our first show in la back
in 2009, fall of 2019.
Yeah, I read it was like april2019, april, okay, you got, yeah

(03:15):
, thank you, you knew thatbetter than I did.
Yeah, um, the spring of uh,2019.
So we were the first, um andonly watch show at that time to
do it in LA, and now we'rereally excited to be returning.
Last time we were in LA was2021.
And now we're excited to comeback in 2025.

Blake Rea (03:36):
Yeah, I'm so excited I'm gearing up.
In my mind is spinning like whoI'm going to get a chance to
spend some time with, like whichbrands am I going to talk to?
So I guess you came from thisas an enthusiast, right?
You were a watch collector.
Like how did your passion kindof grow for the watch community?

Rich Park (04:00):
So I grew up in a family where we had owned a
watch store.
My uncle owned a watch store,so I was always there every
weekend just tooling around andthey had Rolex, they had, you
know, audemars Piguet, they hadConcord, when Concord was really
um a lot more known, uh, at thetime um considered a mainstream
brand, so it was.

(04:21):
It was great.
So I was always around, Ialways had access to watches,
watches I had a lot of watches.
Even at the young stage Ireally wasn't.
I didn't know quite what I had.
Um, really, really fortunate,um, and I still have some of
those older pieces, um, so Igrew up in that I did an
unboxing on this.
This is actually my, my grandseiko sbg 097 on youtube a long

(04:41):
time ago and yeah, so we starteddoing it and just it just
really snowballed, fortunately,um, you know, back back then it
was rare, I think it was just usand really wind up.
Um, you know there's a littlebit more shows now, but, um, you
know we're one of the OGs.

Blake Rea (05:01):
Yeah, that it.
I yeah it's crazy, crazy, crazy.
And then let's talk about, Iguess, the original kind of
concept.
You know you said that youstarted off and it was just
going to be kind of like a smalllittle.
Yeah, get together.
Did you like have brands thatwere participating, like did you
just try to bring as manycollectors together as as
possible?
Did you try and make it likekind of like a, like a show

(05:24):
where people can buy watches,like like, what was the original
concept and how did you get toto where?

Rich Park (05:29):
the original concept.
We had an open bar.
I guess by today's standards itwould just be considered a get
together open bar in arestaurant there were.
We had choppick there.
Um, oh, wow, chopp topic.
Yeah, I know, for the firsttime we had topic.
Um, we had I can't remember nowthe strap company.

(05:50):
What is that stroke, I can'tremember strap company that came
and, um, some pre-owned uhwatches, so really just three,
um, uh and amrez donated somestraps and that was it.
And then we had a, you know,like a panel discussion where we
talked to everybody and, um,yeah, so it it.

(06:10):
It was, it was fun, so youcan't really call it that in an
event when it was threedifferent types of um, you know,
brands there.
Um, it was more of a gettogether.
Yeah, that's still we had atthat time.
We had no idea that we weregoing to continue to do this
when we started and then, whenwe did first start an actual

(06:30):
event, we were known as LAMicrolux and then we started
getting more of the mainstreambrands along with the
independent brands.
So, you know, we changed thename to Minutes and Hours.
So we started off as Microlux.
Morph, lux morphed into minutesand hours as the show got
bigger and and the differentlevel of brands started coming
on board yeah, that's um, that'spretty amazing.

Blake Rea (06:52):
I actually read that too and oh, okay, and so like,
so how?
What I guess fueled the namechange, like did it just not not
seem appropriate anymore, or?

Rich Park (07:00):
it didn't seem as appropriate.
Um and I, we also thoughtminutes and hoursourscom, which
is our website and our store,flowed better than LA Micro Lux
and we weren't only about microbrands.
So I think the marriage of someof the more independent brands
and mainstream brands along withmicro brands, just the name

(07:21):
change, just seemed moreappropriate and it went over
pretty well.
Just the name change justseemed more appropriate.

Blake Rea (07:26):
And it went over pretty well.
Yeah, it sounds a little.
I guess it sounds a littlebetter.
Yeah, and we call it M&H forshort, right?

Rich Park (07:33):
Yeah, and I know hours and minutes is the name
that would naturally roll offthe tongue at first, but that
was taken.
It's not even in use, but wedidn't want to bid for that and
besides, h&m, that's already adepartment store, right, so that
wouldn't work.
But Minson Outdoors weshortened it to M&H, so it just
worked out really, really well.

Blake Rea (07:54):
Let's talk about some of the events that you've
hosted.
So you've done Chicago, you'vedone LA, you've done Austin,
you've done la, you've doneaustin.
Um, how do you feel like the,the watch culture kind of, is
different in each city.
Have you noticed anysimilarities, like like there

(08:15):
are similarities, yeah, butthey're all.

Rich Park (08:16):
They're so very different, right, they're
similar that everybody has apassion.
Um, I think chicago, uh, andaustin, they really really take
their watches and their passionreally seriously.
They wait in long lines to getin when the show starts because
they want a visit of your brand.

(08:40):
They come, they've done theirresearch on our website,
learning about the brand, andthen come and they actually
expect to go home with somewatches.
So, um, it's, it's different.
La is also, I think la alreadyhas um, they're a lot more laid
back, um, and so what we foundis that in la, they will spend

(09:00):
more money on on watches.
Um, not more money, but more ofthe expensive um brand.
So, like, we had an 18 a brandhad an 18 000 custom watch that
um, somebody in la wanted.
So, um, you know it's.
It's just I don't think I did agreat job of explaining it, but
there are similarities, but iteach market is different.

(09:21):
Uh, I think la really likes tolook for things that are
extremely unique A little bitmore.
Yeah, they look for things thatare a little bit more rare,
unique and kind of expensiveactually, compared to Austin and
Chicago.
So Chicago and Austin, I thinkour sweet spot would be in a

(09:41):
$3,000 to $5,000 range wherethose get really well.
Received LA.
A couple of times we've beenthere it was anywhere from
$8,000 to, like I said, $18,000.
Of course the lower priced onesare easy and approachable, but
they go up in LA to the moreeven the higher priced models.

Blake Rea (10:07):
And yeah, no, that's what city, would you say,
surprised you the most out ofall the cities that you've
hosted in?

Rich Park (10:14):
Austin is amazing.
Austin has really it's just anexcellent, excellent community.
They're really engaging.
Especially when we do ourbreakfast, our VIP breakfast, to
kick off Minutes and Hoursweekend, they are there with
full of questions during ourQ&As.
They just it just seems thatAustin is so, so prepared and so

(10:39):
enthusiastic.
Chicago is really eager tolearn and approach and just
really like a sponge and reallyjust try to take everything in
and they do that really quickly.
So I think the differences andsurprising differences between
Austin and Chicago are just that.
But they're also reallyengaging and really engaged,

(11:01):
austin and Chicago.
But Austin, they come ready.

Blake Rea (11:05):
And LA is home.
It's home base, right, la ishome for me.
Yep, okay, and then how did youdecide to do like Chicago and
Austin, like where did you kindof decide?
How did you just say, okay,cool, these are the two, the two
other places that we're goingto expand into?

Rich Park (11:21):
Yeah, so I grew up in Chicago.
Chicago still remains myfavorite city, uh, so I always
thought of a good way to getback to chicago, uh, because I,
I, I adore that city.
So, um, that's how weapproached chicago back in 20.
The fall that was the fall of2019, uh, and in Austin was

(11:43):
Texas was untouched at that time, um, when we started in 2022,
we were the first watch event togo into Texas anywhere, not
just Austin, but Texas.
So, um, we thought that wouldbe great, uh, and it paid off,
and and it turned out to begreat.
Um, you know, that Texas marketis just, it's hot, it's
untouched Literally hot too,because the temperature is

(12:05):
really, really hot, but it wasan untapped market.
So we were eyeing that and wedecided to move forward with
that in 2022.
And it's been great ever since.

Blake Rea (12:18):
Yeah, I'm curious, and this is probably going to be
one of the harder questionsthat I ask throughout the course
of the day but do you have afavorite memory from any of the
past shows that you've done?

Rich Park (12:34):
The long line in Austin.
When was it Last year?
The line went around the blockand that was like know we that
that was our third year inAustin and we've really they
really took it, taken us in andand really been great supporters
.
So when we first saw that lineit was just like wow, this was,

(12:56):
this was really something hereand we we made the right
decision.
We're able to connect properlywith that Austin community.
I think that was the first realsurprising and favorite part of
that Austin experience.
And then that repeated inChicago, where it was just the

(13:17):
lines were just really so long,so surprising and pleasant.
But it was also rewardingbecause we're able to prove that
hey, you know this, the watchand community really embraced us
and we embraced them and it wasjust really, you know, we love
that yeah, that that's I thinkthat's what you know when we had

(13:39):
talked before we decided to dothis.

Blake Rea (13:42):
that's what, something that stuck out the
most about, I guess, you andyour mission.
Like I'm, I'm I'm a communityfocused guy, you know.
Like I'm in the watch community, the community supports me, so
I try my best to support thewatch community.
Congrats, and and I've beenvery blessed and very fortunate
to to be able to sit down withpeople like you, you know,

(14:07):
people who are making a realimpact on the ground.
So, yeah, the community is whatgets me.

Rich Park (14:13):
Congrats.
I do want to fit this inbecause we were talking before
we went live and the success ofyour podcast you said was just
so highly ranked and, withoutgiving specifically sharing the
details that you did, it'sreally impressive for you to be
so up there with some of the thewell-known um podcast, so

(14:33):
congrats on that thank you, yeahit, it started off as as a
passion project.

Blake Rea (14:38):
it still is a passion project, but you know, uh, the
concept came from I was workingat a retailer and we sold a
bunch of watch brands and so Ihad told my wife I left the
retailer, I had a health eventand I left the retailer.
And after I left the retailer,a lot of the people that I was

(15:02):
selling watches to just keptcalling me like hey, what do you
think about this release orthat release or whatever.
And I just had the exact sameconversation with the same, with
different people, like you know, when a new watch came out, and
so well, you did.

Rich Park (15:17):
You did something right.

Blake Rea (15:18):
They trust you yeah, well, it's a little easier, I
would think, in vegas, uh, tosell I shouldn't say sell
watches, but Vegas is one ofthose hustler-focused cities,
maybe similar to New York.
I haven't sold watches in NewYork, I haven't been to New York

(15:39):
in a while, but New York is socompetitive, so you see a lot of
people that are trying to pushand pull you in different
directions and I I I noticedthat here in vegas.
So my approach was like I wasworking full-time in cyber
security and at night I wasselling watches full-time, so I
I wasn't reliant on the incomefrom selling watches.

(16:01):
Yeah, so I just was looking atit like how do I meet watch
nerds?
Like to me, like I had no ideahow to meet watch collectors,
how to meet watch nerds, like,so it just like, okay, cool If I
get to, if I get to first ofall hang out with like watch
nerds, that's amazing.
You know, if I get to talk aboutwatches and somehow make money,

(16:22):
that's amazing.
And then I get to handle theproduct right, like, I get to
learn about the product, tohandle the product like three
kind of like you know, thingsthat that set me off on that, on
that path, and that was it.
The way that I stood out isjust being honest, right To be.
You know, we'd have people thatthat would come in and I I
would.
They'd want to buy a watch, butI would, you know, not always

(16:44):
try to sell them a watch.

Rich Park (16:50):
You know that that's a good point.
I think that comes comesthrough organically.
Um, if somebody reads you andthey get a good vibe from you,
um, you don't need to forceanything.
You don't need to try to forcea sale on them If it happens
that it happened.
And I think overall, people arereally tuned in and smart and
they pick up on that vibe,whether they like you or they
don't, and it seems very clearlythat people really like you and
trust you.

(17:10):
I hope so.

Blake Rea (17:12):
I hope so.
I like them too and I trustthem too.
But no, funny is, when Istarted this too, like I saw in
a weird way, kind of like youguys, I saw like a gap and the
gap wasn't in watch media, butit was how it was packaged and
how it was delivered, because alot of the watch media out there
they also.

(17:33):
They also profit off sellingwatches, right?
So, yeah, you get, you getpeople that talk about watches
that just so happens to be ableto sell you those watches.
Um, and there wasn't a lot of,you know, objectiveness but yeah
yeah, it was, and they wereonly talking about watch brands.

(17:54):
They sold it, it to me, I just,coincidentally, I know, yeah, it
started.
It started at some point for meto start doubting the content
that I was consuming, you know,uh, respectfully to all those
people out there who sellwatches, I'm sorry, you know,
and I have some of my goodfriends that, like you know,
that sell watches that also arecontent creators and and that's

(18:15):
fine and all but um, you know, II kind of wanted to to get in
the middle of that.
If I could, if I had theopportunity, just to say, hey,
look like I'm, I'm, I'm not, Idon't, I'm not at mercy of the
watch brands.
You know, I can say whatever Iwant and there's no
accountability for me.

Rich Park (18:35):
You have that freedom of not being tethered to a
specific brand because you are,unofficially or officially, on
the payroll yeah, correct.

Blake Rea (18:44):
You know, and I think especially this was at the time
when some of the the biggermedia outlets were kind of going
through a weird phase wherethey had, you know uh like, been
purchased and acquired and thenyou know like, then ownership
transferred and and you know,there was a lot of distrust kind
of coming and and especiallynow I hate to talk about

(19:07):
politics, but you see uh likemore of a rise in independent
media versus people who tune into the bigger outlets.
Now you know, you look forsmaller media outlets it seems
to be a little bit more.

Rich Park (19:23):
That shift from some of the bigger watch uh media has
really changed.
Where they were the source, but, like you said, you know some
of them have always people wouldgive them in the side eye of
whether they trust that reviewum.
And so now the shift has goneto which isn't the greatest word

(19:45):
, but influencers or evenindependent.
The smaller media is nowsharing the big voice table with
them, whereas before it waslike, hey, you're only, you're a

(20:11):
YouTuber, you're just aninfluencer only, so why are you
at this event with us at the bigvoice table?
But the brands recognize theimportance of YouTubers or other
platforms and so they invitethem to the same table as the
other um media members and notnot only that, too.

Blake Rea (20:31):
I've started to notice like people appreciate
the dialogue with the creatorsthat they consume.
Like a lot of the people thatthat consume the content that I
produce I also.
I also communicate directlywith them yeah, you were.

Rich Park (20:46):
You engage with them in the comment section.
You mean?

Blake Rea (20:48):
yeah, I engage them in the comment section they've
got, my they've got my emailsome of them have my phone
number right, like some of them,they'll shoot me an email
saying hey, I'm coming to vegas.
Um, you know, everybody,everybody loves to come to vegas
.
Uh, and, and I them.
Yeah, I'll meet them at theairport.
I'll meet them, like you know,I'll take them to their hotel.

(21:09):
We'll go out for beers, I meanwhatever it is.
Yeah and so, yeah, you havethat genuine relationship that
maybe doesn't exist with some ofthe bigger media outlets, where
, you know, they know, they knowwhere my morals lie, Uh and so,
so, yeah, I mean I, I, I barelytake money from brands.

(21:32):
I've taken a couple.
I mean I've talked about thisbefore, but you know, I, I take
money for, for, for, for mediaassets, not for endorsements.
You know where somebody sayssomebody says hey, we want you
to do some photos, we want to dosome videos, we're doing an
event here, you know they'll payme yeah, and, and I, their

(21:52):
media never makes it onto myplatform and my platform never
distributes their media.
There's, there's never like that, that connection, you know.
But, um, same thing we have.
We have a watch community, awatch club in Vegas and, um, and
same thing, you know.
You know people will hit me upabout doing events here with my

(22:14):
club and and, yeah, you know wedon't.
It's more just about thepassion and kind of amplifying
it and at the end of the day, Ihave a very simple goal, which
is to kind of to lower the barfor people to feel, uh, safe and
comfortable stepping into thecommunity.
Um, you know, to see thatthere's, you know, good people

(22:36):
here, great brands.
It's a lovely community, peoplesupport you, people appreciate,
but there's's, you know,there's also people that ruin it
on the other side.

Rich Park (22:46):
But, um, you know, just to to let you know that
we're not all like snobbydickheads yeah, you know that
trust and that engagement is soimportant and that, well, that's
the reason we started the shows, because some of the biggest
watch brands you're never goingto hear from their ceo, they're
not going to ever get yourfeedback or they're not going to

(23:07):
listen to the watch enthusiastsopinions on suggestions for
their watches.
It's all done internally andwe'll spit the watches out the
way that we want to, not justbecause of they don't listen,
they don't really pay attentionto their customers of what
they're saying, they don'tlisten, they don't really pay
attention to their customers ofwhat they're saying.
So, with what we do for ourshows is we create that direct

(23:29):
connection and that engagementbetween the brand and the watch
enthusiast who has something tosay and gets heard, and it's
just a great way to communicatebetween the brand and the watch
enthusiast during shows, likeMinutes and Hours, for example.

Blake Rea (23:47):
And people need that, and people appreciate that.
Oh, yeah, yeah.

Rich Park (23:50):
We see it every time.
They love it.

Blake Rea (23:53):
A lot of the and I do consulting right with some of
these brands and a lot of timesbecause I was also selling
watches and I'm also a watchenthusiast, a watch collector
like you um, the question kindof comes, like, how do you
humanize the brand?

(24:13):
Right, because we're so bigright, like, how do we like
lower the bar?
Um, to communicate with ourcustomers A lot of brands have a
lot of challenges with that Um,yeah, to communicate with our
customers.

Rich Park (24:25):
A lot of brands have a lot of challenges with that.
Yeah, and their time whetherthey make time or they don't
have time, or maybe they'll sendsome ambassadors there for a
day, but they would rather beseen just with their logo at
Wimbledon or somewhere like that, where that seems to be enough,
but it does not promote anyengagement between their actual

(24:49):
customers, right?
So I think we found that thatengagement is so important and
so vital no-transcript to abrand and that brand actually
takes every, takes that andapplies that and as their next
release.
You know that really makes thewatch enthusiast or their

(25:09):
customer really feel appreciatedand and and and heard yeah, I'm
curious it segues right into aperfect question.

Blake Rea (25:20):
Um, you know, I seem you have like what 60 brands are
gonna be in la, like 60 plusbrands yeah, 65, 66 around yeah,
how do you go about curatingthe, the lineup for, uh, for
each show, like, is it just, hey, cool?
like we want everybody toparticipate, like, um, you know,

(25:42):
I'm sure you probably have somebrands that sign up for this
year but they may not sign upfor next year, or vice versa.
You have brands that aresigning up for the first year.
Yeah, how do you, how do youcurate that epic selection of
brand?
I mean, you have some epicbrands.
I, I I was so surprised when Iwent to the website and just saw
some of the most, I think, withsome of the most exciting
brands yeah, I agree, we're veryfortunate.

Rich Park (26:04):
Thank you for that.
Um.
So, by reputation, um of of ourshows, word of mouth is you
know this, our space, the watchspace, is so small and um, that
word of mouth happens and, aswe've been doing this since 2019
, we're really, we're really ona lot of brands as radars, um,

(26:27):
and brands will recommend otherbrands, and that that's been
happening more and more recently.
Hey, we were just at minutesand hours in chicago, or minutes
and hours in austin, why don'tyou come to chicago?
Why don't you come to la?
We're going to be there, we canvouch for them um, and I love
those kinds of messages.
So that is one way.
Probably the biggest pipelineto how a brand will participate

(26:50):
at our shows is through thatword of mouth and seeing our
audience really grow with thosebrands at the shows.
If we didn't have, for example,a certain brand um, like fairer
, for example, um, people wouldsay at at our previous show hey,
there's no fairer here, wewould love to have seen fairer.

(27:11):
Well, I'll pass thatinformation on and in a survey
form and say, hey, this is oneof the um you know brands that
this is how many people werereally expressing interest in,
in seeing you there, but withall the different events
worldwide, it's not just minutesand hours and wind up right.

(27:31):
So there are in other countriestoo.
There's only so many shows thatsome of them can do, and so
they do come back around andthey do appreciate that and they
are giving our show the time ofday.
Um, and we finally reallystarted reaching that point, I'd
say, last year.
Um, as you know, they realizedwe're not going anywhere, we're

(27:55):
just continuing to get bigger,we're adding more cities and
they want to be a part of that.
So I know that's a long answer,but I think it really starts
with the, the word of mouth, andthen you know, consequently, a
brand will see other brands thatthey respect and they like.
Oh, okay, so Farrah might see abrand like Christopher Ward or

(28:18):
Delma or Favre Louvre, um, or um, uh, or doxa, for example.
Right, they'll see them.
Oh, yeah, this, this show islegit if they're, if those
brands are going to be there, um, they're on our level, or we
would like to also be in thesame presence as those brands,
and so they will come on board.

(28:39):
Um, and then we have reallygreat relationships.
Uh, that we've earned and andreally um very appreciative of
them.

Blake Rea (28:47):
So I'm I'm glad that you brought up delma, because I
think delma is like a hidden gem.

Rich Park (28:53):
Oh, my gosh, the quality of those watches are.
We've partnered with thembefore um and now we.
They are on board for the nextthrough 2026 with us.
Their watches are so solidlybuilt, not enough recognition
for them.
But when you see the watchesand the value of them,

(29:14):
especially their new 1924Tourbillon, it's just a watch
that needs to be experienced andhandled in person and they've
had that great feedback inAustin a couple of years ago.

Blake Rea (29:23):
They're back with us and I'm really excited to have
Delmo back and on the roster foreveryone to experience.
Yeah, I've actually had arelationship with Delmo.
They were actually the firstbrand relationship I ever had.

(29:52):
And so when they first, when Ifirst met them and was talking
to them like like you had towire transfer them to buy a
watch, I was like I was like youguys need to like modernize,
you know, because you knowSwitzerland, it's things are a
little different right therethan they are here, you know.
And and then I actually builttheir website so that's right if
you've been to their website,yeah I built it, of course.
The current, their currentwebsite, yep yeah, and I

(30:14):
purchased, I, I purchaseddelmawatchescom, built it in
parallel to delmach, and then,um, and then anyways, as as we
started growing these twotogether, they were very
concerned about, uh, like losingtheir delma dots, and I was
like, well, once we outshine thedelmach, like yeah just point

(30:37):
the track and then now it'sdelmawatchcom.
Baby, I purchased that domain Ithink it's still in my domain
portfolio and I just pointed itto them.
Uh, but no, I mean, the onlyreason why I'm saying that is
just, they're a great brand,yeah, and they're really
customer powered.
And, uh, and I I have, um, Iwent to their, I went to their

(30:59):
manufacturer last year year,went to their, I went to their
manufacturer last year, year anda half, and it was, it was a
weird full circle moment for me,uh, because here I, here I had
been like talking to, likeandreas uh, I'm not sure if you
know andreas, but um, he's likeyeah, he's like he's, like the
son of the owner yeah his familyowns it and his dad will be

(31:23):
stepping down at some point.
He'll be stepping up and I hadtalked to him for like years on
the phone, but I had never seenhis face, like I never knew what
he looked like and then when Iwent.
When I went to, uh, when I wentto switzerland, uh, I took the
train up to to the their city,um, and, and then he went,
picked me up at the trainstation so that's what you,

(31:46):
that's what you would do forsomebody in vegas exactly, yeah,
exactly that.
This is all about hospitality,right?
So, um, if I could, if I couldbe a hospitable resource, I'm
going to, I'm going to be, anduh, and then, yeah, we shot some
content.
I actually still haven't evendistributed the content.
I've been so behind.
I need to post it, but we didan entire.

(32:07):
It was super cool, like we wentthrough the archives.

Rich Park (32:10):
Yeah.

Blake Rea (32:10):
I got.
I got to see some of theirearly shell stars, like, um,
when I was at watches andwonders this year they were
actually at the Boer Vage and Igot to hang out with them and uh
, and and yeah, I have four orfive delmo watches I absolutely
love, I actually love.
That was actually one of, like,my earlier swiss watches and

(32:32):
it's super funny because, um,because my dad had a delma right
, so, like it's just a weirdthing that that all happened and
uh, and yeah, they're so great,they're so underappreciated,
yeah, um, but I'm curious isthere any other brands that you
feel like I mean we, you have achance right now to kind of
shout them out, to kind of plugthem?

(32:53):
Brands that you know completelyblew you away, that maybe you
never got a chance to see.
Similarly to delma, um, thatonce you got hands-on with him,
just like, damn man, these areawesome simie.

Rich Park (33:07):
Simie would be one.
Uh, young hands um oh, I loveyoung hans yeah, um, you know,
mauricio cruz, another one I'mlooking at amazing now.
Um, of course, we talked aboutdelma.
You know, 5280 is another.
Uh, 5280 is a brand out ofDenver, colorado.
The time that it takes to makethose dials and those watches is

(33:28):
extreme, um, but they'reamazing.
Enamel dials.
We don't see that kind ofartistry and that hand
craftsmanship today and but theyare what that is, the old
school style and they presenttheir watches 50 to 80 is is is
really impressive.
They when, when you see thosewatches in person, they're like

(33:52):
old school way of making watchesdone right today.
And, and that's one of the,that's one of the favorite ones.
Christopher Ward, of course, isa crowd favorite.
Baltic is another crowdfavorite.
Yeah, um, baltic is anothercrowd favorite, totally, um, um,
let me just try to milus.
Milus needs to be lookedclosely, looked at closely yeah,

(34:13):
yeah, they're awesome.

Blake Rea (34:14):
I got to see them for the first time and, uh, at time
to watches yeah, and pollen,pollen makes these great fun,
great, great fun watches.

Rich Park (34:25):
There's another one here, heinrich.
It's a German brand.
If you've seen their newwatches, they're really great.
Products like Bosphorus theymake those really upscale
accessories like watch boxes andstuff.
Those are not your averagestorage boxes.
I mean the details of those, forexample, the interior.

(34:47):
A lot of it looks like suede,but 99 percent, 99.5 percent of
them it's microfiber, which isfine.
Right, it looks like suede butit's a microfiber lining.
In Bosporus' case, it's actualsuede, every detail of them.
And they're not inexpensive butthey'll last you.
So if you really care aboutyour collection, especially
maybe the better collections ofwithin your collection, I think

(35:09):
you'd want to storm in, you know, like in boss for his products.
So they're just really exciting, just well, well made, a lot
like they.
They make their.
I think their biggest flagshipline, or flagship line is the
one that look like suitcases.
Right, there are others thatmake them look like suitcases,
but not to the level or theattention to details as boss
verse, and I've been fortunateenough to to experience so many

(35:31):
of these, but I can tell youthat boss versus just you know,
amazing products and I'm curiousso, like looking at the roster.

Blake Rea (35:39):
I mean you have like even a brand like bremont which
is such a a larger.
I would consider them to belarger compared to some of the
other brands that you have thatare participating.
So how do you balance, like,the micro brands, the
independents and I mean I wouldconsider Bremont as more of a
legacy brand, like how do youbalance that?

Rich Park (36:02):
Again, we've had great relationships.
We've had one for a while withBreman.
We've got other things in theworks with them.
It just happened to be a greatrelationship I've had with them
even before we became partners.
We've communicated and thenthey participated in Austin last

(36:25):
year.
Um, yeah, they are amongst theelite, more prestigious uh, you
could even say luxury brand, um,but they trusted our audience,
they trusted us.
You know everyone on theminutes and hours team and so it
wasn't well, we're breman andwho are these other brands?

(36:45):
Right, it was like these otherbrands are also really good and
and and breman, they're watchenthusiasts too.
So you know, when they seesomeone some of the other brands
like I mentioned um, it's it'srespect for them, and so they
weren't thumbing their nose downat anyone, even though they are
, you know, know they areBraymond.
They're like, yeah, this isgood, we respect those brands

(37:08):
and so we're fine with being.
You know, they are considered aprestige brand with us.
So you know they they're upthere.
It's good.
We have different tiers, right,we have the featured and we
have the supporting.
Braymont is up there with theother brands Maurice Lacroix,
christopher Junghans, simierParalay so they're up there with

(37:28):
them and it's been a great,great relationship with them.

Blake Rea (37:33):
Yeah, I mean they're all great brands.

Rich Park (37:37):
I mean Braymont's really turned a corner right.
I mean, you know, with the newlogo change last year there was
a lot of not the most lovedfeedback, but they really turned
that corner where you knowtheir new designs and the new
logo have really become, youknow, accepted.
You know their new jumping hour, their new novelties have

(37:57):
really people really like themnow and they've won people over
with their new designs and theirnew logos.
And their other previouscollections, like the Aviation
watches, they never wentanywhere.
They're still there.
So, you know, bremont justhappened to bring out some
watches that are a little bitmore approachable in terms of

(38:19):
prices, but their other Epictimepieces and the legacy time
pieces are still there.
They're still part of thecollection.
So, um, I think it took them alittle bit of while to earn
people who thought, well, everybrain mind is, you know, eight
thousand or nine thousand, butit took not a lot of time.

(38:40):
But they had an, an amazingWatches and Wonders, right, if
you were there, they were one ofthe favorites how they really
earned people, so people's trustand their new design and their
new direction.
They were able to convey thatand you see the feedback now
from Bright Mind has reallychanged for the better.

Blake Rea (38:59):
Yeah, I made a mistake at Watches and Wonders
and actually not schedulingsomething with them.
So they were like, oh, come seeus.
And I was like, cool.
So I went there and their boothwas just swamped so I didn't
have a proper sit-downpresentation and for that reason
I just was like I hadback-to-back-to-back-to-back

(39:22):
appointments and I just was likeI had
back-to-back-to-back-to-backappointments and I just was like
I can't hang out.

Rich Park (39:27):
Unfortunately, yeah, I mean they're doing it right
now.
I like their new collection.
I think their Terra Nova isdifferent and unique.
I like their Super Marine.
It's really really good stuff,and I can't share everything.
But the direction of wherethey're headed it's, uh, really
really good stuff and you know Ican't share everything, but the

(39:47):
direction of where they'reheaded is it's, it's impressive.

Blake Rea (39:49):
They, they took the risk and and it's really paying
off for um, for beer mom, withtheir new direction let's talk
about kind of like um, like yourdifferentiator minutes and
hours, like how do you feel likeyou're more of a an outlier out
of a traditional watch fair ormeetup, like what, what do you

(40:09):
feel like makes and separatesyou guys from everybody else?

Rich Park (40:14):
well, thank you for that.
We, we're more than just awatch fair for a multi-day watch
fair.
Um, we have differentactivities going on during
minutes and hours Hours weekend.
So we always kick off Minutesand Hours weekend with a VIP
breakfast, and this year it'sBraymont and so we kick that off
.
It gives more of a personalinteraction between that brand

(40:37):
and the people that attend thatbreakfast.
We also have watch buildingclasses.
We partner with the WatchAcademy by Sumier and where
that's a class or workshop,slash class where people take
that class, they build the watchfrom scratch, including the
movement, and it's an all-dayclass, all-day workshop and they
get to keep the watch that theybuild and that's an amazing

(41:00):
experience and those whoparticipated in that workshop
really, really had a great time.
It's a great story.
We've had fathers and sons dothat because they wanted to have
that experience together.
Uh, and that's just a memorablewatch and you know, the biggest
part of watch collecting rightis is the experience and the
stories behind that and that andthat provides that.
So we have different activitiesgoing on.
We we have our after party.

(41:21):
So minutes and hours is morethan just a watch fair for the
enthusiasts.
It's activities that are allrelated, that people can do more
than just checking out thewatches.
They can take the workshopclass, they can come to
breakfast, they can come to theafter party and mingle even more

(41:42):
, to the after party and mingleeven more.
So we're really proud to be theonly event that has the watch
building class workshop.
That's proven to be great withus and we're really happy with
our partnership with the WatchAcademy and Semi-A.
We also are very comfortablewith where we are.
We're not a watch fair that istrying to chase a hundred plus

(42:05):
brands.
You know there, you know thereis one that has um and they're
proud of that and they and theyshould be, you know.
But they'll have a hundred plusbrands and it sounds sexy,
right, blake?
So yo be part of this.
A hundred brands, we want to bepart of it, and other brands be
like oh, that must be great.
Yeah, we want to be a part ofthat.

(42:25):
It doesn't work for everybodyat that level.
So when we started uh, micro lux, which is now minutes and hours
the goal was for that createthat interaction, that community
, that engagement between thebrand and the watch consumer.
You're not going to get thatwhen you have over 100 brands.
A lot of those brands getoverlooked, um, or they get
ignored for a handful out ofthat 100 brands who will benefit

(42:46):
from the traffic.
It's not for everyone, andthat's the number one feedback
that we get from those brandsthat have done a show of that
size is that we got lost in thatshuffle.
You know it.
It wasn't as sexy or asglamorous as as we thought.

(43:07):
So we're not chasing high volumebrands.
We are comfortable where we arewith, between you know, 65 and
75 brands.
It's just the right amount toto maintain that engagement and
interaction between the brandand the enthusiast.
Where no brand gets overlooked,they still have a presence

(43:29):
there and people will come seethem.
Also, some lines are stillgoing to be long, right, but
it's still manageable.
It's still manageable at every,every booth.
There isn't a booth that everever got ignored.
Or someone said I could not getto that booth because of how

(43:51):
popular it is, because you'renot just waiting in that line
for.
So, christopher Ward, rightthere there they kill it every
show.
Yeah, mike, mike is amazing atwhat he does and there is a line
and there's always going to bethat demand for, you know,
christopher Ward.
But they, if they don't want towait in line to get to the

(44:12):
booth, there are all these otherbrands that are, that are there
, they can do.
So they can do that and thenwork their way back to
Christopher, you know, back to abrand like Christopher Ward.
So we like that balance.
We're not chasing 150 brands.
It really doesn't do justicefor all the other brands.
So, yeah, I think that that isanother aspect that makes us

(44:33):
unique is that we maintain that,that interpersonal relationship
between the brand and theenthusiast, without creating
frustration.

Blake Rea (44:40):
Yeah, no, it sounds great.
Like I said, this will be myfirst minutes and hours.
I can't wait to see you here atthe end of the month and I'm
looking forward to the dinner,the Bremont dinner.

Rich Park (44:49):
Yeah, Bremont breakfast.

Blake Rea (44:51):
Yeah, bremont breakfast, sorry, even the after
party.
I'll be there too.

Rich Park (44:55):
Yeah, you're welcome.

Blake Rea (44:58):
I'm curious.
We talk a lot aboutentrepreneurship.
Our podcast is unique becausewhen we have people like you on
entrepreneurs, tell us aboutsome of it's not all roses and
sunshine, right.
I'm sure you've had challengesthat you faced while growing the
Minutes and Hours brand andmanaging multiple cities and

(45:19):
filling the venues and gettingparticipation.
Tell us about some of thechallenges that you've overcome
and getting participation, liketell us about some of the
challenges that you've overcomeand you know, defined you.

Rich Park (45:29):
A lot of.
I think when you start off,there's always plenty of setback
failures, but that's what makesyou.
You know, if you're resilient,that'll just make you stronger
and make you better and want towork harder.
So I think one of the earlierchallenges we've experienced,
before we grew our team, it wasonly we only started with a

(45:49):
couple of people, and now we're,we have several people on the
team, but it was well, we don'tknow you enough, we don't.
We, you don't.
We're not as comfortable withdisattendance or or or some of
these brands.
That was early on, until westarted getting bigger brands.
And then those brands who saidthose things you know, changed

(46:10):
their tune and and then and andthey came aboard.
It's also, you know, with othershows that have emerged.
Like I said, wind up in minutesand hours were the OGs of watch
shows.
That's a little bit, but we aredifferent enough.
We distinguished ourselves,separated us enough and we
continue to evolve, even thoughthere is you know, it's more

(46:32):
than just Wind Up and Mints andHours now that there are these
other shows, but we remainunique to that.
And so, yeah, it hasn'taffected us as much as it could
have if we weren't as unique aswe are, and some of the other
challenges was you know thecities right, we're in Chicago,

(46:54):
we're in Austin, we're in LA.
We're expanding that.
We're going to be in othercities in 2026.
Chicago and Austin are ourstaples.
La is, you know, this July, butwe're going to expand to other
cities.
Some of the other stresses thatcome with it are kind of
self-inflicted with thedifferent projects that we've
taken on to add to our plate,but that's a good thing.
So it's a challenge that webrought on ourselves, which

(47:23):
creates very little time tosleep, but it's what you have to
continuously evolve as a brand,as a business.
You can't be stagnant.
So we're always looking toexpand, we're always looking for
different ways and innovativeways, and that's a challenge.
And one of the challenges earlyon, to be different is when

(47:44):
COVID hit.
We were the first show in theUS to go live with a virtual
event.
We were live with that.
I think, yeah, I think Wind Updid it, but they were taped for
the most part.
We were live all weekend Friday, saturday and Sunday and we
were innovative, you know, withthat.
And now you know people do thaton their Instagram or like this

(48:06):
, but we were the first ones togo live for an entire weekend
and that was really exhaustingbut really fun.
So, yeah, those are some of thechallenges, but you know we
look, we always expectchallenges but we hopefully
working hard and you know we canovercome those.
It also helps to have reallygreat brand partners.
That makes it easy, you know,and fun to be with.

(48:29):
We try to and I know I try tonot I try to separate myself
from people that are notpleasurable, right, the people
that bring you down or arenegative or are really difficult
.
I think that's something that Ialmost had to take on at the
beginning because we were newer,but now I find I don't want to

(48:50):
work with some people that arelike that, that are difficult,
that add stress, because it'sjust not worth it, and
fortunately we're at a stagewhere we have a little bit more
options to avoid those pitfallssomething that I got with your
previous statement is you talkedabout, you know, keeping the
show like intimate, right, likehow do you grow the show while

(49:14):
maintaining that balance ofintimacy, like how does, how
does that work?

Blake Rea (49:19):
well?

Rich Park (49:20):
intimacy to me means maybe an attendant of 200, maybe
300, that's just in, maybe 300.
That's just an intimacy.
And although that's called anevent, it's really more like a
get-together when you have anattendance of a couple hundred.
So intimate I wouldn't sayintimate, but we're a proper

(49:40):
level.
So our attendance is, you know,between 1200 and a couple
thousand attendees that come,which is still a packed house,
which is very different from ashow like in New York, for
example, where they have, Ithink, 10,000, right, and that's
great.
That's not intimate, that's notgoing to create that kind of
engagement, it's a rush.
When you have that many, 10,000people, the brand cannot give

(50:02):
you that kind of dedicated time,right, because they see the
line and, okay, it's kind ofrushed and it's not a very
satisfied.
There's not a lot ofsatisfaction with that
enthusiast who feels like, hey,I'm coming to your booth but I'm
being rushed.
That's not intimate.
We're not intimate eitherbecause we're not a small show.
We are, you know, wind up inminutes and hours are the two
biggest.
But we have that, yeah, thatbalance, and we do that

(50:25):
intentionally by kind of cappingthe brands that we have in the
space of our venue.
So you know, we don't need 60000 square feet where um to fill
that with 100 brands.
We are comfortable with up to75 brands, uh, in a, in a
reasonable size venue, to createthat, that interpersonal
relationship and engagement.

(50:45):
It's intentional, withouttrying to chase, like I said,
we're not trying to chase 100brands.

Blake Rea (50:52):
What does success look like for you?
Is it more cities, more brands,deeper connections with
collectors?
What does success look like forRich Park?

Rich Park (51:07):
look like for for rich park, the feedback that we
get from the guests who reallyappreciate coming to show in
from for what, what they'velearned um brands, expansion of
cities if those cities aresuccessful, um, with attendance
and with brands, and that that'sa successful show.
To me, the what, what makes asuccess a successful show is if
the brands are happy and if the,the attendees are happy, and

(51:30):
that makes me happy to know.
That makes me feel a successmore than more than anything
else.
So that's how I measure success.
We also have something on thatwe're working, something that
we're working on right now thatwe will announce soon, um.
But the fact that we are workingon that project right now with
brands, um isn't, isn't earlysuccess because of the trust

(51:54):
that the brands put with me toum to take on this new project,
this endeavor.
So you know what I?
I think a great way for me tosum that up in one word because
I was a little wordy um is it istrust.
So if the brands can put theirtrust in me and the watch and do

(52:14):
this can put their trust uh, inin in our team, then that's a
success for me.
So I could have just summedthat up with trust.

Blake Rea (52:22):
Um no, you did fine, you did trust where do you see,
like the next three to fiveyears, with minutes and hours,
like maybe some milestone goalsor you know, things that you
hope to accomplish during thatthat period, because we're
certainly going to check backwith you and make sure that
you've hit them all.

Rich Park (52:44):
Milestones, Maybe to add a different city, Hopefully
Vegas.
Vegas is one of them.
I know you and I have talkedabout it off air.
And this other project.
I know I keep referring it toanother project, which isn't
fair to anyone listening and notme mentioning that, but we'll

(53:06):
make that announcement soon.
But that's a big project thatin five years, if we can grow
that into other cities, thatwill be a great success.
In fact, I think the nextmilestone would be a year from
now and seeing how that projectshapes out.

Blake Rea (53:25):
So yeah, Very cryptic , but no, I'm just.
Yeah, I know I don't like that.

Rich Park (53:30):
I, I, I think it's kind of I don't like being there
.

Blake Rea (53:33):
It's for good reason.
It's for good Cause I know whatyou're talking about, but it's
for good, it's for good reason.
You know you need to make surethat you, you're, you're in a
place where you can properlylaunch it and people will know
in due time, right?
Yeah, thanks for understanding.
Yeah, it'll be great, yeah.

Rich Park (53:50):
I try to be an open book.
So, yeah, that's not my crypticthing, it's not my thing.
I try to be more open than that.

Blake Rea (53:56):
But yeah, thanks for understanding.
I was totally joking.
I guess this is anotheraspirational question.
I guess this is anotheraspirational question.
But if you could have a dreambrand, sign on a dream
partnership for the future ofminutes and hours, who would it
be?
What would it look like?

(54:17):
Because they might be listening.
You never know.

Rich Park (54:25):
Yeah, no, that's a great question.
We've we've partnered with I'min terms of some of the other
legendary brands like brightlingum, we've done that with
brightling.
Uh, omega would be a reallynice reach.
And other, you know, shootingfor the stars omega would be
great.
Um, you and I talked aboutulysses nardin.
Um, that would be great.
I think that's Ulysses is sucha brand that I think more people

(54:46):
need to handle in person and toreally appreciate them, because
we see them from afar and weknow that name, ulysses, right,
if you're a watch person, I'veheard of that brand, I know of
that brand, but I don't get achance to experience that in the
hand as often as I would like.
So I think that would be abrand.
Uh, that would be a good.

Blake Rea (55:08):
Uh, immediately immediate reach for the stars
brand they're, yeah, they'reexceptional, they're, um, and I
mean, maybe I said this beforethat, but they're a brand that
truly understands the community.

Rich Park (55:20):
The collectors like the passion behind the community
and they're they're really, uh,supportive and embraceful of
that do you agree, though, withthat, or do you disagree where
it's like yeah, I know, youlisten, I know that brand, but I
can't quite place which modelis my favorite, because I don't.

Blake Rea (55:37):
I don't come across one as often as I can a
breitling or, or you know, aswatch or um, or rolex yeah, no,
I agree, they definitely don'thave the same distribution as a
branditling or, or, you know, aswatch, or um, or Rolex yeah, no
, I agree, they definitely don'thave the same distribution as a
brand like Omega or Breitlingor tag or, you know, you can,
you can see one of those prettymuch in every city.
But, um, you know, you, you, itis a brand that, um, I had

(56:00):
never seen in the flesh or inthe middle, before I moved to
Vegas, you know.

Rich Park (56:04):
But when you do, you're impressed.

Blake Rea (56:06):
Oh my gosh.

Rich Park (56:07):
It's kind of like why aren't more people talking
about this brand?
Why aren't you know?
So when you see it you and Isee it it's impressive and it
should be recognized more.

Blake Rea (56:20):
Yeah, I mean their innovations and watchmaking are,
you know, some of the biggesttechnical innovations.
I think watch brands have everaccomplished Really good stuff.

(56:40):
Yeah, seeing them getting handson with them, selling them and
then now working with them uh,yeah it.
It was one of my dreams tobring one of one of their
watches into uh, into mycollection, and I did last year
and and I wear it all the time,man I think that feedback would
be be great when we had grandseiko.

Rich Park (57:02):
We did have grand seiko.
The feedback when they get tosee those watches in person it
either matched or exceeded thehype from someone who's never
seen or handled a Grand Seikobefore Grand Seiko.
People fall in love with thosedials, the details of those
dials.
Nobody does a dial like GrandSeiko.
I think with UN it couldreceive great, great

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appreciation and feedback.

Blake Rea (57:27):
Oh yeah, no, totally, totally.
Yeah, we've pretty much reachedthe top of the hour here and,
yeah, I'm super excited to havehad you on.

Rich Park (57:38):
Oh, it's my pleasure.

Blake Rea (57:42):
I can't wait for the show.
We actually moved some thingsaround.
I was telling the show weactually moved some things
around.
I was telling rich like wemoved some things around.
We had three podcasts thatwe've recorded and we were
booked up until mid, mid augustthank you so much for
accommodating uh but but yeah,this is.
This is gonna be dropped nextweek, so we had to push a couple
around.
So, uh, to get this out before,before the event, and it's well

(58:06):
worth it, of course, you knowthree weeks to go.
Yeah, that's, time goes by yeah,yeah, well, we have, we have
three recorded already and it,yeah it august.
We were booked up to likemid-august.
We had already all of ourpodcasts distributed, recorded
and ready to go.
Um, but no, I think, obviouslywith minutes, and it wouldn't
make any sense for us to havethis podcast in august after you

(58:30):
know well, yeah, thank you forthat.

Rich Park (58:32):
I'm always, I'm always happy to come on anytime.
You'll have me, even after itshows, in between shows.
So, um, I I really enjoyed, ourreally enjoyed chatting with
you, especially off camera.

Blake Rea (58:43):
Oh yeah absolutely Well.
Thank you so much for coming on.
Um, everybody, if you know, ifyou don't know minutes and hours
, you know.
Obviously you can check outtheir website.
Um, they're in Austin, they'rein LA, they're in Chicago.
The LA show will be here at theend of the month, july 26th,
and 7th 27th in Los Angeles.

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I will be there.
You can come see me.
You can come say hi.
Yeah, obviously, I'm sure Richwill be there because he's there
.

Rich Park (59:12):
I think I might.
Yeah, I think I might.

Blake Rea (59:16):
So yeah, if you decide to go like I said,
tickets are free.
Yeah giveaways.

Rich Park (59:22):
We're going to have amazing giveaways every hour.
Wow, come visit tour, get freecoffee.
We, we provide the coffee tea.
So walk around with a cup ofcoffee and take a look at all
the watches and um be eligiblefor the giveaways.
We really do give giveawaysevery hour and they're amazing.
They're going to be amazingproducts.
They get better.
Our giveaways get better andbetter because our partners just

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trust us more and more and ourpartners get better and better.

Blake Rea (59:47):
So, yeah, and then something I guess I could jump
in, because it seems like it'sgoing to be kind of like the
Beau Brevage, like where everybrand has their own hotel room.
Did I understand that correctly?
Like their own suite?

Rich Park (01:00:02):
At the show, you mean their booth.

Blake Rea (01:00:04):
Yeah.

Rich Park (01:00:09):
Oh, is it just like a big community space, or how is
that what you mean?

Blake Rea (01:00:11):
I'm sorry, what do you mean?
So like at the bober vage andum and during watches and
wonders, like essentially peoplebook these hotel rooms oh, okay
and uh, and then you walk intothe.
They just open all the doors toall the hotel rooms and then
you walk in and it's like uh.
Oh, here's Delma, here's Doc'suh.
You know, here's uh.
Is that the same vibe, or is itjust?

Rich Park (01:00:32):
there's a couple of rooms.
There's going to be the uh, thebig main room, and then off to
the side there are a couple moreuh rooms, but it's pretty much
an open space for everyone tocome and see him.
If you're referring to thegiveaways, the giveaways are.
You know they'll be done in themiddle, in the main room, every
hour, but I try to make youunderstand the vision.

(01:00:54):
So you come up to the stairs inthe middle.
That's the main room.
Off to the side there are twomore rooms that we can put.
We'll have brands there inaddition to the main room.
So all the doors are open soeveryone will have access to
them.

Blake Rea (01:01:10):
So, yeah, I cannot wait.
I am already gearing up to.
I don't even know which watchI'm going to wear.

Rich Park (01:01:18):
We know we didn't do the wrist.
What do you have on right now?
I have a Hublot.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

Blake Rea (01:01:27):
I'm not, I don't do.
I know everybody does theirwrist checks and all I.

Rich Park (01:01:29):
I I will do it if somebody brings it up, but well,
I only did it now, because wewere just talking about what
watch where, and I don't do thateither.

Blake Rea (01:01:37):
I'm thinking I'm like , obviously I have to bring a
delma, I have to bring a marisa,qual, I have to bring a young
hans like uh representing you,gotta represent I gotta
represent the people thatrepresent me you know, so
understood.
Stern glass is another one.
I mean, yeah, uh, yeah, it's,it's hard, it's hard do you have

(01:01:58):
a christopher ward yet or not?

Rich Park (01:02:00):
yet I don't.
I don't.

Blake Rea (01:02:02):
No, no, I, I, I, I would love to.
I have I have 150 watches andI'm trying to scale back as to
what I own and what I wear.

Rich Park (01:02:12):
You got to check out the Simia.
That's that, that 7-Elevenchronograph with the dial layout
you know, hence the name7-Eleven at 7 and 11.
That's that.
That's nice.
That's one of my favorites too.

Blake Rea (01:02:32):
Yeah, I've never heard of them.
I've've never checked it out.
I'm in a weird bubble, you knowum, and unless somebody walks,
up and smacks me in the face I'mnot paying attention.
So, yeah, well rich, thank youfor spending an hour with us.
I appreciate you jumping on.
I appreciate, uh, everything.
I appreciate you you welcomingme to the show, and, and some of
my friends, and I look forwardto meeting you in person next
couple weeks.

Rich Park (01:02:50):
Yeah, no, it's my pleasure.
Thanks for accommodating me forpushing back your other
scheduled podcast.

Blake Rea (01:02:56):
Perfect, perfectly worked out.

Rich Park (01:02:57):
And I really look forward to catching up with you
in just a couple of weeks in LA.

Blake Rea (01:03:02):
Yeah, see you very soon, all right, all right,
bye-bye.
Thanks, blake.