Moss

Happy birthday! ...at the end of times,

Watsonian: Grace used to be a Big Deal in academia before he blew up his career, enough to be going to UNESCO conferences and making headlines off his mouthiness. We don't actually know anything about what sort of work Grace was doing before he left the field, if he was private or public sector, etc.

When he left, he decided to live in San Francisco, which if your criteria for settling down somewhere is "I could teach" and "has fog" there's way cheaper Cost Of Living options available. He was, at some point, financially comfortable enough to voluntarily pick California.

So, as a person who has an expensive hobby without a lot of money (mechanical keyboards), I would posit that Grace relies on smartwatches enough he considers them his One Nice Thing, and probably only owns one. When he got his fancy Tag Hauer, he may have sold his old one, or may have slapped it onto a credit card.

Now, the Doylist answer: Mr. Gosling really likes Tag Hauer watches. From Esquire Australia:

okay so mant is officially dead

how THE FUCK. I’ve been struggling w curren in mant obv, and then just came CRASHING IN w this record breaker in unity cup.

Since I need to wait on fabric for my fish head bag next month I decided to make a Haru Urara shaped coin bag to go with my Urara themed ita bag so I don’t have loose coins floating around in it.

happy undertale day 🤍

"yeah can I get a deluxe quarter pounder with cheese?"

"absolutely, do you want the meal or just the sandwich?"

"uuuuuuuh hold on"

*fishes something out of my pocket*

"super creek what do I do?"

"get the fries. you'll need the energy in the coming days"

*stuffs it back in my pocket*