Tyler Childers Gifted Himself A Luxury Watch After Reaching One Year Of Sobriety

Treating himself to something nice after hitting a significant milestone.

Tyler Childers, like many other prominent country music artists, lives a sober lifestyle. While Childers has kept many of the reasons he chose to reevaluate his relationship with his vices close to his chest, he recently shared how he celebrated hitting a year of sobriety while talking about his collaboration with Weiss Watches.

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However, before we proceed, let’s start from the beginning.

Interestingly, looking back on older interviews with Childers, it appears he knew he was headed down a path of addiction, even though he escaped the opioid epidemic that runs rampant through rural Kentucky and West Virginia.

In a 2017 interview with Rolling Stone, he revealed that he was inspired to write “Whitehouse Road” after meeting a man who would get drunk or high and spew tall tales any chance he got. Childers saw the effect of this and made a point to stay away from that stuff while he was living at home. However, he admits that once he moved to Lexington, he became entangled in a similar scene.

“I was just thinking about this dude I worked with – his tall tales and flat-out lies and how much of a wild cat he was. He was an interesting character, but I always tried to steer clear of that when I was living back home, as far as getting into that much orneriness. Then I ended up moving to Lexington and getting into different kinds of orneriness, but orneriness nonetheless. I ain’t too much different. Same game, different baseball field.”

Even though Childers admitted he wasn’t “too much different” than the character that inspired “Whitehouse Road,” nothing about his habits changed at this time until years later.

In 2020, in a statement surrounding his record Long Violent History, he described himself as “a recovering alcoholic who was drunk and drugged himself around the world playing music for the better part of 11 years.”

Last year, Childers opened up about his sobriety during an ABC News Nightline interview while they were covering the Healing Appalachia festival.

“Yeah, I’ve been sober for three years now. I never really got into pills so much, as I was always a really heavy drinker. There was years and years I was playing music and getting wasted, and playing different levels of inebriation. And then relearning how to interact with music, reevaluating my relationship with it, it’s more rewarding, truly.”

These days, we hear Childers experimenting with his sound more, as seen on his latest studio project, Snipe Hunter, and genuinely enjoying himself each night he hits the stage. And his crowds are just getting larger and larger.

Today, Childers announced his limited collection with Weiss Watch Company, which he references in his song “Eatin’ Big Time.”

“Keep my time on my Weiss
Ye goddamn right, I’m flexin’
‘Cause a thousand-dollar watch is fine enough flex for me
Have you ever got to hold and blow a thousand fucking dollars?
It runs for 40 hours, and then it winds itself to sleep…”

Childers is a longtime fan of the watch company, but would not treat himself to a gift like that until he hit a major milestone. One whole year sober. In the video discussing the creation process of the watches, he shared at the end of the video that he had bought a Weiss watch for himself after hitting the significant milestone.

“I always had Weiss in the back of my mind, like ‘one of these days I’ll get a watch.’ When I decided that I was going to get sober, if I made it a year, I’d get me a Weiss watch. After a year, I ended up getting this watch.”

A few years after that, he now has a kicka** collection with the luxury watch company.

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If you’re interested in the details of this watch collaboration, they are as follows:

The limited batch of watches is handcrafted at the Weiss workshop in Nashville and inspired by Childers’ Appalachian roots. The Snipe Hunter, a 38mm Automatic Standard Issue Field Watch with Date, is limited to just 50 pieces. The watch features a case machined from 316L stainless steel, a richly textured deep green dial, and beveled sapphire crystals on both the front and back. Fitted with a hand-stitched leather strap and packaged in a custom Mossy Oak–branded camouflage pouch stamped in bright orange.

It’s a stunning piece, but it’ll run you a cool $2,800 bucks.The post Tyler Childers Gifted Himself A Luxury Watch After Reaching One Year Of Sobriety first appeared on Whiskey Riff.