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Did I hear you say - “I had the battery changed?”😂😂😂

You are on this earth only so long just wear your watches they won't stay perfect forever I wear my most expensive like it's a gshock

Thanks for the great watch roundup! I like all of your choices; almost bought the Visodate myself. Are you happy with the quality of the Vaer auto?

May I recommend the Casio mrw200h, an all resin dive watch, it’s actually resistant up to 100 meters in which I’ve used for scuba diving, a quartz movement which is very accurate and a friction movement bezel. All of this for roughly $20.00. Absolute steal!

Citizen Promaster’s are the way to go for your new lifestyle 👍🏼

Eco-drives are light powered. Exposure to 2 hours of fluro lighting is enough to run for 24h. I have a "Ray Mears" version and i hang it near the bath window. Not stopped in 21 years. When the power runs low it will jump 2 seconds at a time and run pretty slow. But you need to pull the crown out and push back in to re-set it back to normal running ( after light exposure )

Give up on your hair and embrace baldness, you’ll look better and it will lift a huge weight off your shoulders

Nice field watch!

Now you just need a Gshock

Thumbnail looks like James Hetfield.

Sorry but for a grail watch, a boring numbers dial timex look a like is not it. :(

If it came in a 38mm, I’d be on it.

You are a breath of fresh air my friend. Just subbed. You are a true enthusiast, with an honest opinion on some great watches..... You are a real breath of fresh air..... well done 👏 Please continue your channel. We need real people, honest opinions and no snobbery:)

All your watches are beat up so I think you pick the right watch. I'm of the opinion that an Alpinest would be too pretty a watch for how hard you are on your watches.

Vaer is beautiful. BTW the Citizen is nice too.

Please no need for the distracting muzack.

Two weeks ago i got my first G-Shock, a solar 5600. It had the interesting effect of highlighting my taste for mechanical dress and dressed-up dive watches because it set a very sharp boundary between formal and casual. It's like dress shirts for work and t-shirts for a lazy day at home.

I still wear (occasionally) my late father's Citizen Eco Drive Dress/chrono watch, circa 1990s. It's over 30 years old, still runs flawlessly, never been serviced/no battery issues, etc. So, while people say that you eventually have to get a new capacitor/battery on an Eco-Drive, this has NOT been my experience at all. They seem to last forever. Cheers!

I appreciate the moment you said, 'upset the purists' when it comes to solar. I've been following the community for some time now, and it seems the better the technology and the convenience, the more it 'upsets the purists'. I reached a point whereby I realised that I prefer not to fiddle with my watch, and I like quartz accuracy way too much to bother with what the purists think. My daily driver now is the Seiko Astron, which is not only solar but uses GPS to sync the time. It has a perpetual calendar, and it is one of the only non-smart watches that auto adjusts for daylight saving time! I am sure that the purists would be upset. But you know what? I'm OK with that, because I love it! In conclusion, solar is amazing tech, and there's very, very little about watchmaking that Citizen, Seiko and Casio don't know about, so enjoy your Citizen.

Man, you OWN your own business! You need a Patek! (Just joking with you 😂) You are much wiser than me when it comes to collecting watches! Less money, more enjoyment, and you won’t feel crushed if one is lost, stolen, or broken. Good for you!

This takes a bit of courage as I have felt that my grail watch is an indicator of my own status and standards. 😅

You always have something interesting to say that resonates with me. I, too, have the same sort of unbalance in my watch collection -- and for exactly the same reason: I left the city and no longer wear a suit every day. I have beautiful dress and dressy watches that I love, but I have to stretch for opportunities to use them. So, I wear a mechanical field watch for everyday, a quartz analog watch when I want to spare the mechanical one, and a Skmei 1412 (Casio F91W wannabe, with improved backlight) for night use. That leaves the Submariner, Daytona, Explorer, and Tank Homages with nothing to do -- not to mention the real dress watches! I'll be surprised if this is your last watch purchase; it doesn't work that way.

Nice lil banger 👍 cheers

Here’s a trick - if you keep it charged all the time, they could very well go 30 years without a battery change. I have a Calibre 2100 titanium bought in 1998 - never serviced always kept near a window - still running 100% and it’s 26 years old!

I have the gray dial bracelet version of the Garrison. Where did you get those extra straps from? I could see myself swapping the bracelet for those in Summer!

That's a very nice watch . Goes beautifully with the strap. Citizen is a tough brand my eco is so accurate. I set my other more expensive watches by it.

There's a billion watches out there dude, live a little, get something that isn't boring.... Your collection hasn't even started...

Garbage watch

i like Citizen; wish they made more sub 40 mm watches. Can you say what the third watch is in your box? Looks familiar.

I got the same beast….and for more or less the same reason…i need to find a new bracelet though…the leather one you have looks nice….

You do understand that once you're hooked on watches your collection is only going to grow? Expressions such as ’’this completes my collection’’ sound odd to me... Now please, someone, come and burn my computer and my smartphone, so I cannot access AliExpress!!!!!!!! 😭

Thanks for the video but please note that sapphire crystal does crack even though it might not scratch!

You have a very cool functional collection without pretense. The Citizen is the cherry on top!

Garrison thing doesn't have a screw down crown = fail to me.

Mate, the way you threw this Timex on the table without any respect 🤌 Not very nice...

I’ve been using saddle soap if my shoes or boots are dirty before conditioning. I agree that’s all you need for most of the time. I’ve added coloring paste to an older pair of leather shoes to put back some color into to scuffs and scratches (beater shoes)! Did the same to a nice pair of leather gloves then conditioned with saphir. Both came out nice and now I’m in charge of leather care in general ‘chez moi’.

Solid reasoning yields an excellent choice and a fun beautiful watch! Bravo and thank you.

I’m digging your channel. Just subbed!

Don’t stop there! Get the Citizen Tough “Ray Mears”.

You are better off with that watch than an Alpinist.

I was in France for only a bit more than 4 years and was sponsored by my company (elf Aquitaine at the time. I found that I got at worse some mild bemusement at my “fautes de genre et grammaire” without the assumption of my intelligence or competence. But I saw very much what you describe in seeing how French folks often viewed immigrants. Fortunately I was aware of this disparate perception, which made it fun to get to know others who spoke with a nonnative accent. Thanks for sharing your experience.

I have about a dozen watches. (The only “expensive” one is a Hamilton Ventura.) I purchased the exact same Citizen about a year ago and it’s the one I seem to gravitate towards the most. Good choice.

Collection will never be complete. Just accept that and life will be easier.

I have a silver 35mm Timex Easy Reader, with a white face and Indiglo, that's over 20 years old. It's not only still ticking, but it's locked into +1 second per month timekeeping. I got about 12 years on the last battery and this watch has traveled with me to most of the countries of Europe, to Russia, Scandinavia, England, Ireland, Peru, Ecuador, the Galapagos, Argentina, Uruguay, the Falklands, Chile, China, Thailand, Cambodia, China, Japan, Canada, most of the U.S., and probably a few more places I've forgotten. The only thing I had to change was the faux-leather band, because in the Mekong Delta the combination of humidity and Deet turned it's surface into a black goo that stained everything it touched including my wrist. I switched it out for the classic, indestructible, nerd bracelet, a silver Speidel "Twist-O-Flex", which is as comfortable as it is durable. When I met a guy about my age who had traveled more than twice as many places as I have, I noticed that he was wearing the same watch and Twist-O-Flex combination. My Timex has never been under water, and at this point I wouldn't risk it, so I now pack a backup, a Casio W800H digital (100m water resistance and even cheaper than the Easy Reader) in case my day might involve water or call for a more rugged watch. Like you I prefer analog watches, but you should really consider at least one Casio digital. I recommend the W800 (100m, 10 year battery, about 20 bucks on Amazon). It's a solid choice and a much more rugged field watch than a Timex Expedition.

It kills me when you bubbie-boys decide to go off grid and live under a pile of hubcaps in some forest and tell all of us that your really nice watches are no longer relevant. I just want to throw up! Then you try to convince us that a Citizen is something special. Well, it's not working, Tootlum! You probably are going to burn your wingtips and ties while posting a video of the bonfire.

I regret not buying the Citizen Promaster Tough BNO211. Grrrr🤦‍♂️

For a second, when I saw the thumbnail, I thought I was looking at Alton Brown's horology channel. 😎 Great video! I liked and subscribed. I love and collect mechanical watches, both vintage and modern, but at the low-end because that's what I can afford. That doesn't mean that I dislike quartz. For me, they're for different purposes, like when I traveled overseas on vacation I took a quartz watch so I didn't have to worry about winding it (manual) or having it stop if I didn't wear it for a day or two (auto). I have several Seikos, both modern and vintage, including two quartz which were gifts. I don't have any Citizen watches. That's by happenstance, not design. I've always thought Citizen watches were great! Frankly, I think they're ahead of Seiko when it comes to quartz technology. The quartz watch I'd like to have (the type, don't know the specific models) is a Citizen Eco Drive with radio controlled time setting.

So - how many watches do you have now, in total - ?

I cannot describe my surprise; I own that watch already! It's a little big for my wrist, but you're right it's a great watch. 100% agree about the straps, thank you for including the links!

I wear my Rolex Subby quite a bit. However, I love my Citizen and Bulova too and wear them often.