Only one girl ever spotted my watch in Fayetteville Arkansas. She noticed the IWC logo and said “that’s a really nice brand!” I thanked her and ordered my food. I doubt anyone will ever do that again.
I had someone who I knew in passing at my golf club ask me if my Rolex YM was real. Cheeky git! My car however gets regular comments out & about, especially at petrol stations. It's a 2023 RS5 Vorsprung coupe ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Goofball Andrew tried to pretend he was doing a critique of the Tissot only. Instead he did one of his typical lists of watches he didn’t like. Of course, his panting butt lickers swooned over another of his vapid videos.
"it's only £5000" - how true is that!!!!! Getting into watches is just an endless procession of 'take my money'. A great hobby, but looking at people's wrists is a sign of addiction! I am addicted!
"You'll lose half in the divorce anyway".... and there it is my friends, tell your significant other that it's all cheap Chinese fakes, you'll thank me later.
I got an Armitron Griffy the other day and saw that the caseback proudly said it's water resistant to 165 feet, sounds so much better than 50 metres for some reason
I definitely fit on this channel. And not just because I like watches. This week at work someone said to me "it looked like you were going to say something profound" I replied "oh yes, Mariana Trench". They didn't get it. I need Andrew in the office.
"There is no purpose in life, we are all just clumps of dust fused together for a bit and then we die" - Thank you Andy, you'd make a great motivational speaker.
I wish I saw number 1 about 15 months ago. Especially since that 1st watch is in my collection. And “only $5000(American) is unfortunately now in my vocabulary 9:12 😂😂. “Get away from me you smell like old biscuits. Wait, is that a Breitling?” 😂😂😂 13:36 I lost it 😂😂😂
Loved this video. Perfectly explains my addiction to the watch skeptical, and also explains my collection to the watch afficionado. I only hoped you mentioned PCAT/eco-drive in the quartz section. My PCAT does a lot that my mechanical watches can't. Quartz is definitely valid for function and complication, even through the tick of diminished novelty. Cheers.
My biggest piece of advice is to not let anyone bully you out of going for a badass dressy diver and wearing it whenever you want including with a suit. People wear apple watches to black tie events, you can wear your Sub. And yes you can even wear your Tudor Pelagos FXD with a suit, no one will bat an eye.
As the owner of a Speedy reduced for 20 years, believe me when I tell you I really felt that "local watchmaker runs for the hills when you tell them what you've got... and you still have to find the parts". The pain is real.
Same. When I smashed my white dial Speedy Reduced Omega said it was so old they had to send it back to Switzerland for repair and it would take 3 months. I needed a watch I decided to get one with a different colour dial so I bought a blue dial Planet Ocean. Then, after the watch came back, I decided I needed a watch without a numbered bezel, so I bought a blue dial Aqua Terra because I now love blue dials. Then I decided I needed a black dial watch so I bought a Rolex Explorer. If only I hadn’t smashed my Speedy…
@@ianforber Yeah, Omega service is something else... I sent them mine once, bezel had popped off. Took them 6 months to fix and send back, 6 months. To put a bezel back on. Not long after that, I sent it in for service, they wanted to charge me more than I had paid for the watch brand new, claimed I NEEDED to change the sapphire glass (in perfect condition) AND bracelet, told them I only wanted them to service the movement, they told me "i didn't get to choose what was serviced" that it had to either agree to everything or refuse the service entirely. So I sent it one more time, different Omega service center. They quoted me for half the amount of the first quote... didn't even mention the sapphire or bracelet. This only made me trust Omega service even less. Ever since that day, when I need it serviced, I just buy a movement on ebay and have a local watchmaker service it.
Agreed. Concerning cost of servicing, I paid $63 for a new in the box Omega Seamaster 120 in Switzerland in 1971. Now Omega will no longer provide parts to independent watchmakers. Last I checked the price, service at an Omega authorized service center is $1200 plus parts. If they even have the parts. It's on display in my watch box and I wear Citizen, Seiko, or Casio. I find myself wearing the $70 Casio Wavecepter Tough Solar ani-digi the most. The time is always spot on and it's a good kitchen timer.
The Apple Watch was what got me interested in watches. I’ve always had fossil watches growing up. But the Apple watch lead me down the TH-cam channel of watch repair and enjoyment. So now I have a Marathon quartz and Apple watch. With the gumption of learning to repair my old broken fossils.
Pressure in water is not just the hydrostatic pressure, but when in motion, the dynamic pressure. Just like the Bernouli phenomenon that causes the flow of air over a wing to lift a jumbo; moving your arms in the water will subject your watch to pressure greater (and lesser) than the depth the watch is at. That's why there is an ISO standard for dive watches that seems overkill given the depths most recreational divers reach.
It depends on the depth and the water, I’ll try and model it for salt water and 40 metres (normal limit for recreational diving) but I won’t be able to account for the shape of the watch. Give me a couple of days.
Thank you! You just talked me out of buying that Chopard I’ve been lusting after. In hindsight, who would be fool enough to drop that kind of cash? I think I’ll get a Citizen and donate the balance to widows and orphans. Thank you for talking some sense into me!
The thing with water resistance is it's never about the watch being crushed at 51 meters if it's only rated at 50. It's the gaskets at the crown, backplate or buttons if it has them. And even then it's not like you have to actually DIVE to 50 meters to experience 5 Bar water pressure. Just washing hands CAN compromise weaker gaskets, I googled standard tap water pressure in my country, Average is 3-4 BAR but you can find 5-6 Bar of water pressure coming out of your TAP at home. Riding a jetski, and falling off, hitting the water at xx MPH? Guess what that can be quite the pressure if it hits your watch at the right angle. Or getting hit by a 2 meter wave when in the sea swimming. Just a few examples
Love the writing, hilarious as always whilst being informative. The "taking someones joy" in this world is so true and I think its got to do with poor values. Some ppl dun get how much joy you get from giving joy to someone else and longer lasting joy for that matter. Taking joy is a side effect of anger and misery in a self perpetuating cycle.
"...screwed worse than a rounded phillips head." Another thought-provoking video peppered with a few good laughs. Pretty important information for the poor sot just getting into the hobby. Thank you Andrew!!
I think your channel is the best at least regarding your jokes! The best script ;) Great! ❤ But I am trying my best with my own videos, at least the first one!
You are funny, I wear sometimes a ten pound watch which I enjoy, and sometimes i wear my Seiko from 1970 what I had for my 10th birthday which still looks great and keeps time well
Regarding finance... just got a Sinn EZM 3F....50% down, 50% finance at 0% over a year... Agree with you. Sometimes it's really just okay. Chill out guys .... let me be more specific - chill out, guys on line 😊
did the box the speedmaster comes in change (shrink) over the past few years? it used to come in a huge box with all sorts of accessories, but pictures i see nowadays seems like they've downsized a bit?
I bought that Hoffman that featured on one of your previous videos. 50 metres water resistance, also has a screwdown crown... I might wear it in the rain one day.
I’ve wondered about WR too. Last year my 30m Casio F91 accidentally went through a full laundry cycle. Been swimming and hot tubbing with it since. Wondering if same for all my many others.
Mate those colors worse shade of yellow and puke tone of red are like dragging sandpaper over my eyes every time it appears on screen. It super clashes with your cool tone video filter. You gotta change those brand colors. They are hublo of brand colours
My watch was purchased 2 years ago from MAMACOO and, to this day, it still looks and runs as well as it did the day it arrived. That movement has never missed a beat despite never having been serviced. I can't complain about that.
Me trying to convince myself, my partner, my parents that my watch buying and trading hobby is just for investment purposes, knowing in the back of my mind that it is just an excuse to buy more expensive watches. Also, each time I buy an expensive watch, it's always the last watch I would ever buy till the next one comes along.
5:58 50m is NOT safe for swimming. The water resistance number assumes gradual increase in static pressure, not slamming a watch into water like you do when you swim a front crawl.
The depth confusion comes from static vs mobile usage. A watch that is marked at 50m is rated for a static 50m of pressure. But if you swim with it, the pressure on the watch as you move your arms through the water can increase significantly, and you’re now dealing with more than a static 50m rating. As it’s impossible to predict how someone will move / use / swim with a watch, they always quote the static pressure. But to swim safely, the 50m is on the cusp, it’s probably ok if you use it in the bath lol.
Brass Vostok Komandirskies are rated at 20 metres. As long as you screw down the crown and the gaskets are good you can swim, shower and wash your hands however you want. Same gaskets, crown etc. as the 200m rated Amphibia just a thinner back.
My favorite 2024 is the Prospex Limited Edition 1965 Recreation European Exclusive in Gradation Island Blue. The dial is stunning and the contrast when on a white strap is to die for. I will get my hands on one from MAMACOO
What an honest refreshing vlog, i was looking to buy either a green faced Patek Philippe Aquanuat or Nautilus, after watching this vlog i thought F it, i,ll but a house and make money. Juhaptergee
Not to mention "Swiss made" these days means "partially assembled in Switzerland from parts made and also assembled on the cheap in nations with fewer concerns about health and safety".
Hey Andrew you’re so correct about everything you have said here about watches. I’m guilty as charged as I have over 70 watches of all types models metals from as low is 3k to 200k. I’m not sure if there’s a fix for this. Keep up with these great videos. Cheers 🥂
About that 50m / 5ATM / 5BAR designation: The best way to define this is “casual swimming.” And what is “casual swimming”? Simple. People who don’t go to a swimming pool more than once a week, who usually stay in the shallow end to splash around with their kids, who don’t use the diving board, who dog paddle, who like to wade in the beach or just cool off. That’s the sort of folk who can wear a 5ATM-rated watch without worrying about it. OTOH: if you swim as a regular form of exercise, if you indulge in water polo or like to dive off the diving board more than once a week, then a watch with 10ATM is more up your speed. If you want to wear a watch in a hot tub / jacuzzi, then a G-Shock or an ISO-6425-rated dive watch is recommended because they’re known to withstand high water temperatures.
People say the Apple Watch isn’t a watch because it’s better described as a white good, or a portable electronic device, than a “timepiece”. We have categories for a reason.
My swimming pool has a magical portal which transports me to the Mariana Trench. This, is why a 50m watch is questionable for me. The portal works on random, and hence I bought a 300m diver to swim in my pms’ing pool 💯
Every time I watch one of your videos, my sides hurt for hours from laughing so hard! Your narrative is nothing short of brilliant. Never stop making videos. 😂
Now I know that worrying about dying while wearing a good watch (or at least a non-embarrassing watch), is a false value. :) But I would probably get into watch collecting, if the only alternative was getting up close and personal with alligators.
I've recently began my obsession as a watch collector. And i must say- out of all the luxury brands I've been researching, for me the AMZWATCH's watches are the most intriguing.
May sound Impossible nowadays, but my grandfather actually owned one watch his entire life. By the time I got it, it had its case exchanged for that of a different model and its dial wiped clean
You will break a 50 metre watch by swimming with it, in the pool...as the physical pressure you create by jumping in the pool, or even the action of swimming with it, could easily pop open the crown or pop the back off...or overload the water resistance.
From practical experience I KNOW that sort of use won't let water into a Vostok Komandirskie rated at 20 metres waterproof according to the back of my brass one.
I choose automatics because I have had so many quartz watches and the batteries dying or going bad destroying the internals. I want a spring drive, but they are not in my price range, so...regular Seikos and Orients are where I like to be. Looking to pick up the red faced Kamasu next. I keep wincing when you or any other watch guy says "it's a really affordable choice at $X,XXX."
I own 5 quartz watches and 4 of them are from the early 80s and late 80s. I never had a problem with the batteries and all of them have their original movement's
Blimey !!!! Deeeep Andrew , DEEEEP !!!! A thought full collection this week !!! Still , it adds depth and a certain gravity to the book - baggsies !!!! L gooru 🎉
Love your last point about never needs to worry about a watch collection growing too big, because by that time, your wife will divorce you and take half of them away. So, when my wife asks me why I want to buy another watch as I already have too many, I’ll ask her whether she is planning to divorce me. If she says no, then my watch collection is obvious not too big yet. If she says yes, then I better buy two because she is going to take one away from me anyway.
3:04 From Malaysia (Penang), awesome that you mention Kuala Lumpur. “Unhealthy obsession with other man’s wrists” is very true too 😂 Love your contents since from “the talking hands”.
you know what's weird? watching 20 minutes of jewelry ads, interrupted by youtube ads, and listening to a guy say bad advice is actually bad advice, and everyone but me is making money because of it.
Someone was talking to me about watches the other day. They said that "some people" even pay 100's of pounds for a watch!!!! I had my £1200 squale on... said nothing.... and yes, I trembled( at the cost) when buying my Khaki Field... now it's my cheapest Swiss Watch lol
Only one girl ever spotted my watch in Fayetteville Arkansas. She noticed the IWC logo and said “that’s a really nice brand!” I thanked her and ordered my food. I doubt anyone will ever do that again.
Yeah, I've never had someone say that's a nice watch (at least that i can remember). I suspect you're one up on most of us.
The brand I am thinking about. 😆
I had someone who I knew in passing at my golf club ask me if my Rolex YM was real. Cheeky git! My car however gets regular comments out & about, especially at petrol stations. It's a 2023 RS5 Vorsprung coupe ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@ph8077 Maybe you should wear your 2023 RS5 Vorsprung coupe on your wrist. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Once in 20 years. ONCE. ffs!
I work a miserable job (A&E) and this gave me a smile on the way home. Thanks Andrew.
Whatever job you do in A&E, hats off to you. Saving lives ❤
Plot twist: he meant the TV station.
Goofball Andrew tried to pretend he was doing a critique of the Tissot only. Instead he did one of his typical lists of watches he didn’t like. Of course, his panting butt lickers swooned over another of his vapid videos.
Still, by far, the best watch channel!
Absolutely.
One million percent!
Best watch TH-camr yes, but I miss the macro shots from WF&Co
With all due respect, the second best. We all know da real MVP.
Without a doubt 🤣
Nico Leonard will be watching all of his videos like I am.
Andrew's commentary is both insightful amd hilarious. And he keeps going too. Great video!
oh, it's only $5500? That's cheap! Also me refusing to get guacamole at chipoltes because it's extra $3.50
Amen brother
😂😂😂 we’ve all the same illness
😂😂 same…. and then I complain they charged me for an extra fries I didn’t have … for £3.99 😂😂
Yeah, because 1000 meals without guacamole would get you an Omega... the new denomination is not dollars, it's watches in your mind.
Or if I walk to work 3500 times instead of taking a buss, it will get me a Daytona.
Andrew, honestly your videos are like getting a cup of coffee in the morning.
What, they make you sh!t too?
@@hazbeen101currently reading this comment on the toilet
@@jamied931 It's been three days, you ok?
This guy never misses lmao
"it's only £5000" - how true is that!!!!! Getting into watches is just an endless procession of 'take my money'. A great hobby, but looking at people's wrists is a sign of addiction! I am addicted!
I had a "one watch collection" when I was 12.
I have a one car collection.
I have a one house collection
i didn't realize I had a unhealthy obsession with men's wrists until you said it out loud... admitting it is the first step to recovery
I felt ashamed 😂 when I heard him say that. Guilty as Charged
Sorry mate, it's terminal, no known cure.
Acceptance is the final step in realizing it isn't going to change.
"no-one's really sure about 50m..." 😂 that really tickled me😁
"clumps of dust, fused together for a bit, and then we die"... The lesser known follow-up to the Moby hit "We're all made of stars".
A ghost living inside a badly fitting meat sack....
Absolutely one of the best comedy monologues of all-time! I almost wet myself with the "lose half in the divorce" line. 🤣
Thank you, Sir!
"You'll lose half in the divorce anyway".... and there it is my friends, tell your significant other that it's all cheap Chinese fakes, you'll thank me later.
Please publish a book with all of your sayings
Better yet, Andrew is funny enough on video to try standup comedy! Maybe the FIRST watch joke comedian?
I got an Armitron Griffy the other day and saw that the caseback proudly said it's water resistant to 165 feet, sounds so much better than 50 metres for some reason
Yeah, I got a Stuhrling "dive" watch, rated for 330 ft water resistance. It's Chinese, I'm not sure why they don't use metric.
I definitely fit on this channel. And not just because I like watches. This week at work someone said to me "it looked like you were going to say something profound" I replied "oh yes, Mariana Trench". They didn't get it. I need Andrew in the office.
"There is no purpose in life, we are all just clumps of dust fused together for a bit and then we die" - Thank you Andy, you'd make a great motivational speaker.
“Hey Siri, what time is it on Mars?”
which city? LOL
I wish I saw number 1 about 15 months ago.
Especially since that 1st watch is in my collection. And “only $5000(American) is unfortunately now in my vocabulary
9:12 😂😂. “Get away from me you smell like old biscuits. Wait, is that a Breitling?” 😂😂😂
13:36 I lost it 😂😂😂
The San Francisco dig is hilarious and entirely deserved, bonus for being surprisingly up to speed on the goings-on over here from across the pond.
"...buy watches however you want to, and to tell anyone who suggests to find out if 50 meters is a long way down" made blow my coffee out of my nose
Loved this video. Perfectly explains my addiction to the watch skeptical, and also explains my collection to the watch afficionado.
I only hoped you mentioned PCAT/eco-drive in the quartz section. My PCAT does a lot that my mechanical watches can't. Quartz is definitely valid for function and complication, even through the tick of diminished novelty.
Cheers.
Lol .. how right you are .. "ONLY £5000" how many times has that been said !!
And that's just by me !
GREAT thumbnail engineering. Every Tissot owner and every enthusiast who is considering the PRX clicked on this. I have the blue dial chrono btw.
My biggest piece of advice is to not let anyone bully you out of going for a badass dressy diver and wearing it whenever you want including with a suit. People wear apple watches to black tie events, you can wear your Sub. And yes you can even wear your Tudor Pelagos FXD with a suit, no one will bat an eye.
As the owner of a Speedy reduced for 20 years, believe me when I tell you I really felt that "local watchmaker runs for the hills when you tell them what you've got... and you still have to find the parts".
The pain is real.
Same. When I smashed my white dial Speedy Reduced Omega said it was so old they had to send it back to Switzerland for repair and it would take 3 months. I needed a watch I decided to get one with a different colour dial so I bought a blue dial Planet Ocean. Then, after the watch came back, I decided I needed a watch without a numbered bezel, so I bought a blue dial Aqua Terra because I now love blue dials. Then I decided I needed a black dial watch so I bought a Rolex Explorer. If only I hadn’t smashed my Speedy…
@@ianforber Yeah, Omega service is something else...
I sent them mine once, bezel had popped off. Took them 6 months to fix and send back,
6 months.
To put a bezel back on.
Not long after that, I sent it in for service, they wanted to charge me more than I had paid for the watch brand new, claimed I NEEDED to change the sapphire glass (in perfect condition) AND bracelet, told them I only wanted them to service the movement, they told me "i didn't get to choose what was serviced" that it had to either agree to everything or refuse the service entirely.
So I sent it one more time, different Omega service center. They quoted me for half the amount of the first quote... didn't even mention the sapphire or bracelet.
This only made me trust Omega service even less.
Ever since that day, when I need it serviced, I just buy a movement on ebay and have a local watchmaker service it.
Getting my studio underdog watermelon watch delivered tomorrow! So excited Andrew. I took your advice and pulled the trigger 7 months ago
Congratulations!
Agreed. Concerning cost of servicing, I paid $63 for a new in the box Omega Seamaster 120 in Switzerland in 1971. Now Omega will no longer provide parts to independent watchmakers. Last I checked the price, service at an Omega authorized service center is $1200 plus parts. If they even have the parts. It's on display in my watch box and I wear Citizen, Seiko, or Casio. I find myself wearing the $70 Casio Wavecepter Tough Solar ani-digi the most. The time is always spot on and it's a good kitchen timer.
The Apple Watch was what got me interested in watches. I’ve always had fossil watches growing up. But the Apple watch lead me down the TH-cam channel of watch repair and enjoyment. So now I have a Marathon quartz and Apple watch. With the gumption of learning to repair my old broken fossils.
You will jump the shark, friend. You will go into ever- more expensive mechanical watches.
@@eu7435 ha! Well played
i love your sense of humor. i'm hooked on watches big time and have way to many thanks for the laugh
Pressure in water is not just the hydrostatic pressure, but when in motion, the dynamic pressure. Just like the Bernouli phenomenon that causes the flow of air over a wing to lift a jumbo; moving your arms in the water will subject your watch to pressure greater (and lesser) than the depth the watch is at. That's why there is an ISO standard for dive watches that seems overkill given the depths most recreational divers reach.
Out of interest have you done the calculations to understand the velocity required to make this significant?
It depends on the depth and the water, I’ll try and model it for salt water and 40 metres (normal limit for recreational diving) but I won’t be able to account for the shape of the watch. Give me a couple of days.
Thank you! You just talked me out of buying that Chopard I’ve been lusting after. In hindsight, who would be fool enough to drop that kind of cash? I think I’ll get a Citizen and donate the balance to widows and orphans. Thank you for talking some sense into me!
Wow, best one yet and, ?’self’ deprecating humour aside, the advice is absolutely spot on, as always. Keep it up!
I wear my 2000m watch when rain is forecasted. Started as a joke, but became an actual thing I do (as a running joke).
An Omega Seamaster 300 "Great White" is a very fine watch for actually diving.
Always does amazing videos. Awesome sense of humor and spot on with his point of view
The thing with water resistance is it's never about the watch being crushed at 51 meters if it's only rated at 50. It's the gaskets at the crown, backplate or buttons if it has them. And even then it's not like you have to actually DIVE to 50 meters to experience 5 Bar water pressure. Just washing hands CAN compromise weaker gaskets, I googled standard tap water pressure in my country, Average is 3-4 BAR but you can find 5-6 Bar of water pressure coming out of your TAP at home.
Riding a jetski, and falling off, hitting the water at xx MPH? Guess what that can be quite the pressure if it hits your watch at the right angle. Or getting hit by a 2 meter wave when in the sea swimming. Just a few examples
5 bar is 40m depth. 4*1atm per 10 m plus 1atm at surface
Love the writing, hilarious as always whilst being informative. The "taking someones joy" in this world is so true and I think its got to do with poor values. Some ppl dun get how much joy you get from giving joy to someone else and longer lasting joy for that matter. Taking joy is a side effect of anger and misery in a self perpetuating cycle.
A refreshing perspective ! Thanks that was fun !
Farting on an old lady you’ve pushed down the stairs…
I am getting some very smart ideas watching this channel 😂
Thanks for reminding us just how unserious this "hobby" is.
"...screwed worse than a rounded phillips head." Another thought-provoking video peppered with a few good laughs. Pretty important information for the poor sot just getting into the hobby. Thank you Andrew!!
I think I've come to the realization that Andrew is my favorite comedian. Watch reviews are a close second to his humor.
The commentary is😂! Love your videos
I think your channel is the best at least regarding your jokes! The best script ;) Great! ❤
But I am trying my best with my own videos, at least the first one!
Spitting facts 1:10 I'm ashamed to admit I said "Oh only 6 thousand Euro" at a Hermes boutique trying the H08 😂
You are funny, I wear sometimes a ten pound watch which I enjoy, and sometimes i wear my Seiko from 1970 what I had for my 10th birthday which still looks great and keeps time well
Regarding finance... just got a Sinn EZM 3F....50% down, 50% finance at 0% over a year...
Agree with you. Sometimes it's really just okay. Chill out guys .... let me be more specific - chill out, guys on line 😊
did the box the speedmaster comes in change (shrink) over the past few years? it used to come in a huge box with all sorts of accessories, but pictures i see nowadays seems like they've downsized a bit?
I bought that Hoffman that featured on one of your previous videos. 50 metres water resistance, also has a screwdown crown... I might wear it in the rain one day.
would you mind keeping on listing the mentioned watches' names in the description?☺️
Another Witty and excellent 20.42 ! Andrew ,Tim Mosso and Archie Horological super group?
I’ve wondered about WR too. Last year my 30m Casio F91 accidentally went through a full laundry cycle. Been swimming and hot tubbing with it since. Wondering if same for all my many others.
Mate those colors worse shade of yellow and puke tone of red are like dragging sandpaper over my eyes every time it appears on screen.
It super clashes with your cool tone video filter. You gotta change those brand colors. They are hublo of brand colours
My watch was purchased 2 years ago from MAMACOO and, to this day, it still looks and runs as well as it did the day it arrived. That movement has never missed a beat despite never having been serviced. I can't complain about that.
The writing in this channel is truly superb. The jokes are top notch👍
I’ve got to wear a watch, because I despise my mobile phone which is permanently switched off!
Me trying to convince myself, my partner, my parents that my watch buying and trading hobby is just for investment purposes, knowing in the back of my mind that it is just an excuse to buy more expensive watches. Also, each time I buy an expensive watch, it's always the last watch I would ever buy till the next one comes along.
Hilarious yet insightful! Well done 🥃
This is the best video I've seen all day! I'm going to put a Tudor North Flag on AfterPay right now!
5:58 50m is NOT safe for swimming. The water resistance number assumes gradual increase in static pressure, not slamming a watch into water like you do when you swim a front crawl.
What a load of rubbish
The depth confusion comes from static vs mobile usage. A watch that is marked at 50m is rated for a static 50m of pressure.
But if you swim with it, the pressure on the watch as you move your arms through the water can increase significantly, and you’re now dealing with more than a static 50m rating.
As it’s impossible to predict how someone will move / use / swim with a watch, they always quote the static pressure.
But to swim safely, the 50m is on the cusp, it’s probably ok if you use it in the bath lol.
Is the dynamic pressure of a casual swimmer at surface level really more than 50m of static water? Seems unlikely!
Swam a lot with our Casio 30m back in the 80s jumping diving etc. Never failed. I think it's the value of the watch that makes it panic worthy 😅
@@AndrewMorganWatches Water coming out of your home faucet can be 5 Bar... Or somewhat higher
Brass Vostok Komandirskies are rated at 20 metres. As long as you screw down the crown and the gaskets are good you can swim, shower and wash your hands however you want. Same gaskets, crown etc. as the 200m rated Amphibia just a thinner back.
Should be prescribed viewing for anyone getting into watches.
As a Malaysian (Penang) TH-camr, Its appreciated that you mentioned our Capital city =D
I'll share this video in my fb haha
Absolutely the only watch content needed, from anywhere.
My favorite 2024 is the Prospex Limited Edition 1965 Recreation European Exclusive in Gradation Island Blue. The dial is stunning and the contrast when on a white strap is to die for. I will get my hands on one from MAMACOO
What an honest refreshing vlog, i was looking to buy either a green faced Patek Philippe Aquanuat or Nautilus, after watching this vlog i thought F it, i,ll but a house and make money. Juhaptergee
Not to mention "Swiss made" these days means "partially assembled in Switzerland from parts made and also assembled on the cheap in nations with fewer concerns about health and safety".
Hey Andrew you’re so correct about everything you have said here about watches. I’m guilty as charged as I have over 70 watches of all types models metals from as low is 3k to 200k. I’m not sure if there’s a fix for this. Keep up with these great videos. Cheers 🥂
About that 50m / 5ATM / 5BAR designation:
The best way to define this is “casual swimming.”
And what is “casual swimming”?
Simple. People who don’t go to a swimming pool more than once a week, who usually stay in the shallow end to splash around with their kids, who don’t use the diving board, who dog paddle, who like to wade in the beach or just cool off. That’s the sort of folk who can wear a 5ATM-rated watch without worrying about it.
OTOH: if you swim as a regular form of exercise, if you indulge in water polo or like to dive off the diving board more than once a week, then a watch with 10ATM is more up your speed. If you want to wear a watch in a hot tub / jacuzzi, then a G-Shock or an ISO-6425-rated dive watch is recommended because they’re known to withstand high water temperatures.
Or a Vostok Komandirskie. As it's rated to 2 atmospheres it will tolerate all that swimming and hot water. You might have to change the strap though🤣
I like the watch I got from MAMACOO. That rubber strap combo looks really cool! Been wearing it since last year and love every minute of it.
People say the Apple Watch isn’t a watch because it’s better described as a white good, or a portable electronic device, than a “timepiece”. We have categories for a reason.
My swimming pool has a magical portal which transports me to the Mariana Trench. This, is why a 50m watch is questionable for me. The portal works on random, and hence I bought a 300m diver to swim in my pms’ing pool 💯
I like Longines big eye. But I struggled which is only 30 m water resist. And I am not dive. Am I an idiot?
Every time I watch one of your videos, my sides hurt for hours from laughing so hard! Your narrative is nothing short of brilliant. Never stop making videos. 😂
Now I know that worrying about dying while wearing a good watch (or at least a non-embarrassing watch), is a false value. :)
But I would probably get into watch collecting, if the only alternative was getting up close and personal with alligators.
I've recently began my obsession as a watch collector. And i must say- out of all the luxury brands I've been researching, for me the AMZWATCH's watches are the most intriguing.
Greeting from Kuala Lumpur 😂❤
KL dengan mars jugak dia sebut bro 😆😆
What time is it there?
As always wonderful advice👍🏻😁
I would buy an AliExpress homage watch that had "Pilchard Bill" on the dial
I don't own a car or my own property but I'll be regularly musing " hey, that's only 5k?"😂
May sound Impossible nowadays, but my grandfather actually owned one watch his entire life. By the time I got it, it had its case exchanged for that of a different model and its dial wiped clean
Brilliant video!
You will break a 50 metre watch by swimming with it, in the pool...as the physical pressure you create by jumping in the pool, or even the action of swimming with it, could easily pop open the crown or pop the back off...or overload the water resistance.
From practical experience I KNOW that sort of use won't let water into a Vostok Komandirskie rated at 20 metres waterproof according to the back of my brass one.
Thank you for discouraging the gatekeepers of the web regarding size and quartz!
Ha ha brilliant! And now with saucy, sassy finance ideas! Actually, I should look into some insurance, good shout. Cheers, Andrew!
Funny how never having or needing a watch before wasn't a problem but now I have 15- 20. It's absolutely a psychological problem.
I've financed two watches for zero percent interest. Sometimes the deal comes up when you are still saving.
And by the time you have saved the price has gone up 10%
A water resistant watch is tested at rated depths for only 10 minutes. So what happens if you swim 11 minutes? No one really knows for certain.
The Water Police will arrest you and sell your children to Poseidon.
I choose automatics because I have had so many quartz watches and the batteries dying or going bad destroying the internals. I want a spring drive, but they are not in my price range, so...regular Seikos and Orients are where I like to be. Looking to pick up the red faced Kamasu next. I keep wincing when you or any other watch guy says "it's a really affordable choice at $X,XXX."
I daily the red dial Kamasu. It’s good, but the bracelet’s not. I got a black strap with red stitching for it.
I own 5 quartz watches and 4 of them are from the early 80s and late 80s. I never had a problem with the batteries and all of them have their original movement's
Thank you Andrew.
Blimey !!!! Deeeep Andrew , DEEEEP !!!! A thought full collection this week !!! Still , it adds depth and a certain gravity to the book - baggsies !!!! L gooru 🎉
Love your last point about never needs to worry about a watch collection growing too big, because by that time, your wife will divorce you and take half of them away. So, when my wife asks me why I want to buy another watch as I already have too many, I’ll ask her whether she is planning to divorce me. If she says no, then my watch collection is obvious not too big yet. If she says yes, then I better buy two because she is going to take one away from me anyway.
Andrew has that wonderful and rare ability to tell someone to go to hell, and make them look forward to the trip!
3:04 From Malaysia (Penang), awesome that you mention Kuala Lumpur. “Unhealthy obsession with other man’s wrists” is very true too 😂
Love your contents since from “the talking hands”.
The “puff of Moebius 9010” reference was a solid one lol
Love your stuff bud, even a decade later!
you know what's weird? watching 20 minutes of jewelry ads, interrupted by youtube ads, and listening to a guy say bad advice is actually bad advice, and everyone but me is making money because of it.
Someone was talking to me about watches the other day. They said that "some people" even pay 100's of pounds for a watch!!!! I had my £1200 squale on... said nothing.... and yes, I trembled( at the cost) when buying my Khaki Field... now it's my cheapest Swiss Watch lol