They believe Yasser Arafat also was poisoned by Po-210. Now who in the world would want to poison Yasser Arafat, especially with a rare non-halal substance?
swatch watches ? LOL what a joke man , and you left out one of the most significant watch brands ever , Timex , oh yeah , you also forgot one the the best time pieces ever made The Ball pocket watch , the pocket watch that changed the U.S rail system for ever . you also showed an Omega moon watch that was made in Switzerland , so not a NASA watch . U.S Astronauts wore the American watch , know the difference ? apparently not , Moon watch worn by NASA men said ( tachometer , not tachymetre , it was a U.S watch ... american made in Ohio.. mr expert LOL
Yes. Bulova is an important part of horological history. Especially with their tuning fork technology which was kind of a precursor to the quartz. I think this was a big thing to miss in the list. I also feel that the Seiko (although mentioned in passing) should have been more important than the GP as being the first quartz watch in commercial production.
True! The Casio Data Bank makes a cameo appearance in the digital lineup at 15:00... I would've killed for a Hughes LED Compu Chron, even though I didn't know what it was at the time. It was the watch worn by Lorne Greene in the Battlestar Galactica TV show of the late 70s. Be careful what you wish for: my parents gave me a Texas Instruments LED watch that Christmas, and I was crushed to discover the thing was useless in daylight!
You must be too young to remember the Bulova Accutron. An engineering marvel. The tuning fork design that did away With the centuries old balance wheel movement.
The Sturmanskie was most certainly the watch Gagarin wore in space. He can be seen wearing it in many pictures before and after the first launch. Sturmanskie and Vostok both have been known for years as watches built like a tank. Ruggedness and reliability are two essential Russian qualities in industrial design.
I own a Sturmanskie … so I like to think it was the actual first watch in space… why not, Yuri Gagarin was not supposed to do anything but just sit there and look around, so they probably didn't question him wearing his watch… I like the idea that he looked at the same brand-icon when he was sitting on top of that rocket in the 60's waiting for the countdown...
@@wristaction what i like about gagarin... all the other candidates for the job of being the first man in space agreed that he should be the one... he seems to have been very amiable... I read somewhere that he called himself the last monkey in space... because he had no controls... he was just a passenger.
Great review, but shame there was no room for Casio's GShock. Which is not my favorite, but it's the most popular for field, police, military, fire and even space exploration
Very informative and thoughtful video. Others say the Omega SMP 2531.80 was the watch that saved Omega. James Bond turned out to be the ideal advertising icon. That said, that is thinking only of one brand name. I believe you have done an excellent job identifying watches that changed the world! Thank you!
Of course, you missed the Bulova Accutron tuning fork watch that dominated from 1960 up to 1976 when Quartz watches took over, The Accutron tuning fork movement was far more accurate than any balance wheel watch and Bulova sold millions of them worldwide!!!
Russian watches are often overlooked or even looked down on. Such a pity since their watch are so sturdy, have anti shock resistance (even in their older movements). They did some wonderful innovations back in the days but have actually stagnated in their innovations. Still good solid watches.
I am glad Casio is mentioned here, as they truly made digital watches attainable for everybody. They are a great company, they have their place in horology. Proudly wearing my GMW-B5000, a true icon.
Absolutely. Most people's entry into watch collecting will be through a Casio, and Casio continues to make desirable and attainable watches today. Appreciate your comment!
Thank you for being so quick and informative! Amazing video. Personally, when there is too much animation/music on presentations it distracts me, this was perfect.
He's talking about what poisoned the Russian, not what was poisonous in the watches. The Russian was not poisoned by radium. He was poisoned by Polonium.
Great informative video. I own several watches from Citizen Eco Drive to Seiko and Casio. I also like Orient watches and own one of their 3 star mechanical watches after viewing several reviews on them and have found them to be very rugged but also accurate mechanical watches, they also produce Solar Powered quartz chronographs which are also very accurate of which I own two of them in the Neo 70's Panda range produced for the Japanese market but are available in the UK if purchased online. Orient are not well known in the UK but they are now owned by Seiko so you can expect good quality timepieces. Thankyou for posting your video. I have now subscribed to your channel. Keep up the good work.
Thanks Ednam. I agree with you about Orient, they make excellent watches. Shame they aren't more widely available in the UK. I looked up the Neo Panda and wow, what a nice looking watch!
The big question with Gagarin is not which watch he wore, but whether he actually went into space at all. He was chosen because he was good PR. He was paraded around BEFORE, as well as of course after the flight. Given how unpredictable the entire space thing was at the time, it was very risky actually sending the poster boy. It’s highly likely someone else actually did the mission touted as the first manned space flight. This begs two more questions: Was that mission actually successful - to the extent that the real cosmonaut survived? Who was he?
Your watch info was good, but you missed the mark pretty badly on other points. Santo-Dumont's 14bis did use wheels, for sure, but as of 1908, no European had flown more than 7 minutes in a heavier-than-air craft, while the Wrights were flying an hour or more and no European was able to control and aircraft in the yaw or roll axes, so they had no true control of their planes. They were still attempting to control their turns with just the rudder and very few had anywhere near enough vertical stabilization. Also, Litvinenko was killed with polonium, not radium. Polonium is second only to uranium hexaflouride in toxicity. Radium does kill, but over several years. Marie Curie died from it, over a 15 year period. You also forgot the invention of the Swiss lever escapement by Thomas Mudge, which almost all modern mechanical watches have used since the 1870s, or the Gruen's safety pinion, which prevented a failed main spring from completely destroying the movement.
Slight detail - I don't think that modern quarts oscillators are at 32768Hz. I think they run slightly higher and use an individually digital programmed counter to remove some counts based upon calibration. That way, in mass production, the frequency could be measured and a digital compensation burned or permanently programmed into a counter to calibrate them instantly after measuring the frequency of the oscillator.
The frequency at which the crystal oscillates depends on its shape, size, and the crystal plane on which the quartz is cut. The positions at which electrodes are placed can slightly change the tuning, as well. If the crystal is accurately shaped and positioned, it will oscillate at a desired frequency. In nearly all quartz watches, the frequency is 32,768 Hz,[1] and the crystal is cut in a small tuning fork shape on a particular crystal plane. This frequency is a power of two (32,768 = 215), just high enough so most people cannot hear it, yet low enough to permit inexpensive counters to derive a 1-second pulse. A 15-bit binary digital counter driven by the frequency will overflow once per second, creating a digital pulse once per second. The pulse-per-second output can be used to drive many kinds of clocks.
Turk If you copy text from Wikipedia you should note the source. And remove references that you are not including (the [1]). Also, you have lost some of the text attributes. 32,768 does not equal 215 obviously, but two to the power of fifteen (2^15).
Thank you for your reply. You are describing a standard crystal watch movement. They were much more accurate than any other self-contained timing method that could be reasonably placed on a wrist-watch. (Edited previous three sentences) However, my current Casio MDV106 lost 3 seconds in 6 months. That is 0.2ppm error. Crystal oscillators can not reasonably be made that accurate just by manufacturing. (mine was not a one-off fluke) Analog calibration could not be made for a watch that is $60 with that accuracy. (there could be some slight tuning adjustment with capacitance but that would be an expensive calibration). For the most effective calibration crystal oscillator, it would be necessary to digitally compensate by a tiny amount. When the early digital movements were made, the counters had to be divide-by-two flip-flops because transistors were expensive so the crystal was a power of 2 to be able to generate second time-base. Now, all you have to do is make the crystal a tiny bit fast, and then use a different counter to subtract a certain number of counts once-in-a-while. That extra counter would not be a divide-by-two counter.
Turk If you don't want to come across as a plagiarizing moron, yes. One that aren't able to proof-read his own stolen content at that, and thus introduces stupid errors.
"ALL" PILOTS WEAR A WATCH ... Common sense tells us the first Russian in space wore a watch, however its condition on its return no one knows ... but it took Omega with the Speedmaster to market & publicize it to Make More Money, something Russians are Not good at ... Don't forget Ingersol's DOLLAR WATCH in the 1900's which made a $ 1.00 watch affordable to countless Americans, & their Popular Mickey Mouse watches thereafter. GREAT REVIEW, Thanks, Major Jim, USMC
All the watches that participated to the western's part of the space race tried to profit from it (with probably the only exception being Heuer, John Glenn's watch in his first orbit). Breitling, Bulova... Omega was the most successful one cause it had been officially selected.
No 1 Harrington, saved countless lives in the age of sail. No 2 Blancpain 50 fathoms, so you don't run out of oxygen in the depth's, as well as being drop dead gorgeous and hand finished still today.
Litvinenko had been killed with Polonium, not Radium. BTW both Gagarin's Sturmanskie and the Speedmaster moonwatches still had radium indexes (in case of Gagarin's watch, cause it was an old piece. Soviet Union already forbidden the use of radium indexes in new watches in 1957, and newer ones used tritium).
If folks want to know more about the impact of radium on dial painters, check out Moore's The Radium Girls. It's a thorough, excellent, and depressing read.
Casio should have had a slot somewhere, with the development of gravitational shock watches, nothing existed like it before the g-shocks came to market.
As 11 I would suggest to take Balls Standard Time watch. It contributed to the safety of the new railways in the 19th century. The watch ist still produced
I had a few of those plastic 80's Swatches. A pop swatch as well. Oh, and a Swatch wall clock, in the shape of a big giant's wristwatch, same black and white design as my wristSwatch too. God, I sound like a tit. I was still only wee, though. And my girlfriend had a small lady sized one, the identical version of mine (we thought it meant kind of a 'thing', hardehar). Bonkers thinking how 'must have' a fashion item they had so many people believing they were. Must have been some serious marketing genius at work there! I always wondered: why that loony proprietary strap fitting design, though. I suppose both to seem like a more secure system than spring bars while, at the same time, it was actually their fly way of building in a 'planned obsolescence' because I'm sure that was what eventually killed mine, when I think about it. If that didn't end them then the browning of the clear jelly parts and the yellowing of the white ones probably sealed the fate of more than a few on their inevitable trip to a thousand landfills. If people wore theirs, that is. There's probably lots that have been lying in drawers, just waiting for the invention of eBay. I thought most of them looked horrible but I was still sucked in. I suppose they really had something for everyone. Maybe everyone thought most of them were horrible. I've really enjoyed this little walk down shit Swatch memory lane. I might even consider getting another. Though why I would think that; I don't even know. Glad I helped save Swiss autos though, even though their current pricing policies are bordering on criminal. Longines just seem to add about £50 a year to even their lowest priced models. Maybe it's more marketing genius of a different kind; keep making them more expensive so that they get more 'luxury' every year. Anyway I am in utter awe of the fact that my Hydroconquest only gains, on average, 4 seconds a day 'dial up' and half a second when worn. A mechanical marvel. Once again a Swatch (well, a 'Swatch group' watch) is one of my most prized possessions only this one I am never going to break. Thank you for your really good, very informative and thought provoking video and god damn that Panerai Luminor! I would never wear one in a million years.
I just aquired a military CYMA Tavannes watch with black display and triangular 12´ index with dots ( B-Uhren type-a inspired ) 36 mm diam. and in very wearable condition (military steampunk kinda vibe) without noticible restoration except the crown wich i suspect it was replaced for civilian use (aviation watches have large unconfortable crowns), i thinck i found a history jewel for 165 buckaroos, what do you think?
They advertised it a lot actually, both for being the watches used in scientific apparatus on satellites and on the Moon, and for being the wirstwatches of many astronauts. Curiously however, the advertising was mainly focused on the "Astronaut" model (used in many pre-Apollo missions) and not on the "Lunar Pilot" (that Dave Scott used in his third EVA on the Moon after his Speedmaster's crystal pop off).
I do believe gagarine, took that watch to espace. I think that he only had that one. And the soviet focus was the space run, not testing things..... and personal objects.
He was a brave fella all right. He had to eject his craft before it crashed to earth because it was not capable of landing, so he had to time his exit just right.
Seriously no japan watches on this list? Japan watches cause the quartz crisis and now every people can have watches because of japan watches, that truly shape the world. And they also produce many hi tech and good quality watches.
This is an excellent, well-researched list for the most part, however making the iconic Speedmaster a mere footnote while listing a Russian watch that you think may have been used in space, but has no documentation regarding its use or whether it performed and survived such a journey is out of line. The Speedmaster is one of the two most iconic watches made, and its documented performance in space is legendary. It is a big part of the reason the crew of the Apollo 13 made it back to earth when their computer system malfunctioned. How could you miss something like this? Leaving out the Speedmaster is a glaring error. I respectfully suggest you edit an otherwise excellent video and correct this mistake. BTW- I don't own a Speedmaster.
I wonder how they verified the Harris clock was accurate to two seconds a day at sea when they had no way to accurately keeping time !! Great bid by the way.
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Correction: Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned by polonium-210
They believe Yasser Arafat also was poisoned by Po-210. Now who in the world would want to poison Yasser Arafat, especially with a rare non-halal substance?
Koyote Kola Putin?
Mossad
swatch watches ? LOL what a joke man , and you left out one of the most significant watch brands ever , Timex , oh yeah , you also forgot one the the best time pieces ever made The Ball pocket watch , the pocket watch that changed the U.S rail system for ever . you also showed an Omega moon watch that was made in Switzerland , so not a NASA watch . U.S Astronauts wore the American watch , know the difference ? apparently not , Moon watch worn by NASA men said ( tachometer , not tachymetre , it was a U.S watch ... american made in Ohio.. mr expert LOL
I think Bulova was missing in your list. Accutron was revolutionary back then. The gemini and Apolo mission used bulova watch.
If you hadn't said it I would have... WHERE'S THE 214????
Yes. Bulova is an important part of horological history. Especially with their tuning fork technology which was kind of a precursor to the quartz. I think this was a big thing to miss in the list. I also feel that the Seiko (although mentioned in passing) should have been more important than the GP as being the first quartz watch in commercial production.
and they had the very first commercial ever.
We’re was the Casio calculator watch??? First watch to help us cheat maths exams
True! The Casio Data Bank makes a cameo appearance in the digital lineup at 15:00... I would've killed for a Hughes LED Compu Chron, even though I didn't know what it was at the time. It was the watch worn by Lorne Greene in the Battlestar Galactica TV show of the late 70s. Be careful what you wish for: my parents gave me a Texas Instruments LED watch that Christmas, and I was crushed to discover the thing was useless in daylight!
What did you use to use to help you cheat on spelling exams?
banquo60615 used ye ma she give me some “private’s”
You must be too young to remember the Bulova Accutron.
An engineering marvel. The tuning fork design that did away
With the centuries old balance wheel movement.
Neat mate, subscribed!
This was enjoyable, and even a nerd like me learned a few new things, great content, and lovely presentation.
The Sturmanskie was most certainly the watch Gagarin wore in space. He can be seen wearing it in many pictures before and after the first launch. Sturmanskie and Vostok both have been known for years as watches built like a tank. Ruggedness and reliability are two essential Russian qualities in industrial design.
Don't confuse "Russian" and "Soviet" words, they have different meanings. Shturmanskie (Штурманские) is the Soviet watch series.
I own a Sturmanskie … so I like to think it was the actual first watch in space… why not, Yuri Gagarin was not supposed to do anything but just sit there and look around, so they probably didn't question him wearing his watch… I like the idea that he looked at the same brand-icon when he was sitting on top of that rocket in the 60's waiting for the countdown...
Gagarin was indeed a brave guy. He had little or no control over his craft. There were also allegedly several failed attempts before him.
@@wristaction what i like about gagarin... all the other candidates for the job of being the first man in space agreed that he should be the one... he seems to have been very amiable...
I read somewhere that he called himself the last monkey in space... because he had no controls... he was just a passenger.
Great review, but shame there was no room for Casio's GShock. Which is not my favorite, but it's the most popular for field, police, military, fire and even space exploration
Good point, I heard that Nasa even use G shock for missions.
Just check the coments my friend
@@wristaction they lessened the requirements for space watches. Astronauts probably like g shocks toughness and less maintenance than a mechanical
You missed Bulova. The watch that actually worked on a space mission. The crystal didn't pop out like the Omega did.
Great video…I appreciate all the research you put into your content?😊
Very informative and thoughtful video. Others say the Omega SMP 2531.80 was the watch that saved Omega. James Bond turned out to be the ideal advertising icon. That said, that is thinking only of one brand name. I believe you have done an excellent job identifying watches that changed the world! Thank you!
Bulova accutron not on there or the speedmaster moonwatch that was worn on the first moon landing, seems a few have been missed
Great video! You deserve more subscribers, so I subscribed...;)
Of course, you missed the Bulova Accutron tuning fork watch that dominated from 1960 up to 1976 when Quartz watches took over, The Accutron tuning fork movement was far more accurate than any balance wheel watch and Bulova sold millions of them worldwide!!!
Bulova Accutron not even metioned...unbelievable!
Sturmanskie is a good watch. Most Russian watches are. I have the same caliber and is very accurate.
I've not had much experience with Russian watches, but I love the look of old Vostok watches.
Why isn't Sturmanskie competing on the world watch market?
Russian watches are often overlooked or even looked down on. Such a pity since their watch are so sturdy, have anti shock resistance (even in their older movements). They did some wonderful innovations back in the days but have actually stagnated in their innovations. Still good solid watches.
@@cedricduyongco I have 3 Vostoks and they are great
Very informative. I watched the full 17 minutes. Thank you for your hard work.
Thanks James. Glad you stuck around till the end.
After reading your comment James, I had to check how long the video was as I had just watched it all. Thank you both! :-)
I am glad Casio is mentioned here, as they truly made digital watches attainable for everybody.
They are a great company, they have their place in horology.
Proudly wearing my GMW-B5000, a true icon.
Absolutely. Most people's entry into watch collecting will be through a Casio, and Casio continues to make desirable and attainable watches today. Appreciate your comment!
Very nice and informative video! Learned a lot.
Hi Miika, I appreciate the comment and thanks for watching.
Thank you for being so quick and informative! Amazing video.
Personally, when there is too much animation/music on presentations it distracts me, this was perfect.
Appreciate the nice comment, and thank you for watching.
All of these timepieces were iconic but the H4 merits a special place.
Great and very informative video!
Outstanding video! Keep up the great work.
Thank you.
Very interesting and informative, thank you, great video !
Really nice video! Not a single second bored ;D
Totally agree with no 1. Without swatch, we will not be talking about mechanical watches today
Great educational video! Thanks for all your efforts.
I live in Biel, the absolute heart of the Swiss watch industry. I love what you’re teaching me about my new home town!
Thanks for watching & commenting Jochem. I appreciate it, you made my day!
Na denn, Gruess us Lyss. :)
rolex movement used in panerai has been originally a cortebert movement... and first dive was omega ;-)
Nice job!
Very very interesting. Answered lots of questions. Thanks
Thanks Alan
The poison was polonium, not radium.
Jeffrey Morrissey i think it is really radium..... i don't think polonium was part of it.
www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/58088.php
radium
He's talking about what poisoned the Russian, not what was poisonous in the watches. The Russian was not poisoned by radium. He was poisoned by Polonium.
@@calt2161 Correct. If the girls were anywhere close to polonium, they would have died within weeks.
Great informative video. I own several watches from Citizen Eco Drive to Seiko and Casio. I also like Orient watches and own one of their 3 star mechanical watches after viewing several reviews on them and have found them to be very rugged but also accurate mechanical watches, they also produce Solar Powered quartz chronographs which are also very accurate of which I own two of them in the Neo 70's Panda range produced for the Japanese market but are available in the UK if purchased online. Orient are not well known in the UK but they are now owned by Seiko so you can expect good quality timepieces. Thankyou for posting your video. I have now subscribed to your channel. Keep up the good work.
Thanks Ednam. I agree with you about Orient, they make excellent watches. Shame they aren't more widely available in the UK. I looked up the Neo Panda and wow, what a nice looking watch!
Great video, thank you.
Thanks for sharing this historical information. Love hearing background on some famous horology.
Thanks for watching & commenting - appreciate it.
The big question with Gagarin is not which watch he wore, but whether he actually went into space at all.
He was chosen because he was good PR. He was paraded around BEFORE, as well as of course after the flight. Given how unpredictable the entire space thing was at the time, it was very risky actually sending the poster boy.
It’s highly likely someone else actually did the mission touted as the first manned space flight.
This begs two more questions:
Was that mission actually successful - to the extent that the real cosmonaut survived?
Who was he?
Great video with some surprises. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks!
Sturmanskie honoured, bravo ! I would only add the first watch in outer space , Strela, handwound chronograph.
Your telling me the Omega isn't in the top ten madness my friend
Watch the coments and tell me??
Glycine Airman? First GMT watch!
Great Video, but at 10:01 this is Valentina Tereshkov the first woman in space, she wore the same watch like Juri Gagarin
Great work, well done, cheers
Thanks George
I had a black resin Texas Instruments red digits digital watch in 1977 when I was a kid, what an awesome feat of a watch it was back then.
That's awesome Mario. I'm guessing that it was one with an LED display and that you had to press a button to show the time?
Nice video, thanks....yes I think the Sturmanskie you have featured is pretty widely accepted as the type Gagarin used
Thank you so much for including quartz.
Agree, 99% of watch channels only talk about mechanical analogue watches.
Your watch info was good, but you missed the mark pretty badly on other points. Santo-Dumont's 14bis did use wheels, for sure, but as of 1908, no European had flown more than 7 minutes in a heavier-than-air craft, while the Wrights were flying an hour or more and no European was able to control and aircraft in the yaw or roll axes, so they had no true control of their planes. They were still attempting to control their turns with just the rudder and very few had anywhere near enough vertical stabilization.
Also, Litvinenko was killed with polonium, not radium. Polonium is second only to uranium hexaflouride in toxicity. Radium does kill, but over several years. Marie Curie died from it, over a 15 year period.
You also forgot the invention of the Swiss lever escapement by Thomas Mudge, which almost all modern mechanical watches have used since the 1870s, or the Gruen's safety pinion, which prevented a failed main spring from completely destroying the movement.
Thanks for the comment Timberwolf
Slight detail - I don't think that modern quarts oscillators are at 32768Hz. I think they run slightly higher and use an individually digital programmed counter to remove some counts based upon calibration. That way, in mass production, the frequency could be measured and a digital compensation burned or permanently programmed into a counter to calibrate them instantly after measuring the frequency of the oscillator.
The frequency at which the crystal oscillates depends on its shape, size, and the crystal plane on which the quartz is cut. The positions at which electrodes are placed can slightly change the tuning, as well. If the crystal is accurately shaped and positioned, it will oscillate at a desired frequency. In nearly all quartz watches, the frequency is 32,768 Hz,[1] and the crystal is cut in a small tuning fork shape on a particular crystal plane. This frequency is a power of two (32,768 = 215), just high enough so most people cannot hear it, yet low enough to permit inexpensive counters to derive a 1-second pulse. A 15-bit binary digital counter driven by the frequency will overflow once per second, creating a digital pulse once per second. The pulse-per-second output can be used to drive many kinds of clocks.
Turk If you copy text from Wikipedia you should note the source. And remove references that you are not including (the [1]). Also, you have lost some of the text attributes. 32,768 does not equal 215 obviously, but two to the power of fifteen (2^15).
I should, should I? LOL
Thank you for your reply. You are describing a standard crystal watch movement. They were much more accurate than any other self-contained timing method that could be reasonably placed on a wrist-watch. (Edited previous three sentences)
However, my current Casio MDV106 lost 3 seconds in 6 months. That is 0.2ppm error. Crystal oscillators can not reasonably be made that accurate just by manufacturing. (mine was not a one-off fluke)
Analog calibration could not be made for a watch that is $60 with that accuracy. (there could be some slight tuning adjustment with capacitance but that would be an expensive calibration).
For the most effective calibration crystal oscillator, it would be necessary to digitally compensate by a tiny amount.
When the early digital movements were made, the counters had to be divide-by-two flip-flops because transistors were expensive so the crystal was a power of 2 to be able to generate second time-base.
Now, all you have to do is make the crystal a tiny bit fast, and then use a different counter to subtract a certain number of counts once-in-a-while. That extra counter would not be a divide-by-two counter.
Turk If you don't want to come across as a plagiarizing moron, yes. One that aren't able to proof-read his own stolen content at that, and thus introduces stupid errors.
"ALL" PILOTS WEAR A WATCH ... Common sense tells us the first Russian in space wore a watch, however its condition on its return no one knows ... but it took Omega with the Speedmaster to market & publicize it to Make More Money, something Russians are Not good at ... Don't forget Ingersol's DOLLAR WATCH in the 1900's which made a $ 1.00 watch affordable to countless Americans, & their Popular Mickey Mouse watches thereafter. GREAT REVIEW, Thanks, Major Jim, USMC
All the watches that participated to the western's part of the space race tried to profit from it (with probably the only exception being Heuer, John Glenn's watch in his first orbit). Breitling, Bulova... Omega was the most successful one cause it had been officially selected.
Great video!
Thank you Torgeir
A lot of information, tnks and regards!
Enjoyed your informative video.
Thank you. Much obliged.
Very informative!
I'd say the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak should be there as it saved the mechanical watch industry (at least in part).
Cool video!
Thanks Sebasitaan!
Del Boy and Rodney had one of #10. Lovely Jubbly!
I love watches. I love the fact they brought up Napoleon sister in this.💚
Interesting video, thanks. May I suggest the use of a pop filter or windscreen on your microphone to furter enhance your sound? Good luck!
thanks for the suggestions - apreciate it
No 1 Harrington, saved countless lives in the age of sail. No 2 Blancpain 50 fathoms, so you don't run out of oxygen in the depth's, as well as being drop dead gorgeous and hand finished still today.
Great program. I agree with your selection.
Thanks for watching & commenting Eric.
Litvinenko had been killed with Polonium, not Radium. BTW both Gagarin's Sturmanskie and the Speedmaster moonwatches still had radium indexes (in case of Gagarin's watch, cause it was an old piece. Soviet Union already forbidden the use of radium indexes in new watches in 1957, and newer ones used tritium).
Thoroughly enjoyed that. Thanks
Thanks for watching & commenting Laurence. You made my day!
That was an awesome ride my friend.
Thanks
Good video . Most people do not know a thing about the quartz crisis .
very interesting. thank you!
I forgot to mention, I've still got my 1977 Pulsar P3. It's in the box. Haven't worn it for 36 years.
Omega speed master spent million of dollars to develop it? It wasn't developed for space travel.
I dont know much about watches... but i know that You are gooood. Thanks
Thanks for watching Badi and I appreciate you commenting. As if my head wasn't big enough!
Why did you show a picture of cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova when talking about Yuri Gagarin ?.
never knew about the 1926 rolex oyster being the first waterproof watch
It is all about Swiss watches. G shock should be one of it.
So only 539 subscribers?
You deserve many more!
Not a word about Peter Petroff, the inventor of modern watches (Pulsar) :)
If folks want to know more about the impact of radium on dial painters, check out Moore's The Radium Girls. It's a thorough, excellent, and depressing read.
Casio should have had a slot somewhere, with the development of gravitational shock watches, nothing existed like it before the g-shocks came to market.
Casio is mentioned, but not G-Shock specifically.
As 11 I would suggest to take Balls Standard Time watch. It contributed to the safety of the new railways in the 19th century. The watch ist still produced
I had a few of those plastic 80's Swatches. A pop swatch as well. Oh, and a Swatch wall clock, in the shape of a big giant's wristwatch, same black and white design as my wristSwatch too. God, I sound like a tit. I was still only wee, though. And my girlfriend had a small lady sized one, the identical version of mine (we thought it meant kind of a 'thing', hardehar). Bonkers thinking how 'must have' a fashion item they had so many people believing they were. Must have been some serious marketing genius at work there! I always wondered: why that loony proprietary strap fitting design, though. I suppose both to seem like a more secure system than spring bars while, at the same time, it was actually their fly way of building in a 'planned obsolescence' because I'm sure that was what eventually killed mine, when I think about it. If that didn't end them then the browning of the clear jelly parts and the yellowing of the white ones probably sealed the fate of more than a few on their inevitable trip to a thousand landfills. If people wore theirs, that is. There's probably lots that have been lying in drawers, just waiting for the invention of eBay. I thought most of them looked horrible but I was still sucked in. I suppose they really had something for everyone. Maybe everyone thought most of them were horrible. I've really enjoyed this little walk down shit Swatch memory lane. I might even consider getting another. Though why I would think that; I don't even know. Glad I helped save Swiss autos though, even though their current pricing policies are bordering on criminal. Longines just seem to add about £50 a year to even their lowest priced models. Maybe it's more marketing genius of a different kind; keep making them more expensive so that they get more 'luxury' every year. Anyway I am in utter awe of the fact that my Hydroconquest only gains, on average, 4 seconds a day 'dial up' and half a second when worn. A mechanical marvel. Once again a Swatch (well, a 'Swatch group' watch) is one of my most prized possessions only this one I am never going to break. Thank you for your really good, very informative and thought provoking video and god damn that Panerai Luminor! I would never wear one in a million years.
Longines Hydroconquest. lovely looking watch with well thought out crown guards, and great bang for your buck.
I just aquired a military CYMA Tavannes watch with black display and triangular 12´ index with dots ( B-Uhren type-a inspired ) 36 mm diam. and in very wearable condition (military steampunk kinda vibe) without noticible restoration except the crown wich i suspect it was replaced for civilian use (aviation watches have large unconfortable crowns), i thinck i found a history jewel for 165 buckaroos, what do you think?
This is great!
Nice and very informative video, too bad the sound is awful, which makes it hard to enjoy
A great article.
Thanks for watching Rob.
Seiko 6139 or Pogue. The first AUTOMATIC chronograph in space. Omega was a manual chronograph
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They advertised it a lot actually, both for being the watches used in scientific apparatus on satellites and on the Moon, and for being the wirstwatches of many astronauts. Curiously however, the advertising was mainly focused on the "Astronaut" model (used in many pre-Apollo missions) and not on the "Lunar Pilot" (that Dave Scott used in his third EVA on the Moon after his Speedmaster's crystal pop off).
I do believe gagarine, took that watch to espace. I think that he only had that one. And the soviet focus was the space run, not testing things..... and personal objects.
He was a brave fella all right. He had to eject his craft before it crashed to earth because it was not
capable of landing, so he had to time his exit just right.
Hallo... nice video...
Thanks!
Panerai watches have massive history
Even so; I find them ghastly. They look like cheap kitchen clocks to me, lol.
Subbed. Now yer 4 digits. So what about Timex the only watch anyone had in the 60's 'Takes a lickin' & keeps on tickin'.
Thanks Jeremy. Agreed, Timex makes great watches
I had an all white swatch back in the 80s. It was rad. Looked like disco dust.
Seriously no japan watches on this list? Japan watches cause the quartz crisis and now every people can have watches because of japan watches, that truly shape the world. And they also produce many hi tech and good quality watches.
Seiko Astron :) Content creator is a fucking Swiss snob
wrong GP did which is a swiss company
He named Seiko and Casio.
Although you'd have a job getting it on your wrist, I'd perhaps start with the 15th century clock in Salisbury Cathedral.
Great feat of mechanical engineering that one.
I would add India's HMT watches. They made watches affordable for India's people of most income levels, and have become a subculture of their own.
In that case, have you seen my tribute to HMT?
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Two big one missing. The Submariner and the Speedmaster.
My great uncle was one of the British equivalents of the Italian mini sub saboteurs. He evaded capture by hiding in the Vatican.
Fascinating video
Thanks Tayyab
WHERE IS THE WATCH THAT CHRISTOPHER WALKEN IN PULP FICTION GAVE TO THE LITTLE MAN BRUCE WILLIS ???
lol. Maybe he put it back into it's hiding place.
Yes polonium was used to kill the Russian spy not radium but the rest of your comments about radium were correct.
very good
Thanks Manny
Riley Perez wore the submariner watch in interview
This is an excellent, well-researched list for the most part, however making the iconic Speedmaster a mere footnote while listing a Russian watch that you think may have been used in space, but has no documentation regarding its use or whether it performed and survived such a journey is out of line. The Speedmaster is one of the two most iconic watches made, and its documented performance in space is legendary. It is a big part of the reason the crew of the Apollo 13 made it back to earth when their computer system malfunctioned. How could you miss something like this? Leaving out the Speedmaster is a glaring error. I respectfully suggest you edit an otherwise excellent video and correct this mistake. BTW- I don't own a Speedmaster.
I wonder how they verified the Harris clock was accurate to two seconds a day at sea when they had no way to accurately keeping time !! Great bid by the way.
Thanks for watching & commenting Jerry. Appreciate it!
Maybe they divided the number of days at sea by seconds out on arrival in port?
Jerry Mcloughlin The master clocks were regulated by the stars , I highly recommend the book LONGITUDE ..Dava Sobel
Jerry Mcloughlin or even the film LONGITUDE
@@adrianthomas4660 thanks Adrian I'll look it up
I appreciate you appear a watch obsessive but not one of the watches you mention shaped the world in even the slightest way.