Thanks for having me on James, what an awesome cast and I'm so honoured to be on with some heavy hitters in the watch world!! Such a great video, some great stories and pieces 👌🏾
This is an amazing concept James! Listening to all of the testimonies from these awesome creators/enthusiasts was inspiring. In addition, you've opened the door to new channels for me to watch! Thanks again James.
Thank you so much for having me James! Now that I see the whole video I'm honoured to be a guest among such exalted company 😁. Have a lovely Holiday season
This presentation was much better than I expected. I loved the variety and the back stories. And the question asked inspired some introspection of my own collection. Thanks James.
Awesome watch Travis and thank you for your Service. That was a nice piece. It was a lot of heat in this video. Great video of amazing time pieces. I just subscribed. Great job James
Thanks for the great video. You featured some of my favorite content creators. I’ve only be collecting for about three years now, and the most important one (not my favorite) is the first watch I bought. It’s just a simple Seiko (SZSB015), but it got me started on this hobby. The reason is a lot more complicated than that, but that’s the simple answer. Thanks again!
What a great idea, James. My most important watch in my collection is a pocket watch. My dad gave it to me 2 months before he passed away last year. It belonged to my grandfather. It's a 1912 Longines. She is still working properly. Keep up the good work. Merry Christmas to you and to all your family. Cheers from Montreal.
I’m sorry for your loss. I lost my mother this year and know how special it can be to have something from them. And doubly nice that it is now multi generational
Nice choice James, the Longines Hydro conquest is a great self choice. Mine is the Bulova Sea King on a nice orange rubber and black sail cloth matching strap. It's chunky, has the great hi-beat quartz movement, built like a Abrahams tank. I hike, swim and play sports with it. Great to see the special watches to those across the community and each has a special story. Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Definitely one of your best videos ever James, so great to hear from all of these amazing content creators/collectors and some bloody fantastic watches as well, and your remarks regarding myself, very humbled, and I’m equally grateful for your friendship and for the connection we have made doing this hobby. God bless m8 and thanks for another great one
Fantastic video, what a great concept. Really enjoyed seeing the what members of the watch broadcast community have as their most important time pieces. Om torn on mine, so doing 2, an old seko kinetic that i wore on my wedding dsy and a longines hydroconquest that i got for my 30years service award. Thanks James.
Your best segment to date and what a guest list! You can tell a man by the company he keeps for sure. My most important watch is the Bulova Hack 98A355. My late father was issued a Bulova while in the Navy during the early 1950s. We share the same birthday (Dec 13th) and every year I wear this reference in his honor.
My 22 year old Tissot PRS200 in two-tone, bought for me by my dear old mum back in 2003 and still looks incredible. Also my Prometheus Recon-5 I bought on preorder back in 2010. I limited run of 500 and I chose number 26 as my wife is born on the 2nd and I’m on the 6th, also the 26th is my daughter’s birthdate.
So awesome to see some many of my favorite creators in on place My most important watch may be my 90's neo-vintage Bulova Marine Star 100m two tone. This 38mm blue dial beauty was given to me by my late father after I graduated high school
Great video James! Easy, my Casio DW5600C from 1992. First really serious watch I owned and wore it continuously for years. Got thrashed hard with 20 years painting and plastering and finally 4 bezels and a strap replacement later I have retired it from work. Still going strong and candle light still works as well. Been with me 30+ years through thick and thin. Cheers 😎
James's, with your special guests, this is the best review of the year. It was such an easy question, but the answers were so varied. Mine is my scooby doo watch i was given as a kid for my birthday, i still have it, and i treasure it more than all of my watches i own.
Thank you. I am so happy with this one. One of my favorites I’ve made. So nice to have that connection to a watch and especially nice to have kept one from childhood.
This is truly wonderful, James. All your collaborators are brilliant (even Jody, who pushed me down this rabbit hole about five years ago!). My most important watch from 50 + in the collection is a Citizen automatic - only which was a birthday present from my Mum in 1992. Bashed to bits and sorely in need of a service, but so many memories; I will always love it. All the very best to you, yours and our fellow watch nerds (blast you, Jody!). Cheers!
Love this video James! My most important watch for me is the vintage Rado Purple Horse that I bought for myself two years ago now. It was my first Swiss watch, and it came to signify my success after a rough time that was COVID. I wore it on special and very significant events in my life, most recently my cousin’s wedding last week. It’s still part of my rotation piece alongside my other important watch - the Bulova 23. That watch was important because it came to signify someone else’s success through its engraving at the case back from the mid-1950s, and I also wear that on special occasions. I remember depleting what’s left of my savings to get that watch 😅 But it was worth it in the end.
Explorer 40 is pretty important to me too as I have committed to wearing/bashing/traveling with it the most, and living a further 10 years to have it serviced/re finished. Great video James. Well done on all the TH-camr inputs, thanks for this years content, looking forward to 2025's adventures ; )
Hello James. Another great video. What a question! You're at your best when you go off piste (ie not just a watch review) and, in an increasingly crowded market, you manage to create original and thought provoking content. Hats off to you for that. Keep on keeping on.
Outstanding, James! This is probably my favorite video of the entire year. So many of my favorite watch people on the same video. Such a great video at the end of 2024.
Mine is my 1972 (birth-year) Syncron period Doxa SUB 300T Professional. When I was 13 years of age I read about Clive Cussler hero, Dirk Pit, and his ‘orange faced Doxa watch’, and I was smitten. I had to wait 25-years before I could buy one which has been with me since 2010.
I had a 750T right back in the day when the zombie-brand first set up early naughties but it didn’t cut it for me - it had to be an original. When shopping for the reissues there’s so much to choose from - limited this and that so it’s a bit of a head spinner. Dive over to Dr Pete McLean Miller who is the literary guru on all things Doxa. As well as printed, he’s provided a number of books / resources which are free to download. Best of luck James.
Hi, James. I really enjoyed this collaborative video with other creators, many of whom I also watch. You introduced me to some creators I hadn't met previously. Happy Holidays to you and your family!
Awesome video, James! I have two watches that are equally important to me: My first watch…a mechanical Snoopy & the Red Baron Timex that my parents bought me in the late ‘70s. My TAG Heuer 2000 auto that I bought new in ‘04…it was my first nice watch & I bought it when I was in the Air Force. It was on my wrist when I got married & when both my boys were born.
Norman (from killing time) is a funny man. I like his taste also. Smaller, vintage or vintage style my cuppa tea. John is always a pleasure to listen to. Great to see some presenters im familair with and some new faces . Thanks for the vid.
Amazing video!!! I’d have to say my most important watch is my Smiths Everest PRS-25 with the aventurine dial. It’s the watch that I wear the most with ppl that I love. Cheers!
As soon as I saw this title, it got me thinking of my own collection. For me it has to be my Casio DBC-611 calculator watch. As a child my father had a Casio DBC 610 that I used to love playing around with. We would also watch James Bond films together and between the cool gadget watches in those movies as well as my own father's cool gadget watch, my lifelong love of watches has continued to this day. While my father's original watch is long gone, I had to get the DBC-611 reissue as soon as it was available. It is not my favorite and only a few dollars away from being the least expensive watch in my collection, but by a large margin is my most important.
My most important watch is my GW-M5610 G-shock, by far. Even though it doesn't have the most sentimental value - not by a long shot (hell, I got it on a sale!). Nor is it the most impressive as a piece of horology. But it _is_ the one I find easiest to reach for every single day. If I have to work on a train, it just makes sense. If I'm in the office, it just makes sense. Going camping? Bring the G-shock. Travelling abroad? Bring the G-shock. It's so reliably set-and-forget, that I find myself having to make up excuses to use the other watches in my very small collection (just 6 watches, and nothing over £2000). For me, it is the Toyota Corolla of watches.
Cool topic. Love it. Made me think of the same. For me it`s my grail watch. My Omega Seamaster 300 co-axial. Lost both my parents within the last 4 years. Bought it with my modest inheritance. Have worked in a watchstore for 22 years (untill 2012) and have sold a LOT of watches. (Not in that pricerange) Always loved when people came in the store with their Omegas (when they where quarts) to get the battery changed. Have wanted the seamaster for about 30 years. And my parents made it possible. And I bought it from one of my old friends and former collegue who now work at a Omega dealer. 🙂
It’s an amazing watch and nice that you can have that link to your parents with it now. I have a watch like that too. When I wear it I often say “thanks Mum”
Great video James. Very hard question, but probably my favourite watch is the one given to me for my 60th birthday, last month. The latest Adina Amphibian with dark green dial. Very similar green to the Omega Seamaster 300. Just in love with it. Hope my other watches don’t find out about this. Great vid.
Great question for a video. My most important watch in my collection is my Rolex Submariner 16610 but not for the reason you might think. I was really into vintage pocket watches but wanted a vintage wrist watch but could not risk the money as I was not in a high paying job so I decided to start selling on eBay as it is in my mind found money. I started and doing very well thinking I could buy something more. After a few months I sold enough of my old junk to pay for a Rolex something I thought I would never be able to do. It was the most fun I had trying to purchase a watch. Coincidently, having retired recently, I did it again this time for a Tudor BB 54. Same price I paid for the Rolex.
It’s a great way of doing it. I’ve done the same a couple of times. When I started TH-cam I did a big sale of lots of random things. This helped me afford to buy some watches and gear to kick off the channel.
@@WATCHingJames I love vintage watches and when I saw this with the all the original parts and movement from 1965, I had to buy it, albeit for £1100! It is the reference 166.009 and I managed to regulate it to about +20 secs a day
Cool video, nice to see what the participants got to show. Tudor BB58 for the win 🎉🎉 Love that Mark’s father Rolex DJ. What a coincidence with Olivier, San Martin 👏👏 That Hydroconquest is the best Swiss diver for the price IMO James 👌🏼👌🏼
Great stuff! I’d have to say my Dufrane Littlefield GMT is my most important watch. Far from my first or most expensive. My wife really encouraged me to purchase it and up to that point I had zero interest in “tool” watches. It has become my daily driver and opened me up to appreciating a whole new group of watches.
My grandfather's bog standard Caravelle pocket watch. I keep it on the same braided leather fob he used and everytime I hold it i see him pulling it out of his overall chest pocket and saying, 'well Rusty, how about we go down the road and see what we can get into.' RIP Papaw.
Really interesting question and cool concept for a collaboration. Not for the first time you've made me think about this thing we do from a new perspective - I hesitate to call it a "hobby" after your "is it a hobby?" video. Great to see some collaborators I'm familiar with and to be introduced to a few I wasn't.
Picking up my FXD MN21 was pretty important too. Went to the London with my oldest buddy to pick up the only MN21 my new AD buddy got in (No favours, I was just first). We all went out on the Raz afterwards and I remember that day fondly like it was yesterday.
My most important watch after about 1.5 years of collecting is the boderry bronze case sea turtle limited edition. This is because it was my gateway into watches (and my first automatic watch).
San Martin and Seagull making the list! It is truly amazing how well (some) Chinese watches are made. At a fraction of the cost of their luxury counterparts
I guess it's my new Longines Annual Calendar, because it is the most complicated complication that I own and is the most useful complication you can have (if you value a date, if not it's a dive bezel). It is also the only complication I have 'grailed'. It makes proper use of the watch winder that gathers dust looking pretty on my desk, and so I see (interact with) it everyday.
@@WATCHingJames thanks for the video and exposing me to some new faces, although it does mean now I'm going to lose even more of my time to the interweb 🫣🫡😂
My first time seeing your videos, I’m now a sub to your channel 😊 I have many watches but top three would be 1. Tudor BB 58, first proper AD purchase, 2 my late fathers Seiko 5, reminds me of him when i wear it, and latest purchase of a Seiko SLA051, following this would be the watches my wonderful partner has purchased for me as gifts since i started down this watch rabbit hole.
My girlfriend gave me a Farr and Swit Northside edition for my 50th birthday. It has a map of wrigleyville on the dial. I grew up going to Chicago Cubs games and those are some of my best childhood memories so it just makes me happy to see that and remember how cool it was. Best present I ever got.
This was a great video and great question to ask… I honestly wouldn’t know how to answer right away, but the first watch in my mind was my Seiko Alpinist 1959 - a gift from my wife to my 35th birthday and watch I absolutely love… but… hell I don’t know 😂
At the 22 minute and 48 second mark of this video in the top right hand corner is a RED WATCH , would love to know what it is. My favourite watch has to be the Erebus Ascent Deep Purple Fume as it reminds me of the band Deep Purple and the australian chocolate Turkish Delight colour of the wrapper and also it is the colour of Royalty. Old sayings come to mind , like "Bred in the Purple " which means top class heritage and also if your having a wining streak at anything it is said you are having a Purple Patch .Since I received it, I have rarely taken it off my wrist .It has tones of the Omega Aqua Terra and on a Jubilee bracelet it just Pop's.
Easy, I have six different Seikos, I have Tudor monochrome, I have Omega Seamaster but only watch that I'm not gonna sale in any price is Moonswatch Mercury. I wore that when my son born and that is my priceless treasure
Most important watch in my collection is my Seiko Presage Cocktail Time “Grasshopper”. Open heart green dial. My mum got it for me when I graduated from my pharmacy degree, and was about to leave my home city for the first time to move to Emerald in Central QLD to do my internship year. Green dial, Emerald, it was symbolic, also it was my third attempt at a uni degree and after 9 years in total at Uni, it was a bit of a joke in the family that I’d never get a degree. So yeah, that’s mine.
My ratings for these selections (substitutions for names when not discernable. My primary criterion is not the aspects of the watch but the personal stories. Jody - B (too much uncertainty) Mark - A Overtime - A Bianca - C San Martin - C+ John - C+ Glycine - B+ Norman - D - Chris - B Sophie - A Esbjorn - A Andres - D James - A
The tiger watch from mr jones. Promise of happiness i think. My mother bought it for me randomly in 2021 after showing it to her not sure if i should buy it. She passed away in march 2023 so it means alot.
With the mention of Mark at Long Island Watches 200+ watch collection.....how are those of you with sizeable collections storing your watches? Are there some good watch boxes out there that hold a lot? DIY solution?
Great video, great question. Mine is my G-SHOCK GBA 900 Series. Solar, 200m WR, world times, loads of alarms, with the brilliant auto wrist roll backlight, But also atomic clock, accurate to +/- 1second every 10000 years. So I used it to set all my other watches, as well as it being able to handle anything my job throws at it. Yes I have some lovely watches, but that Gshock outperforms all my other watches combined
I have 2 that share the most important watch in my collection. 1. Timex Ironman Triathlon from the 1990s which my grandparents got me as my first watch. 2. Phoibos Wave Master Gen 1 that an ex got me, it was my first automatic watch
I'd have a hard time choosing. Do I select the first watch I ever got? The first watch i ever personally bought with my own money? Or do I choose the first watch I bought when I really got into watch collecting? I have connections with a lot of my watches and choosing one is impossible.
Thanks for inviting me James and sorry I ducked the question 😂 some great creators here, some great answers, and some great watches!
Thanks for making the time to shoot for these smaller channels. Big fan of both of you 🤘
I do not think you ducked it. You gave your mast importance collection. 👍
@@JustOneMoreWatch I wouldn't consider that a ducked question. You definitely displayed some tremendously important pieces! 💯
I’m surprised more did not do the same. Hahahahaha. Thank you so much again for being part of this one.
Spoken like a father! Nice job ;)
Thanks for allowing me to share! Happy holidays!
Thank you so much for being part of this one.
Great to see an array of different choices and the reasons why they were chosen..Thanks James. I really enjoyed taking part buddy 🤗
Thank you so much mate for being part of this one.
How are you, John? That watch was just amazing. I’ll have to get me one. I was happy to see you on James’ video. I am a subscriber to both of you.
Thanks so much for taking the time to make this. So happy to be a part of it. Some great answers here ❤❤❤
Thank you for being part of it.
Thanks for having me on James, what an awesome cast and I'm so honoured to be on with some heavy hitters in the watch world!!
Such a great video, some great stories and pieces 👌🏾
It was fantastic to have you be involved
It's great to finally put a face to the name. Love the podcast, mate.
I am so excited to release this collaboration with some of my favorite content creators.
Thanks for the opportunity, the video is cool and entertaining 👏👏
This is an amazing concept James! Listening to all of the testimonies from these awesome creators/enthusiasts was inspiring. In addition, you've opened the door to new channels for me to watch! Thanks again James.
I was excited to see you included here, the watch you had was amazing.
@megasoid appreciate you
Thank you again for being part of this one.
You said it man!
Thank you so much for having me James! Now that I see the whole video I'm honoured to be a guest among such exalted company 😁. Have a lovely Holiday season
I was so excited to have you involved in this one. Thanks again.
This presentation was much better than I expected. I loved the variety and the back stories. And the question asked inspired some introspection of my own collection. Thanks James.
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Awesome watch Travis and thank you for your Service. That was a nice piece. It was a lot of heat in this video. Great video of amazing time pieces. I just subscribed. Great job James
@@METEANDI right on bro!
Thank you so much. I really enjoyed putting this one together and seeing all the different watches and reasoning for the choices.
Thanks for the great video. You featured some of my favorite content creators. I’ve only be collecting for about three years now, and the most important one (not my favorite) is the first watch I bought. It’s just a simple Seiko (SZSB015), but it got me started on this hobby. The reason is a lot more complicated than that, but that’s the simple answer. Thanks again!
They can sometimes have complicated stories. I am thinking of making a dedicated video talking about the stories attached to my watches.
What a great idea, James. My most important watch in my collection is a pocket watch. My dad gave it to me 2 months before he passed away last year. It belonged to my grandfather. It's a 1912 Longines. She is still working properly. Keep up the good work. Merry Christmas to you and to all your family. Cheers from Montreal.
I’m sorry for your loss. I lost my mother this year and know how special it can be to have something from them.
And doubly nice that it is now multi generational
@@WATCHingJames My sympathies.
Fantastic video James and a great selection of creators, watches and stories!
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Nice choice James, the Longines Hydro conquest is a great self choice. Mine is the Bulova Sea King on a nice orange rubber and black sail cloth matching strap. It's chunky, has the great hi-beat quartz movement, built like a Abrahams tank. I hike, swim and play sports with it.
Great to see the special watches to those across the community and each has a special story. Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Thank you very much. Same to you. Enjoy the holiday season.
Definitely one of your best videos ever James, so great to hear from all of these amazing content creators/collectors and some bloody fantastic watches as well, and your remarks regarding myself, very humbled, and I’m equally grateful for your friendship and for the connection we have made doing this hobby. God bless m8 and thanks for another great one
Thanks mate and thank you for being a part of this one.
Fantastic video, what a great concept. Really enjoyed seeing the what members of the watch broadcast community have as their most important time pieces. Om torn on mine, so doing 2, an old seko kinetic that i wore on my wedding dsy and a longines hydroconquest that i got for my 30years service award. Thanks James.
That’s great to hear. I love how we have these connections with certain watches.
James, your WISE video earned you another subscriber.
Thank you. I was wearing all day today. I really enjoy having it.
Thanks James!!! My wife and I have matching Excitons that we wore when we were married.
Oh wow. Thats cool
Your best segment to date and what a guest list! You can tell a man by the company he keeps for sure. My most important watch is the Bulova Hack 98A355. My late father was issued a Bulova while in the Navy during the early 1950s. We share the same birthday (Dec 13th) and every year I wear this reference in his honor.
Thank you so much and wow what a great watch and connection to the watch too.
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My 22 year old Tissot PRS200 in two-tone, bought for me by my dear old mum back in 2003 and still looks incredible. Also my Prometheus Recon-5 I bought on preorder back in 2010. I limited run of 500 and I chose number 26 as my wife is born on the 2nd and I’m on the 6th, also the 26th is my daughter’s birthdate.
I love that and also very cool watches. Thanks for WATCHing
Thx for this content. Get going 🚀
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So awesome to see some many of my favorite creators in on place
My most important watch may be my 90's neo-vintage Bulova Marine Star 100m two tone. This 38mm blue dial beauty was given to me by my late father after I graduated high school
I love hearing about the stories behind the watches.
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Great video James! Easy, my Casio DW5600C from 1992. First really serious watch I owned and wore it continuously for years. Got thrashed hard with 20 years painting and plastering and finally 4 bezels and a strap replacement later I have retired it from work. Still going strong and candle light still works as well. Been with me 30+ years through thick and thin. Cheers 😎
That’s fantastic to hear. They really can take a beating.
Very enjoyable video. Thanks, James!
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Such an awesome collection of watch people banded around this video, well done James!! Great stories and excellent watches.
Thank you very much. I loved putting this one together.
This was my favorite watch video this year. That was a great question, and I enjoyed hearing the answers
Thank you very much. It’s been my favorite video to put together this year.
James's, with your special guests, this is the best review of the year. It was such an easy question, but the answers were so varied. Mine is my scooby doo watch i was given as a kid for my birthday, i still have it, and i treasure it more than all of my watches i own.
Thank you. I am so happy with this one. One of my favorites I’ve made.
So nice to have that connection to a watch and especially nice to have kept one from childhood.
This is truly wonderful, James. All your collaborators are brilliant (even Jody, who pushed me down this rabbit hole about five years ago!).
My most important watch from 50 + in the collection is a Citizen automatic - only which was a birthday present from my Mum in 1992. Bashed to bits and sorely in need of a service, but so many memories; I will always love it.
All the very best to you, yours and our fellow watch nerds (blast you, Jody!). Cheers!
I have many purchases I could blame Jody for too hahahahahaha
Love this video James!
My most important watch for me is the vintage Rado Purple Horse that I bought for myself two years ago now. It was my first Swiss watch, and it came to signify my success after a rough time that was COVID. I wore it on special and very significant events in my life, most recently my cousin’s wedding last week. It’s still part of my rotation piece alongside my other important watch - the Bulova 23. That watch was important because it came to signify someone else’s success through its engraving at the case back from the mid-1950s, and I also wear that on special occasions. I remember depleting what’s left of my savings to get that watch 😅 But it was worth it in the end.
An incredible watch. I adore my vintage golden horse.
Explorer 40 is pretty important to me too as I have committed to wearing/bashing/traveling with it the most, and living a further 10 years to have it serviced/re finished.
Great video James. Well done on all the TH-camr inputs, thanks for this years content, looking forward to 2025's adventures ; )
Thank you very much. I’m excited about what 2025 will bring.
good video... love the Savage Sword on display in the background
One of my prized possessions. Took me a long time to find. Ended up finding it in a random comic shop in the USA when visiting years ago.
Hello James. Another great video. What a question! You're at your best when you go off piste (ie not just a watch review) and, in an increasingly crowded market, you manage to create original and thought provoking content. Hats off to you for that. Keep on keeping on.
Thank you very much. I enjoy making these videos. Nice to mix up the types of watch content too.
Outstanding, James! This is probably my favorite video of the entire year. So many of my favorite watch people on the same video. Such a great video at the end of 2024.
Thank you so much. It has definitely been my favorite I’ve made.
I hope to do more like this in the future.
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What a collection of awesome people and watch lovers. Hope you all have a great festive season!
Thank you. It was a fun video to put together
25:31 this is the winner 🏅 great reaction from your friends
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Such an amazing video. I'm honored to be a part of it. Thanks so much James! Have an amazing Holiday! 🍸🍸
Thank you so much for being part of this one.
Mine is my 1972 (birth-year) Syncron period Doxa SUB 300T Professional. When I was 13 years of age I read about Clive Cussler hero, Dirk Pit, and his ‘orange faced Doxa watch’, and I was smitten. I had to wait 25-years before I could buy one which has been with me since 2010.
All hail the king of orange watches!
I’ve been eyeing some Doxas recently. Love the idea of having one. And of course it would also have to be orange.
I had a 750T right back in the day when the zombie-brand first set up early naughties but it didn’t cut it for me - it had to be an original. When shopping for the reissues there’s so much to choose from - limited this and that so it’s a bit of a head spinner. Dive over to Dr Pete McLean Miller who is the literary guru on all things Doxa. As well as printed, he’s provided a number of books / resources which are free to download. Best of luck James.
Great video, really enjoyed the selections and the stories behind them.
Thank you. I really enjoyed putting this one together
Hi, James. I really enjoyed this collaborative video with other creators, many of whom I also watch. You introduced me to some creators I hadn't met previously. Happy Holidays to you and your family!
Thank you very much. I really enjoyed putting this one together.
Awesome video, James! I have two watches that are equally important to me:
My first watch…a mechanical Snoopy & the Red Baron Timex that my parents bought me in the late ‘70s.
My TAG Heuer 2000 auto that I bought new in ‘04…it was my first nice watch & I bought it when I was in the Air Force. It was on my wrist when I got married & when both my boys were born.
It is so nice to have those stories and connections with the watches we love to wear. Thanks for WATCHing
Brilliant episode James ,very interesting to see all those connections, cheers
Thank you. I really enjoyed putting this one together
Norman (from killing time) is a funny man. I like his taste also.
Smaller, vintage or vintage style my cuppa tea.
John is always a pleasure to listen to.
Great to see some presenters im familair with and some new faces .
Thanks for the vid.
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Amazing video!!! I’d have to say my most important watch is my Smiths Everest PRS-25 with the aventurine dial. It’s the watch that I wear the most with ppl that I love. Cheers!
I’ve been very tempted to get one of those. So hard not pressing that buy it now button sometimes.
🎁Awesome video James and everyone who contributed, happy holidays to you and all you watch people.🎁
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As soon as I saw this title, it got me thinking of my own collection. For me it has to be my Casio DBC-611 calculator watch. As a child my father had a Casio DBC 610 that I used to love playing around with. We would also watch James Bond films together and between the cool gadget watches in those movies as well as my own father's cool gadget watch, my lifelong love of watches has continued to this day. While my father's original watch is long gone, I had to get the DBC-611 reissue as soon as it was available. It is not my favorite and only a few dollars away from being the least expensive watch in my collection, but by a large margin is my most important.
That’s a great watch to have that connection with.
My most important watch is my GW-M5610 G-shock, by far.
Even though it doesn't have the most sentimental value - not by a long shot (hell, I got it on a sale!). Nor is it the most impressive as a piece of horology. But it _is_ the one I find easiest to reach for every single day.
If I have to work on a train, it just makes sense. If I'm in the office, it just makes sense. Going camping? Bring the G-shock. Travelling abroad? Bring the G-shock.
It's so reliably set-and-forget, that I find myself having to make up excuses to use the other watches in my very small collection (just 6 watches, and nothing over £2000).
For me, it is the Toyota Corolla of watches.
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Cool topic. Love it. Made me think of the same. For me it`s my grail watch. My Omega Seamaster 300 co-axial. Lost both my parents within the last 4 years. Bought it with my modest inheritance. Have worked in a watchstore for 22 years (untill 2012) and have sold a LOT of watches. (Not in that pricerange) Always loved when people came in the store with their Omegas (when they where quarts) to get the battery changed. Have wanted the seamaster for about 30 years. And my parents made it possible. And I bought it from one of my old friends and former collegue who now work at a Omega dealer. 🙂
It’s an amazing watch and nice that you can have that link to your parents with it now.
I have a watch like that too. When I wear it I often say “thanks Mum”
Loved this video James, great work!
Thank you. I really enjoyed putting it together
Great video James. Very hard question, but probably my favourite watch is the one given to me for my 60th birthday, last month.
The latest Adina Amphibian with dark green dial. Very similar green to the Omega Seamaster 300. Just in love with it. Hope my other watches don’t find out about this.
Great vid.
Wow. What a great looking watch.
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Great question for a video. My most important watch in my collection is my Rolex Submariner 16610 but not for the reason you might think. I was really into vintage pocket watches but wanted a vintage wrist watch but could not risk the money as I was not in a high paying job so I decided to start selling on eBay as it is in my mind found money. I started and doing very well thinking I could buy something more. After a few months I sold enough of my old junk to pay for a Rolex something I thought I would never be able to do. It was the most fun I had trying to purchase a watch. Coincidently, having retired recently, I did it again this time for a Tudor BB 54. Same price I paid for the Rolex.
It’s a great way of doing it. I’ve done the same a couple of times.
When I started TH-cam I did a big sale of lots of random things. This helped me afford to buy some watches and gear to kick off the channel.
Love the Vietnam glycine airman story. So powerful. Beautiful story. Thank you for sharing!!!
I really loved it too. I’m so happy Travis was able to part of this video.
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Great collab here
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Hey Norman! So cool to see him getting noticed, a real standout guy in the community, original
He is one of my favorites
great video, James! My most important watch has to be my 1965 Omega Seamaster birth year watch, Genta designed.
Ooooo nice. I think you are the first to mention a birth year watch.
@@WATCHingJames I love vintage watches and when I saw this with the all the original parts and movement from 1965, I had to buy it, albeit for £1100! It is the reference 166.009 and I managed to regulate it to about +20 secs a day
Great vid… enjoyed!
Thank you. I really enjoyed putting this one together
Cheers james for great watch content and merry Xmas everyone
Thank you. Happy holidays to you
Cool video, nice to see what the participants got to show. Tudor BB58 for the win 🎉🎉
Love that Mark’s father Rolex DJ.
What a coincidence with Olivier, San Martin 👏👏
That Hydroconquest is the best Swiss diver for the price IMO James 👌🏼👌🏼
Thanks for being part of this one. Was great to see your choice too
Great video 👏
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Great stuff! I’d have to say my Dufrane Littlefield GMT is my most important watch. Far from my first or most expensive. My wife really encouraged me to purchase it and up to that point I had zero interest in “tool” watches. It has become my daily driver and opened me up to appreciating a whole new group of watches.
I’ve had the same experience with some watches. They have ended up changing the direction of my collecting
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Great video and it earned you a sub!
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My grandfather's bog standard Caravelle pocket watch. I keep it on the same braided leather fob he used and everytime I hold it i see him pulling it out of his overall chest pocket and saying, 'well Rusty, how about we go down the road and see what we can get into.' RIP Papaw.
That is lovely to have a watch that is a connection to him.
Really interesting question and cool concept for a collaboration. Not for the first time you've made me think about this thing we do from a new perspective - I hesitate to call it a "hobby" after your "is it a hobby?" video. Great to see some collaborators I'm familiar with and to be introduced to a few I wasn't.
Hahahahaha. I’m very happy that I’ve been able to made you think a bit deeper about these watches we seem to love.
Picking up my FXD MN21 was pretty important too.
Went to the London with my oldest buddy to pick up the only MN21 my new AD buddy got in (No favours, I was just first).
We all went out on the Raz afterwards and I remember that day fondly like it was yesterday.
I enjoy having a story linked to a watch. Especially when family or friends are part of that story
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My most important watch after about 1.5 years of collecting is the boderry bronze case sea turtle limited edition. This is because it was my gateway into watches (and my first automatic watch).
I love hearing about the stories behind the watches.
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@@WATCHingJames yes, of course! I will also add I wore this watch in my first 5 dates with my partner, making it completely irreplaceable
Hello this is Bri from the watching James fan club ,my favourite watch is my Hamilton Khaki 42mm bought for me by my wonderful son Benjamin.
Hello Bri. A great watch to have and so nice to have that connection to it.
Tudor BB 58 Bronze. It was the watch that started me on this joyful pursuit!
I’m a fan of that one. I have tried in on with the full bronze bracelet at the Sydney boutique
Your best vídeo of all time!
Thank you. I think so too😁
i like these sort of collabs
Me too. This was my favorite I’ve done so far
A great video James. I enjoyed watching it.
Thank you. I really enjoyed putting this one together
San Martin and Seagull making the list! It is truly amazing how well (some) Chinese watches are made. At a fraction of the cost of their luxury counterparts
Absolutely. It did not surprise me that they featured.
@ I enjoy your videos, you’ve gained a new subscriber!
Great thought provoking video, thanks 👍
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Outstanding video and excellent question.
Thank you. This is one of my favorite videos I’ve made.
I guess it's my new Longines Annual Calendar, because it is the most complicated complication that I own and is the most useful complication you can have (if you value a date, if not it's a dive bezel).
It is also the only complication I have 'grailed'. It makes proper use of the watch winder that gathers dust looking pretty on my desk, and so I see (interact with) it everyday.
Oh wow. Very nice
Excellent question and video - cant answer the question though 😂
You are not the only one 😂😂😂
@@WATCHingJames thanks for the video and exposing me to some new faces, although it does mean now I'm going to lose even more of my time to the interweb 🫣🫡😂
My first time seeing your videos, I’m now a sub to your channel 😊 I have many watches but top three would be 1. Tudor BB 58, first proper AD purchase, 2 my late fathers Seiko 5, reminds me of him when i wear it, and latest purchase of a Seiko SLA051, following this would be the watches my wonderful partner has purchased for me as gifts since i started down this watch rabbit hole.
Thank you so much for subscribing and WATCHing. The BB58 is an incredible watch. I love mine.
My girlfriend gave me a Farr and Swit Northside edition for my 50th birthday. It has a map of wrigleyville on the dial. I grew up going to Chicago Cubs games and those are some of my best childhood memories so it just makes me happy to see that and remember how cool it was. Best present I ever got.
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I think my favorite watch is from Islander, a Northport, love the 62 mas seiko case because clean design.
Very nice. I just ordered another Islander. The collaboration with lume shot.
This was a great video and great question to ask… I honestly wouldn’t know how to answer right away, but the first watch in my mind was my Seiko Alpinist 1959 - a gift from my wife to my 35th birthday and watch I absolutely love… but… hell I don’t know 😂
Hahahaha. It is a hard question
At the 22 minute and 48 second mark of this video in the top right hand corner is a RED WATCH , would love to know what it is. My favourite watch has to be the Erebus Ascent Deep Purple Fume as it reminds me of the band Deep Purple and the australian chocolate Turkish Delight colour of the wrapper and also it is the colour of Royalty. Old sayings come to mind , like "Bred in the Purple " which means top class heritage and also if your having a wining streak at anything it is said you are having a Purple Patch .Since I received it, I have rarely taken it off my wrist .It has tones of the Omega Aqua Terra and on a Jubilee bracelet it just Pop's.
I think it is a watch looking wall clock. And I think it is a Invicta.
Easy, I have six different Seikos, I have Tudor monochrome, I have Omega Seamaster but only watch that I'm not gonna sale in any price is Moonswatch Mercury. I wore that when my son born and that is my priceless treasure
It is such a nice thing to be able to link a moment in time with a watch that we love.
Interesting and inspiring vid. Thanx.
Thank you very much. I really enjoyed putting this one together
Sophie is such an amazing spirit on TH-cam & IG. Very emotional share!
Indeed.
Most important watch in my collection is my Seiko Presage Cocktail Time “Grasshopper”. Open heart green dial. My mum got it for me when I graduated from my pharmacy degree, and was about to leave my home city for the first time to move to Emerald in Central QLD to do my internship year. Green dial, Emerald, it was symbolic, also it was my third attempt at a uni degree and after 9 years in total at Uni, it was a bit of a joke in the family that I’d never get a degree. So yeah, that’s mine.
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My ratings for these selections (substitutions for names when not discernable. My primary criterion is not the aspects of the watch but the personal stories.
Jody - B (too much uncertainty)
Mark - A
Overtime - A
Bianca - C
San Martin - C+
John - C+
Glycine - B+
Norman - D -
Chris - B
Sophie - A
Esbjorn - A
Andres - D
James - A
Woohoo. An A. I’ll have to put that on the fridge 😁
The tiger watch from mr jones. Promise of happiness i think. My mother bought it for me randomly in 2021 after showing it to her not sure if i should buy it. She passed away in march 2023 so it means alot.
It is nice to have a watch that you can connect with a parent. I have a similar watch that I now connect with my mother who passed this year.
I only own a few watches but my wife surprised me last year with a new Steinhart which is now THE most important.
Oh wow. I love that brand. They make some very nice watches.
The most important watches are always the ones correlated to the memories attached to it. Either family, usage or accomplishments.
Absolutely
Mine is a Mídio 1969 from my father
It is so nice to have a story or connection with certain watches.
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With the mention of Mark at Long Island Watches 200+ watch collection.....how are those of you with sizeable collections storing your watches? Are there some good watch boxes out there that hold a lot? DIY solution?
I think he had a “chest” custom made with a number of draws.
I saw it featured in a video.
Great video, great question.
Mine is my G-SHOCK GBA 900 Series.
Solar, 200m WR, world times, loads of alarms, with the brilliant auto wrist roll backlight, But also atomic clock, accurate to +/- 1second every 10000 years. So I used it to set all my other watches, as well as it being able to handle anything my job throws at it. Yes I have some lovely watches, but that Gshock outperforms all my other watches combined
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James, I would have to say my vintage Omega day date with the blue dial. I got married with that watch on, so it is not replaceable.
An amazing watch to have that connection with
I have 2 that share the most important watch in my collection.
1. Timex Ironman Triathlon from the 1990s which my grandparents got me as my first watch.
2. Phoibos Wave Master Gen 1 that an ex got me, it was my first automatic watch
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Love the bookshelves, James. What were your favorite reads this year?
I’m currently half way through book 3 of the stormlight archive. It took a bit to get into it. But now I’m hooked.
I'd have a hard time choosing. Do I select the first watch I ever got? The first watch i ever personally bought with my own money? Or do I choose the first watch I bought when I really got into watch collecting? I have connections with a lot of my watches and choosing one is impossible.
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Most important ,Omega PO GMT in titanium, first luxury watch.
Very nice
I'm with Jody on this topic.
I probably am too. Hahahaha
I wondered what Thorpey was up to these days after retiring from Olympic swimming.
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I definitely have different reasons for each watch
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A Seiko 4r39a open heart watch given to me by family for my 70th birthday ten years ago. Sentimental value. Hardlex crystal is a downer.
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great vid, and I'm personally struggling to answer that question 🙂
Hahahaha. It is a hard question