Worst Watches of 2023
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- The worst watches of 2023. We pick our least favourite watches of 2023
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Tissot. Fine digital watches since 1853.
Ok…I just needed to comment . That made me laff! LOL.
Yeah right - digital PRX? Ughh - who ever thought that was a good idea? - the PRX is what Tissot has become known for so why take your identity product and bastardise it??? - it’s like Rolex or Omega saying ‘digital Submariner or Speedmaster anyone?’ - No?
Can’t argue with these.
Can’t wait for the swatch reverso!
I think next year swatch should surprise us by NOT collaborating with yet another brand, give us a break from another toy watch 🤣
I love my PRX digital (gold, 35mm). I love it because I’m amazing.
My only complaint, is you didn't list more. Come on guys, there were plenty of deserving watches that could have been called out. :)
Idk about anyone else, but I'm not a fan of a rectangular digital display on a circular case.
Swatchpain
Ah c’mon the PRX digi isn’t so bad. It’s a hipster’s wet dream.
No one says “hipster” anymore.
@@mitchmitchell9588sounds like a hipster thing to say.
@@canadianmale7610 umm. That’s the joke…
A very big horological puzzle: Why the hell Blancpain refuses to make their sub-42mm Fifty Fathoms permanent part of the collection, butt limited editions all the time???
They are a joke brand. Just refusing to do what the customers are asking for. The business and marketing team need to get cleaned out, they’re killing the brand(killed? It’s a corpse already)
Blancpain probably figured they they cash in on the "rare, prestigious" marketing of a proven watch to create an artifiial demand...
Customers know arrogance when they see it. Tissot and swatch forgot this. Good choices, both of you.
PS. My name for it is the “blank/pained expression”
You guys selection of worst 2023 watches, in my opinion, was spot on. Well done! 👍
As a digital watches fan , I actually like that Tissot . Just imagine that Casio has re issued their Casiotron , they would charge almost the same price as the Tissot ( Casio thinks that stainless steel cases are luxury ! check stainless steel G-shocks' prices without Sapphire )
More reviewers now criticize the " negative space" on the dial ! what about Moser & Cie ?
Generally , I'm not a fan of Tissot , but the truth must be said.
Me too. I'm considering getting one now that the haters have driven the price down. I think they go for about £250 at F&G. Spec wise it's objectively good except for having a press on rather than screw down case back. But the water resistance is still ok for daily use. The module has a really nice back light, clear display and good functionality. I actually prefer the clean look of it to the regular PRX. I find it really sad how shallow bigoted people can't accept that different people like different things. That is the definition of a watch snob. The fact that those people hate it makes me like it even more.
👏👏@@nathanaelsmith3553
Starting to view these vid like a Teddy vid, i.e rapid fast forwarding it.
People need to remember how these idiots loved the PRX, (non digital), in the beginning, now they’re treating ownership like you’re eating pineapple & ham pizza while listening to Nickleback.
If you guys enjoy a good pun, Spinnaker released a cute little dive watch around Halloween called the "50 Phantoms" with a bunch of adorable little ghosts on the dial. Unfortunately it was a limited edition that sold out in seconds.
There was a second release of pre-orders for a while longer this time due to the botched initial release in blue and a mist gray/blue set to ship in 2024. Main issue with it. It's... massive. 43mm x 51mm x 13mm with a 22mm lug width. I nearly bought one. But backed out. I'd never wear the thing.
@@tailsneon556 Fair point on those dimensions. I have a Seiko Samurai that's 43mm but has an amazingly designed case that is only 47 lug to lug.
For me what makes the PRX digital the worst is that there were so many other things they could have done with the PRX platform instead. I have the PRX Chrono and love it, and would love to see more different variations, but the digital just missed the mark completely. Fingers crossed in 2024 Tissot can come up with something better for the PRX, maybe either some bolder dial designs or new case colours (I think the case in black or rose gold could look mega).
a mecaquartz chrono would be cool
Maybe a swatch PRX xD
Blancpain doing the ‘team-building-day of watches’ is spot on! If ever it were true that you can tell a lot about a man by his watch…
The Tissot is ugly but the Blancpain isn‘t that bad. The only thing which is really bad is that you can‘t maintenance it. And that‘s a no go for me why I won‘t buy one although I like the design.
Same, thats the only reason I didn’t buy it.
That PRX 🤢 . Blancpain x Garbage x Slugs 😂. Worthy choices 👏
Anything Toilex or Tootor should be on this list considering how gouged out and over priced they are.
Worst watch is anything with a snowflake hour hand and no date, so most Tudor watches.
Thrifty Fathoms would have instantly made the release cooler
I've owned some decent tissots. This one reminds me of the digital watches they'd sell at Walmart for under $20. What were they thinking?
Tissot went for retro cool, unfortunately Tissot has no clue what cool is.
Not that long ago I got a Tissot day date with a 2834-2 in it for £299, cracking watch that never needs a battery.
I totally agree. I have a few Tissot automatics and they are great watches and I believe had some association with Omega.@@philspencelayh5464
What’s wrong with Tissot? The styling is eternal, just like disco and leisure suits.
What’s wrong with Tissot? Everything! If you want to go with old school cool, but a classic Casio from that era for 40 dollars.
400£ too much
It takes a lot of money to look this cheap.
The lapels were just a little too big.
Its not a Casio. That's the problem 😅 Best digital release of the year was the A1100
Swatch collaborations = forced corporate team building ... spot on.
Was expecting more that just 2 watches
The problem is the tissot is way overpriced for what it is, had they priced it at say 50% of the analog one maybe it would be recieved better?
Yes, I agree with you both.
I love my plastic Blancpain
I'm disappointed Tom didn't pick the OP celebration
yea im surprised there was no rolex
First like ... although Iike the new swatch Blancpain
Yes
MoonSwatch ... MoonSwatch ... moonswatch ... even if it was the end of last year (I can't remember anymore) .. the stink carried over ...
BY FAR!!! the worst watch disaster of the year: big hype, long lines, short supply, reneg on online sales, cheesey new releases with minor differences, poor quality ...
Watchfinder :What was the worst watch of 2023?
Every fashionable Rolex haters on the site: uh... Every Rolex ever made. I say that not because I've ever owned one but because I know I'll never be able to own one, so I have to trash that club that would never have me as a member.
Watchfinder: then what watch is your favorite?
Rolex hater: Omega.
Watchfinder: do you own one?
Rolex hater: No. But if I ever was able to save enough from my dishwasher job, I would buy a Seamaster to wear to work and go from diving for those salad forks that always sink to the bottom of my dishwashing machine!
Watchfinder: I see. You know what would work in your dishwasher is the Rolex Submariner.
Rolex hater: no way, one look at my pruny fingers, and the Rolex AD would curl his lip and place my order at the very bottom of the pile. I'll never get a Rolex.
There are way worse watches than these being released in 2023. Biggest disappointments not only in 2023, but the last decade is Richard Mille. Overhyped, ugly, too expensive and flimsy shit quality. The only reason I even own one is because I HAVE to, cause they sponsors my workplace. So I gotta wear that uncomfortable thing everyday.
I know everyone is expecting next year Swatch to collaborate with another watch brand under the Swatch Group umbrella so nobody is excited about that but what if they surprised us with making a deal with another giant brand outside of Swatch Group. I think everyone will loose their minds again like the first time. Remember you have heard it here first 😂
Lose*
Can't wait for that €400 plastic Breguet Classique
The PRX digital is useless, but the Blancpain x Swatch is alright, depending on the price. I never liked the MoonSwatch as it's some cheap, quartz garbage.
I don't mind quartz, own myself a Tag Heuer quartz as my motorbike riding watch.
The Blancpain at least is an automatic and the design seems alright.
Selling a wife that supposedly is environmentally friendly, but whose movement’s core function basically waiting to be thrown into the very oceans that it supposedly celebrates.
Blancpain have a watch with killer looks on their books - the original fifty fathoms. Scrap the bronze version. A reissued steel version would revive their fortunes overnight.
Sad day? Come on we all love talking shit about someone else’s poorly executed job lol.
Btw the swatch 50 fathoms looks like shit, it’s a model the general public doesn’t know and have no interest in and it’s a mistery how swatch thought they were going to sell it no matter how much any watch yter/blogger/shill tried to push them.
Tom is spot on with that PRX. Absolute rubbish... the customers gave them an inch, and now they're taking a whole mile.
PRX digital would have been fine if the display was black with red numbers. Something like the Hamilton PSR
The blancpain is much better than the moonswatch. At least the BP is with an automatic movement,system51, and I haven’t seen any fall apart unlike the moonswatch
Absolutely every single watch Richard Mille has ever made, this year or any other year, they are disgusting, I wouldn’t give you 2p for one, I’d rather keep the 2p and if I see anyone wearing one I can scratch it 😂
The Tissot has nothing to offer compared to Casio, Seiko and other brands. The Blancpain just doesn't have image in the marketplace to make it worth having a plastic copy.
The Plastic Swatch has done wonders to make the Real Blancpain Bezel look cheap and tacky.
Swatch always were and are throwaway products of the modern society.
That Digital PRX should have had a black dial with red LED digital display. That would have looked great instead of the bullshit "is that a Casio?" look
The Swatch was fun. The AP spider man watches sucked more than the tissot, in my opinion. No one asked for those and probably no one will wear them.
Ah .. the Peter Cook and Dudley Moore of watches, keep on rocking guys! Hilarious!
couldnt agree more with the blanc x swatch...total pile of crap ..milking profit from their historic brands but it will end up going sour
The digital PRX is a masterstroke of late 70's watch style, especially with the 'basic' digital display. Love it.
Completely stupid price point though.
gshock is more primo per dollar
Absolutely. A new MTG-B2000 can be had for almost the same money if one looks, which is ridiculous value. This scratches an entirely different itch, but if I had the choice I'd do the MTG without hesitation. I've already got a vintage, late 70's Ebeerhard that does the square integrated bracelet thing to perfection. But for late 70's premium digital that's period correct, it's a great choice. Value is relative to how badly you want, that. Cheers.@@borregoayudando1481
that prx digital is the definition of a phone in watch awful overpriced expensive junk i can normally see appeal in a watch but not thar one. Blancpain thing is alright i can see the fun in it however its still a expensive plastic watch with a questionable movement that likes to break in many many ways.
I really wanted a couple of fun coloured plastic swatch blanc watches until I heard the movement was unserviceable essentially making it a throw away watch or something, for the cat to play with when the time came.
I agree with Tom. The Tissot digital is not my cup of tea. I wouldn't pay 50 quid for it.😣
The Tissot is upending the idea of the x Swatch. Here you have a tribute to the much loved petrol station watch of the seventies, but at the price of a real watch.
Blank swatch is better than the plastic moonswatch but since its not as popular you took a dump on it...
No they took a dump on it because it’s a complete plastic crappy travesty like all X Swatches
More pricey though but I agree, I’m enjoying my blue scuba as it matches my scrubs perfectly. So it’s just something fun to wear at work
I like the black faced digital PRX, just would never pay that for a digital.
That PRX is butt ugly, however I like the fact that they've put the display time as 10:08
Don’t agree….perfect watches for young kids….😂
I think a PRX anadigi might work.
Great post. I actually like my Blancpain X Swatch. Cheers
I don't like it either but the digital prx is the most 70's of all the 70's watches.
The Swatch Happy Meal collection goes from bad to worse.
Andrew pronouncing it "Blonkpenn" should definitely be on this list too.
the new pr100 are ugly and the christopher ward moonphase is atrocious
I would never buy that Tissot, but I love it simply because they did take it too far. It's Quartz Crisis chic.
100 percent.
That is the ugliest cheapest watch. I've ever seen in my life. I cannot believe tissa made this
I think that you guys should stick to burning/crushing imitation watches
Couldn’t disagree more. It’s a tie. Rolex with the puzzle dial or the Celebration dial. The epitome of corporate-mandated fun. Both ugly and both overpriced. At least the Tissot and BlankSwatch come in under $600.
As for the Tissot, Tom’s got it wrong. That’s a cool watch. Y’all just don’t get it. And that’s OK! Happy New Year, bitches!
The Tissot sucks, they are just trying to milk the PRX success. Overpriced trash, worst Tissot watch.
The digi prx would be fine if it was half the price of the analog quartz version.
It looks like something I could find in the watch section at Walmart. Half price is being kind 😂
Agree with both of these. All X Swatches are an awful unfunny joke that devalues historic brands and historic watches that the Swatch group clearly care nothing about protecting. And that PRX, wow, horrendous and incredibly overpriced.
Tissot digital is 🗑️ Blancpain is better than the Moonswatch to me
I'd rather have the 'ocean breath' mentioned on the Blancpain caseback than the actual watch. It's akin to having a visible Boxster engine encased in a Citroen 2CV.
The digital PRX is bloody ugly, and is a con at that price!
The digi prx literally looks better than the regular prx because the original texture dial looks kinda cheap imo.
Very valid point!
I like Plastimaster over Moonswatch nickname
Over 300 quid for a Casio rip off?
Behave Tissot.
Yes, some of them I wouldn't touch with a 10-foot pole.
That Tissot PRX is just an expensive Casio homage.
The only thing I would argue in favor of the Swatch Blancpain is that relatively speaking, very few people, other than watch enthusiasts, know the name Blancpain. This offering does at the very least, expose the name, that might get someone, who in a few years may be working their way up in watch collecting, and could be a potential client of the genuine thing.
That's assuming that Blancpain wants to be a brand that is recognised by everyone. Why do you think A Lange und Söhne doesn't pay a single prominent person on the planet to represent them? It's because, if you're mature enough to know them, you don't need an ambassador to tell you about them. I always felt Blancpain was in a similar ball park. Now it's just weird and sad.
@@Ossory88 Blancpain is owned by the Swatch group. A publicly held company that I am sure has growth goals for all of their product lines. As Tom indicated in the video, the relative success of the Omega branding was enough to get them thinking this could also work for Blancpain. As for your example of Lange, that is a family owned company, and I'm sure has different values in terms of growth and market share compared to a large company like Swatch Group.
So...there were two bad watches in 2023...?
I could not possibly agree more, on both counts
Digital watches are amazing bit thats casio's thing.
What sucked the most was seeing human faces on this channel
Tissot went retro. Where is the love? You want a G Shock?
idk the puzzle rolex might be the worst
Tissot always takes worst watch every year for me
PRX digital is surely the worst.
Don’t pronounce the C in Blancpain !!!
I agree on both worst watches 2023 !!
Can we please call it the fifty farthings?
Tacky like the Jacob and Co watches.
The Casio x Tissot is indeed a piece of horror.
Tissot has been dead for over a decade now..
Dustpan Fifty Fathoms! ??
Well it’s a yes with all them watches that tissot is 🤢🤮
Swatch, putting the *pain* in Blancpain
_Swiss Made_ - what a joke this watch is.
I just called them shitty fathoms
The moonswatch was like getting drunk and going home with a girl level exciting. The Swatch Shifty Fathoms was waking up hungover the next morning and seeing that girl with no makeup and turns out it was a ladyboy and for some reason your butt is sore.