@@ruahinesrider what a great idea mate why didn't I think of that. Watch this space for a timely result I'll have to be careful not to wind her up tho ha ha.
@@ruahinesrider I love automatic watches I've got this old Air King which I've had for years and nearly battered it to death. It's been drowned in the sea,survived the odd motorbike accident, submerged in a paint can,covered in concrete but still it goes. But wouldn't mind a new one like that Longines. Like old bikes mate they never give up.
I love my Russian Vostok watches but this timepiece really puts the quality in perspective. The price point was not a surprise after watching your video here. What a beautiful piece.
You and I have similar taste my friend. I have the green Orient Star Outdoor, the black Longines Spirit Zulu Time GMT, a love of wheels 4 not 2 and UK blood. I would laugh if you also had my 3rd watch a Seiko Presage SARX029?
Stu, you're 4 months to late ! I'm very keen on a good wristwatch. My jeweler looks forward to when I enter the store. Over the years, Tissot, Victorinox and others. Last visit he took me aside and showed me two estate Rolex watches. One spoke my name. When he returned it my credit card was " baked ". I swear it could show up on thermal satellite imaging. Get back to me after 11 months of obscene monthly card bills. 😎
Hi Stu, I am one of your regular viewers from Sweden and I was amazed by this episode. I got myself the same watch the same model about five weeks ago!!! I’m also fully enjoying this time piece and I congratulate the both of us in our good taste. By the way, I also ride the Interceptor 650. Keep up the good work, all the best from Jan
Hi Stuart, thanks for this video. I had been thinking of a dual time watch for foreign touring for over a year but did not know they were called 'GMT' watches. Your video set me off on a quest and I found online at least two dozen tempting offerings from various manufacturers. Then I discovered a Scottish watch company, Marloe, only "round the corner" in Fife! What's more, they had just brought out a GMT mechanical automatic with a new Japanese movement. So I rode over yesterday on my RE 500 Classic. It was a no-brainer being able to shop locally and this is my first day with their GMT "night" model. They produce limited number batches with each watch numbered on the reverse and can offer a choice of the available numbers. Naturally, I chose the same number as my limited edition RE 'Tribute' (well, why not!). Very satisfied! Cheers & thanks again.
Morning Stewart. Lol I remember them magazine's from my childhood days. Sorry to say that I havant worn a watch in some 50-years. Although I do own a waistcoat watch along with silver chain that was my granddads. Tiz nice to dress up properly, well some times perhaps. Safe enjoyable riding till next time Stewart and what an enjoyable history lesson too 👌✌️.
Recently I got my Citizen promaster world time GTM, with similar traveler and tool watch spirit . I found the GMT function very useful tracking my hometown time, considering I am living in Japan .
You are the smartes person in the world, Citizen is so bloody underrated brand,they had along with Seiko the biggest volume of watches yet you just can't find on the internet a Citizen watch with qc issues or any tech problems,I would even say that Miyota 9000 series is way better than SW 200 and 4R,46 movement.
Well Stu, I did it again. You have tastes that align with mine and I've been obsessing over this watch since your review. My problem is with my slim wrists the 42 mm is too big. While researching the watch I stumbled upon the Longines Weems aviator watch.. It fits my wrist better and is very good looking. A limited edition model and affordable (for me) being a "legacy" watch style. Thanks for the heads up on Longines watches..!!
Lovely video - your photography continues to be exquisite, the lighting, close-ups etc., - just like with the Loake boots the other day - your camerawork shows off the details and textures perfectly. Clarity and precision, in keeping with the subject! Beautiful watch, too, and whilst I’d heard of the great aviation pioneer, Amy Johnson, I hadn’t known the tale of her tragic demise; a sad and ignominious end for such a great woman. In the early seventies, I was lucky enough to see round the Omega watch factory in Biel/Bienne - as you’d imagine, the whole place was clinically clean like an operating theatre …one of my abiding memories was of a series of pink tubes that stretched up to the ceiling. These pipes contained thousands of the tiny donut-shaped industrial rubies used for certain load-bearing applications, in different diameters - as in “Swiss Made, 17 Jewels” etc. 007 wore Omega, Olympic timings were entrusted to them, and the astronauts in the Apollo moon-shots also had Omega watches - the company had plenty to be proud of. Great fillum, Fillingham, fank you!!
I’m liking this watch 👍, thank you for your review. I only have two watches a Garmin running watch for everyday use and my Rolex Submariner. The price is what you would pay for a quality item such as this. Wearing a quality timepiece is like going out on your “special” motorcycle or doing both at the same time.
I’m no biker but I am a watch man so you’ve got a new sub 😊 only stumbled across you because this Zulu Time is going to be my next horological purchase. I’m in the enviable position of being able to get extremely good discount when it comes in to stock where I’m getting it from, can’t wait!
A great history lesson on a local celebrity, with an unfortunate ending. Longines do make some great looking watches that are good quality. The Zulu time carrying on this tradition.
My absolute favourite mechanical watch and in the colour I would choose if I was to ever purchase a mechanical watch again. A true GMT, that in my eye, is the best-looking GMT currently available, very nice watch Stuart ..🙂..
Another great video, the Chanel must be doing well Stu, having moved on from Orient to Longines. You can’t beat a quality watch, and if you buy the right ones they are a good long term investment
For all the same reasons Rolex was always the brand that caught my eye. From adventure magazines to 007 it always struck a chord. I have a 2006 Sea Dweller which is my 'go to' and I think it will remain so 😉👍
@@blueteeth.spooker Sean Connery wore a Rolex Sub Mariner. He was the only James Bond personally selected by the Author Ian Fleming. I also have an Omega, just doesn’t hit the spot in the same way the Rolex does. For me at least.
Wow Stuart, you have me salivating now. 🤤🤤 Like you I'm a watch enthusiast and micro collector. The few I do have are collectable and were acquired second hand. I love this Longines 👌
Another great review. The big problem for me with watching your reviews is that I must try and maintain a strong mental attitude and self disiplin so as not to spend any more on my overdraft. 😂
Very interesting video Stuart, and a beautiful watch. I was not familiar with the Amy Johnson story. Another unsolved mystery and a very impressive woman. Thanks for your channel. Cheers, Dan ✌️🏍🇨🇦
First time coming across a watch review on a biking channel - who would have thought? Nice one!👍 Picked up a nice watch at a recent UK watch fair, designed by the same guy who created designs for some Morgan Motor Company cars, including their current 3-wheeler. Lots of British watch "microbrands" are out there, just not many manufacturing here - hopefully that will change before much longer🤞. Pity that I'm not wearing mechanical watches while riding as my jacket has magnetic fastenings😢.
The Longines Spirit is a good catch, an historical piece, chronometer certified, and it has a basic or GMT variants, all for a bargain price in the industry. Personally I have my eye (no pun) the Big Eye in titanium from Longines, an other beautiful heritage piece, with a lot of versatility as a dress or everyday/tool watch.
Whilst looking up the watch it turns out the "caliber"(movement) of this watch is the same as all of their high end and chronograph watches. The ETA 2892A2.
Have you thought about selling double glazing Stuart ?😁. Beautifully described. I also love old school technology where craftsmanship and quality are inherent in a product.
Great video (as usual) and very detailed watch review with great videography Stuart. I'm really, very seriously, liking this watch, hmmm and it's bonus time at work soon 🤔 ⌚️ 😀
Nice one Stuart. Love the green colour way. The ZuLu does remind me of the Rolex oyster range. I have owned a Explorer II for 26 years now and the likeness between the two are very similar. I’m not a watch aficionado but I presume these watchmakers copy each other’s designs to a certain degree.
Happy Tuesday Stuart. Just read an email from Triumph announcing chrome edition motorcycles and thought of you. Have you seen this, and what do you think of the work?
Lovely watch….does it tell the time? Nice engineering but perhaps it would pay for an additional bike in the garage 🤣. I had a lovely Tissot, an 18th birthday present, but even the Swiss factory couldn’t repair it when it failed. 😕
Longines and Hamilton yes but Tissot no,Certina, Mido and especially Rado are light years ahead of Tissot in every single department.Tissot charges 900€ for a Seastar with atrocious braclet and the worse fold over clasp I ever saw,powermatic 80 is a solid movement but Miyota 9000 is way superior movement.
@@dado380 Hi, you inspired me to do some digging. Looked at high street retailers for Tissot seastar price' s. Highest being about £620. Certina, Rado and Mido price's start at a £ 1000 +... Yes you're right. The above mentioned watches would be better in every department than the Tissot.
Stuart love your watch choices by stories you inject , although i am the odd guy of the bunch , i still a prisoner of a watch make , that started as a present from a friend a very long time ago , yes a Boctok a Russian watch . Today i still favour them , ok built like tractors and the looks of yesteryear , fancy like kids watches . Got four now all still humming . Two years ago got myself an old amphibia classic with a year 65 movement from Raketa assembled by Vostok and yes it looks darn ordinary but talk of precision , it would bow your mind . This anti vibration and shock rated 20 bars but tested way beyond the norms hums at a + six seconds a day on the wrist , so for myself this precision satisfies me considering the oh so low price of a mechanical marvel , for what you pay for a watch i deam it better to put the savings on one of my bikes . Mind you you still make me drool with your watches .
You've sold me Stu, now to start that subtle birthday present campaign. I know share the vid with my wife. Thanks.
Making lamb 🐑 shanks for tea then watch this video with the wife dropping the hint😉.
@@ruahinesrider ha ha if only mate.
@@daintree2455 Be late a couple of times then watch video wife might say "That's what you need a new watch".😂🤣
@@ruahinesrider what a great idea mate why didn't I think of that. Watch this space for a timely result I'll have to be careful not to wind her up tho ha ha.
@@ruahinesrider I love automatic watches I've got this old Air King which I've had for years and nearly battered it to death. It's been drowned in the sea,survived the odd motorbike accident, submerged in a paint can,covered in concrete but still it goes. But wouldn't mind a new one like that Longines. Like old bikes mate they never give up.
Beautiful watch. Love it 😊
I love my Russian Vostok watches but this timepiece really puts the quality in perspective. The price point was not a surprise after watching your video here. What a beautiful piece.
I have an old Vostok bought in Russia 1987, still going strong and never been serviced. 👌
You and I have similar taste my friend. I have the green Orient Star Outdoor, the black Longines Spirit Zulu Time GMT, a love of wheels 4 not 2 and UK blood. I would laugh if you also had my 3rd watch a Seiko Presage SARX029?
Stu, you're 4 months to late ! I'm very keen on a good wristwatch. My jeweler looks forward to when I enter the store. Over the years, Tissot, Victorinox and others. Last visit he took me aside and showed me two estate Rolex watches. One spoke my name. When he returned it my credit card was " baked ". I swear it could show up on thermal satellite imaging. Get back to me after 11 months of obscene monthly card bills. 😎
Hi Stu, I am one of your regular viewers from Sweden and I was amazed by this episode. I got myself the same watch the same model about five weeks ago!!! I’m also fully enjoying this time piece and I congratulate the both of us in our good taste. By the way, I also ride the Interceptor 650. Keep up the good work, all the best from Jan
Very cool!
Hi Stuart, thanks for this video. I had been thinking of a dual time watch for foreign touring for over a year but did not know they were called 'GMT' watches. Your video set me off on a quest and I found online at least two dozen tempting offerings from various manufacturers. Then I discovered a Scottish watch company, Marloe, only "round the corner" in Fife! What's more, they had just brought out a GMT mechanical automatic with a new Japanese movement. So I rode over yesterday on my RE 500 Classic. It was a no-brainer being able to shop locally and this is my first day with their GMT "night" model. They produce limited number batches with each watch numbered on the reverse and can offer a choice of the available numbers. Naturally, I chose the same number as my limited edition RE 'Tribute' (well, why not!). Very satisfied! Cheers & thanks again.
Love to see watch review from this channel now and then
Hello from Idaho! I’m wondering if my mighty 6.5” wrist is too small for the 42mm?
Morning Stewart. Lol I remember them magazine's from my childhood days. Sorry to say that I havant worn a watch in some 50-years. Although I do own a waistcoat watch along with silver chain that was my granddads. Tiz nice to dress up properly, well some times perhaps. Safe enjoyable riding till next time Stewart and what an enjoyable history lesson too 👌✌️.
Recently I got my Citizen promaster world time GTM, with similar traveler and tool watch spirit . I found the GMT function very useful tracking my hometown time, considering I am living in Japan .
You are the smartes person in the world, Citizen is so bloody underrated brand,they had along with Seiko the biggest volume of watches yet you just can't find on the internet a Citizen watch with qc issues or any tech problems,I would even say that Miyota 9000 series is way better than SW 200 and 4R,46 movement.
Well Stu, I did it again. You have tastes that align with mine and I've been obsessing over this watch since your review. My problem is with my slim wrists the 42 mm is too big. While researching the watch I stumbled upon the Longines Weems aviator watch.. It fits my wrist better and is very good looking. A limited edition model and affordable (for me) being a "legacy" watch style. Thanks for the heads up on Longines watches..!!
Lovely video - your photography continues to be exquisite, the lighting, close-ups etc., - just like with the Loake boots the other day - your camerawork shows off the details and textures perfectly. Clarity and precision, in keeping with the subject!
Beautiful watch, too, and whilst I’d heard of the great aviation pioneer, Amy Johnson, I hadn’t known the tale of her tragic demise; a sad and ignominious end for such a great woman.
In the early seventies, I was lucky enough to see round the Omega watch factory in Biel/Bienne - as you’d imagine, the whole place was clinically clean like an operating theatre …one of my abiding memories was of a series of pink tubes that stretched up to the ceiling. These pipes contained thousands of the tiny donut-shaped industrial rubies used for certain load-bearing applications, in different diameters - as in “Swiss Made, 17 Jewels” etc.
007 wore Omega, Olympic timings were entrusted to them, and the astronauts in the Apollo moon-shots also had Omega watches - the company had plenty to be proud of.
Great fillum, Fillingham, fank you!!
I’m liking this watch 👍, thank you for your review.
I only have two watches a Garmin running watch for everyday use and my Rolex Submariner. The price is what you would pay for a quality item such as this. Wearing a quality timepiece is like going out on your “special” motorcycle or doing both at the same time.
What a lovely informative and entertaining video Stuart.
Looks like a lovely addition with a classic history. Wear it well..
I’m no biker but I am a watch man so you’ve got a new sub 😊 only stumbled across you because this Zulu Time is going to be my next horological purchase. I’m in the enviable position of being able to get extremely good discount when it comes in to stock where I’m getting it from, can’t wait!
A great history lesson on a local celebrity, with an unfortunate ending. Longines do make some great looking watches that are good quality. The Zulu time carrying on this tradition.
Great video, love the Zulu Time watch so I bought one. Thanks Stuart
My absolute favourite mechanical watch and in the colour I would choose if I was to ever purchase a mechanical watch again.
A true GMT, that in my eye, is the best-looking GMT currently available, very nice watch Stuart ..🙂..
Another great video, the Chanel must be doing well Stu, having moved on from Orient to Longines. You can’t beat a quality watch, and if you buy the right ones they are a good long term investment
Hi, Uncle Stu.
I thought it was about time.
And, it was !
Loved it all.
For all the same reasons Rolex was always the brand that caught my eye. From adventure magazines to 007 it always struck a chord. I have a 2006 Sea Dweller which is my 'go to' and I think it will remain so 😉👍
Double 0 Seven always wore an Omega rather than a Rolex...
@@blueteeth.spooker Sean Connery wore a Rolex Sub Mariner. He was the only James Bond personally selected by the Author Ian Fleming. I also have an Omega, just doesn’t hit the spot in the same way the Rolex does. For me at least.
Well done on the video! Nice editing too. Subscribed!
Wow Stuart, you have me salivating now. 🤤🤤 Like you I'm a watch enthusiast and micro collector. The few I do have are collectable and were acquired second hand. I love this Longines 👌
Another great review.
The big problem for me with watching your reviews is that I must try and maintain a strong mental attitude and self disiplin so as not to spend any more on my overdraft. 😂
Very interesting video Stuart, and a beautiful watch. I was not familiar with the Amy Johnson story. Another unsolved mystery and a very impressive woman. Thanks for your channel. Cheers, Dan ✌️🏍🇨🇦
First time coming across a watch review on a biking channel - who would have thought? Nice one!👍 Picked up a nice watch at a recent UK watch fair, designed by the same guy who created designs for some Morgan Motor Company cars, including their current 3-wheeler. Lots of British watch "microbrands" are out there, just not many manufacturing here - hopefully that will change before much longer🤞. Pity that I'm not wearing mechanical watches while riding as my jacket has magnetic fastenings😢.
I just learned a lot! And I can relate to going deep into the details with the things we love.
The Longines Spirit is a good catch, an historical piece, chronometer certified, and it has a basic or GMT variants, all for a bargain price in the industry.
Personally I have my eye (no pun) the Big Eye in titanium from Longines, an other beautiful heritage piece, with a lot of versatility as a dress or everyday/tool watch.
Whilst looking up the watch it turns out the "caliber"(movement) of this watch is the same as all of their high end and chronograph watches. The ETA 2892A2.
I have a Bremont that is very similar to this watch however I wouldn't mind one in my collection.
Brilliant video as always Stuart and that is one very very nice watch indeed 😃👍🏻
Have you thought about selling double glazing Stuart ?😁. Beautifully described. I also love old school technology where craftsmanship and quality are inherent in a product.
That's a great idea!
Also, have you read ‘The Perfectionists’, by Simon Winchester?
@@dr.chrismort8448 No I have not.
Another great video but unfortunately the discount code doesn’t work for me.
Nice one Stuart, beautiful timepiece....
Ha ha ha.rang the number turned out to be the price 🤣 😄
Top quality review!
Great video (as usual) and very detailed watch review with great videography Stuart. I'm really, very seriously, liking this watch, hmmm and it's bonus time at work soon 🤔 ⌚️ 😀
Beautiful watch Total quality!
Nice one Stuart. Love the green colour way. The ZuLu does remind me of the Rolex oyster range. I have owned a Explorer II for 26 years now and the likeness between the two are very similar. I’m not a watch aficionado but I presume these watchmakers copy each other’s designs to a certain degree.
Stuey deffo seems like royal e prices going through the roof , deffo increased in price pal. From mg11 😉
Longines is really doing good 👍
Nice informative video Stu. I am a sucker for nice expensive watches
Happy Tuesday Stuart. Just read an email from Triumph announcing chrome edition motorcycles and thought of you. Have you seen this, and what do you think of the work?
Lovely watch….does it tell the time? Nice engineering but perhaps it would pay for an additional bike in the garage 🤣. I had a lovely Tissot, an 18th birthday present, but even the Swiss factory couldn’t repair it when it failed. 😕
Longines are very underestimated. My HydroConquest 44mm Automatic is more accurate than my Breitling Chronometre and my Omega Seamaster.
That is a very nice watch Stu
Way out of my league atm, my blue Orient Mako II will have to do. 😂
Hi, I very much want the 39mm version of the Zulu time but can't decide between the blue and your version, have you seen the blue.
I have a blue spirit but its hard to choose a preference between them.
Too big for me ! It'd look like I was wearing a wall clock , got my grans delicate wrists 😄
Beautiful watch though 👍🏻
The original spirit is available in childrens sizes, I'm just trying to remember if they do a black one?
Have the same problem, but it now comes in 39mm. One day this will be mine especially the one with the green bezel 🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤
Have you ever had issues with the time changing when riding?
no
Casio f91. Spend the saving on bullet fuel. Gorgeous watch , the longines though.
Take a look at the Hamilton range wearable quality watches that won't break the bank!
I have several and have reviewed at least one in the past.
Nice
Longines, Hamilton and Tissot are go to watch brands for quality, value and long warranties.
Longines and Hamilton yes but Tissot no,Certina, Mido and especially Rado are light years ahead of Tissot in every single department.Tissot charges 900€ for a Seastar with atrocious braclet and the worse fold over clasp I ever saw,powermatic 80 is a solid movement but Miyota 9000 is
way superior movement.
@@dado380 Hi, you inspired me to do some digging.
Looked at high street retailers for Tissot seastar price' s. Highest being about £620.
Certina, Rado and Mido price's start at a £ 1000 +...
Yes you're right. The above mentioned watches would be better in every department than the Tissot.
No thanks Stuart. Bit pricey at £2850. I'll stick to my Dad's old Rolex Oyster.
👍❤️🙏
You decadent capitalist Stuart🤣🤣🤣, but they are quality
It puts my simple bauhaus Mondane Chronometer into the shade.😂😂
Stuart love your watch choices by stories you inject , although i am the odd guy of the bunch , i still a prisoner of a watch make , that started as a present from a friend a very long time ago , yes a Boctok a Russian watch . Today i still favour them , ok built like tractors and the looks of yesteryear , fancy like kids watches . Got four now all still humming . Two years ago got myself an old amphibia classic with a year 65 movement from Raketa assembled by Vostok and yes it looks darn ordinary but talk of precision , it would bow your mind . This anti vibration and shock rated 20 bars but tested way beyond the norms hums at a + six seconds a day on the wrist , so for myself this precision satisfies me considering the oh so low price of a mechanical marvel , for what you pay for a watch i deam it better to put the savings on one of my bikes . Mind you you still make me drool with your watches .
Take a look at the Hamilton range wearable quality watches that won't break the bank!