All about collecting vintage watches! Not just Rolex, Patek and Royal Oak, but vintage Grand Seiko, vintage Hamilton, military issued watches, Cartier, vintage Casio digital watches, quartz, Electrics and everything what big channels like Hodinkee are missing. The RU-vid channel with some guy who talks with Ukrainian accent about vintage watches.
The fact that you’re saying the watch is “unwearable” and “large” proves you either know nothing about the Speedmaster professional, never tried one on or both. Because the case is actually 39.7mm but Omega includes the pusher protectors in the measurements which makes it “42mm.” Which is why it wears so small. You’re the only one who thinks otherwise. Maybe time to stop doing watch videos until you do a little more research on them.
It’s actually quite the opposite the white dial will visually look bigger. Anything in white always looks 20% bigger than black when you’re talking aesthetics of watches
Hondinkee has no value without Ben. I suspect Ben came back to save his baby. And I also believe nobody was touching Hodinkee unless Ben was going to commit to running it.
You spent 3/4 of the video telling us what the video was going to be about. And then told us the same thing over and over. That there is virtually no way to tell if it is genuine or not.
It's like the white Americans keep saying that Christopher Columbus discovered America. Not even close. The Indians have been living there for thousands of years
Agree to desagree. What you say is partialy nonsense (regarding in house movement). Kenissi emerged as a must for Swiss watchmakers after the 2015 ETA blackmail. Tudor Experience (via Hans Wildorf Foundation-Rolex), Breitling, etc. it cannot be denied and they did not invent the wheel. Eta has been producing the 2842 mechanism for over 40 years. I don't think that Kenissi and its shareholders can afford to release bad products. The movements are constantly evolving and being improved. It is true that we have a new product, but it is based on past experience and we are not facing a new technology that we do not understand. It is normal for the manufacturer to want servicing. In fact, it's like cars. No one fixes your engine or gearbox, they just change them. After 5 years, my MT 5402 is doing great. These debates are bogus.
There's a Dutch company (Bulang and Sons) which has a bonklip bracelet for fixed bar watches. I have one for my MWC W10/445, which has fixes bars. After putting the bracelet over the bars, a little slider can be slid to close the lug holes
@@QuartzCrisis It is, actually. Closing the clasp is also different from other brands. It uses to L (back to back) pieces of steel that needs to be pushed through the space between links. It then locks in place. I need to pull it apart with my fingernails, feels pretty secure.
I like the point, but the only issue here is when you say this reliability "can only be reached with mass produced movements." What about high horology? I don't think Breguet has issues with movement reliability.
I ordered one today from Wallpaper*. At first I wasn't going to, but seeing the limited edition got me intrigued. Thanks for making this video. I was fortunate enough to get a 124060 Submariner September 26th of 2020.
No Rolex was never the first waterproof watch ever! 1915 Rolex was invented! They brought out their first waterproof watch in 1926… Companies Like Fortis and W. Pettit & Co. and François Borge produced them much earlier as far as 20 years earlier!
Hello! I just came across a Movado watch at an estate sale. I am wondering if you can help me correctly identify what I have? This is very confusing and hard for me to understand (lol)! Thank you in advance if so, any help is much appreciated!
@@ZacharyHardman-t4h as I said in the video, you can buy the book, it has the same information but much easier to follow. The Amazon link is in the description
@@naiyang888 it really depends on how much work your watchmaker wants to put in it and how much money are you willing to spend to pay for parts and labour. I was satisfied with +-30 sec/day but these movements can do better than that.
What I'm saying is, can you even find a mint 45GS? It's nearly impossible. And keep in mind, the SLGW005's diameter is closer to the 44GS than the 45GS, and vintage 44GS models fetch even higher prices-especially in mint condition. So, choosing between vintage and reissue is not as straightforward as you make it sound.
@@QuartzCrisis that’s OK but probably best to stick with 36-39mm in that case as 42mm will wear a tad too large. Zenith do some cool chronos in that size.
I first thought the same.... but then i realized that the new ones are in fact much closer to the 4420-9000 then to the 45 KS. - do not look at the watches from birds view (its missleading). but look at the lugs from below. The 45ks lug design is completely different to the 44GS lugs. The main differenece between old and new 44gs is only that the lug to lug was straight in the old version and now some material was.removed to have curved surface there. The lugs on the 45ks is vastly different.
Vintage diver is a BIG risk! You have to service it and make sure it's water tight to its specifications. Seiko is boring watch. There is nothing exciting about Seiko. Even the orange strap don't help its still cheap Seiko
