A Watch Enthusiast's PERFECT 5 Watch Collection 

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When my collection still consisted of only 5 pieces, I insisted on not being a collector, no way! Now, some 25 years and exactly 85 watches later I can't say that with conviction anymore.

Nice!! The small German watch makers are so impressive. More content on those companies would be awesome. Thanks for your awesome videos. Truly the best on RU-vid!!

Finally, a way for me to have hard boiled eggs and my wife to have them soft boiled. Gonna pick up one of those A. Lange and Sohnes. Thanks

That A. Lange & Soehene is from another universe. Both in functions and in execution ! For us, ordinary humans, that Jaeger LeCoultre should fit the bill perfectly ! If only our mind could rule our heart !

That Lange Triple Split is ❤‍🔥❤‍🔥❤‍🔥

The ALS is simply stunning

That dornbluth is stunning.

The last piece, the A. Lang & Sohne is just totally crazy, the two chronographs on top of each other... I mean, you are never gonna use it, trully no, but the fact that it can do is far more satisfying that knowing that your Submariner can go 300 meters or so into the ocean. Love it!

Let alone all 5 watches, I can spend the rest of my life with this A. Lange & Sohne TRIPLE SPLIT watch! It's easily the greatest watch made or probably top 3 great watches made ever! And it's stunningly beautiful!

This video is like a rollercoaster. Starts with a Casio and I was like oh, are we gonna go that route? And from there we went to Moser, that's like having molten chocolate cake straight after salad. Wait lol what now?? Quite a lot of dark horse picks except the Lange triple split so gotta give props to that. I would have included a Breguet just because if you ask me.

I always look forward to your excellent videos. I really appreciate you highlighting so many watch brands that for whatever reason seem to be under the radar so to speak. Your analysis is always fresh and to the point. Great effort!!

The JLC is gorgeous. The Lange is sublime.

I bought the Dornbluth 99.1-Medium last year. Fantastic watch! Even at first look it makes a real statement. Totally has that German look ... so clean, precise and elegant, but also comfortable and unpretentious. And that movement!!! Just glorious!

Incredible list. Exquisite watches, and the macro views are soooo lovely. I get lost looking into that Moser. Simply beautiful.

Great video, the D. Dornblüth & Sohn Caliber 99.1 Medium is now on my radar, many thanks for continuing to introduce us to watches and expanding our knowledge and enjoyment of the hobby.

"bringing it back down to Earth again" *Dornbluth handcrafted masterpiece* what

Thanks for yet another great video, very thought provoking as always. Personally, my own “thinker” would insist in a radio/solar Casio, no need to worry the grey matter as to if the time was accurate or when a new battery would (not) be needed. Keep well!

Measuring the time of two boiling eggs using the split second hands of L&S ... I love your comments! 😄 ❤ Great content as always! 👍

Some of the best watch content on RU-vid. Keep up the good work

That Dornbluth & sohne is Beautiful!

That Moser gives me the feels. So beautiful 😍. Thanks for another great video!

Thanks for reminding me that I need a Dornbluth in my life. ⌚️

That last entry just became my dream watch, being the kind of guy to hang out at trackdays to record laptimes of different cars to help the drivers and teams to with their setup, this watch is what I need

I’m glad to see Moser pioneer on the list. Don’t forget it also comes with an optional stainless steel bracelet, which makes it even more versatile.

One of your best videos yet!!!

Some really great choices. For me, my Speedmaster racing Panda dial gets the chronograph nod, a Stowa Fleiger (36mm) manual would get the tool watch/aviator spot (they have a gorgeous bronze cased model available), a diver would be covered by a Black Bay Steel, dress watch would go to something vintage (picked up a Longines from the 40’s that had a great Cartier Tank feel to it but funkier), and a Blancpain Leman day/night double time zone would probably get the complication watch spot (or a Jaeger master control calendar).

I'm new to watches, and found you after the Nico video. Your content is of the highest standard. Subscribed.

The thing that he mentions about the extra subdials... its so true..I always want a chronograph... even though I have no need for it. It just looks stunning... for whatever psychological reasons

The shot of the H. Moser & Cie with the seconds hand fixed to the camera position (I assume the watch is spinning on a lazy susan at one rotation per minute while the camera focused on the seconds hand?) was genuinely impressive. I'd love a behind the scenes of what it takes to make a Watchfinder video.

That bezel scratch on the Moser at 2:48 😬 ouch. Another exceptional video mr. Hands! Keep it up.

A Lange & Söhne triple split my favourite piece

G Shock GA2100 and a Lange Triple Split in the same collection. The world's most interesting person, I reckon.

My five watch collection 1) 35 quid ebay 70s gb timex 32mm - every day office watch until it goes ping 2) Grandads 70s omega cushion case deville - posh occasions 3) grandads ww2 omega from the signals - perfect story watch 4) Namica shiramama - for holidays when it arrives 5) casio f91w for all the times I want to tell the time

Great selection!. Thank you!.

I didn't think this channel had the connections to get their hands on a G-shock.

this channel is pretty relaxing

I am very impressed with the selection, especially the AL&s Triple split, there is a spare part of my anatomy that I would give for one😁 ( Seiko and Tissot Quartz Chronos have a split second function without the extra hand🤔)

Great video as always!

love your stuff

Haha during the video I thought to myself "damn all these watches might actually be in range to buy at some point in my life" and then you slap the Lange in my face :D

AMAZING COLLECTION

Daily beater: Hublot Classic Fusion Weekend wear: Breitling Superocean Heritage Nicer wear: Rolex DJ OP 1980s two tone champagne tapestry dial Dress watch: Glashütte Panomaticlunar

Brilliant video.

Lange is the ultimate 1 and done. Time to look at indep. like FPJ, DB, MBF, Moser, etc.

As a man named Reggie, I appreciate the intro haha. felt hand crafted! Excellent video.

This is a great video! Like you mentioned about D. Dornbluth & Sohn. If you could make more videos about these german companies would be awesome! I just purchased D. DornBluth & Sohn Zeigerdatum Quattro. What an incredible elegant piece! Thank you for the video….always learning more with you guys!

Nice video. Keep up the good work.

Definitely a Dornbluth for me.

Lange is the only watch I'd love to wear upside down all the time...They are just insaaaaaaaane..😍😍😍

Greetings from Metro Atlanta Georgia USA! Long time fan of the Channel. First time reaching out to you. Keep up the great content. My wife who is not into watches, recently said, she likes your channel. We recently bought a "CasiOak" for each of us. Thanks for highlighting this timepiece. This vid is totally not what most would expect from a watch collection and that's so cool! Cheers!⌚

It would be nice if A. Lange could house that triple split in a somehow reversible case, so you can wear it movement side up until you actually need to use it.

Glad to see I have 3 of the 5

I bought my Casio GA2100 a few months ago because of you and Nico, thank you mate 😊

Great call on the Casioak

I have a 5 piece watch collection. Sinn 203 Ti AR, Wittnauer vintage , Casio w-800, Seiko 5 SNK371K1, Seiko 5 SNKD97J1.

My god you were not lying, what a collection!

My picks before watching the video: Daily Wears~ 1. Rolex - Submariner 2. Omega - Speedmaster From what I've seen, almost every enthusiast with a >$100,000 collection has both of these pieces and for good reason. They are perhaps the two most iconic pieces around, and from two very highly sought after brands. These pieces will represent the daily wears/sports watches for the collection Dress Watches~ 3. A. Lange Söhne - Lange 1 Refined, technical, and beautiful, the Lange 1 line is one of the most beloved by enthusiasts. There is no space wasted on the dial and the movement is simply stunning. 4. Jaeger LeCoultre - Reverso DuoFace Small Seconds The ultimate enthusiast collection would feel incomplete without an entry from JLC, the watchmaker's watchmaker. This piece is an icon and provides a decidedly different element than the Lange, despite offering its own form of fanciful class. 5. Grand Seiko - Snowflake When considering the world of luxury watchmaking and its many offerings, Grand Seiko stands alone as one of the truly unique brands with its Spring Drive movements. Enthusiasts also enjoy the unique and innovative dial on this piece as well as the Zaratsu polishing.

That H. Moser is beautiful and I have never seen anything like the triple split, but that is almost a down payment on a house. The H. Moser is obtainable.

Unreal collection

I love finding small brands I've never known about or would ever seem to know

in my own opinion I make a point. Swiss brands tend to come off snobbish while German brands let the piece do the talking for itself.

I’m rebuilding my collection now. After selling a ton last year, my rose gold Kudoke 2 arrived in February to accompany a Submariner date and a G Shock. Then I added a medium sized Santos de Cartier to add a non round watch which replaced both a Moser Streamliner and a Parmigiani Tonda GT. Now I’m trying to get my hands on a very limited Naoya Hida NH TYPE 2C-1 Lettercutter.

Every single watch is amazing, with emphasis on JLC! Would like to see some Japanese hidden Gems as well, like Kurono Tokyo :)

It’s so nice to see a suggested collection without a ceramic bezel.

I just like unusual beautiful pieces.

Thanks

Seiko Tuna Grand Seiko SBGH255 A. Lange and Sohne Datograph Perpetual FP Journe Souverain Ulysses Nardin Freak

All good till that grail at the end hehe! If you have an A.lange in your collection, you've achieved a pinnacle collection :) ridiculously beautiful pieces!!!

I can feel the scratch at 2:47 in my soul

Thank you for this video. Sad that D.Dornblüth & Sohn is not available in Singapore 😭

(1) For me the adventurer's watch is my Traser Pioneer P96 with a personalized print and etching remembering time my brother spent in a specialist unit (also a gift from him). Tritium lume seems ideal for this purpose to me. (2) My professional (office) watch will have to be a Straum Opphav Damasmus in white. Quite a looker. Goes well with black, grey and blue suits. (3) As I'm having use for timing things in the office too, and ride to work on a bike, my pick for an "office chrono" is a Junghans Form C (white) of minimalist aesthetics. Quartz can't be beaten for accuracy, realibilty and a grab'n'go attitude on hectic family mornings when you should already be at your work desk. Especially with chronos I found I am not found of the added height of mechanic movements (dress shirts compatibility). Thus for leisure pursuits I'm quite content with Seiko Meca-Quartz SSB031 worn on a black rallye band with red stitching or its white equivalent (SSB025) with a beads-of-rice bracelet for the summer. But my real pick for this category would actually not be the chrono, but the GMT traveller watch instead, and I'd pick my Zodiac "Sherbet" here. (4) My favorite everyday watch which wins most wrist-time (due to excellent wearability) is easily a blue Frederique Constant Highlife (sometimes on bracelet, other times on rubber), which would be replaced by a blue Vacheron Constantin Overseas, if I were to win the lottery. The realistic replacement someday here will be a blue Tudor Pelagos titanium. To match the outfit I'm wearing, alternatively a Mido Ocean Star 200 Titanium (anthracite/orange) or an Oris Okavango (green) stand ready. (5) However, for the complication watch, - here comes the anti-climax - I'd settle with my Casio ProTrek PRW-30-1AER, because the compass is doing it for my outdoors activities, and is a very useful complication, even if you've also packed a real compass.

Here to just enjoy cuz I don’t have money ✌️

I have the same Casio, only in white. A JLC as well. Reverso red dial, small seconds. A Longines "Zulu time" on a strap. A Sub, and a Vacheron fifty-six. I have more but those are my play on "thinkers watches". Very good videos by the way.

Nice collection options--pretty sick of seeing the Sub, Speedy, Reverso, Pepsi must have collection.

I would add in a Frederique Constant Index (which I own) and a Junghans Max Bill Chronoscope (which I don't) for some entry level pieces that really pop for the price.

I really like that JLC! My current 5 are: BLNR OP39 White Seiko SLA037 Cartier Calibre silver dial Casioak grey

Beautiful video. Please feature the Omeg Speedmaster Reduced. It deserves a bit of attention amongst the vast lineup of Speedmasters. Thank you 😊

I love the triple split. Lange is simply fantastic and one of a kind! Rolex made a triple split too, and patented it, but never produced it for the market sadly.

I currently have a JLC Master Control Date (current gen) and a Panerai Luminor Marina. Thinking of a steel for my next one in a few years.

6:18 well yeah, that is where i work 😂

Manna from heaven!

Zenith Georges Favre-Jacot fusee and chain. I just like it.

I would have replaced the Dornbluth with any white dial automatic NOMOS. The collection already have timers at the 2 extreme ends. The NOMOS can go from office to cocktail to dinner to weekends …with almost any age and dress code, and cheaper. And always a little cooler than the masses in every situations. And a different JLC, a gold Reverso, preferably the Tribute. This will fill the gap in having a formal gold watch, but can slid into semi formal or business casual situations because of its shape and history as a sport watch. Also this will give an alternative to the round shape of the rest of the collection.

I have a Seiko Alpinist Reinterpretation (subtle green dial) as fieldwatch option. A vintage King Seiko 5626 as dresswatch. (50 years old and runs between +0 and +1 second per day. Absolutely insane movement. Also the finishing beats everything from switzerland from that period of time) A Citizen Promaster as beater/diver(i don't really dive but i like a watch i could wear while swimming). A Vintage swiss Chronograph with diving Bezel as everyday-watch (From the brand Pierce that fell victim to the Quartz-Crisis but they were the first ones that made Chronographs waterproof) And a Casio CFX-200 as Digital watch. It is by far the King among all calculator-watches because it is a scientific-calculator. (Very expensive in good condition but absolutely worth it)

Lovely! I have one of those 5 great watch! Casio. 😝

When I’m outdoors I reach for my trusty f-91w. The Geneva stuff comes out at dinner :)

You’re so right about G Shock

I have the CasiOak so I just need the AL&S to make my collection complete,. Woof!

The JLC has some critical movement issues. If you search online you’ll find multiple reports of stuttering, stalling chrono seconds hands and watches that have been sent in multiple times for service to address the issue.

Thing is of course, people with 5 watch collections like this, just don't have 5 watch collections. Many years ago I had a collection of over some 100 pieces before selling off around 80 in one of my all-time bone-headed moves. But this was back in the day when people collected for the joy of it, rather than what they could make out of it. Imagine that if you can!

Id love to see a a review on the Glasshutte Original Seventies i’m Blue or Green, or perhaps the Zenith Chronomaster 2 open dial

I would just like to add... I scale mountains and wear a Garmin Fenix series on my left wrist and a Hamilton Khaki Auto on my right. The Garmin has died on me a few times, but the Hamilton has never failed me. There's still a place for automatic or mechanical watches in the world of adventuring today.

I’ve only been into watches for a couple years. And it’s funny how many paths I’ve taken in such a short amount of time. I’m by no means rich but I managed to come across some nice watches in that span. However I can’t ever make up my mind and have let many pieces go as well. At first I only wanted divers. Then I wanted a piece for every occasion. Then I realized I don’t go to fancy places so I sold my dress pieces. Then I went through a rugged quartz g shock faze. Then I said to myself these aren’t real pieces. So I wanted a piece from every region. So had a French, German, Swiss, Japanese, Italian and even a Made in USA watch. Then I sold those because I wanted to go back to the beginning. Back to Divers …. LOL. In that span I’ve had about 25 different watches . I now have only 8. What I’ve come to realize is that there’s never gonna be a set number or set style, but instead it’s a lifelong journey of collecting and ridding watches. Experiencing many and having fun with the whole thing. My collection as of now is Seiko SPB143, Sinn 556i, Citizen Aqualand, Orient Maestro, Zenith Quartz Diver, GShock GW5610, Casio F91w, and a charitable piece from Triwa with Humanium metal made from recycled guns. This will change as time goes on.

The adventure watch - seiko alpinist (the expensive one with the leather bund) The professional thing - CWC diver (the watch that took over from the submariner in the British navy) The office dolly - grand seiko 37mm quartz, blue or silver. (perfect every day piece) The chronograph one - not a chrono but a jlc duo face blue and silver. Just gorgeous. Massive history. Interesting. Final unique piece of genius - grand seiko constant force tourbillon. Holy cow that's a watch!

My kind of list.. 😁

The Casio oak does what the Rolex used to do in collectors circles I would imagine, a thoughtfully chosen one screams I have some cool shit at home that I treat right.

D. Dornblüth & Sohn

Lovely selection. For my perfect 5: Casio Royale (currently wearing it) as the beater watch; dad's 1955 Rolex Oyster Precision (currently getting a new mainspring for $2600) for my dress watch; Omega OP for my diver; Straton Speciale for my chronograph; & Minase 5-Windows for my weekend funky watch.

that last watch is $200K+...