😂😂😂 I've got 148 watches, all working. Collected them since I was 16, when I got a job. In the last 10 years I've learn how to clean the movement and now I'm taking care of them all the time. I still got the watch from my dad, a 1980 Tissot, it's working better that all the others 😊
@@turbolenza35 it is a little difficult at first, you can see RU-vid videos, depending on what movement you want to work on. There are millions of videos on what to do, how to clean, what kind of tools you need
As someone with a small collection of quartz watches and only 1 automatic watch, sometimes it gets annoying to keep setting the time on the automatic if I haven't worn it for a few days.
I’m in the Chronic Terminal Phase where I scratched an expensive one on a parking meter, and now I relapsed back to a Seiko 5 and the Swiss Safe Queens are safe once more. And I am into Vintage Cameras as well!!! Having a sweet enabler as a wife is key to this Disease Process.
Esspecially when it stops not exposed to light in order to save batterylife and then comming back to life when exposed to light again. That's why I prefer japanese watches over those from Swiss. Japanese watches are better and more suitable in the everyday usage.
@@carpentersson77left my 12+ years old solar powered Seiko in a drawer for the past 2 years and the battery died. Now waiting for a replacement accumulator to come in the service where I left them and I miss them more than I have over the 2 years when I didn't wear them. Stupid me
Agreed. I started with tissot and never stopped buying. Said to myself only three watches for tEveryday, dress, diver type. Now buying more watches for different colour and style combinations 😂
You're telling me to not get an IWC Portugieser Eternal Calendar, an automatic. If I ever get the money, I will certainly get this watch, one of the most incredible on Earth.
This is literally word for word what happened to me.. Seiko 5 gmt 1st ever automatic, then about 2 weeks later somehow mesmerised by the Christopher ward 12ti blue fumè dial obsessed with how I could buy one for a month before if course I did, now 2 months down the road and I've just had my omega aqua Terra bumblebee delivered.. I think I'm in big trouble 😮.. Help!
Except that once you buy your grail watch, it isn't a grail watch anymore, and you always seem to find the next "grail" watch. Like Lays...You can't eat just one.
I stopped buying watches in 2017 with the purchase of two automatic timepieces: a diver (SMPc, black lacquer dial) and a racing chronograph (Carrera Heuer 01, non-skeleton). I have them in my daily rotation so that none of them should stop working 😊.
I started with an oris bcdp but I think im gonna pick up a gold pvd prx quartz as a secondary. Anyway I can get your help finding a secondary bracelet for the 40mm oris? 600ish $ is a bit too high atm lol
Check out Strapcode, Uncle Seiko, and Islander. They make some of the best third party bracelets I've found on the market. But you'll most likely need to get a straigth lug version. I'm not sure if any brands make third party bracelets custom fitted to Oris (I may be wrong!)
I would say Don’t start with a cheap seiko. Instead spend 500-1000 on your first automatic. If you like it congrats onwards and upwards and if you don’t like to interact with it, well now you’ve a watch that you wear on special occasion that gets interests from others
Yes, this is true. But thankfully I learned after buying my second Seiko 5 Sport series. I’m done for watches. I got 3 that are for different occasions and that’s that.
My first watch was a Luminox Navy Seal 3051 for my conscript service. Great great watch. Then I bought a Luminix Constellation Automatic and it's still my main watch. I want a Tudor GMT but they're still out of my price range so maybe a microbrand GMT will do.
Really? I just bought the ADDIESDIVE MY-H2 Automatic Pilot 'Sterile version'. Stainless steel case and bracelet, with the Seiko Caliber NH35A movement inside. No logo, no nonsense functionality or adornments. Just time and date. Awesome.
I was shocked when I put back on my only (new to me) automatic and saw that the time was wrong. Thought it was broken! Wait a minute... Hadn't worn it for a few days. No more automatics for me.
I own so many watches that I have a spreadsheet to track them, and track where they are. I own everything from my Swiss Army watch that only cost me $125 30 years ago on up to my Rainbow Daytona and Patek Philippe 5990R, and everything inbetween. I even own the ultra rare Rolex Daytona 24 Hours of Le Mans 100th Anniversary. My watch collection is worth more than my house. My car collection is also worth more than my house. I need help. Haha.
Sometimes I think its better when I was just buying Rolex and Rado coz it takes me about 2 years or so to buy a new one, until I got into seiko's and now I have 13 pieces in just 1 year. And still looking at stores like, FB marketplace, kijiji, ebay, amazon, etc.
Automatic watches and expensive watches are one of the biggest scams going, next to women's handbags for tens of thousands of dollars. The expensive watches tell you the time, the expensive hand bags hold stuff...all of which can be accomplished by similar and often better products for a fraction of the price.
I never buy automatic watches. They will NEVER be as accurate as a quartz. Also require regular servicing, and that's just too much hassle. Go for a kinetic or solar quartz, robust, accurate and way better than an automatic
I started off buying a $80 Seiko field watch (the one in the video) then a couple of Pagani Design AliExpress watches and laughed at the idea of suckers buying a Rolex for crazy money. 4 years and around 40 watches later I've got a collection of 15 watches and I'm genuinely on the brink of buying a 40mm Rolex explorer because, you know, 4x Tudors just don't scratch the itch anymore... all this while driving a 13 year old car. This is not a joke... don't do it! 😂
I realize that we claim a lot that girls are very materialistic, but then you realize that men have it too. It’s just that we don’t call it out like the Stanley Cup is more common with girls. Just collecting it. But guys do it all the time be with computers or even for this watches it’s just materialistic wasteful practice being promoted on platforms, as if it’s something helpful instead of addressing the issue at hand stop people from spending unnecessary amount of money on useless piece of metal that doesn’t really make a difference between the one they already had encouraging this type of behaviour is so much environmental issues since we we never use we just clutter and gather and hoard and forget that some people don’t even have one but you have like 10 100 but one is enough stop being selfish because at the end you do not need it it’s unnecessary and it does selfishness when you do not acknowledge the issue that some people don’t even have one but you’ll Hord and call it a collection
It is the story of every collector: A 1/12 Batman figure with 5 point of movements. Oh I did not know there was a 1/12 with 14 point of movements, I need to buy it. Oh the figure of the latest batman film is fantastic and I love the film. Well, this will be the last one but I will buy a storage furniture, just in case.
Yehhhhhh..... Prettymuch..... I bought a simple automatic watch, no new features..... THEN.... I found out about rotating bezels and dive watches. So i bought one of those, and then I found out about chronographs for racing. And then I found out that you can get 1000m dive watches...... Then theres automatic wandering hour movements..... Point being hes spot on, stick with the apple watch my friends, the amount of money you will save....
I own two automatic watches. Been wearing watches since I was a grade schooler. Don’t care to get any of these features. I own an SKX and an INOX, both can read time. Thats all I care about. As for power reserve, $30 automatic watch winder when I’m not wearing them.
Quartz watches suck, expensive automatic watches suck, accurate watches are pointless. The reality is you don’t need a watch. If you do need a reliable watch there’s cheap automatic watches out there with in house movements so reliable that you can get away without servicing for 30 years and by that time you could buy a new one for less then the cost of a service……if you know you know 😎
I got tired of setting it. I just bought one of those watch cases that spins. I only have one automatic... But now i need to buy more cause those slots are empty lol
Why the hell would I want a cheap quartz watch , unless I work for NASA i really don’t want to count for every second . A watch is like jewellery with a function. It’s an art . So all you quartz wearers stop winging . You are not astronauts. That’s why automatic watches cost so much. It’s an art. 😊
Nah... there's always something better. I managed to stick to two automatics, and I don't get that feeling at all. All mechanical watches are hugely compromised modern antiques... Who cares if your watch doesn't have a certain complication? You already made the call to pay lots of money for something less capable than a $100 Casio, so worrying about the fact that it is inferior when that tiny digital Casio or Citizen is objectively better is kind of silly. Just buy that automatic if you like it and be fully aware it's not as good as a Casio. If you know that you won't be desperate to upgrade to something else that's still not as good as a Casio but costs as much as a car.
My go to is a Citizen eco drive atomic. I have 9 of them. Never have to set them. I do have 2 other citizens that aren't atomic. Several Casio watches. Lots of invictas. If I was going to say no and warn others NOOOOOOOOOO. IT WOULD BE A INVICTA WITH A RUBBER STRAP. THE RUBBER IS GARBAGE. TWO YEARS MAYBE..... THE STRAP HAS A CRACK. I DO HAVE AN AUTOMATIC. I DONT WEAR IT. I DO LIKE IT THOUGH
