MY WATCH JOURNEY | PERSONAL WATCH STORIES | ROLEX/TUDOR/CARTIER/TIMEX/LORUS/SEIKO/INGERSOLL 

I think the next watch will be some sort of JLC Reverso! I'm honestly surprised you don't have one in your collection considering your love for dress watches, how that watch suits your lifestyle and fashion wear and how different it is from your current collection. I think it makes perfect sense, just my $0.02 though.

The Seiko is probably a period homage of the Patek Philippe Golden Ellipse. Very elegant piece.

My next watch will be a Santos de Cartier in medium. It will be a birthday present for myself next march. 🙂

It's a great collection! Thanks for sharing the story behind it. Cheers!

Similar story. My dad had an old Ingersoll laying about that I had my eye on at the age of 6 or 7. He said if you learn to tell the time, you can have it. Well, I didn't need any more encouragement than that! It was too big, of course, but that only added to the charm of pretending to be a man. He put some new holes in the strap & I wore it around for ages. Always wonder what became of it. I'd like to think it's still around in some box in the attic.

I have a rolex datejust 36 that I use for everything. I play golf with it, I use it in the sauna and when I train. I love it.

Great stuff Ash. I've decided I want just one great watch. And be done with it. Saving for IWC Spitfire

Lovely collection! I’m an Explorer owner and don’t think I’ll ever part with it, but I do see the appeal of the Cartier

The Rolex pieces are decent & the others have nice sentiment. A JLC ultrathin moon, a 1908 or else a Calatrava could be a nice add for the mature gent 👍🏻

I share a similar experience with a Seko dive watch that I bought for myself when I completed basic training (USAF) in 1985. It stayed on my wrist for over a decade until it started gaining time. I still have it but never had it repaired. Every time I look at it, it brings back memories (mostly good ones) Thanks Ash!

Nice collection and journey. Thanks for sharing. Im a bit of an IWC admirer, and have a Portugieser next on my list. Am also interested in a Santos, a new Seamaster and actually like the new Oris Great Barrier Reef edition. The journey never ends.

Beautiful watch journey my friend and amazing collection!!!!

Awesome that you’ve kept all those pieces from your journey through life and watch collecting. I wish I still had all the watches from my youth to share with my young son. Thanks for sharing.

Great journey. Thanks for sharing, agree you never forget those early tool watches.

Great journey you took us on here. I have an explorer in 36mm and then I got the green dial OP. I don’t really wear the explorer now as the fit of the OP is so much better for me. Been considering selling it as you did. I’d love a rootbeer one day. That’s my “grail watch” so to speak. Something about the colour tones just speaks to me!

I really wish I’d kept some of my early watches. My first watch was a simple digital watch bought for Xmas by my parents. It was a Phollisonic. Not sure if I spelt that right. Been obsessed with watches ever since. I have about 20 now.

Ash, I enjoyed your watch journey, as it is similar to mine. I started with a mechanical Timex as a boy, my parents bought me a Seiko almost identical to yours (mine has a rectangular case). I traded my Sub and my DJ for a perfect 18238 Day Date, box and papers, just back from a complete overhaul service at Rolex. I kept my Explorer, my green dial OP36 and my Tudor BB58. I am done buying watches now that I have my grail. Cheers!

Great collection! We both have a few of the same timepieces. It is wonderful that you actually WEAR & USE these watches! You don’t baby them and let them sit in the drawer! Same here! And while it still pains me to slowly put scratches on them, I have come to appreciate this as part of the natural beauty and patina of wearing a fine timepiece. Cheers!

as kid in the 80is , i had bunch of swatch , and few digital casio , still got one of thows digital casio still works , thow the 90is was not wearing watch , and got a good swatch with metal case and braslet , in mid 2000 but lost it when riding my motocyle , and start again wearing watch just few years again and i like now 70is mechanical ,

Thanks for the wrist shots.

Very useful interesting videos, I like listening to them, thank u.

Nice collection review. Lovely stories about your earlier watches.

I really enjoyed this,in particular your first piece as a child. I remember mine but it’s long lost. I would also like to add the Cartier. Keep up the excellent work.

Lovely collection Ash. I had a Timex very similar to your Ingersol. I loved it and have actually tried to find a replacement and am tempted by some of the new Timex models.

Great watch collection Ash. I'm with you l really like your Date Just and the sub Mariner. It is cool that you still have all your watches from your childhood and early life. Thanks for sharing. cheers Ron

Just brought a Tudor black bay 58 Navy. Love it

Magnificent collection and priceless stories!❤

What a great video! I like how you are sharing your video sitting outside. Incredible Journey- the root beer is stunning. Always loved it. Keep sharing….🎉🎉

I’m a little bit in the same boat as you with being a little bored, well not bored but a little missing with Rolex and I’m finding the Cartier tank and the jlc reverso very enticing. I’d possibly sell the Pepsi to free up funds then add a nice reverso to the collection. Great vid 👍

Great collection, that Pepsi on jubilee you’re lucky it’s the beat combination, must keep it. Your next piece should be a Patek Ellipse, white gold, blue dial 👌🏽✨ they are a bargain, jump on it before it’s too late!

Ash, can you do an episode on your t-shirts?

Lovely collection Ash, what is next? Personally I think you should get rid of the Pepsi and buy something that you enjoy!

Interesting that you retained these 'milestones' of your life, impressive too. My watches were not retained but I remember them all especially the 'rugged' quartz watches had throughout my 26 military years. Wish I'd kept them!

So great that you still have your Ingersoll. My first was a Dugena when I was six or so. I tested it’s water resistance in a bucket of water. That was a big mistake. lol Your first Seiko looks stunning. Now I own about eighty watches and I should sell a lot of them. My favorites at this time are a WISE Adamascus and a Seiko Turtle. Enjoy yours! :) 🕐⚙️🍸

An interesting and enjoyable presentation. Timex and Tissot where my first and second watches. Owned and discarded many other watches during the intervening years. Expensive and not so. These days I only ever keep 3 wearable watches. When shooting waterfalls and rugged landscapes with a camera of course, then there is no more comfortable, reliable and stress free icon than a Lorus lumibrite on a Nato. I'll send you my calendar at Christmas.

I don't agree though that Cartier can be regarded as a "lesser" brand vs. Rolex. Cartier, like JLC, IWC are for those in the "know" with no aspirations to be a rapper. The Rolexes are cool and having two GMT masters - wow, what a feat. Lovely collection, well done. We're all envious!

I especially enjoyed your reminiscences, Ash, about the watches you owned as a child, adolescent, and young adult. Of your luxury watch collection, I especially appreciate your Datejust with the blue dial, and your recent acquisition of the Cartier Santos. I don't think I even owned a watch as a child, but by my high school years, I acquired a 1953 Omega "bumper" automatic from my maternal grandfather, and I wore that exclusively until I purchased my Rolex Datejust, back in 2008.

I'm actually in Switzerland right now and have access to a few Daytonas and other such grails. I think I'll just enjoy my current collection rather than pulling so much out of my investments. Glad to see all you have.

Great collection , Good for you with the Cartier class or trend.

Ash your childhood watch has your heart and soul rolex only has your money.

Even though I'm not in the market for watches, I really enjoy these videos. I like how you are not shoving down products on our throats, but talk about life experiences, and honest preferences. Really enjoyable watch (no pun intended :)

Love the colour scheme on the timex 😊. My God the Pepsi on jubilee is a stunning watch

Ash you have an amazing back story to all the watches and I'm so impressed you have back to age 6! Wow! My history only goes back to my college years as before that I wore cheap Timex iron man watches that would break every year or so and I would toss them and just buy another for $40. My entry into real watches began in 1998 with a quartz Tag Heuer which I still have today!

I had the exact same Lorus and wore it for many years. Very good field watch for the money and bombproof. Current tool watch is a Traser p59 with tritium luminescence. Dress watch is a '50's IWC in 18ct.

Wow, that Seiko is gorgeous!

Really enjoyed hearing your journey and seeing your humble beginnings. It's lovely. I'll always keep my vintage 34mm Enicar, and my G shock, while I save for my "grail " IWC... your Datejust is brilliant. Personally I'm very much over the Rolex brand and style so I would only keep that DJ , but everyone is different. Great video

I really love your channel, mostly watch content is what I follow. Your take on Rolex is so straight forward and so relatable even though I never got to buy one retail. I steered towards omega and one Tudor watch. But in the future I will continue to steer away towards Cartier or JLC instead. I really hate playing games like it’s a psycho gf. 😅 Watch collecting is a journey not a sprint, and you’re presenting it always as such and love watching these vids

I love my Root Beer. Mine is the 16713 and in reality mine is chalk and cheese from yours but it’s so much fun on wrist. A GP is a great next addition to the collection.

It was astonishing that you still had your very first watch. You my friend are a true watch inspiration. I don’t have my first watch, let alone even remember it. I loved listening about you watch collecting journey. One question, why did you get stopped in Texas and did he give you a citation after you told him you too were in law enforcement? Love your channel and keep up the fine work.

Great story-when I was 6, keeping and telling time on my Caravelle was my ticket out of the house😂. Headed to London (from USA) in a couple of months for the Last Might of the Proms🇬🇧

I very much enjoy your watch videos. This watch journey video was a great update! If you ever want to sell that blue datejust roulette…let me know :). All the best!

Interesting video. I too started with a manual wind watch at about 6yobut a few years later pestered my parents into getting me what was a ladies LED watch, which were the 'cool' thing to have but had plummeted in price so that they were affordable, probably because everyone realised that having to press a button to see the time was a rubbish idea! For your next watch, have you considered a British microbrand? Farer do cases that are in between square and round (eg the Tonneau), or if you can live with another round case, AnOrdain with their amazing enamel dials?

P.S. I bought a Lorus steel field watch with Seiko Lumibrite on the dial. 37mm. This watch is amazing. 🕐⚙️🍸

Great to see how you wear your watches regularly with the excellent signs of life on them.

Great collection Ash. I’ve ordered the Tudor Blackbay GMT 39mm on rubber. Should receive it in August. I think its nickname is the Diet Coke next to the Rolex Coke.

First watch an Ingersoll like yours, then two manual wind Seikos followed by a Casio digital which was always set to the 24hr. clock. My first “ expensive “ watch was a Seiko quartz chronograph with a second time zone/alarm function which I bought in 1969. I wore it 24/7 for 20 years, it ran at minus 19s/yr. and still does ,the current battery has been in this watch for 14 yrs. when I thought it was too scratched I bought another Seiko chronograph because I had to time a lot of tests at work. Some time later I bought my first automatic watch , a green Seiko Alpinist . After that the madness started , German, Swiss, Chinese, Russian, followed by a large Zenith collection but that is another story. Why any of this would be of any interest to anyone but ourselves is odd but we are lifelong watch enthusiasts.

You're doing bloody well for a police and military pension, haha. When I was in the RM, I wore a Casio F91W. Now it's the Explorer 36mm that travels the world with me.

I would like to get two Cartier Tanks someday, one with a black leather strap and one with a brown one. I would also like to get a Grand Seiko watch or an Omega Sea Master

Lovely collection ❤ Like hearing from someone else (who even owns rolex) that they are taking it too far. My feeling as well. My favorite watch is a rado diastar. Many hate the look, but I love it.

This is the difficulty after going on Santos. I got mine XL version last year, haven't bought any new watches this year. Still considering on JLC Master Ultra Thin Moon rose gold, but it's gonna be rarely worn unless on special dinner events.

a very cozy lamp video

Great video ash! Hope you'll get the chance to experience the Glashutte Original SeaQ models. They're world class and perfect for a post-Rolex-hype collection

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You should buy a Reverso if you like square watches that’s an Icon

Nice video❤

I feel exactly the same about Rolex, I have had them since the early 90’s and whilst I still love the designs, the whole AD thing has put me right off. Look at the Reverso, I have a mid size small seconds duoface, and I love it.

Time for a JLC! But bravo, sir. This is your best video yet!

Very nice collection, i think you should get rif of your pepsi ,just because something is saught after doesn't mean to its for you , you said yourself you prefer the rootbeer. Use the money to get a JLC , a GO something with a complication, or something with class and elegance a moritz grossmann or chopard .

Good collection

The quartz ones, make sure you remove the old batteries, as they may corrode

Casio F91-W or go home!!! Seriously, great collection sir. Well presented also.

I think any watch collection should include the ultimate beater watch like a G-Shock or even an a casio f91w. Great if you are a jeans and t-shirt/polo shirt guy. Then use your savings on one expensive dress watch when you need it. A two watch collection done! 😁

Thank you for sharing. If you would like to get your Seiko working again there is a gentleman in the UK that is very skilled at fixing quartz Seiko. His RU-vid Chanel is called My RetroWatches.

Interesting video. I really wish that I could display all the watches I’ve owned, but sadly, I have no idea what has become of most of them. Like you, I am fascinated with time and timepieces. I know that I owned a Timex when I was young, possibly my first watch. I think it may have been a gift from my parents. At some point I bought a Casio digital watch that I wore for several years. I wanted a nicer looking watch when I was in my early twenties and got a Citizen quartz that I liked a lot. It’s still around somewhere in the house and I really need to find it. After that I had a couple non-descript watches until I treated myself to my first “good” watch. It was a Tissot PR50 that I still have and love and wear as a dress watch. Very recently (like, 3 weeks ago) my wife wanted to buy me a special gift for our anniversary and I chose a Seiko GMT automatic.

Thanks for taking the time and letting us watch. If you wear the non working watches, time won't pass you by. You jumped out of an airplane wearing a parachute? Sometimes the traditional ways prove to be the best.

Ash, I love all the watch videos you done, from reviews to current SOTC, but seeing the full boat of everything you have is great! I know you moved your explorer 36 on for the Santos, but you still feel a little out on the hype of GMT-Master II despite having the Rootbeer and Pepsi for a few good years now. I know your DJ is your first and favorite Rolex you have, how often are you wearing both your DJ and Pepsi these days? Did you find the explorer great but still somewhat redundant with the DJ (I know you did multiple videos on the explorer and one comparing it to the DJ, I just forget if that was brought up). I think the Explorer 36 is damn near perfect and the ultimate one-watch-collection and GADA watch, which would make it harder to wear other watches on a regular basis. I feel like if i were to save up for a black dial Rolex (already having a blue-fluted motif DJ36 fluted bezel/jubilee bracelet), the smarter move would be to trade by Black Bay Pro and work towards the Bruce Wayne GMT vice the Explorer 36. The goal would be to pass down the next Rolex to my son when he turns 18, and I get torn between the Exp36 and the Bruce Wayne. Both can be used for basically anything, but the GMT has the extra function and capabilities that give it the edge. As much as I love the Pepsi, I already have enough red and blue in my collection and the the BW would go with everything due to black/grey and splash of green.

I am currently waiting on "the call" from my AD on a Datejust like yours. Same color, with fluted bezel, newer Jubilee bracelet. Then I will be set. I won't ever want another watch. Can you believe it?

Ash you need a Tudor Black Bay 58 in the collection!

I wish I had my early watches but alas I never kept them oldest I have is around 21 years

Great collection, particularly the first two. I, too, have my military watch, the one I wore during the final decade of service. It's an Aquatech digital piece that I purchased in the PX for $20 or $25....can't recall the price. But it wasn't expensive. It's dead now & sits in its own wee watchbox, happily retired like me. Just out of curiosity, what prompted you to get a photo of you getting a ticket (or warning? from a Texas State trooper? Odd thing to do.....but glad you did.

I would sell or thin out the herd. Keep the first watch and get it serviced, new band and crystal. Next go look into the Vacheron Constantin brand the dealers do not play games. Great service and experience dealing with them versus Rolex

+1 = For the Rootbeer I'm going to purchase my first 'nice' watch. I'm leaning towards the JLC Reverso Duoface.

dear Mr. Ash, tell us how to take care of tweed products at home and how you store them

I didn’t know you spend some time in Germany! Greetings from (close to) Paderborn!

SECONDA is NOT a britisch brand. It was one of the brands for exported watches from Soviet Union. Just open the case and you'll spot the USSR movement with most likely Kyrill charachters on it. However, the quality was not bad, defenetely the best quality you could get for the little money they used to ask for. No wonder it is still running

Greetings from Berlin!

They all have a story to tell.

If you do decide to part with pepsi. I would be interested. Do let me know .great journey so far and wish you the best 👍

Maybe slim down the Rolex lineup and look at a JLC Reverso and if you want to go a little crazy a VC 1921.

"Numbers depicting the hours." It seems like that is the job of watches, but these days everyone wants a watch that works hard at not telling the time. I can't get into all the face complications, the gross outer dial numbers that stand out more than the hour numbers, or the watches that are more heart monitor than watch. Roman numerals is about as low as I'd go. A watch that tells the time is the watch for me. lol

You should look at RGM watches.

And the man speaks regularly about being frugal and tight with the wallet 😂

I think Vacheron would be right up your street

Great collection Ash, but I wondered, if you were to sell another Rolex, do you think you may invest in a made to measure suit from a reputable tailor or something like that?

good to see the pac man getting a good review

Hi Ash! My dream watch is the Rolex date just 36 blue motif jubilee bracelet. Any advise where I could get it at a good price in the UK? I heard Japan too offers good price.

Always go homage, rather than fake There are so many good micro brands, that will give the style, look, without faking

Hi Ash, should I get a Rolex GMT master or Rolex Kermit as my first luxury watch. Want to know your thoughts

Go next for a golden Vintage Reverso JLC

Time and life journey....watches as witnesses