The Perfect Watch Collection For POOR People 

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Nico could film his videos in Antarctica and still get noise complaints😂😂

I’m not poor! I’m underfunded.

This is not poor enough. We need Nico to do an Aliexpress collection.

"price doesnt matter to women anyways because they dont pay it" BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

“Ok guys, im going to start talking a little quieter” continues to talk just as loud as before 😂

Citizen saved my life! Was swimming and diving in to a river. I come up from the bottom and climbed out to dive in again and was covered in blood, pouring out from my wrist and forearm. Had hit a broken bottle. The strap on the Citizen watch has a big gouge out of it right about where the main veins run. If I had not been wearing the watch that day I believe I would have been in serious trouble as no doubt the veins would have been torn to shreds! So Citizen watches have a place in my heart since that day. Was very lucky!

I love how Nico is just as stoked on a Timex as he is for a Rolex. Absolute genuine enthusiast right therr

Everyone buy Nico's merch so he can buy his own building to yell and bang in peace.

Nico getting a noise complaint from the neighbours, hilarious 😂 Nico the Gordon Ramsey of hourology. Guaranteed not to hold back, love it😊

Nico, I just want to say I'm very impressed with the way you handled yourself with the noise complaint. I definitely wouldn't have handled it with the grace you did, my immediate thought would have been "I'm paying for the space the same as you are, I'll do whatever I want in my studio." Especially after their condescending tone calling you a nuisance. Bravo for handling that with such class. Absolute legend man.

Not sure if you would see this after nearly 700 comments, but thanks for genuinely inspiring me to start a watch collection I'm 16 and started my first job at a high street jewelers about 2 and a half months ago. You got me into watches years ago, and after my first paycheck I decided to get a Seiko 5 sports SRPD55K1. On my second paycheck, I got a Casio tiffany Datejust since I saw it sitting in the window at the store and got it for £30 after my employee discount. Anyways, I'm thinking of picking up the Rotary dress watch after my next paycheck with the bonus I'm getting to round off my 3 watch collection. I wouldn't have even started this collection if it wasn't for you so I just wanted to say thanks for everything ❤

I love bringing old Seikos back to life, using as many original parts of the watch as possible, or using Seiko parts if I can’t. Great way to learn about the watch, and invest some of yourself in it too. Good watches are possible for under £200 ( just don’t count the tool costs…..)

Thank you Nico for making the watch world a better place. I am currently wearing a Garmin, which I love for heart rate and steps. I got a lot of Casios i wear sometimes. Videos like this make it feel like you’re talking to me. I know your channel caters to the expensive and I can also say affordable. Yes I know there are some videos like that already posted, but this was a good episode thank you Nico. I will continue to grow and learn so that that way I can one day be able to buy a watch from you. Also, I like when you’re loud, just keep researching sound deadening. Have one of your crewmembers go to another room to see if they can hear you.

that subtle roast where he says "I made this video for you guys" while having the caption on the video "for POOR People" lololol

2024 Six Pack Budget Collection - Casio Royale ($20) - Timex Ironman Triathlon ($50) - GShock 5600 ($50) - Seiko SND367PC ($80) - Orient Panda ($90) - Swatch Dragon in the Wind ($90) I just picked up the Swatch Year of the Dragon in the Waves for $63.00. Funky and enticing but on the small side.

Videos like this are more needed. I am new to the watch game and not rich enough to be blowing over £500 on a watch yet. The Timex Q Chronograph was the gateway into watches for me last year. I now have that and a Casio MTP-1302PD-2A2VEF... Love your videos and one day I will work my way up to some dream watches!

8:12 To be honest, I've have had a similar problem with a studio in the past. As it turned out, the office next door, shared an old ventilation duct/channel that was covered up with drywall. I know it's definitely not going to be the same... But, could be something similar.

Niko is like the Jeremy Clarkson of watch RU-vid - You know you shouldn’t laugh but it is hilarious 😂

Was enjoying this video, and then it quickly ends with Nico saying saying the Casioak "glitch" thats on my wrist right now is nice, made my whole day lol.

Hello, Nico! My father’s was a watch collector, and because of him i start loving watches! After he past away about two years ago, i sold all my watches. After i start watching your channel about 1 month ago my passion for watches came back and i start once again my collection. Thank you for that! Cheers!

Aye! Here’s my list for this category: 1. Seiko SNKL23 (Seiko Hodinkee) $80 2. Seiko SNXS series $75-90 3. Tissot Heritage quartz $190 4. Swatch May Black/Clear Water Chronograph $185 5. Casio Oak GShock GA-B2100 $140 6. Casio GShock G5600 $99 7. Citizen Promaster Automatic $180-200 8. Citizen Ecodrive Yellow AW1760 $150 9. Timex Indiglo (coz its not below $50 anymore) 10. Any casio digital metal watch I would avoid Orient here… P.S. these are Jomashop Prices…

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Citizen is a very underrated affordable brand

My poor man's watch collection: Rotary Skeleton Automatic (Gold case, brown leather strap) £250 Seiko 5 Sports Automatic (Stainless case & bracelet) £195 CASIO Vintage W-218H (Black rubber case & strap) £25 Fossil Decker Chronograph (Stainless case & bracelet) £90. My first watch as an adult, which my gf (now wife) bought for me when were about 16 years old (now 32).

A brand for consideration: REC - they typically make watches out of old cars, planes and motorbikes which is cool for people into that stuff (like me), but they also have recently started doing some cheaper watches which are inspired by motoring history - I have 2 of them and the quality is absolutely sublime for the money, I wore one as my wedding watch! Not an in house automatic mechanism, but lovely craftsmanship regardless in my opinion 🤙🏽

My dad got me a Seiko 5 for $75 in 2002. Now they're creeping up to 500 cdn. I gave up on expensive watches the year and decided to cultivate a taste for Casios and Timexes. I just ordered a white Casio Solar 220c and I couldn't be happier if that was a white Rolex Explorer 2.

Funny in all my watches the one I get the most eyeballs on is my Casio. Its a MTP1302D-2A2V (Tiffany Casio) and even a few folks have said "Is that a rolex" lol. But most just say "Hey nice watch" . Love the everyday sub $200 watch that I can wear and not be afraid to scratch or damage.

I'm not poor, I'm just unfortunate.

Crazy is that even a watch from this list is still expensive here in Brazil. The cheapest automatic Seiko is like R$ 1500 while the minimum wage is R$1400

Would love a video on affordable Swiss brands like Mido, certina, glycine, tissot, Hamilton ect. And a video on “POOR”micro brands like Islander and deep blue.

Yo how he handled that interaction with the annoyed neighbor shows how smooth of a business man he is. Damn..

The Bulova Precisionist is on sale quite often under $200 and is a great watch for that price.

8:00 when you're too poor to afford a proper studio with proper sound proofing

that moan at 0:34 made me think i had a tab open in the background.

Citizen is just so underrated, my $400 titanium citizen eco drive is better than my $2000+ swiss watches.

Poor is a state of mind, we're broke😂

as a collector of inexpensive timepieces, i would personally recommend the citizen tsoyosa, ga2100 g shock, bulova hack, and the seiko srpd55

Fking love the neighbour interaction haha Classic, stay you Nico. Legend.

Orient Bambino, Orient Ray II Raven. I’ve owned both and got the Bambino (2nd gen II) new for £99 but that was 2015. Raven I got last year for around £180 and it’s a 200m dive watch. A lot of watch for the money with in house Japanese mechanical movements. No brainer. I also have a Citizen Eco Drive which I love for its understated simplicity, mid-century aesthetic and damn good accuracy - plus no need for batteries and £130.

As a part time watch lover and full time peasant I love my Casio GW-M5610 as it has multi band 6 which I think is mind blowing technology for a £100 watch

Fans : asked Nico to keep this list under 200 Nico : the first watch he shows is 230

Poor people don't buy Casio! They buy Rolex

Regarding atomic watches, Casio has a line called Lineage that is made for the Japanese market. Still you can get it worldwide. Take Casio Lineage LCW-M100TSE-1AER for example. For a 100-150 quid you're getting sapphire glass, titanium bracelet, solar charging and atomic clock sync. Looks good as well. Regarding women's watches, again for the similar price you can get a kind of Cartier Santos Dumont knock off, Casio Sheen SHS-D400CGL-7AJF with a leather strap, sapphire glass and solar charging. Everything is decent quality because they're Japanese.

Where is your neck?

The fact that orient didn’t get a mention at all is outrageous. The kamasu is the best diver for under $200 and the bambino is insane for its price. Great dress watch that looks elegant

I'm planning on buying my first watch in the new year, as a belated congratulations to myself for making it into uni. I've been looking at the Timex Marlin Chronograph, prior to you showing it in this video (3:13), and I was pretty much convinced. But, having a "Nico somewhat seal of approval" has made me feel a lot more confident in my choice. Also, tip for the soundproofing, you said you're in a noise isolating room, however, you appear to be sitting in front of a completely blank wall. If there's no soundproofing on that wall, all the sound will be reflected straight through it, and could even be amplified in some cases. I'd recommend looking into soundproofing it with the soundproofing solutions you see in "productive home office setup tours" (I don't know the exact name (They're are just thin strips of wood, with sound absorbing foam behind them (They come in panels))), as they would still look professional. You could even try to mount some modern looking shelves and put some watch cases on them. Just a thought, hope you get better neighbors soon.

Just bought this swatch boreal few days ago as my first automatic watch. I couldn't really decide between swatch and Seiko but then I found it for sale (second hand but with no sings of usage) for ~125$. I had some doubts if it was a good decision and if Seiko wouldn't be better but now I'm sure I've made right call! Cheers!

"I'm gonna talk a wee bit lower" 10 seconds later he's back to shouting lmao

I'm not poor or cheap either, I'm smart, once the watch is telling me the time correctly, I'm gonna buy it 😅👍🏽

I love picking up older swatches from the 90's off of eBay for £10-20. Some good lookers in the Irony collection on a budget.

As a peasant, im stoked for this

I'm not poor... I'm just financially challenged. And slightly mentally challenged, but I don't think they're related. _THINK_ is keyword

Love my GBX100 GShock - superb MIP display, glass, stainless bezel (wafer thin mind) and suprisingly supple strap and bluetooth with app so keeps the time accurate including 1 hour back n forward

I have that ROTARY. It's AWESOME! Plus, Rotary's HQ and the design office is still in London and in the hands of the previous owners!

Can you make a review of Pep Guardiola's watch collection? I am not a city fan but he definitely has an insane watch collection.

Citizen ecodrive. I have a tag , and a breitlin for special occasions. But my red arrows Citizen ecodrive!! I'm a groundworker in the building trade and I have wore it daily for nearly 5 years and it still goes very strong and keeps time so good compared to my other 2. I never have to adjust time on that like I do my others

Nicos general opinion on Bulova is known since the tier list, but I would honestly like to hear his opinion on the Lunar Pilot. As it is "the other Moonwatch" and highly praised by most watch RU-vidrs, I would like to hear what Nico thinks about it.

Found my old Casio MTD-1010 (1346) in a box of "junk". Used to wear this thing every day 20ish years ago. Perfect budget watch. Needed a new battery and it still runs like a champ!

For under $200 the watch collection I would do would be Dive Watch Invicta 1953 ~$100 One of the least expensive automatic watches that isn't a chinese brand. A brand with history and a homage watch of a famous rolex. 9h35 movement and comes in different color bezel variants. All look nice. Casual all around watch Casio a700w ~$30-55 Same iconic look as the famous f91w but modernized with better lume, thinner, and stylish bracelet options. Super sleek and retro. Comes in different variants Dress and formal event watch Sea-Gull any ~$60-70 Most are out of the price range but there is usually some Sea-Gull dress watch on sale at any given time. Automatic and a recognizable brand from china.

Micro brands video please. Lots of interesting designs coming from various small brands. Zelos, Baltic, Vario, Mr Jones, etc etc

In under 2 minutes you’ve managed to take a jab at both poor people and women, rather impressive I must say 😂 Edit: 7 minutes in and we can add obese people and Bulova Icon owners to the list 🤣

Not sure did he mention, but Orient has bunch of cool watches for less than 200€. I'm not huge on watches or know about them, but I have Orient Ray 2 which is automatic watch and overall looks great and has functioned well and I paid like 170 for it at the time. They also have some more simple leather styles like Bambino.

Orient is the most underrated watch brand. Lower tier original Seagulls qualify too. They're not cheap but affordable. Auto mov't can be a deal-breaker for some of us tho.

Casio AE-1200 was my first watch as an adult getting into watches, then the Duro. I still rotate them in and wear them.

There is no reason that person who came into your office should have made it that far into your office with out being stopped, like they should have not been able to get past the front desk (If that was real)

I'd just like Nico to produce his own range of "poor people" watches😂

Buddy, please don't change. Always be like this….😇

My first "proper" watch was a Bulova (despite Nico calling Bulova shite) and I initially thought it was pretty good for the price I paid (~£400), and it at least had a unique look to it that I liked and a nice bracelet clasp design. I then purchased a Seiko for around £500 while on holiday in Japan and... well, it really is night-and-day with the movements. My Bulova is rated for -20 to +40 seconds per day and I would say I was easily hitting that high-end, being 5+ minutes off each week or so, whereas my Seiko is solid to the point that I've only had to reset it once since owning it (5 months). What I can say for Bulova though, is that they do go for unique looks and the build quality isn't bad on the full-metal designs. So many "high-end" watches all look like carbon copies of each other and they're so dull! Edit: When I purchased my Seiko in Japan, I could not find the SKU anywhere outside of Seiko's Japanese website, hence why I bought it. It now appears to be sold in the UK for a whopping £860, compared to the ~£500 I purchased it for (converting from Yen). It does kind of explain why the quality is a lot better (movement-wise) than my Bulova, which is half as much.

Hey Nico! What do you think of making a video about great watches to get or gift for christmas in different price ranges?

My son just got his first watch at 14, a Tissot Seastar. Bit over the budget of £200 but it’s a pretty nice watch for that money. Keeps him away from my collection as well😂

Thank you for this. Now we can also get a nice watch

Nico, as a paralyzed legless athlete, I seriously appreciated that joke about the person competing in the paralympics for watch design. That was fucking hilarious. It looks like it went over everyone's heads too, I see no comments about it. Edit: You prob meant special olympics, but hey, I still laughed. I offer my disability up for a joke anytime.

I didn’t know I was into watches until I started watching this dude. Ty Nico. I have 2 on this list.

congrats on the kid!

I love Nico’s videos, but he doesn’t really know watches, he knows expensive watches. This video kind of proved that. On a different note, can you imagine some important meeting going on next-door and Nico just screaming at the top of his lungs octopussy? 😂😂. Also, yes, swatches are still made in Switzerland.

I bought a Baltany Retro Panda Chronograph which I absolutely love but I'm not sure if it's classed as a 'good watch' or not. I suppose it doesn't matter as long as I like it that's the main thing, just curious that's all.

Nico, I am a woman, and i buy myself and my husband watches because I love watches. In my current collection i have cartier (1st lux watch i bought myself), timex marlin, Seiko SWR054, Orient Bambino. Do you have a collection list for women?

That's a good question man? The first brands that pop in my head, Casio, Timex, Seiko, & Orient.

Finally a video for me. 200£ ? Ok this video is not for me.

The video starts at 1:05

Good one Niko, however Orient and Vostok should've been included IMO

Thank you for comments on Casio . I have couple watches worth thousands of dollars however I wear Casio almost everyday. I respect Casio brand. My Casio witnessed my childhood memories , my army time , my graduation . I believe everybody should have at least 3 Casio watches in their collections no matter what.

what pisses me off the most is seiko keeps going up and up and up, but they don't change anything to make their rising prices worth it.

Well shit. I've had that Timex Chronograph on my wishlist for a while, hoping it'd go on sale. Now I'm just hoping it'll stay in stock lol

Review an Edifice

SERIOUS QUESTION... If I buy a Rolex that has been used and has scuff marks, Will The watch lose value when polishing it to remove the scuff marks or "restoring" it?

What about Invicta? I know people hate it but I think that some of their watches are actually pretty good, like the Pro Diver Automatic, or the Speedway, I bought both and the Pro Diver (reference 8927OBXL) was a really good pick, it has a Seiko NH35A movement which is pretty good considering I paid $90 for it. Please do a review at some point?

A P is the king of poor people’s watches

I might have 2 suggestions for under 500£: 1) Japanese Orient has a decent quality range with the Kamasu and the Bambino 2) VINTAGE Watches: You can find Omega De ville and Longines for under 500 . (De ville is scarce at hat pricetag)

My man left no ways to make us or call us poor💀💀

14:44 I bought this one on black friday, and the one thing ill say about it is depending on the angle the colours will either be Purple or green. Its really cool and my favorite watch ever

When the revolution pops off they're definitely coming for this guy first 😂

I'll come right out and say it: I don't like Casio, purely because of bad personal memories of a sexually abusive significantly older relative when I was a kid. This is in NO way the fault of Casio. I'm also NOT a fan of Quartz, OR digital watches, just because I really only got into watch collecting because of the amazing skill and precision of a beautifully made mechanical movement. Yet I have to say that you are TOTALLY right in saying that a Casio belongs in EVERY collection. I own two. the terrorists choice (F91W), and the World Timer. Classic 80's looks and awesome tech in their day!

Citizen, Orient, Seiko. Absolute utility, and value for money. Yall check specificaly the Orient Kamasu... Lovely piece with a saphire crystal!

this is the first video ive seen of this guy. the accent lol. I'm from Northern Ireland so the half Northern Irish half Dutch accent is class. along with the use of Northern Irish terms lol

maybe you can do one budget watch collection up to 100 or 200 dollar (per watch) but focus more on 5 different watches for different use cases like: daily, sport, casual, suit and one that's just really cool. so a beginner could be prepared for every situation

the Bulova Icon is not worth 500 more like 3-350, however whats great about it is the 262Khz (Precisionist) sweep of the second hand, in fact that's why this watch is decent.

Been watching for a long time (no pun intended), but I recently came accross a watch from my late grandpa that is a "Wakmann". I believe it's basically a Breitling (circa late 1960's), but imported and distributed by a US company. I can't seem to find much info at all online, so if anyone knows about them, I would truly appreciate it! Very sentimental piece.

3:50 "you cannot buy a mechanical chronograph under a grand really" Seagull 1963, mechanical chronograph, in- house movement, available under 300 USD