Watches and Wonders 2024 needs to be AMAZING!! Here's WHY!! 

Start looking at older watches, there are so many half forgotten gems out there.

Watch that has my eye is the Vertex M36 which will be released here in the new few months (more faithful recreation of their original Dirty Dozen watch). Need a field watch!

Great to see you wearing your watches and enjoying them the way they were designed to be. I salute you.

You're correct. Really boring times of just dial color changes. 100% agree

Another awesome video! As much as I am looking forward to the W&W releases coming out (like a kid on Christmas Eve), I am not holding out too much hope. Dont get me wrong, I would dearly love to regularly spend my money acquiring pieces... but the brands actually need to start releasing stuff that is super attractive to buy, and even when it is just that, their Boutiques & ADs actually need to let me buy it when I walk into the store !

Beautiful beach 👍. I think the luxury brands ran out of ideas many years ago, that is why they've all been raiding their back catalogues for models to re-invent. Mechanical watches have been around a long time and most things have been tried many times before: If you want something different, I think G-Shock are one of the few brands pushing forward and trying genuinely new things. By the way recession is two quarters of negative growth, negative inflation is deflation and you don't want to experience that ☹️

That Tudor is the definition of rolling a turd in glitter 🤦🏻‍♂️ the Swatch land fill products and the lack of improvements from Omega with thick watches and poor bracelets and low power reserves is very disappointing and boring. A while dial stuck on an old model isn’t a new watch 🤦🏻‍♂️ the Black Bay company is becoming very boring too. I think the micro brands might be becoming more interesting 🤔

I think celebration dial is nice, especially if you own the VTNR. Those two complement each other well. Personally I like freaky looking watches.

There’s plenty of micro and independent brands that are strikingly different and bold. You have probably seen coverage of the recent British Watchmakers Day. So varied and something for everyone. It’s just so nice to escape the major brand’s hubris and bs marketing! And I must ask-in a previous vid you said you wear watches on your right hand so the crown doesn’t dig into the back of your hand. So why is the left hand Riddler on your right? Riddle me that Batman! 🤔

Hi Mark I no what you mean by the new watch releases have been boring recently hope something is released in watches and wonder's that we can all get excited over .a new model would be nice that we can actually can buy and afford with out having to sell a kidney to own it.( that's probably asking to much) Great location brings back the memories of climbing rangatoto in 2006 and the rugby world cup in 2011 great place to live thanks John.

Nice piece there. I'm excited by some pièces, but that were releases 60 years ago !

Watching whilst I wear my gmt Guinness, and I’m loving it.

I agree that all the top brands are struggling to put out genuinely interesting or original pieces each year. Sounds like it’s time for you to go vintage or neo vintage 🤔

Maybe it's simply that you've already found what you were searching for and are now content?

Beautiful sprite! it's still snow in North Europe so I'm filming watches in snow 😄

TBH, I am feeling the same here lately and as matter of fact I stop putting on a watch for the last few days completely. It is so unlike me but I did it and it feels different and good at the same time. I am waiting for the urge again to ‘fall in love’ all over again with my watches which I am sure it will but just wait for that magic moment.

I take a different view. Needing something new and different all the time feels very ADHD, but altogether in line with the insatiability of contemporary appetites. There is a huge amount of interest for me in looking back and learning about vintage and neo-vintage references. In the modern catalogue, I’d find it fascinating to see a brand taking one of their iconic pieces and rather than fundamentally changing it to peak interest, faithfully remaking that piece, but in every aspect, trying to refine and improve it. That would require a huge amount of critical thinking. For example, a ceramic bezel improves durability, but does it improve the aesthetic? Is there an alternative that might be more true to the tool watch heritage, yet provide the durability of a modern material?

Agreed the watch companies aren't pulling their weight and the plastic toys are ridiculous and I can't understand why people are going gargar for them.,.,,

The moonswatch is made of eco friendly materials.

The Tudor chrono aka the Miss Piggy would go nicely with a Kermit 😂

Whoa ! hold it right there Mark , Rolex stuck a rubber strap on a Daytona, what more do you need mate ha ha. The main players are never going to stray too far from the norm because 99% of the watch buying public just want a ' look what I've got ' brand name on the dial , they know this and are not going to jeopardise a trillion quids worth of sales for a shit ton of investment on something 'slightly' out of their comfort zone ' that could fall on its arse. Cheapest option , bang a different dial on it and it will sell like hot cakes. If you need 'wowing' you need to go off piste like Armin Strom , Louis Erard , Kudoke , Konstantin Chaykin etc etc . Mainstream manufacturers... forget it.

LoL at your American accent “soccer”. Why the hate?! Jkjk 😅

You’re right. They are getting lazy. It’s become like quick fashion. Tudor has taken a cue from luxury fashion brands. They’ve ran out of ideas so they make ugly, quirky and gaudy the new trend. (Think Gucci and those grotesque oversized Balenciaga platform trainers on fashion models that look like dorks.) They know there’s an endless supply of idiots who will buy anything because of the brand name. Laziness and lack of innovation are not new to the Swiss watch industry. BTW, a recession is two consecutive quarters of GDP decline - not inflation. You need to brush up on your economics 101 😂.

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But what you like, if you don’t like it don’t buy it 🙄