What Makes a Watch Expensive? | Watch Value Explained (What You Need to Know) 

John Caron thanks John!

Aliexpress watches are best value...

Seiko is better because of inhouse and servicible movements

@@mrki412 Wish watches are the epitome of high end

@NKgrand seiko is stylish and is the most accurate mechanical watches

UD? Let's go! Thank you, man! So happy to hear you found the channel.

I'm currently at UD. I went to highschool and grade school with you but you probably wont remember. Anyways good to see that youre doing well!

@@TeddyBaldassarre Another fellow Flyer out here. Enjoy your videos, didn't know you went to UD. Keep up the hustle!

@@paulnguyen4495 I went to school with yo mama. She bought me a watch last night.

@@rittmeister3659 Found the mama's boy.

That’s it!!!

Right

Seriously same price as a #1 meal at McDonald’s

Cakesmite he looks like the last 2 Spider-Man’s combined

thankyou!

It’s Orlando Bloom.

Nah he kinda looks like a Teddy Baldassarre from like 3 years ago...

@Graciela Comisky You're right, nobody gives a flying fuck, obvious bot.

@prnuvsharma55 - Yes, particularly the end of 90s one. Its list price was $1,700 but I bought mine for $1,075 in December of 2000 and it still looks and works like the day it was bought, which is to say perfectly. I do have more expensive watches which I rotate, but that nearly 24 years old one very frequently manages to squeeze itself in, disturbing the rotation order. 🙂

I would agree there. Orient is one of the first brands that comes to mind when considering value.

I agree, I own 3 Orients and they all outperform their price point in design, finishing, and quality.

I just got a bambino a few weeks ago and I absolutely love it, definitely can recommend! I got the v2 with cream dial, silver applied Roman numeral indicies and the blue hands, gorgeous

Love my Bambino ... 2nd gen ver 2.

I have an Orient Bambino as well, in black, stunning in the light what I will say is that with the domed mineral glass, it scratches VERY easily. No-one notices it, but I notice it which is annoying. So be careful out there with door frames and wrestling on the ground with your cousins at Christmas guys... It is a beautiful watch though, looks great with a button down shirt.

That's a very nice watch, though your company should appreciate you more - 45 years is mindboggling. They should get you an Omega at least ;) My own company recently celebrated its 10th anniversary. As one of few original employees working there from the start, I've received a Longines Conquest Automatic Black Dial as a gift. A great surprise, completely unexpected and the watch fits my taste perfectly as well.

Hamilton should be a 10 or 20 year gift. 45 years should definitely be a Grail watch.

@@ammarmar3628 Well, I retired last year, and I'm just grateful I have my IRA, a pension, my savings and my health. A Rolex Daytona would be nice, though!

Agreed Ryan. When you consider the overhead and the brand reputation Rolex has to maintain, its tougher than it sounds.

I don't know if I'm just stupid but I feel like I've already read this comment on one of Teddys videos a few weeks ago

@@tbcdef498 This is my first comment on this channel, but it's possible someone else shared the same info in the past! 👍

I'll tell you something interesting about human behavior regarding watches. When I was 16 years old I was in juvy for a petty marijuana charge. While there we spent 23 hours a day alone in a cell on a block with about 20 other kids in their own cells. First thing I noticed was how precious it was to simply know the time. When we were let out I noticed some of the kids had cheap kids watches from Wal-Mart and I envied them. Turns out the way to get the watch was you had to be there for more than 3 weeks and become honor rank by completing various tests and displaying good behavior. You also gained the ability to use a radio and have one extra rec time. Needless to say I spent about a month inside and I worked hard to get that watch. And after I had it other kids on the block would constantly wake me up asking me what time it was. I was looked up to for just having the power of time.

I couldn’t agree more

the rest of them tho

Haha happy to help. I hope you found out good news about the steel of your watch 😂

@@TeddyBaldassarre so far so good! btw, i'm looking forward to the release of your strap line. hope you could ship worldwide :)

Entirely wrong. Here are examples: you designed the watch and ordered pre-made parts from different factories in China, ETA or Miyota movement and just put them together. That's almost as cheap as it gets. You make cases and dials, but outsource the movement like Miyota or ETA. Same materials, but that'd be a bit more expensive. You make entire watch with your own in-house movement at your factory. Still same materials, but the price will go 6-digit easily if not more. That is almost exactly what Richard Mille does btw. Now imagine you make not only one, but have a production line to make 50 000 watches a year. Then the cost of all equipment and its maintenance, factory rent, employee salary, profit etc. from one watch you can divide by 50 000. And bring your product to the customer for a reasonable price. That's what most brands do. It's called economy of scale. That's the main reason why some watches are extremely expensive. And why you have GS at such high quality for such a low price.

@@smashexentertainment676 so I wasn’t entirely wrong it all comes down to the materials lol

some people do, but not many check out some independent German brands, they charge big bucks and could be considered "luxury" (even though they have absolutely 0 brand recognition of any kind), but the craftsmanship is out of this world some examples: Hentschel, Cornehl, Nienebar, Tourby, Jaeger and Benzinger, and Dornbluth, and Kudoke alot of these brands make watches to order, you email them and they'll get started on it for you, customizations are encouraged i just can't ever see myself spending more than $5000 USD on a mass produced watch anymore, maybe if i need a dive watch i'd get a used seamaster, the titanium spring drive grand seiko models are cool too

The craftsmanship, materials used, and labor involved are all very noticeably more costly between a Rolex and Tissot, or even more apparent, a Grand Seiko and a Tissot, but in most cases not an order of magnitude more costly.

Luxury doesn’t work on a linear scale like that. It’s more like you pay 2x for 10% better, then 2x again for 10 percent better than that.

Tag Heuer is a perfect example. Compare their sub $1k watches to their high end. There is a difference in quality.

Maybe not, but a Tissot will not appreciate in value the way Rolex does.

A Louis Vuitton bag is just a bag. You'd be surprised how much money people will pay for a stupid bag.

Got myself a 700$ Seiko alpinist. Wouldn’t say they’re cheap 😅

Agree

what value does movement bring you

@Magister Ludi Indeed, but i answered reffering to the best you can get for what you pay in the moment of the purcharse. regards

@Magister Ludi why should depreciation matter to you if you want a watch. The fact that they cost less used would mean you can then get one at a crazy steal. And if you're a watch lover, you'd have that watch for years, without every intending to sell it. If you want a watch that super well made and very accurate for an affordable price what can beat Grand Seiko? If you have to use you're life's saving to buy a Rolex, and need to eventually sell it down the line, maybe you shouldn't be buying a Rolex, because you probably can't afford it. Buy what you can afford, a watch at the end of the day is not an investment, but a waste of money. They're for people with disposable income to "dispose" of they extra money, it's a toy for men kind of how we waste money on cars and clothes. You should buy them because you like them and not intended to get money back from them. So a GS should the best choice for most people when it comes to buying the best watch for the smallest amount of money possible when spending multi-thousands of dollars for a watch.

@Magister Ludi you can buy a GS spring drive for under 5 grand, and 3.5k when they're on sale, which they do go on, during the new year, even cheaper used. All watches depreciate, you can point out a fee that are hot right now, but why are you buying a watch just to own for less than a year. I buy my watches to have for life. And if you're talking about cost of service, you should know that servicing a watch is kind of a scam. Watch makers know that you can easily go 20 plus year before they need to be serviced I'd it's a high end watch. I think GS says you don't need to get them serviced for almost a person's lifetime/a crazy long time like 15-20 years. But to service a Rolex it's like 500-1000 nowadays anyways. So you'll be spending a lot for either servicing. But in the way of cars, all cars lose their value(to point out the super rare occasions where the value goes up is a stupid way of looking at the market) [it's mainly for vintage or limited editions, which doesn't really apply for watches much, as watches are always limited editions]. But the purpose was to point out that you're losing money buying technology/mechanical tools. The difference would also be that you would only ever need to buy one car, as a good watch will last you're entire lifetime. So if I was to buy a car, I wouldn't care how much of its value it retains because I'd drive it and it'd still get me to where I need to go, be reliable and still look aesthetically pleasing as the day I got it. That all that should matter, if you like it, you can afford it, and you plan on having it for a super long time. Value retention and servicing cost should be the last thing you consider when buying a watch, if that's what you have to think about when buying it, then you probably shouldn't be buying that watch; because one, you can't really afford it. Or that's not really the watch you want to get, if you plan of selling it later, and buy the real watch you want. After having a GS, I know that I don't want or need anything else; And if I do want some other watch, I'm not going to sell off my GS to pay for the other one. I'll just buy it and keep it to go along with the GS.

almost any japanese watch brand is excellent in terms of value for the money

In terms of the value you can get a $10 digital casio watch, wich is more accurate than your Seiko 5. But this is not the point

Very true. If we all thought logically about watches there probably wouldn’t be an industry at this point haha. It’s an emotion attachment.

@@TeddyBaldassarre For sure, then there is tribalism and a status symbol attached to wearing certain watches.. (or not wearing certain watches)

Look up omega Geneve and find the right one. Cheers!

Mühle glashütte actually changes parts in the movements

Same. I thought of getting one and decided not to, but now I can't keep my mind off of it

hell yeah

I also like them, especially those with a moonphase… still, I wonder how much of the 1000 dollars you spend is for the fact it reads 'swiss made' on the dial... There's also this 'all made in-house' hype that raises the price… like the single malt with whisky... I see the same type of justification to double the price as with wine 'it's French, and it's put in the bottle at the property'... 'appelation d'origine controlé' and 'mise en bouteille au château' - put that on the label and you can ask 25 iso 12 dollar for a bottle.

Marc De Cock Trapische malbec...$7.37 at Neighborhood Walmart to illustrate your point (no French label, just a smooth, everyday wine)!

i like walmart watches

Thank you my friend! The watch is an omega admiralty. Quite a rare watch omega made in the late 60s early 70s