10 Watches That Are Absolutely Perfect

being British I love complaining it's what I was made to do so when I discovered these 10 watches and found there was nothing to complain about I was very disappointed nevertheless I thought since some of you might like to see these supposedly perfect watches I'd button it all up into a list for you the most perfect watch Ever you'll have to stay to the end for that one the 1930s was a tough time the Great Depression World War II the birth of Bernie eckelstone these great traged may have soured what could have otherwise been a decent 10 years but nevertheless it's not all bad as my old Nan used to say look on the bright side granted she was teaching me how to use a torch but the sentiment still works and the brighter side of the 1930s was the popularization of the sector dial watch which as the name suggests divided the dial into chunks or sectors if you will those sectors numbered anything from 4 to 60 with four known as a Crosshair dial our gun what will they think of next the reason these dials were broken up into sectors was so they could be laid on a map and used to communicate directions clearly in briefings on the front line during World War I people back home were still rocking pocket watches then and it was the classic sector design that started moving people over to wristwatches this lene Heritage Classic sector recalls one of those post-war pre-war 1930 sector watches and if you can find a single thing wrong with it then you're probably the kind of person who thinks water is too wet and that air makes you gassy the secret is very simple lene didn't try to be smartasses about it a simple steel case in 38.5 mm wrapped around a quad dial in black or silver with hands so pencil straight they make lasers look sloppy there's some Sunray action on the outer dial and second sub dial and it's all so crisp it was probably made in an air fryer even the caliber L8 93 metam made but exclusive to line gets an old timey beat that even your granddad can throw shapes to ticking at 25,200 vph for that authentic subc Wibble at 2150 it's a damn site better than the draft World War II introduced a brand new way to slaughter humans on Mass from the comfort of a padded seat a little device invented by two bicycle mechanics from Ohio the airplane learning their trade during the Great bicycle craze of 1892 the brothers Wright took a keen interest in aviation when glider pilot Auto lilienthal died mid-flight well technically at the end and they thought we can do that too only it wouldn't be the R Brothers that died at the hands of their invention Wilbur succumbed to bad shellfish aged 45 horville lived long enough to see the devastating impact of his creation during World War II he remarked we dared to hope we had invented something that would bring lasting peace to the Earth but we were wrong anyway the people flying those planes through the 40s and 50s and into the the 60s and '70s heavily relied upon accurate timekeeping for reasons I think are too obvious to require explaining the addition of the chronograph first in instruments and later in wristwatches gave Pilots more control and precision over their Maneuvers and as such they became part of the standard issue equipment for military aviators Hamilton was one of a number of suppliers to the British royal air force during that time and this khaki Aviation pilot Pioneer chronograph is an incredibly close replica of those watches you can see from the off that it's designed simply to be capable at its job and no more the 40mm asymmetric case in brushed steel exists so the strap can keep it on your wrist and so the gubbins don't fall out the hands and dial are clear and readable and won't be impacted by glare the pushes are there too for pushing there's not a hint of frippery a hand wound version of the ETA 7753 reminds you that if an RAF pilot can find the time to wind their watch then so can you but you get the last laugh because yours will last 60 hours and the Silicon balance spring will be impervious to magnetism they might wonder why you're sticking with the same technology they were using 50 years ago but don't think about that because this watch costs just under £2,000 what do Max Plank ludig boltzman and the tud black Bay 58 have in common they've all contributed unchanging constants in the universe in the case of the black Bay 58 that constant is that any time I talk about watches that are obvious purchases at their price point it will get mentioned very unironically it's like clockwork from 2018 when it first came out until the last dying gasp of this reality the black Bay 58 will be the perfect if dull choice to buy what do this Mortal coil Audio Slave and the tud to Black Bay 58 have in common they're all super groups not only does the Tuda black Bay 58 combine all the best bits of the Rolex and Tuda back catalog it's also so perfect effect that it's actually a little bit boring that sounds like a complaint but it's not I should know I'm an expert but when it comes to Perfection boring is best look at those snowflake hands they're a signature of the Tudor submariners of the' 60s and' 70s and if you think they don't look good then go speak to Mr Beast and he might be able to sort your eyesight out then there's the size 39 mm with the in-house and chronometer certified caliber Mt 5400 keeping things trim water resistance is 200 M but perfect for any swimming pool or washing up bowl and it'll even look after itself for 3 days while you go gallivanting off with a more interesting but ultimately flawed watch that'll soon wear thin anyway what do Michaela Warren Buffett and the Tuda black Bay 58 have in common a curious draw to Silver in an attempt to bring your attention back to this perfect watch Choice the one I've selected is the 925 Edition not only is this a precious metal watch for less than £4,000 is also unusual in being brushed instead of of polished and uniquely features a color combination of everyone's favorites gray and brown it's a perfect watch even if turns her nose up at it the Omega speed master is the greatest watch Ever it contains the greatest category of movement ever the handwound horizontal clutch chronograph it was part of the greatest achievement ever the moon landings which might I remind any Skeptics was undertaken no less than six times if you think otherwise I'll see you in the comments one of the funny things about Rolex is how I don't want one but I really want one and if there was one I could have that would just be the perfect forever and always watch it would be this the 36 mm Explorer 1 sure it CV may as well have been concocted by Frank abil but as a watch to wear on your wrist and to tell the time from it's about Bloody perfect why the smaller 36 mm version for one it's too small for Woodby robbers to see across across the street also the 40mm version just doesn't look right it doesn't I don't know what Rolex did but the bezel gives me the same anxiety as when I see a car driving down the motorway with a loose hub cab if a 36 mm Explorer is good enough for Team America star Matt Damon and Astronaut Tom Hanks it's good enough for anyone it's just the perfect watch to refer to as this old thing you can't do that with any of the flashier Rolexes and if like me you often forget how numbers work the Explorer has three handy little reminders around the dial just in case it's like clippy but for watches what makes the Explorer the ultimate perfect watch really though is the name at the top of the dial it's £ 6,100 which makes it one of the cheaper Rolex watches you can buy but nevertheless it grants you entry into a very exclusive club that only offers around a million entries every year only a million that's just 0.01% of the world's population put it all together and you have the blueprint for well a watch it's what a child would come up with if you asked them to draw one it's what I would have drawn anyway and it would have made a welcome change from drawing the demon that lives in my closet over and over again Perfection has been described by involuntary IWC Ambassador antoan danan exupery as not when there is nothing more to add but when there is nothing left to take away and since the Rox store usually has nothing at all to take away I'd call that point proven I'm nearly a 100 years old and yet when I saw a video the other week of a remote control Transformers toy that could drive as a truck walk as a robot and trans mography from one to the other at the push of a button I was immediately transported back to my youth when I wasn't able to have any cool toys then either the jult reverso tribute chronograph seeks to write those childhood wrongs by offering a discreet second chance at owning the Transformers toy you always wanted with the added benefit of being able to bring it to school um what work without getting your head flushed down the toilet the reverso tribute chronograph is all business upfront with a 49x 30 mm steel case at just 11 mm thick blessed with a blue Sunburst dial and a pair of doofen hands that act as the mustache of this particular disguise so far so reserved as jult is well known for this side of the reverso tells your peers that you are trustworthy and sensible and not someone who'd hide a Kipper in a colleague's draw just before the summer break you'd barely even though this thing was a chronograph besides the imperceptibly subtle pushes but go go gadget watch and flip this thing around and all hell breaks loose now you're getting a raw look at the caliber 860 which adds to the time telling portion carried through from the front with a central seconds track and a retrograde 30-minute sub dial at the bottom for the chronograph even Michael Bay would be impressed with all the moving Parts on offer here the balance is on show as is the column wheel plus the motion works that decode the minute hand into Al it's the watch equivalent of those pens with a lady in the clear bit up top that you'd tip upside down and all her clothes would fall off but for watches and for £ [Music] 23,900 I only very recently actually got to experience amarit Grossman in person I knew they were special but hadn't really properly appreciated just how special they were however too big for me numbering in the early' 40s in diameter just as well really because I'd need Cris Brown levels of immunity to deliver that much abuse to my wallet all that went very wrong when I discovered the 39 mm tefnut alongside other such names as hamtic where else would you keep your ham tefnut may sound like a non-stick testicle but it's actually meritz Grossman's First Watch in 39 mm and it's so beautiful I expect climate protesters to throw cake at it dial side it gets meritz Grossman's iconic purpled hands which are pure Pub chat bragging rights typically hands are heat blue to make them corrosion resistant and give them a contrasting Hue with the working range of the metal being somewhere between 290 and 310° C to get it right that's a small margin but compared to purple it's a hot dog in a hallway to get purple you have a working window of just a few degrees either way too much and you get into the blues too little and you get brown by the time you've told them all this your friends will have left the pub and you'll be able to finish their drinks for free the watch basically pays for itself what's really special about the dial is the silver coating which has been applied by friction using a stiff brush that reveals a stunning metallic texture you know a watch is good when even the watch maker rubs one out onto it the caliber 100.2 goes full German that is to say there's a 3 fths German silver architecture screwed gold shatons and engraved not whatever it was you were thinking the screws are purpled instead of blued of course and The Jewels are all clear for another little signature touch to the 25,400 100 watch have you ever just stopped for a moment and taken in the beauty of the everyday just recently I was helping a friend down by the lake and as we parked the van and stumbled between us down to the jetty the moonit surface of the gently moving water caught my eye I didn't really have the time to appreciate it then but with the grand Seiko Lake Before Dawn also known as the SLG 021 I can relive The Majestic Splendor of that moment once more more this is the 854 watch in the evolution 9 collection which differentiates itself from the other Heritage elegance and Sports Collections by having a different name the evo9 was first announced by Ambassador Tommy mckinin with the white birch which combined a deeply textured silver dial with the 9s A5 High beat mechanical the lake sewer Before Dawn is the refinement of the Evo 9 collection to its full Grand Seiko Peak it loses the mechanical 9s A5 for the Spring Drive 9R a 2 which is not only pumping in times of half a second per day but also combines subtlety with Elegance in a way only Grand Seiko can do at first glance it's a plain old slab of metal compared to the 9s a5's more traditional Bridge work and the Blasted finish is not as flashy as the 9s A5 striping but just wait a moment the 9R A2 takes the micro artist studio special 9R O2 as inspiration applying delicate finishes with utmost Excellence there's beveling everywhere and the mirror polish it receives appears to be closer to the work of the micro artist studio than it does the average Grand Seiko the finish and relief found in the power Reserve alone feels like it's from several price categories above why the Before Dawn over the standard Lake sewer well for one being in steel it's a lot cheaper at £ 8,700 versus 9,400 but mainly because of the dial both use the omari's texture but with a deeper more pearlescent blue and at first glance the pricey Lake sewer looks more I catching the lighter tone glowing on the ripples at any angle by comparison the Before Dawn in many lights looks almost black like there's no texture at all but when a beam of light strikes it just so instead of looking like a rippled texture casting light in Shadow over static relief it genuinely looks like the movement of waves under a moonlit Sky it's really quite remarkable and it makes the Before Dawn for me the most grand Seiko watch Grand Seiko makes right now even above the snowflake there's a magic to it that takes me back to that clear cold night beneath our nearest Celestial neighbor helping an old friend there are few bands in the world that get to play new stuff at concerts without losing the crowd if fans had it their way a Smashmouth gig would be an hour and a half of All Star well would have been because sadly that's all gone now but the golden brown 222 from Vashon Constantine is here to stay the original 222 from 1977 was the relu an pop single from classical musician Vashon Constantine who begrudgingly acknowledged that hourong keros weren't going to pay the bills and so they dawned a clear acrylic violin and a fat Baseline for the drop that was the 222 it must have churned their very guts making a hipster watch without a single complication bar the date and even in 2023 it's still their biggest hit they tried to dodge it for a bit by playing a rearranged version in the overseas but the crowds just weren't having it the 22 had to return as it was in 1977 and it surely did in 2022 reappearing like Mariah Carey at Christmas and fair play to vacheron they did just bring it back virtually one to one it's a tight 37 mm Bears the multis cross bring on the lower right shoulder and is entirely HED from yellow gold I'm pretty sure I've seen this watch etched onto the wrists of ancient Egyptian gods carved into the walls of the pyramids and that's pretty much how it feels to wear one so much so that even bright Ling Ambassador Brad Pit betrayed the cinema Squad to get one leaving a devastated Adam Driver clutching his chronomat sure there are some Vashon tracks that are deeper richer and more profound like the 57260 which dominates the entire side of an LP complet with the weird bit in the middle internet points to anyone who can name the song I'm referencing in the comments but the 222 is the one we keep coming back to that makes all the Spotify playlists and never gets old it's simple it's masterful and S can definitely play this gold record again imagine a watch that was so perfect each part had to be created by the best in their field it's like the Avengers of watchmaking but less drawn out and unnecessary that's how the Cradle ich2 was created a platinum 50,000 example of what happens when you really really try you know that one kid at school who aced every test this is the watch they'd make every part of it is profoundly ridiculous it makes JPL look like it builds Lego kits and frequently misses a page every ich2 is crafted in the mountainous region of Shinu at the micro artist studio which of course couldn't just be based in an industrial estate in Milton keing there are only around 10 employees and each one is the best at their trade in all of Japan let's start with the dial it looks like enamel layers of glass powder fired onto a metal base but it's not it's porcelain yes like a tiny dinner plate but for eating with your eyes but there are seikos with porcelain dials so how does that make the ich2 special it's all about the way the markers are applied they aren't printed on with a squidgy rubber stamp like you would normally expect one of the micro artist studio Artisans paints them on with a paint brush as someone who struggles to stay within the lines of a coloring book I can very much appreciate that it also fills me with great anxiety the paintbrush used isn't just for painting the markers but the logo as well why because it's the the same deal with the hands and screws which are heat blued usually they'd all be done in a batch so they came out looking about the same shade but here they're done one at a time again just because it's down to another Artisan to make sure they each match it's like cooking each piece of pasta one at a time to the perfect Al Dente the caliber 7 R14 is no exception to this rule of excess it features the micro artist studio logo the lotus flower no less than a million times and it's e easy to see why they're so proud of it with bevels deeper than East of Eden and glossier than a freshly waxed weasel you might mistakenly think they've been applied by the legend himself Philipe du4 they weren't but he did teach the microartist studio Artisans how to do it even down to the type of wood he uses to apply the Polish and this is the Japanese we're talking about they don't half ass anything the guy doing the work probably locked himself in a cabin up a mountain for the winter and Polished 17 Mi of beveling until he was was happy happy enough at least enough to make du's polishing look like the work of a roadside windshield cleaner as such only 25 e2s can be made per year and that's just perfect it means you'll never have that awkward moment where you run into a friend and you're both wearing the same [Music] watch that's it my list of perfection tell me what you think are the most perfect watches in existence down in the comments below please like And subscribe as well as it really helps and don't forget to leave your million watt garden light on all night goodbye still here watch this video [Music] next

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Length: 19min 41sec (1181 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 30 2023