My 10 Favourite Watches I've Ever Reviewed

I've seen a lot of incredible watches in my time and I've been very lucky to do so but which were the ones that left a lasting impression on me here's my top 10 favorite watches the last one is particularly special find your next watch right below the video and if you want to buy sell or trade more pre-owned watches click the watchfinder tocom link in the description the uls nardan freak was one of the first out there watches I really got to experience handson and even to this day it's spoiled me everything about it and I mean everything is industrial grade bananas let's start with the obvious the fact that it seems to have Galaxy quested itself inside out expunging the movement through the front with no discernable way to tell the time until you realize that is how you tell the time the movement stacked up in line as it is makes up the minute hand spinning once an hour every hour as as if that wasn't wild enough there's a world first in here too you know how any watch maker worth it salt these days has a silicon hairspring this was the first where would you even begin deciding to use melted sand as a balance spring and then there's the crown or lack of it in for a penny in for a pound and so UL nardan decided to ditch the crown too because why not want to change the time you twist the bezel want to wind the watch you twist the the case bag it's watch's gym but not as we know it when I was a kid I'd often get in trouble for doing Pointless Stuff things like throwing firecrackers down a drain or tying a bunch of helium balloons to my sister my reasoning because just because I always feared that this kind of whimsical Endeavor would be flushed out with adult hood but thankfully a small German watch maker has proved me wrong this is the langa one most watches have a few days of power reserve some even 8 Days Al longan Zona got to wondering if it's possible to cram in a whole month and it is how by using a spring they probably borrowed from a car suspension to get 31 days out of a single spring makes that spring so thick and tough to wind that Langer basically abandoned the idea of winding the watch with the crown entirely you'd need the finger strength of Alex honol just to get it going getting closer to those 31 days and the crown stem just simply couldn't handle it so the watch gets a ratchet winding tool instead when you have to create solutions to self-inflicted problems that's when you know you've made something great this is the first watch I held around the million dooll Mark and of all the watches I've held around the million doll mark this one probably felt the most like it should cost a million dollar it's the brega double toron and it wastes absolutely no time getting to the point yes it's shrouded with an unbreakable seal of diamonds but really where this thing pumps its gas is with the namesake double toron brega is famously credited with the invention of the toron a device that contains the entire escapement and Spins it once per minute for reasons of Science and coolness now every man in his dog is making torons it only seemed right that breade double down on that original statement of intent by literally doubling down yes there are two torons and that's impressive enough as it is but things get way more Inception you'll notice the hour hand connects the two torons and that suggests exactly what you think that not only do the torons themselves rotate but they both orbit the center of the dial too it's pure lunacy which is good when I first saw the P ultio ultimate concept I thought I'd stepped into a Looney Tunes cartoon from the front it doesn't look normal but it's not beyond the Realms of understanding that it is a watch but from the side it looks like it's had a runin with the Acme Corporation a 2 mm thick or should I say thin it is comically Slender it scrambles everything that is familiar with watches into a caricaturist exaggeration of an ultra thin watch and it's incredible yes other watch makers have since beaten this record by fractions of a millimeter but those have forgotten the traditional experience of a watch in pursuit of that extra thinness and so they deviate much further into the realm of concept this however is still wound and set by one Crown has a dial with two hands yet you could also fit it in a slot machine what I especially enjoyed about the journey in discovering this watch was the transparency around the difficulty making it it's something that had never been done before and every part was a brain scratcher the ultio ultimate concept is a beautiful example of wickedly clever problem solving yeah you're going to have to get over the fact that langa are going to feature prominently in this top 10 because here they are again with the don't say it too quickly in front of your grandma 185 handberg scun the last Langer was an engineering Escapade and whilst this too has many clever Mechanical Solutions the overarching appeal is Artistic and painstaking and torturous and perhaps even cruel if there's one thing I admire as much as testing the untested it's a commitment to the tedious and repeative here the dial in rose gold has been carved into Relief by hand poking it with a sharp stick over and over and over again why again just because it's like when you dig a deep hole at the beach or stack as many Pringles cans on top of one another only here there's an artistic Merit to the net result the whacking great big toron at 6:00 only goes to make this watch one of the best things for eyes since blinking there are few people as influential in the world of automobiles than James Ward Packard his motor company Packard was the first American luxury car maker also he invented the steering wheel this man had more money than Scrooge McDuck and so Begins the tale of his rivalry with fellow business magnate Henry Graves it was a new money versus old money thing and so the story goes the two men engaged in battle to commission the most complicated watch ever made the final watch in this series was the protect bip super complication and although the story may have been fabricated by a protect phip employee to enable the sale of said super complication the crazy watch is owned by by these crazy men are very much real and this is one of them it's a vasher on Constantin it's a chronograph soner and repeater it was created for and owned by the man himself and I got to experience it in person the internet's given trolling a bad name over the last few years when I Rel trolling was simply the art of mildly winding someone up you might remember Ken M the original harmless internet trial who graced the worldwide web with such comments as space has been around for hundreds of years but scientists still don't know much about it and today's archaeologists seem hellbent on making discoveries at any cost leaving nothing for future Generations in the Sleepy Village of watchmaking that harmless troll is H mosa and the Swiss Alp watch is one of many examples of fine trolling it's an Apple Watch but mechanical and actually amazing not only does it poke fun at the dominating smart device that is the Apple watch it also proves that Mark new and Jonathan I's design is actually one of the all-time great mosa pulled out all the stops on this one to create a fantastic watch that's become incredibly sought after okay last one no more langers after this one but I had to include this one because even for Langer this is pretty wild this for the uninitiated is the tri triple split and it is to watch making what Josh Shen is to doing flips on a motorbike everyone thought one was impressive that is until they saw three the triple split as the name suggests wrangles three split chronograph complications from a single watch this is as meta as it gets with so many layers even exhibit needs to sit down the principle is fundamentally simple a split-second chronograph uses a secondary chronograph mechanism on on top of the first to control two second hands instead of one this is important when time in consecutive laps so you can record a time without stopping the overall race time except langa didn't stop at splitting the seconds or the minutes they split the hours too why come on pay attention just because and if that's not a good enough reason then I don't know what is I watched an episode of Nile blue recently where he made the world world's purest cookie using labg grade ingredients to rid his biscet chocy creation of any impurities spoiler he said it was the worst thing he'd ever eaten refining something to its purest form isn't always the best way to go that is unless you're Seiko and then the outcome is the crador ich2 I get it such Simplicity isn't for everyone and many people couldn't give a Fiddler's frying pan that the dial markers are painted by hand and the movement is polished with wood and I was kind of the same until I saw it in person it's not so much an object as it is an artifact where it feels almost sacriligious to even touch it let alone wear it it remains my maybe one day but probably not watch I'd most like to own there are others that are cool and crazy but the one that brings it all back down to earth for me in the best possible way is this the last watch is the one that had the biggest impact on me and is one that isn't even possible to own it's the work of at the time student watchmaker Johannes Kines who was studying to become a master watch maker I first saw his work on Reddit and was really impressed and I wanted to find out more so I reached out we had a very interesting chat I shared his story here on YouTube and that was that his story was so inspiring that the video now sits at over 600,000 views and perhaps more excitingly he started a watch brand of his very own with TBO clay called kenish clay the original watch was good not the best ever made but it means so much to me because I got to see the journey start from an acorn that's now flourishing into a tree you've seen my favorites let me know what yours are down in the comments below thanks so much for watching take care and I'll see you next time

Channel: Watchfinder & Co.

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Id: Dw9b7mlAbh0

Length: 11min 28sec (688 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 16 2024