The Best Watch Releases of Q1 2021 (January to March) - IDGuy WatchReport

isn't it crazy hull just going forward one hour time just catches up with you so fast welcome ladies and gentlemen to a new segment a new element to the show called i called it watch report i don't know what what the theme is exactly but it's going to be a good time it's a little bit of a different subject this is not wrist shot week obviously uh as as the title on the screen tells you uh the description of the show is pretty much summed up in the title of this video but i need to get to the chat and say hi to you all now we can get started i see megan's in the chat welcome megan matt jean-claude beaver he's uh not going to be with us for today i think it's early hours in the morning on sunday there uh brent idle time designer tilia welcome thomas b dev chaz from the berg it's so good having you all here thank you i see mark as well many many more q maestro pleasure having you eric always a joy sam ray and so many more of you welcome tag me in the chat if you want uh if you want to ask me a question as as we do new new chair squad i still don't have that new chair yet i'm going to wait until the end of this month technically for all of that to come through but it's going to be good i'm really excited for that and welcome again everyone i see hans i see the church uh mark p welcome so let's try and address this theme this subject to uh the show watch report i called it as sort of like an underscore to what will hopefully eventually become something a bit more mainstream if we ever have a subject to discuss relating to you know new releases or whatever else and uh designers they're asking me what whiskey am i on tonight i am drinking glen livered caribbean it's a cool caribbean reserve and it's got an awesome banana nose to it which is quite special never experienced it before also got the whiskey and the the water and the coffee and all that just gonna take a hit from the water and i'll be with you so i have no idea how this show is gonna go i'm flying by the seat of my pants but just before i get the watches up on screen the summary is that i've struggled to find any like valid place on this platform to look through watches over the course of a year there's so many watch releases that happen behind the scenes that we never see that are never spoken about often than never mentioned and the thinking is to have a segment where once every three months every quarter we have a show that sort of caps off 40 or 35 of the best watches that we've seen over the last you know a couple of months and it condenses but also lets us see a lot in one space so you know you're watching back over q3 and you want to know what happened in q1 this is the summary so it should be a good time let me try and sum up how it's going to work and we'll see we'll see if it works out properly so on the left hand side of the screen i have made a slideshow of watches for us to look at and then on the right side of the screen we're going to have articles we're going to have blog posts and everything there so when we link to each watch we're going to be talking about it i'll have it on the left hand side for you to enjoy looking at and then on the right hand side the articles yeah it should be okay should be fun i hope so as as it says in the title of the video january to march and this is in chronological order two which is also going to be helpful maybe i don't know who knows it's going to be fun uh designers he did also say something about uh very appropriate for my caribbean taste yeah i mean you're from you're from curacao right not curious though yeah my my uh my gran grew up in curacao amazing part of the world it's close to curacao you're an aruba uh marcelo welcome welcome it's going to be a good good time um like a ridley scott film i get that that about that uh to the rest of you all it's a pleasure having you here thank you for joining into the show i don't expect it to be a very popular segment but it's a time for us to sit back relax chat about a whole range of watches as we normally do i hope you have your feet up i hope you're having an excellent easter weekend too that's something else to add just enjoying this these next three days right so i'll be there asking it's going to be a long one i don't know if it's going to be a four hour no we have 38 watches to look at right so i'm thinking it'll probably be around the two and a half three hour mark hopefully i i don't know there's just no knowing with these discussions half the time but it's going to take a bit more concentration from my end because i'm going to be scrolling speed reading and also talking about the design of the watch and getting to the chat and so i hope this is going to be a nice like back and forth between us discussing these pieces and everything there we are covering everything from omega to you know mb f and micro brands like i don't know code 41 wouldn't call them a micro brand orris carl brochure lots of pieces as i've seen some from samurai saying aris with the whale shark gmt released i think i might have missed that one that's another issue from 45 minutes that's another issue um that's uh i might have missed a few articles it's very possible so you might have to correct me you might have to help steer and direct the course somewhere else but uh rick pleasure having you here too and then so many more of you it's it's an absolute joy we're gonna have fun and i see i see morton joining from china wow welcome you're very welcome here so let's begin right how long have i been talking for uh i don't know my live stream hasn't updated so let me refresh the page and have a look done the introduction long enough uh let's see been running for five minutes okay awesome so let's get into it we're gonna start with watch number one which is the speedmaster professional can you believe that this piece came out like quite literally the third or something of january it was it was crazy so of course we're starting with january to begin this segment this watch has been spoken about enough i mean many in the chat owned this piece already and there's been some controversy around it's it's build quality and that too lots of controversy around its pricing and where it's sitting at the moment and how people are feeling about the watch and the way it presents itself i mean i was really impressed i think i am still mentally i'm still very impressed with how this watch was done and the final result it's we will be chatting about the sea master 300 by the end of the show since that was one of the last releases of what is it march this year but they did a good job here the the thing i tried to when i made the video discussing the release i thought what they've done is added all these little elements that add that increase the complexity of the watch when it's on the wrist for the owner so it makes it a much more you know engaging watch for someone to wear it as a daily and i think mark might also attest to that the detail he did have the original too but he's just picked up one of these recently and says that detail is something that does drive him to want to wear it more but then you notice that this is not on a bracelet in the photograph how's the presentation by the way and and how's how's the imagery i don't even know if it looks good on your end maybe comment one in the chat if it sounds good and looks good uh who knows this is gonna be fun uh you know half the time it's it's good to wing it because then you you know doing anything freestyle you feel a bit more accomplished if you get it right so it looks okay presentation's fine thank you all i hope that's i hope it's nice enough to see it's quite a cool idea having the the blogs up so i'll be able to read through specs if you're interested and thank you i'm getting lots of ones that's awesome absolute pleasure and all of you here still joining i haven't said hi to welcome if you'd like to ask me some questions tag me in the chat i've got some separate pages open where we can have a look at imagery instead of just the watch articles and if you'd like to ask me something about i don't know the inevitable rolex releases happening in a week's time that could be good uh i've we've all seen that little teaser trailer so it should be fun i'm gonna slowly get into it get the get the creative juices flowing in the brain got to get some more alcohol in my system as well yeah so mark did mention something about the price um in the chat let's see i believe it is worth the money with a discount but a great improvement yeah i think that sums it up pretty well the discount i think it's it's important especially they are asking a hell of a lot i mean it's an issue when i don't know the reason why i'm guessing it's because of the movement that they're introducing but is it justified to add something like two thousand pounds i think it's around about two thousand two and a half thousand on top of what the price of the watch it's crazy it's a hell of a hell of a jump um samurai is saying his slide versus sapphire if it was me i would go with the sapphire the the case back all those specs you want to appreciate this on display right um and it's it's just gorgeous i i still don't know the full specification about the movement i haven't another thing i should emphasize is i haven't read up on every single watch that we're going to be talking about so yeah it'll take a little bit of time to work through it but it should be good uh worth it at 5k u.s brent says in your opinion i think it's pretty decent yeah but yes talking again about the the the sapphire and the hair salide i'm quite surprised how they just didn't include simple things like polishing on the center links of the bracelet this this element is so i mean i'm trying to get another shot up if i can if there's a render or something easy to look at oh god i love monochrome watches just their articles are sublime photography and everything you notice that i use them a lot in in presentations and videos uh welcome william pleasure having you here the polishing on those center links just adds that add you know a little emphasis the the applied logo that stuff i think is a pity that they didn't include in the hair slight being the more traditional piece still awesome looking model um it's a really worthy refresh i think they've done a good job speaking about zen i wonder we'll see some zins later on i think a couple of releases so again this is not linked to any specific topic this is literally a chronological order of some of the most interesting releases that we've seen over the course of the year um yeah designers say yeah there is polishing in the center links for the sapphire yeah that's that's why i would opt for it just those added touches a clear case back applied logo the polishing on the center links that stuff just just pips it a little bit more it's a pity that they haven't addressed but then you want that you want the hesselite for the the clearness for that that classic finish so it's very like divided when you talk about you know when it comes to looking at the piece still oh it looks good i'm loving these live photos all right i think we've we've discussed certified by nasa at audi yeah i i do definitely give a thumbs up on this piece it has been an excellent refresh as for the sea master 300 though still a bit on the fence we can have a discussion about that that'll be happening close to the end of the show actually uh at slide 35 or 37 or you know okay we've chatted about the speedmaster enough it is a superb looking model tourist is saying uh how am i doing i am fantastic tourist is very very well having a good weekend laid back i hope you're all doing the same having a nice easter break so uh why is it 42 mil instead of 39.5 and just keeping with their traditional size i mean the whole idea of the professional watch was to be something legible easy to see and i guess that's what they've tried for it's what the theme has been ever since it you know became a thing in the late 60s it's a cool looking watch i i love the sapphire how they've done it anyway chat about this piece went down 37 to go exactly be dev and we've been talking for 11 minutes don't worry some we will fly through not all of them are going to be uh as interesting to talk about but hey all right this is a fan favorite and i think many will enjoy this watch it's the a385 and question of does this pip the a384 the way the style has been done i know thomas burnett is someone who is chomping at the bit for a watch like this because it is just an absolute gem a384 is cool but the a385 just you know adds that little bit of an x factor on top of a tobacco burst you know i i'm might need to be corrected i think i'll probably be able to find an article february 19th i'm i'm pretty sure this came out very early on in the year maybe i got that completely wrong uh this is the original and this has got nothing to do with uh tropicalization of the dial if you tip saying take your time just kidding no it's it's all good uh who knows how long the show's gonna be i i don't have any schedule i don't have a hundred plus wrist shots to go through so it should just be nice to sit down engage with the chat a bit more uh be a bit more open about the subjects and yeah again the variety is beautiful so this watch never tropicalized this is in fact how the piece was released and yeah it is something else so it's it's like a what would you call it a fumey tropicalized effect that they're putting on it and these vintage ads it's just so awesome that's what's great about having these articles open is that you can appreciate all the stuff and see if i can zoom in a bit for you to look at maybe i don't know a384 on the kfra bracelet a386 a385 not very often spoken about okay well i've just noticed this for the first time it's a reverse panda seeing it presented like this it's quite easy uh to break it up we will also be talking about the chrono master sport later on so that should be a good time and uh yeah man it's uh it's a good way to start the show some beautiful pieces that began the year off for us i must say that's one thing that has impressed me and and why i think it's worth sharing is that there was so many nice watches over the course of these three months very impressive from all brands and lots of them don't get the coverage they deserve so hopefully you'll see that the synth would be amazing with a rose gold case it sure would it sure sure would that's one thing if you want to have a winning formula with this kind of dial rose gold would work excellently and we've seen it we've seen it so often that a brown dial tobacco dial works in virtually all situations circumstances i see buddha stud joining us welcome evil panda eric yeah it sure is it sure sure is these these photos are just sublime and it's that case that case is just so recognizable to the enthusiast i'm really loving these these outlier watches in this category where they're not something that the average person would recognize you can walk around any part of the world and no one would stop you so you have to find a very rare person who would recognize what this piece is what it represents and uh i again you know that i have such a soft spot for revival watches when they're done well and there's quite a lot of them actually in the show a lot more 70s styles returning absolutely homages like the tissot prx yes emory it's becoming a big thing same same with the 50s re-editions they're just they're everywhere but then this is what i want to actually address when we get to the sea master 300 300 m is how omega is trying to like blend both together the idea of vintage inspirations and modern taking it in a different direction and i don't know if it always works i must say that that rose gold bronze looks incredible though what a combination look at that dial too oh it is so so so nice so uh wristwatch experience says i love the original but i like the darker coffee cappuccino down the new one i must say question to ask is how much more legible is this watch would this watch be on the wrist do you think that the panda dial is more effective than the reverse panda when it comes to being a chronograph you know that's something you can also address is a lot of the time these watches that are more what we say exuberance expressive they can sacrifice their functionality in favor of fashion you know and i'm putting fashion in quotations as well um oh it looks very easy to read honestly it does uh those sub-dials the spacing the balancing again i've said this trillion times the way that a brand can address its script and this is something that the modern brand the modern pieces are not doing where the vintage you know i don't get it purely from a design perspective i know designer tilia and and marcelo will probably agree that when a brand like zenith has so much in their back catalogue to any brand actually you know you can look at longino omega all those names they have so many little nuances and inspirations in their back catalogue that they can use why don't they just pick up on these elements and add them to their modern pieces guarantee it would make it so much more attractive appealing in that area and then we see it on the wrist yeah these are great one and this is from one and one this article by the way uh any more comments and questions the design is a cycle of history and preference life visualized i mean that's it designs that's so well so you have such a profound insight i gotta say uh design is a cycle of history and preference also also linked to what sells and what appeals it's a very good point it's like this this meeting meeting area um by the size i hope everyone does east hope everyone who does easter has a great one yeah i agree samurai depends on if some of these watches are rigorously used in military branches yeah that's another one it's another good reason and yeah favoring legibility over fashion we see that we're going to see some military-inspired watches that have moved in a bit of a different direction later on too when we get to the long gene bigger eye titanium and stuff like that and megan says we'd love to own this yeah i'm in the same boat i have definitely found my preference of watches where they have to have a little x factor something that makes them a bit more charming and fun can you imagine the tan lines you get from this i would actually love to see someone deliberately going out into the sun to get that result that would be so funny you see just imagine you all you know the wrist is all pale at the top and then you've got these these tan squares god like a checkerboard and samurai says i served in the air force reserves and they're very strict regulations oh yeah no no question it gets it gets very serious when it comes to specification and design for purpose and you notice then that they can also be kind of anal retentive with regards to what they are willing to improve or change we see that very often i mean if we look back to the history of of w10s and all those models that evolved in the british armed forces it's one of my favorite lines of pieces the whole mil-spec era and we see just how similar everything was from the 40s all the way through to the 70s the 80s between hamilton cwc all those manufacturers same with benrus and hamilton through the vietnam era following the same a11 inspired designs there just look at that movement zenith what did i say about the chronomaster sport i've said that the el primero i said el primero is very much the thinking man's chronograph in this area because you're getting you're essentially getting a high horology movement at the end of the day that's special uh you know so forward says welcome forward the bracelet shot of the zenith seems to make the case not blend into the bracelet good point this is the thing when you're dealing with i always like to say this as you could call it a cop-out i don't know it's almost like i'm design wise purely design speaking this is not the best aesthetic the best final approach but when you think that this is the original and this is how it started that's what makes them special to me at least is that you can you can scrutinize them of course i love scrutinizing them and critiquing how they were done i think anyone should but then it's also saying well you know it's a cool starting point and what were they thinking and why did they do this what's the reason and you can see that not everything works i mean uh there's this whole idea of the ladder brace that you notice that this is the only real time we see this and then it gets phased out i wonder why uh true adults fidget spinner case back yeah i mean that's it's awesome right it is really really awesome so yeah absolute dream of a watch i think it's superb and there are lots of owners out there who have these pieces and they love them purely because they go against what we see today and especially when a brand has so much in their back catalog to share these are examples of watches that they can make a huge amount of money off and people want it the vintage pieces are so hard to find actually no i kid these are actually pretty easy to find uh they're not the cheapest they are pretty expensive but you know you're getting everything new everything modern here and it's yeah it's a joy i'm missing you all in the chat it's going to be a consistent thing i think throughout as always since i'm trying to manipulate the screen and i hope presentations nice and clear for you to look at caliber is awesome yeah the covergirl yeah rick on watches um was much the same case and ladder bracelet very cool dial yeah i called it almost like a golden gate bridge dial let me pull it up um i have to say this very carefully cover girl el primero i'm going to have to try and get my fingers all lined up and awake so i think this is the original yeah this is the old school model but you notice how how the the minute what we call it the minute track is laid out it reminds you of the golden gate bridge that's that's i don't know what the actual term is that they use for it but it's so funky it's it really feels like a watch from now transitioning into the 70s it has that that jam behind it yeah it's working out well i think the presentation is is pretty clear we have matt asking me what am i drinking it's a glenn livert caribbean reserve it's got an awesome i've never experienced a banana nose before you smell it and it's like you literally in the tropics it's great it's like a milkshake not really it's like 43 percent uh chad's from the berg that's what makes these revivals so nice the vintage vibe with modern materials and movements yep fully agree this comes from an owner of a few of them i think they are it's such a nice area and what we can refer back to which is the downside of this theme is that you could say a lot of brands are kind of creatively bankrupt in this area and maybe they they don't have the ability to to create these kinds of watches anymore or they're just not that interested they'd rather play on what they've done in the past with examples like these good on them i think it's superb uh it also says a lot for someone who only owns the revival watches what does that mean for the modern modern pieces why don't they appeal you know to the owner as much um racing holes on the watch band oh you know what forward that's such a good point is this was this their way of of almost addressing the uh the rally strap of the time with the holes yeah it's good may not saying the king of chronographs i mean that's that's a given right it really is a gaben zenith is uh zenith zenith whatever you want to call brand absolute gem i think it has regards to the selection of watches i think i would choose this over the a384 given the chance the panda dial is great but i think the panda dial is also very very overused in most watches this one is just you know head and shoulders a little bit above the original and completely unique feel you get you basically get a fumey style dial you get that old-school classic case excellent legibility you have everything you want out of el primero i guess the one downside is you have that date at the the 430 which is not everyone's favorite especially when it doesn't match the color of the dial but yeah you know right that's been enough of the a385 i'm going to move to the next piece that i think we're going to have a a good laugh samurai says next watch are you ready the hublot big bang unico full baguette i thought you know what we gotta we gotta definitely cater to the entire audience let's have some fun looking at the outliers to um samurai mentioned that hyt went bankrupt yes we actually featured a few hyts two weeks three weeks ago maybe on a live show they they did go bankrupt megan is a collector of them she loves the watches and she shared a few with us to feature how cool i mean just just visually how cool does this look on the screen i love the colors i gotta say i love the colors not that it's a watch for everyone i'll definitely have a look at the prices and we can have a good laugh but if you want some rainbow in your life this is the way to do it right and you have to always commend a brand for being able to have this kind of finishing to their cases i mean to individually set elements here could we say that this watch is you know we say profiteering off the of the love for the rainbow daytonas is this their way of trying to get on on that that bandwagon i do not know uh i thought i had no taste uh 121 click bezel welcome i showed up for the hublot big baguette you did you definitely showed up at the right time um not all not not with a leather band though big turn off don't you think there's a couple of other this this one i knew everyone would love this there's a couple of these models this is not the first one that they've done in this rainbow finish i don't know for me i kind of dig the the strap too it just oh god it's so bad uh i dig it because it's just so flamboyant it's too flamboyant almost you know daily beast of all occasions larry yes yes i think you could do absolutely anything with it i haven't even looked at the function of the dial and everything there so it has a has a 60 minute totalizer on the right running running seconds on the left that you can't even read i mean how do you how do you that's so funny yeah looks good uh i i find it to be quite quite the conversation piece uh foreman says nobody move i've dropped one of my back can you imagine can you imagine that happening so let's have a look at the price just out of interest sake because i really do not know i don't know how much this will be a uh a movement related scenario but i'll try it's got a 72 hour power reserve 28 800 uh beat rate the buckle with 30 more gemstones that's good to know msrp of 303 348 000 us dollars hmm something tells me that i don't think many people are interested in this watch for that price you'll get a great discount though i'm sure i don't know how many they're bringing out but hell what a lot of fun isn't this a good way to start the presentation yeah um i think this thing also tells the time yeah barely i mean it's very difficult to read a lot of money and just way way too much this is actually the best hublot i've ever seen sam ray says oof that's uh that's quite a comment okay so let's let's move on from this it's a excellent watch absolutely excellent next up we have the resins and i have a little notepad in the corner because of 40 watches i can be a bit uh struggling with all the naming let's see it's called the essence type 1 squared x right oh let's get it up this is beautiful what an awesome release this also came out in and around january i think if i have my my dates lined up properly the chronological order look at that dial look at that case you know you get radiomir vibes immediately when you look at it that presentation is just something else i wonder if i can actually click on some of these images oh how cool is that piece this is i think i think of all this is my favorite resin the most interesting resins i've ever seen a lot of the time we see the standard prototype with the black dial or the white dial nothing nothing too uh overdone hold on a sec these are different what have i done why does this have balls and this one doesn't can someone tell me oh no hold on there it is okay so this is this is the new release they've got a few other precursors that they're going through history right um it's not a quartz watch though right it's it's an eta-based calendar there's two eta-based calibers on top of each other or maybe i i am i have to read the article while i'm talking uh the type one squared egg rests on the resin's orbital co oh here we go covax system rocks in-house developed and painted to the horological unit which features disks that continually orbit around one another touristers thank you i mean that that does save a lot of reading and skimming um yeah it's cool so i'm liking this too very bauhaus in the way this was done this we have seen before now be uh now better than ever i think it has around the dial i can't read all that stuff but look at that profile so the orbital i've never seen beads featured on these pieces too so that's something lone wolf thank you for the super chat thank you so much nice work best on youtube that's very flattering i can't be blushing at like 28 minutes in uh this is going to be good good fun i'm glad we're finally after after 20 minutes we're actually into it and we can chat about pieces in a bit more detail go i love photography it's just something else really interesting model i think that i mean the brushing around the dial and just that typical format i'm sure most of you know how to tell the time on these pieces but uh let's try and get this right so we have 24 hour arrangement here i'm always oh i'm not even going to try i'll actually have to read let me try and skim read through the information for us to have a look let's see last anniversary piece motion capture time by collection 48 colored ceramic balls to indicate approximate time at a glance four different colored balls yellow grey blue and black placed on a rotating sub-dial usually reserved for small seconds used to indicate different moments of a day the morning hours starting at 6 a.m are represented by yellow bees like the sun rising while the evening hours starting at 6 pm are in bloom that's awesome it really is nice really i mean check that out i didn't even notice that the technicality that goes into how this system works it's like spring loaded and it's it's a little reminds me of like a ball game that you would have in a kid's toy that's awesome really is cool i but the case i think the case and the dial is what sings to me the most i i find the aesthetic and just the profile of this watch also customize two eight nine two caliber rocks as mentioned by tourists it's an eta-based caliber so i don't know if they're using one or two calibers for this movement time by color only 40 pieces in the world unfortunately and it will set you back 2300 euros including that so that's good to know thank you monochrome this thing really paintballs yeah john thank you so much a little bit fully hublot find god that's funny i mean who would spend that amount you'd get a hell of a cool discount on that piece i think though john thank you thank you so much i hope you're all enjoying yourselves carrie kari says drink up i think i will take a hit um i hope you're all enjoying yourselves kicking back enjoying your saturday or sunday wherever you are in the world wesley's saying i'm late to the party but absolutely love the format and idea that's a pleasure absolute pleasure and take take your time if you don't want to be a part of the show now this is going to be on catch up for you all so essentially for those of you who've just joined it's you know roughly 35 to 40 pieces that i have cherry picked as some of the best releases of q1 2021 and it just allows us to see so much in a short frame um that is cheap for a race since the type 3 is 30 000 sam ray i did not know that that is impressive yeah looks awesome really is great i just again that dial is something else and it's not a watch for everyone we're going to be seeing quite a few outliers during the show but remember not to click too fast because i think it takes a bit of time for the upload to work look at that presentation love those colors i mean that's typical bauhaus arrangement there matt's saying today i roasted my own coffee uh been white water paddle boarding ran paragliding sitting here with a maker's mark and watching all things watch is the best but matt what a day what a day very jealous very very jealous gotta say i used to love kayaking back in the day when i was closer to water uh love the outdoors nice arrangement and the funny thing is in the northern hemisphere we're getting like a cold front from the antarctic not the antarctic the arctic that's coming down and apparently it's going to be like winter all over again for about a week so that's fun really excited okay so gonna move on next to number five oh god that is something else right i'm gonna just quickly type it in so this is the h moser let me get this right gotta open up my little crib sheet endeavor concept concept hold on hold on minute repeater to be on yeah it's the one this watch deserves a lot of talk time another oh i think we're going to be using monochrome as our resource to look at these images they they just know what they're doing with these presentations this watch has had my attention ever since it was launched now why do i find i think most designers will probably understand and agree with this statement why do i find this such an endearing watch how often do we ever get to see the minute repeater on the outside of the dial barely and barely ever the one that comes to mind is the new longer zeitgeist phantom where you have the two uh hammers on either end of the the sub the yeah the subdial at the base of it but to make this a feature you know to appreciate the element so much that you make it a feature on the watch is something that more brands should be doing to celebrate mozart is very well known for their minimalist approach that their aesthetic of really reducing down to the core basics of how they arrange their dials this just tips it in the next because i mean the tourbillon the endeavor tourbillon is one thing but then having that minute repeater on top of it oh and the dial right you can just leave this on the screen for a bit and get back to you in the chat raymond says howdy look into formax reef as i have ordered one diving watch reimagined i've heard of it let me pull i'll pull it up for you now uh anything else go on the chat that i've missed everyone's saying hi to each other i can't believe the show has been running for 35 minutes already uh is it going to be another like five hour long show formax reef diver i'm pretty sure i've heard of this this piece that's been brought out oh very nice now the question is this is this a current release did this come out in the over the course of q 3 or not q 1 more whiskey to the brain nice looking piece i love that presentation and has the the shoulders of the uh the nautilus that we know and the aquanauts i'll tell you what which is formax considered a micro brand i don't know the brand very well but hell it's it's nice nice presentation and we were just talking about the dials see how the dial has that arrangement very similar to what we're seeing here the sunburst effect really cool looking piece they've been a lot of of models in these categories that are getting oh this is another thing when you're dealing with google images it's going to be difficult to get it all lined up but i hope it's i hope it's decent uh raymond says not macro micro thank you um miniature peter what about the razer hour hat april fool's edition yeah i mean we can chat about that i i did not understand that watch at all stunning looking piece though raymond really is nice i look forward to sharing it with everyone we can chat about how it has the skin i mean look it's like a skin diver but it has more of a 70s style case to it nice balance state complications place their cool the reef is quite excessive but it's nice very very interesting very modern in appearance too what was that so moser eraser edition right i saw something about that and i i must have so this was an april fool's thing and not something real or did they actually i'm pretty sure they released this watch again we're talking about q2 technically but uh i don't know about everyone else but i i don't i don't like it i really don't like it i'm all i'm a fan for 8-bit art on a watch i would imagine this is 8-bit but this just looks so out of whack but we know moza does this kind of stuff though right um four makes is a micro brand but most advanced one okay it's okay so it's it's falling into that category of being a micro brand at this point i i appreciate that look at the brace wreath i can't keep showing you sorry sorry i mean i will definitely definitely feature it but as it is running a tight ship with like 40 watches to scroll i think we're going to be going backwards uh raymond says this has a city to cost 300 that's really cool i hope to address it more when i'm sure we'll have a tourist shot week in the next two or three weeks there so this is so strange this this this arrangement so it was actually an april fool's joke i mean the worst i saw was was porsche actually talking about wrapping cars with a rust ah it was so funny if anyone follows porsche on social media so yeah the the the endeavor tourbillon again what i want to try and uh emphasize is it's great to see a brand pushing the complication to the front something as as delicate and fine as a minute repeater and and just the simple a simple alignment offsetting is asymmetrical which is quite unusual for what moser does most of the time too the final result though it does look special really really special not the easiest watch to tell the time with i think uh thank you raven uh did i speak about the the zenith chrono i will easy swim up the chronomaster sport yes that'll come up i think that was around february release time so yeah that's in the lineup too yeah so the one downside i think would be legibility oh look at that movement oh and also something they they seem to love doing with the tourbillons is having a red uh what we call it the louboutin strap at the back you know taking another hit of the whiskey great moses for sure moses moses same thing yeah taristas the hmc903 is a manual winding movement composed of more than 400 parts h m so this this component this movement right here that the nine zero three is that what they're calling it here it's it's insane i will definitely have a look uh squeeze through the article now as as we're sitting here i don't know how many they've limited it to like 20 or something daft but moses just keeps on winning um just think about the streamliner how they've pushed that out and how they now have the green dial people are calling the dragon as an example and they just keep on pushing these pieces that are getting so much attention i i really hope moser just expands and grows here we go 400 parts beats 21 000 vps that's good um hmc 901.903 thank you tourists 20 pieces 330k chf so that's a lot of money it's a lot of money but still i i find it just such an endearing concept you know that really does feel like a concept watch the offsetting of that minute repeater just adds another dynamic to it it makes it more adventurous less of a dress watch less of what they normally normally do but the final results is so it's good it is really good watching the gongs is the part exactly 121 and more often than not you don't see it you have to turn the watcher you have to take the watch off turn it around why why ruin that pleasure of enjoying the gongs working plus you will probably also see these little metal bars uh vibrating too while it's going on so it's just that you know a little bit it's appreciation for those elemental features that we don't often see sonic uh brilliance just ordered the rs awkwards 39.5 oceanic blue oh awesome that is awesome samurai definitely want to feature that for first shot week that would be cool they're doing a good job with their modern stuff you found my source so just as yeah i'm having to read articles while discussing again i didn't do much research before the show i just saved all the watches in some kind of chronological order beautiful example okay chad says moser keeps killing they do they sure do um oh amazing moving on next to number six so this is a ming i'm gonna get this right now this is gonna be fun we're gonna get there eventually just please bear with me as i try to get the numbers down that's the ming 27.02 gradient guilloche and that's the one thing that they have nailed here is a very subtle gila shade dial that you would barely notice if you weren't looking it took me by surprise let's see if i can find a picture or here's the reference image i guess um here we go so the gila shade is on the outskirts of the dial which is i think very in line with what ming does which is you know really taking it back and trimming it down streamlining their approaches and here is an example that does the same thing it's it's reduced normally we would expect get a shade to be printed everywhere thomas loving ming watches yeah i agree i i think their dials are just something to take in industrial designers out there architects we can really enjoy how they do it because it's it's unique to their identity skeletonized in a way very architectural but organic at the same time i think the way they center the 12 with the ring is very nice double batons kind of 50s ish the way they've arranged it at the the 10 minute marks running around the dial and those hands just just all works it's very we're just chatting about moser this looks like the ming variant of the moser endeavor the way they arrange these and the gila sha it's very subtle let's see if i can find some more shots again in-house movements they they know what they're doing and these watches when they are launched when they are live they disappear so fast people pick them up quickly so uh and henrique says not a fan of ming it's okay it's all good i can see why same thing as someone who who can appreciate it i can see why someone wouldn't it's definitely not i mean just the name ming gives you that idea that you know falls into that seiko category you know what i mean but no i i do like i just like the level of restraints that this just the simple arrangement of having the name at three where it's barely noticeable it's it's good it's very good and then we circle back i'm surprised that they don't have more images to publish is this a hold on hold on is this a platinum no it's not a platinum case let's have a look at the article what am i doing uh very ming carries forward the same case mechanical specifications first model of the series so all they've really done is added the clue to parry surface very very nice arrangement there pricing and thoughts uh 4 950 swiss francs not bad yeah cool looking piece and these disappear the second they are launched i think i said that earlier hitting some coffee uh demetrius says ming watchers are beautiful but none of their models more unique than the copper oh the copper i featured on one of the very first wrist shot week shows would you believe and god it's something else i agree they they have that it's amazing how sought after these watches are too um very and the church says very stylish prefer to moser it's another thing this takes the organic i think i have a shot of the eraser here next to us this this already is pretty organic in the way that the cases are done this being a moser example this takes the organic and makes it a bit more articulated fluid i don't know how best you would want to describe it but the evacuated lugs they they seem to have nailed the formula i still like the diver the most in this category here um to be saying speaking of ming i'm thinking of getting a watch similar called the feynman cove anything with feynman with the name would be good while saving up you must get that habering because that's the one watch that i know you you you're gunning for uh to be you've been wanting it for ages um should have a dial from porsche yeah ming porcelain yeah of course i feel like someone's missing i feel like something is missing in a min watch it's very bare it's very blank it's very designed sometimes we could say it's too designed have they gone a little bit too far and the way they've done it russell's joining us welcome welcome samurai says kevin o'leary has one of one ming amazing so i should check out the fineman moza ming wannabe check out feynman okay okay i've gotta try and get this clear enough so what's the name of it again i'm just gonna scroll up and try and catch it uh let's see let's see the chat is going so fast uh tippy i can't find your chat there no no i've lost your message it's disappeared ugh you know i'm the worst i'm gonna be so bad with trying to read the chat and keep this going i'm sorry everyone i'm gonna have to try and be consistent with this um feynman watch i think if i do that we'll have richard feynman all over the screen and it'll be a bit of a disaster hey rings salmon dolls are wonderful yeah we can't go to hey bring that i've got to keep got to keep in touch with the show as much as possible at least ming logo three o'clock yeah it's awesome this really is nice okay i've got a i've got to move on i can't stick to these for so long uh as it is we've been running for 45 minutes and i've barely scratched the surface with these pieces uh so this is the oris i'm trying to remember the car brush here uh 401 and this has already been featured on the wrist i think watch watch box has been covering it and of course i can't get a good article for it so let's see if i can anything anything good goldsmiths no monochrome awesome gonna have to be efficient with the way i run these these developments i mean carl brescia is a legend there this awesome film with um cuba gooding and uh who was the drill sergeant again i can't remember who uh oh geez of course i can't be doing this now live trying to pretend but cobra shirt has one hell of a history to his name and this was one of the first i think the original the very first model we can chat about bronze watches very quickly all bronze yes i think it's all bronze casing what makes this model a bit more interesting i think no date i reckon it's one of the best they've ever done actually considering this line the chronograph was quite a nice talking point you know a diving chronograph is always something quite special robert de niro thank you wilson thank you godfather gotta take another hit of the coffee you can see i'm gonna be a bit slow as i present today don't think the back is bronze no it's not i i think it is a steal back um auris has really come along yes i agree megan i think they are pushing i i really am impressed with how they have introduced the new in-house caliber and they seem to be i this watch this watch now also uses the in-house caliber i think that's the special thing about it they pushed it out to highlight the new movement that they've just put into their uh their aqueous line so yeah this was pretty interesting i think the whole by compact layout is nice it's very 60s ish which i dig but of course the the bronze case as a topic of debate something else important to note that i think it's also a good collaboration is that erica's originals made these straps for iris in partnership and rs is very open to partnerships too which i also think is nice any brand that is able to reach out and team up with you know people who are popular in the space i think it's good because it just adds more exposure to the business owner and you know this watches should be a collaborative exercise between owners between enthusiasts it just just adds to the dynamic makes it more fun yeah so sorry says yes the 400 in-house ora's facebook page is actually amazing i've made suggestions and they respond to me fast and that's good that is so good they stay and that's the thing when you in this modern day and age you need to have things like social media unlock if you're running a business like this especially when it comes to promoting when it comes to feedback and all of that there it's awesome it really is good uh so we can talk i'll get to the case back eventually but i think what they've done here is pretty nice the sub the running sub seconds cleans up the dial a lot more oh i'm getting so many questions the new movement is kind of horrible tippy says i'm interested in knowing the accuracy i haven't covered those specifications the accuracy and the power reserve i think was quite well spoken about but i don't know how the long term performance is going to be you know it's uh it's going to be it's going to be interesting to check it out dome crystal makes it yeah that's another thing iris loves their dome crystals i own the the original 65 and i swear it looks like acrylic you can't believe that it's actually sapphire it's so so well curved um the ceo at rs is approachable and that's another thing the ceo is being open to criticism open to comments so what i think works so well in this piece let's try and i think that the way they've done that subdial there is good very good five-day power reserve it's nice to know 100 meters water resistant expected it's a micro thin watch too which is nice i don't know if anyone's experienced them but they they sit so low to the wrist i don't even think they're 10 mils in thickness overall um no with the hacking raymond says the flaws with the movement is the hacking so that that don't have a hacking seconds that's something but as for the bronze case that's the divisive part that's nice i like that arrangement um there's the movement for anyone to enjoy the issue with the bronze case it's it's either you love it or hate it at the end of the day the aesthetic is something to enjoy especially when it's brand new once it's been worn in i guess you can clean the watch and it will look awesome but can also be a bit hectic it all depends on the alloy they decide to use and this does have a steel back which is good um erica's style strap yeah raymond mentioned earlier does it have a power reserve on the reverse i think they might i'm sure they would maybe not it doesn't look like it this is this is the full image so it looks like they're only making 2 000 of them okay but overall what i what i do like especially with the arrangement of that sub-dial there at the base i mean i love these old photographs let's go back um the arrangement of the subdial at the base this whole this whole text following the circular form of the subdial feels very of its time it feels nautical actually when you think of barometers and you think of clocks back in the day all speaks to that nautical feel which is really nice actually gives you a very good marine chronometer effect to it and just yeah overall the presentation is very very clean i like it a lot don't know so much about the need of having to mention water resistance and stuff sometimes there can be a bit too much text added to the piece but you know looks good don't don't own an rs never really caught my attention matt yeah it's definitely not for everyone i i'm someone who loves the quirks and the original 65 with the reverse numerals on it just fun so much fun cool looking piece i think it'll i think they've all probably sold out by now okay we're gonna have a look at more bronze watches later when we get to the sea master 300 next piece on the list let's have a look it's a surprise for me too oh i like this so let's get the name of this luminor out and it is called the here we go the panerai marine 44 and i think it is also paying tribute oh hold on i had it there for a second room 44 and i'm going to butcher his name so i don't think i will say it out loud guillem neri and i think he is a diver he is a commercial diver now today this example with the white strap i don't know if all of them come this way but we can have a good look at i thought it's very striking and worth looking at discussing panerai as a brand i think is deserving panerai needs more attention as a manufacturer i think uh dimitri says bronze is not for me but bronze gold sea master seems it does it sure does seem interesting i'm so impressed with it of all the new releases in that 300 line that one that one is a win i would fully own that piece um we're gonna speaking of panerai the whole numeral arrangement on the 300s yeah that's also something we can discuss but yeah let's have a look so 70th anniversary for the luminor celebrated with a tritium-based loom formula later lent the name luminol watch series oh geez we're doing the full history here 44 mil case which is nice full titanium which is good i love the way they've done the dials here i really i mean look at that arrangement that is something charming that's also gradient gray it's not black and it just adds another little dynamic to it also appreciate that it's not faux patina or what would we call tropicalized patina whatever you want to call it the uh faded loom it's nice seeing this is why i actually chose this source image having the white on white white strap white layout it's very good so the question is how can this brand further push its identity and get popular again and i guess there's um there's opportunity for them to do it we've been chatting about it before just the idea of is this at the end hold on is there any more no that's it just for interest sake 18 900 that is a lot that is a lot of money so i hope i hope the the stream's not cutting out while i'm talking and if and if i'm scrolling too fast i apologize uh but overall i think the the presentation is good size-wise i think 44 is pretty reasonable 70-year warranty michael maybe this model has it i don't know if this if this is their new thing they're including with all the models or if it's just the new movement uh is it good thank you mark samurai comedy one okay great great streams fine thank you everyone i just switched i'm still on virgin media but had this this thing with with download and upload speeds and apparently i'm getting better better equipment to make it faster but i don't know it's all up in the air there's no knowing until you watch back on the show bbc bbc welcome says you don't like pam yep i know i know you love it that's that's one of your like underlying character traits so good uh thank you chaz yes it's good fun 18k is is a hell of a lot for this watch gotta say um but the size of this piece 44 mils i think is appropriate once we get beyond that i think that's when people really start getting turned off and there was mention that that panerai is a dying brand it's unfortunate that that a lot of people feel that way it's it's a watch of its time unfortunately and and sadly when it comes to aesthetics and comes to layout and some the preferences just aren't there but then you think well why is there so much appreciation for these reissue watches because this is essentially a reissue watch that's well never has gotten out of fashion that's always been there you know and yeah it's that catch 22. we see the sea master 300 m now incorporating the same kind of sandwich dial numeral layout will that not bring more attention to watches like panerai don't know i guess it's just within their line they're doing so many peculiar things that whole 30 meter water resistant thing i mean that's laughable right that is just laughable considering these watches were made to be the most proficient dive watches of their time so uh yeah i guess they're trapped by the design aesthetics and that's it michael i mean you kind of hit it on the head there it's how do you make this how do you move this forward into the 21st century and i think they could there's there's so many opportunities to further evolve this it probably won't be up the enthusiasts alley really they won't appreciate the changes but i the one watch that spoke to me a lot was the uh the id model i had a part to play in it of course uh totally killing but i found this to be such a good step in in the right direction in a way and this is the problem can i find a good example to look at the lab id they i think they used forged carbon on the case and they've done some cool things with some models with loom around the crown guard this is going in the more modern direction not for everyone's taste especially those who love the radio mirrors and those classics but then if a brand wants to survive i think adapting in that way might be something good you gotta you gotta test the market i think it was for only watch i can't be deviating too much away from from the talking points but we gotta try where is that model i can't see it oh well uh such such a good looking piece and the way they've done that subdial arrangement there it just feels feels like it's going a bit further radio mirror had jlc movements yeah and i mean if it wasn't for for rolex raymond panerai wouldn't be a thing that's how it all started it's it's incredible yeah uh panerai had rolex rolex movements yeah yep pvd accents on the panerai make sense there's a lot one of my favorites i think it's the reference to uh 223 i think that's one of my favorites it's a it's an eight-day power reserve gmt that i love looking at anyway nice looking piece i thought as a presentation this watch deserves to be look at i think this is quite a nice modern movement forward what they're doing with this with this line but again they need to sit back they need to really rethink how are they going to push these watches forward i'm go i would just throw it out if anyone from panerai is watching uh size shift the size down a little bit more start thinking more about your your dial architecture maybe i don't know really go against the grain and add a compressor style element to it where you have an inset bezel because everyone loves a fidget spinner everyone loves a bezel and then try to modernize i think the next step is you know playing around with the loom because the luminor i mean it sums it up the radio mirror they've always been a watcher they've always been watchers known to glow and they deserve that i think as a as a step forward okay a few more seconds on this piece and then we got to move on to whatever is next on the list i don't even know let's see simply saying you should try and look at the find and watch again uh you i you know i never disappoint with recommendations okay i will pull up now let me just get it up on screen quickly i'm getting a bit more proficient with how i'm handling oh okay that is very nice very very nice i just need a nice high res image for everyone to see here a blog to watch i don't know why the images are so pixelated on their side cool that is something very left to field how cool is that and this is a compressor style case got actually a very good segue i was talking about that a second ago um panerai's attempt to broaden their appeal of their designs was the the dua series yeah mason that's the one the dua series with the 30 to 30 meter water resistance i just it's so dumb why would you do that why would you do that i mean they had a clear case back which is the appeal right you want to enjoy the movement but then the compromise is no water resistance it's uh it's a laugh it's a laugh unfortunately doesn't mean they can't go back and rethink how they're going to evolve this line it's called the eclipse oh that's very nice this is from zeltek reviews i have never seen this piece before that's for sure feynman i'm guessing this is the maker himself love that dial too i mean it does scream moser and ming you got it you hit it on the head there too moser and ming in one watch the way that the rail track works around the dial uh very classical crown kind of onion style chrome there yeah i like it i do like it definitely focus on this in the future i hope you get to pick up this piece but again the habering is on on your list and find an eca2895 movement founders okay the final edition feinman cove as a panerai element guy you see now i've got questions about seiko fives and as it goes we just gotta get so bogged down next watch let's pull it up let's pull it up dippithoon this was a really really nice example and we know why it's the technical specs behind it i wonder if i have a queued up the bethune i'm going to completely butcher the name uh let's open up the crib notes and get this name properly done to tourbillon is that what they're calling it okay so glad i have some crib notes on the side it always helps i'd like to watch monochrome now this this deserves coverage something that has been asked for by a lot of owners out there i'm just going to leave this image on because that's the the real show-off elements a lot of owners have been asking for the idea of having the ability to rotate the watch around to appreciate the movement on the one side like reverso samurai that's it that's it and yeah and russell says the first time their lug design has made sense to me fully agree i mean what makes debassoon so good as a maker is that articulating lug you can literally if your wrist is you know five centimeters in width you can get a shorter lug profile attached to the watch so it doesn't overhang on your wrist and that's so good it's that that adaptability interchangeability very modern dig it now having the ability to do a full rotation it's something very pocket watch very old school when you think about it but you're able to have two dials one piece and what an arrangement we have something that looks so classic and then you shift across and you have something that looks like a modern example i i'm guessing it uses uh it's a two time zone it's a two a two a dial arrangement there devathon two face i love a two face dial yeah it's something else right i also find it fat because when we look at the watch on the left this is how we kind of associate debra tune today the way they the very star trek and the way they've done their their dial arrangements with these evacuated lugs to then have a look at the modern sorry the classic approach with the very 40s in the way that the the minute track works around the dial there worth looking at very scotty can you give me a warp factor for forbidden exactly exactly reminds me of freemasons you know what the triangle arrangement yeah gotta say the truth is out there hitting the coffee again it's going well we've been running the show for 62 minutes and we are nine images in 38 on the presentation we're definitely going to have to motor through some of these reminds me of 70s design yes i would say absolutely very integrated that's the thing it's it's got this integrated case aesthetic behind it and from a distance you would you would swear this watch is solid you know until you start seeing the lugs i mean the first time i ever saw this watch was talking watches with waco and ben climber a couple of years back and the watch that he had was a fully blued i think it was heat brewed steel i can't remember what material it was anodized some anodized finish to it and it just blew me away seeing how those lugs worked i find it just such a good exercise similar to what we saw with that moser concept this piece the way they've done the the whole idea of flipping the case around is just you know tank masculine uh jlc reverso other watches that we think about when we talk about reversing faces this is taking it forward modernizing it hg wells on the front star trek on the back i love that nefario and that's such a good point and megan says they're strap monsters i mean they're any that you can do anything with these pieces i love that idea we talk about the the modern apple watch as an example of something that's very interchangeable this is probably one of the best examples of a modern watch that is truly interchangeable with how the cases and bracelets work and yeah peace modern classic the wankel engine yeah that's also something raw the tiger also looks like a group of 4c an mbnf speaking of which we are definitely going to jump to nbnf at a later stage i think it's coming up quite soon actually i think it's coming up next uh nice arrangement like the polarizing elements to this watch of course it's a love it or hated thing similar to the mings and the watches we've seen already um those evacuated lugs the way they've been done not for everyone of course they they do take the formula in a bit of a different direction but as far as an industrial design feel it's something to to take in i love it also just simple things that make sense about this watch the way the crown is at the base of the dial or at the top of the dial and not sticking into your wrist it's just those simple things that you feel like it was designed that way you know uh raymond thank you more cowbell i know what that means but uh yeah i love it such a nice aesthetic okay moving on to image number 10 i'm pretty sure this is an mbnf yeah so it's it's a crazy i don't even know what it's a legacy machine something something to have to see hm9 sv mbnf uh hm9 sv really rolled off the tongue uh articles a blog to watch monochrome always good now these machines i mean you've just had a look at quite a crazy looking example of a piece these machines just take it to that next next level i mean this looks like star trek on steroids looks like a formula one car you know it's it's crazy the db28 steel wheels tourists i'll pull it up just can you remind me a bit later on i've got to keep as it is we've now been running for an hour i don't know how long the show is gonna be if we're going at this rate the show will be three and a half four hours maybe you know if we've got 38 images lined up who knows um i would wear that i mean this is the thing when you have the kind of money to splurge on a watch like this you would the the watch it reminds me of actually is the um oh no come back clicked on the wrong thing hold on a sec i hope that hasn't botched uh this reminds me of that that hublot ferrari edition that they did remember remember that that combination uh what was it called i can't remember the reference but that whole idea of having a turnkey inside and you can appreciate the tourbillon which was off axis this is the classic approach and uh raymond sums it up wells time machine this looks like something straight out of that error i didn't realize it has a flight how cool is that it has a type a fleega dial that's something to take in and i don't know why this has a purple arrangement on the left i'm guessing they they brought out a handful of these watches but it's such a such a bizarre approach you know this is when we start not only celebrating the simplicity of talent i wouldn't say simplicity the complexity of telling time but the la ferrari thank you samurai and megan yeah the hublot la ferrari edition so this reminds me of the way the doll's been done so here we get it's a double i mean look at that it's a double balance you get to appreciate this is when you you know you're spending the majority of your time looking at the top of the watch and not the the front of it which is something quite different and well worth addressing this piece deserves attention again that's the same okay phallic yes very phallic when you see it lined up i'm just having a look at it now and uh once you see it you can't unsee it um so catching up with the chat sorry i'm missing you again tag me in the chat and i'll see i'll see it a lot easier i'll see what you're you're asking and mentioning oh look at that these double these double spirals it's just crazy it's just so above and beyond uh i just love it any predictions for daytona rolex armor says i really don't know hell i've done two videos on just like renders and stuff and it's been about 30 minutes worth of me talking about the subject and guarantee you my answers will be less than one percent right at the end of the day uh i i've i don't know what they'll do the daytona if if it's the explorer year and it looks like what we've seen it's all about the explorer too i don't think they would then debut more elements to the daytona i feel like when they when they incrementally improve something like the submariner that's when they start introducing new gold elements and stuff like that i don't think we'll see a stainless steel daytona this year could easily be next year though i mean as the next next set bdev says i'll set a record who knows but as for the s will be explorer 2 i've had a good think about what it's going to look like and i don't i don't reckon we should be too excited with how it's going to end as a result um it's going to be i'm guessing this is my like after talking about the watch so much and seeing that launch image i'm guessing it's going to be 41 mils in size it's going to be flatter in profile a lot more streamlined next to the earlier models we're going to see a polar white black dial that it looks like if i look at the handset on the models also being adjusted it's been shrunken down i think it's funny that we're talking about this and we're looking at nbnf uh april 7th explorer 2 yeah they turn in more precious metals and again i'm thinking that the precious metals will be removed from their catalog i mean there's actually talk about it those john mayer models will be taken away and maybe next year we will see a revamp on because i mean the daytona has been neglected i think it came out in like 2015 the last one and those watches have been they are getting quite old in the category so i find that funny uh ceramic bezel for gold daytonas on gold straps who knows who knows it's it's just it's a guessing game the focus is going to be on the explorer 2 though i think just a more streamlined model it's not i don't even think it's going to get any green accents to celebrate its anniversary it's going to be orange orange hand the typical arrangement that we know i have this feeling gut feeling that is going to be ceramic looking at that image even though it's a cad image it's a it's a render i have this feeling in my gut that tells me that it's going to be ceramic and it totally goes against their identity and what they're about but still seems like something we can talk about that at length i think in a moment but still this machine looks superb we've chatted about it enough gorgeous arrangement surprising that it uses these flight elements on the dial that's something megan mentioned something about roman schaaf owning having one of these pieces uh f1 race oh turnkey has started yeah let's talk about that hublot laferrari i love that watch it's such a fascinating machine still grabs my attention today okay okay i'm going to move on to the next example we've looked at this crazy machine long enough and oh dear i knew this would happen i did something wrong and i deviated away i clicked on the thing at the wrong time let's see if this works hold on back in it so so uh bulgari brought out a range of new watches around this line and i think they just addressed a couple of new materials uh let's have a look the finismo s with silver dial they also brought out one with a black finish on a black strap which looks great i did not have a good look at what this watch is supposed to be but i'm guessing it's just a color change you'll notice that to be quite a consistent thing through the show that you either have most of the time 90 of the time we see watches that's just i mean come on dinky is that all you're going to share with us ah okay let's look somewhere else um let's see gq magazine should we have a look at that new wave of watches okay i'll bite no pop-up ads please yeah it looks pretty good i'm really liking these chronographs of all the models in this line the chronograph to me is exciting but also the model on the left i think looks superb with that strap it looks great this i mean this is the kind of watch i would want to wear in this in this area you notice how there's this consistent theme as we keep rolling through the show you'll see that there's quite a lot of consistency with black straps black dials that's essentially what the cover photo of the show was megan says love the octo's yeah i mean your family loves them they are i still am a bit divided of all the models this is the one i would i would like the most i find this arrangement the most appealing to me the whole asymmetrical arrangement on the dial is a little bit too much for for my liking and then it's the case you either love it or hate it again it's the profile that's incredible it's that that format there i don't know oh this is something i haven't seen the octo roma currently on tourbillon that's something else you see what i mean you miss so many of these as they've been released ets says i wish they had a finismered 38. yeah these are 42 mils right and i guess the beauty is that they sit so flat to the wrist um but they are pretty i mean the nice thing is they're easily identifiable with what they are now they spoken about a lot and they they seem to go under this banner of high fashion watch high fashion in the sense that you'd see this kind of watch at milan milan fashion week oh look at that chronograph gmt titanium this to me is one of my favorites i i really of all models i'm not so much of a fan of this watch on the bracelet but i think on the strap and the black on black finish titanium case even more light this watch probably weighs all of what 10 grams nice and demetrius owns one of these and he loves it i remember you you picked it up i think not at the birth of your son but oh so cool isn't it nice that we actually have all these intimate stories around our watches and i somehow remember them after sharing them on wrist shot week 25 episodes in and there's always something to talk about you know the sail cloth yeah i agree megan um it's something and the blue the blue blue face and everything there definitely worth looking at as a brand they're not all that expensive either when you consider them as as well super well made watches in this category um but then i i made a video like a year ago talking about how it takes this deco inspiration with the way the case facets work and it's either a hit or miss it is a bit excessive when you start looking at all the macro details or micro d i don't know what i'm saying but more coffee in the system hold on the tourbillon anything in this larry saying that the i finished the smoke to be on chronograph skeleton is amazing it is uh there is a skeleton we're going to look at in a moment that i think is a win especially for the brand that we're going to see so yeah we've chatted about octo's enough this is more of a refresh we can definitely move next this one this one did surprise me uh i like this this arrangement and it's the hublot classic fusion or linsky okay let's get it right not rainbow classic fusion orlinski now linsky is a designer or an architect i have seen a lot of his work in the past and he has this very typical i'm going to pull up the herding article we're still in january by the way we haven't moved to february yet but um i find these to be good good talking points the the the dial again this arrangement's either his or miss i think for a lot of people it looks a little bit cheap in the way it's been done but i do admire how they're celebrating the artist the creative through the work that he does i mean here's some some samples this looks like a bear in the background and incorporating that into dial we've noticed something when we get through a few more artist collaboration watches that some are very hit and miss sometimes they can be i mean this is his style that he's just translated through everything it's nice to have a creative with a consistent style but then when it's so repetitive it can be a bit of an issue i don't like them at all yeah again i'm just rocking i'm throwing these up because they're worth looking at obviously they're not the most spectacular watches to talk about but i thought it'd be nice to just get a wide spread of information uh i'm seeing hmm megan says you can't beat the octo with great discounts now yeah they aren't that expensive they're more of a fashion watch they look good i mean i would consider that that octo is stunning that titanium gmt chronograph the balance you can see why it's it's so so gorgeous ap please yeah i mean that's the thing forbidden says hublot dial surface reminds me of christmas ornaments it does right it does you got it so yeah it does look a little bit entertaining similar to the rainbow i brought i shaved i shaved this just so that we could have a good time chatting about the arrangement i do find how it plays the light quite interesting and it looks like a concept prototype watch a little bit of a little bit of art and design to it there um yeah astigmatism yeah i agree i agree okay so this is good we ran through this one quick enough let's move to the next one uh oh this is nice now we can start talking about something a bit different and they call this a type 20 i don't know zen of pilots i'm gonna probably get this wrong i'm pretty sure they call this the type 20. and type 20 always generally designates the uh flyback feature i wonder what what do they call this the extra extra silver special the extra special silver okay uh huh see i got a love hold on give me a sec and if there are any articles written about this watch we'll see a blog to watch her dinky watches by sjx this is always good 2019 don't tell me that i'm behind and this is actually a later edition you need to tell me that this watch came out last year uh oh such a cool model we're going to see another one later on i think did this watch come out last year and i've just watched the releases someone lied to me i don't know but it's a cool looking piece let's chat about it for a sec um zenith just just nails it again with the way they do their things the downside is i guess the crown might be a bit too big for some people oh it's hold on it's a chronograph i i think i've i think i'm going onto something here just checking out the arrangement a lot of these aren't chronographs bear with me there we go there we go we're back oh i love that dial oh it's nice all right let's on this for a sec sorry about that delay they have so many technicalities with a lot of these releases uh rizzub says you're late you're not late been running for 78 minutes and we've gone through 13 watches don't worry yeah not late by any means so i actually watched a review of this watch similar to this model a while back i think was the blueprint model and they're doing a good job really doing a good job that dial is something else taking a hit from the coffee i think the rivet the rivets and inspiration on the dial is something worth looking at and it's that texture it has very ornate reminds you of the uh the elements that we see on on watches like seiko grand seiko which we're going to feature later on nice looking but the crown the crown is either i love it or hate it it is huge it is huge for someone who wears a watch on the right wrist you're in you're in okay shape but on the left wrist i feel like this thing will be quite a hindrance and the watch itself measures like 44 mils and it has a 54 mil lug length or something like that uh big fat onion crown is normal yeah as yeah true for sure it's just it's nice seeing that this classic inspiration is carried through the entire piece you know where you have the dial the cathedral hands that the type is so correct through the the 30s and the 40s and all that um i love big crown watches yeah i mean it's it's all personal preference some funky little features like these these little pop rivets you see on the strap you can actually open just for the sake of it being a fidget spinner they don't do anything but they look nice so you can actually open them like you can on sleeves of leather jackets and stuff just to play around and so again type 20 complication generally always designates that it's a flyback chronograph meaning that you don't have to reset it to to keep it running but i love that silvery tone i mean it just of course these aren't true rivets i think it would be a lot more impressive if we actually saw real rivets on the dial somehow not dense you know what i mean something that looks a bit more true to what the rivet would look like dan says watch doesn't cut the numerals but it looks but it looks narrow eyes hmm that's something else i mean cut numerals either a love it or hated thing i think it does have its place on some models on some watches especially when they have we'll actually be talking about the um the big eye later on the longing big eye but uh yeah it's it's very clean and clear my compacts layout 30 minutes totalizer you can either love that or hate that arrangement still the the what really draws me to this model in particular is that dial the finishing uh normally when you get this kind of polish on a metal surface it means that you haven't done enough you've got to do a lot more but i like that they're playing around with that materiality and textures again ladies and gents i'm sorry that i'm not reading your chat if you would like to ask me some questions or just direct a question to me i'll be able to see it quicker or a statement even doesn't have to be a question uh i can get to it faster and and address as we go through it okay gonna move on to the next piece uh speaking of pilot watch straps this wouldn't be equipped with a bun strap back in the day so that's something yeah whole set of type 20 watches is amazing megan there's some good examples out there the blueprint was one that came out recently which was also similar to this i love it or hate it i love how they have done that by compact layout it's so crisp simple there there's there's nothing that seems to be eroding on its space it seems well proportioned and balanced okay to number 14 i like this one so it's a designer to five uh i'm guessing 21 and they call it olive or something there i don't know look at the crib notes again we're still in january by the way urban jungle okay okay we're still running through january getting close to the end of it though and then once we hit february we've got a whole new range should we look at mono yeah always monochrome their articles are just sublime ah the photo's also great so we know that the reason why i cherry picked this watch similar to the raisins is the color i love the olive drab anything in olive wins my heart and the defy line is is pretty much what defines how we see the modern el primera today which is quite exciting i like i like a brand that takes these sorts of risks and just think about the category we've just looked at zenith has featured quite a lot in this video we started with the a385 we've gone through now to look at that type 20 which is so classic and classically inspired we're talking a watch from the 30s 8385 is a watch from the late 60s 70s here we're looking at a watch that's moving it forward with i'm guessing a ceramic case i'll have to double check and then we'll look at the chrono master sport they have their fingers and many pies in the subject i think that's the the take take-home point so many green watches this year yeah ets and we haven't even started you know next up we're going to see even more i'm sure nice looking watch the downside of course this is it's a typical jean-claude beaver in the way he's done the hublot hublot-isms uh the skeletonizing is a bit of a problem when you're dealing with a chrono i'm guessing this is 1 100th of a second the way the chrono works yeah it is it's so it's a 10 second it's a 10 second chronograph if that thing spins like mad similar to the chronomaster sport but i i do just admire the uh the aesthetic quality of what this watch is trying to do and how it seems to work so successfully we're going to have a look at another model later on by philippe pantone as a another collaborative exercise simply says it's weird that it felt like a few days ago that you didn't like skeleton watches yeah i mean i'm not a fan of all skeleton watches in this case it this is when it it kind of bothers me i i think the issue with with skeletons for me the most efficient skeletons are the ones that are for time telling only just time when you're dealing with a chronograph on top of it when you know the chronograph is set to be something that is supposed to be easy to read at a glance and to work and function that's when it gets problematic but watches like the ap skeleton the gerard perigo skeleton uh we're going to have a look at a piaget listen in a second the prg polo that has just pushed the watch in a different direction and i think it's worth it too confusing yeah but i like the power reserve this is something that they have done the sub seconds i don't enjoy i think the whole idea of that rotating gadget is kind of a hit and miss but overall i that color the color is just what sings as we were chatting about you know accessorizing your outfit your shoes whatever you're wearing this is the kind of watch that you would pair so nicely with a pair of olive drab shoes out there don't you think um hans back and five go for it you've got a bit of uh ablutions to make and to do all good we'll still be here uh yeah anyway i hope for the rest of you who've been joining and we've been chatting for 85 minutes now i hope you're all well having an excellent weekend kicking back enjoying listening to me prattle on about watches that i don't understand any more tags in the chat i think i've missed that's okay everyone is just chatting amongst themselves that's a joy that means we can move on i do really like how zenith is addressing these these movements of theirs uh and again it's it's a thinking man's chrono look at that yeah so skeleton arrangements on this watch it's it's the feature that they pretty much use on all of these models here but um you can see that the wearer is doing the right thing pairing what he's he's wearing on his sleeve with the watch and that's something else it's nice detail okay gonna move on next to number 15 which is the you're kidding really that can't be that can't be uh correct in the in the category but i guess it is okay um zenith no what's a good article monochrome again monochrome is great the chrono master sports yeah that was a good talking point i mean we just chatted about the defy which is a bit more a bit more unique in that category so this watch is is taking i i really do like what they've done here and the thing is they have so much attention attention on them now that they could pretty much do anything in this area next i was chatting with a fellow enthusiast's name goes by the name of jean-paul beaver he runs he has a channel and we were chatting about how this brand now with this kind of attention on it could do something like release a diver in the next step because then if doesn't make a dive watch anymore so they they're doing a good job i i know this was a topic of controversy but the chrono master is not a old one it's not a new watch you should say it's been around for a very long time and it's in line with all the original pieces that they've had for years and years and it harkens back to so many references a386 the chronomasters from the 80s if i'm not mistaken there um the subdial arrangement everything just feels like you know how you would expect to see an el primero laid out and of course using the new tenth of a second caliber is something else too if given the choice i would probably opt for the black dial the white dial is very nice though it's it's difficult to justify the thing is though the prices of these watches is also something to consider they are not cheap they are by no means cheap watches so you really need to think about why you're getting this chronograph i guess the idea is that many are jumping on this now because the daytona is impossible to get and yes this does share elements i would i mean the real thing is the proportions proportion wise very much uh caters to that there was lots of criticism on the bracelets but if anyone knows the history of these bracelets gay freyr as a manufacturer that's one thing you can direct someone to if they start critiquing the bracelets on these models kfra manufactured bracelets for everyone in the early years and no one owns the rights to have a tri-link bracelet realistically when you think of all the omegas that use it and seikos and there there is no clear ownership even this little tab over the top lots of criticism in virtually every area but it was a good talk i think uh it's nice to have a bit of controversy surrounding a watch from time to time junior thank you for the super chat uh happy easter to everyone he says you have to go it's a pleasure having you here i hope you've enjoyed my my pride my ramblings for 90 minutes uh to be saying i heard the bracelet was horrible quality that's the next thing is the clasp does seem to be a bit of an issue a bug bear with a lot of people and you know that's the thing it's it's following up on those micro adjusts i am i'm so surprised i should have actually mentioned this when we were talking about the um speedmaster professional that new release i don't know why brands seem to be insisting to incorporate these holes on the i mean the real reason is because it's cheap and it's easy to manufacture but drilled holes on a bracelet at this stage in time when when these things are milled they're no longer stamped anymore i i don't get it i really don't it's it's kind of it goes against what the watch is representing if i go back to the front sorry if the microphone cuts out a bit uh this watch represents something modern right and the way it's done looks very modern ceramic nicely laid out simplified kind of 80s we could say in the way it's it's borrowing those inspirations but then we jump to the clasp that feels like something that you would expect from a watch from the 80s and the 90s it's so weird and the speedmaster did the same thing two micro adjust holes and that's it i find it bizarre uh the whole mechanical micro adjust system the idea of having a push button should be on all modern watches now that's called value for money and that's what we all want you know uh doc bbc says the zenith demonstrates the direction that the four yeah the four days of daytona very good point doc uh this does feel like the the 6263 kind of error right with the with the black bezel i think that's the model the 6262 6263 i think that's it i don't know i've handled them i should know but yeah the whole the whole idea of of a ceramic bezel surround nice looking piece and i'm sure i mean we've seen how they have been very successful people are jumping on these watches now uh chas saying missed opportunity on the class otherwise brilliant watch i mean this would look great on any strap too there's nothing to go against there but glidelock for everything uh carrie floyd i agree i think it's something that more brands should pay attention to it's a pity that they aren't we are going to look at more pieces that do have the uh the elements that we like to it does the new speedy have a push button adjust no it doesn't craig a huge missed opportunity there and uh that the new sea master does so i i do not get it i really don't get the the direction that a lot of these brands are going it's not expensive if you have i mean you have one system throughout all your watches how can it be an expensive process if that's the one thing you're making it also means that your quality control can just be improved more and more because you're making more of them so you don't have any duds at that stage where if you have diversity in a line of components can get a bit iffy yeah we've chatted about the chronomaster the zenith is unreadable yeah it can i mean it's difficult with the tri-color yeah i agree it's uh something else so let's move away i've chatted about the chronomaster way more than enough this one caught my attention piaget polo skeleton i think they're calling it i i do love how they have done this so ultra thin this watch deserves some love the polo is a line of watches i mean when was it introduced like 20 i'm gonna say 2015 ish round about then and they they kind of disappeared they didn't get much attention to them that we saw them in boutiques and stores but they just weren't picked up they weren't focused on it's a nice looking machine but the skeletonizing i think just adds that x factor to it it's not the most readable watch but in the case of something that's just a time only this is pretty good it's pretty good and we know piaget as a manufacturer they are very well known uh yeah adjustable strap for dive watch is only uh only is a dumb marketing it is i agree it's a dumb marketing policy patrick it's so unnecessary everyone wants a micro adjust system on their watches no i agree uh welcome roberto welcome to the chat mason says nope unreadable and megan says the psja sport have the worst resell than gp do on watches oof so the question is will this start bringing more interest and attention to the line i don't know i'm liking this though check it has a double trigger release for the bracelets that's quite nice i just think that the skeletonizing in this case adds some more x factor to a watch that was pretty plain think when i did a video about it i don't know two years ago at this point i think so old uh i i did a few design exercises and at revamping the watch so the fact that they you know similar to watches like the 1159 from ap they don't seem to be getting much traction they can now start experimenting with with new approaches and skeletonizing is one way you know better have your cell phone handy if you wear this watch that's such a good comment b dave i mean look at it how would you the only way you could make this watch readable i mean if it was me it would be some kind of brushed brushed rhodium finish or a just painted white hands instead i don't know why they went with it with a brushed steel or whatever the finishes that does just make time telling virtually impossible in direct light oh that's pretty nice i do like the black combo so yeah it's it's a love it or hate it i think the case design is quite nice but then we talk about the gender inspirations and all of that too another watch i can't read piaget has a as a cool backstory nice history ets says it's expensive i should have a look at the price but uh enjoyed my first live visit a few weeks ago ah pleasure having you roberto uh this is a bit different first first format of trying this watch report show about q1 releases but uh yeah it's it's either a love it or hater thing i do appreciate how you get to enjoy you know seeing the mechanics of the crown operating and you have a micro rotor at the back there the main spring being wound up so you it really is very um uh look at the thinness i mean that's what these watches are known for it's very what was the word animated that's the one i was looking for very animated looking dial nice and clear and see-through it feels like psja is direct competition with bulgari yeah i mean that's that seems pretty obvious at this point talking about the octo and i'm pretty sure the octo was released at a later stage the name font is so harry potter yeah right i like that anthony that's funny that is funny gotta say cool looking piece not for everyone worth discussing because it's a crazy little character trait but a nice example i thought it was just nice to bring up as a section okay now we can have a look at the long jean big eye titanium so this is another watch it's it's very divisive actually i want to quickly address now we moved to february by the 9th of february 2021 so here's the original big eye stunning little machine this new effort to make a that's so peculiar we were chatting i think samurai we were chatting about uh the whole thing about stringent military requirements with a lot of these watches let's have a look at do they have any real images i think i think these are actually real images because if you zoom in there's like speckling on the dial and stuff okay got one on the wrist so we were chatting about the whole stringent approach to how military watches are done and deviating away from that can be problematic the type 20 dial is gorgeous i mean here's the original very little known about this by the way there's only one of these in the world apparently and a collector brought it in and the result was they thought no let's make it let's make the watch and this was the piece that debuted in 20 or 2017 and it's its proficiency is that it is neutral it has this field watch flight aesthetic to it it's great size balance the big eye is just that character trait that only the enthusiast would know out there which i think is also a joy so you can see how legible this watch is too which is something that i really love it's it's so easy to discern the time and to break up the sub-dials the arrangement the asymmetry like the original black the best brand says so in that way that's what makes the watch so proficient is it's easy to see to read to use this new model trying to breathe some life into the piece they're going with this textured fumey looking blue on black it's okay it's fine but then the faux loom on top of it is is kind of too much because i mean as you can see there's a lot going on on this dial already don't you think it's very busy and it's hard enough seeing everything at once so then having that added i mean if i move back to hold on uh if i move back to the watch on the wrist just too much in your face i think so nice arrangement one thing i do appreciate about this though is that it's in titanium and when we talking about an aviation watch that that sings an aviation watch for pilots all about experimental materials and all of that moving that development forward that's great so what they should have done titanium watch with a slate gray dial when i think it would be an absolute win uh but as it is now the original still seems to be the watch everyone jumps on and appreciates i don't think they've adjusted any other elements to this piece other than the dial the the size and scale is pretty much the same um thomas says the photina looks nice sorry i just just checked out the bead blast titanium case i'd really dig the titanium case i agree i think it's something that makes this watch very different especially in the chronograph space the pho the focusing it's almost like we're on the back burner with this now and our brands are introducing it it's it's funny that it's isn't it funny that it's getting old that people are making watches old i don't know i don't know but it's it's an awesome machine really is awesome the lugs look odd coming from the center of the case funny you wouldn't believe but that's how the original pilots were done they they didn't start at the base they did start in the center and that's something they've carried through the whole eagle beak eagle beak arrangement similar to the zen 356 yeah jdia so it's it's fascinating it's it's an exercise that i think they could i mean just keep the texture on the dial if it was me given the option keep the faux patina i think that would be nice keep the texture on the dial make it slate gray to go a bit more nicely with and same same with the subdials also make them slate gray to go with the titanium case and you'll have a win a real real one and and designers says faux pacino is getting old for a discussion i mean it's not strange to emulate something old is now getting old that's funny anyway uh we love we love navigation watches the avi 765 brent yep i agree it's an absolute charm these watches well worth your attention and there was mention about the cheapest uh movement's cheapest eta-based automatic column wheel vertical clutch that's a win okay this is something else that's different and if i remember right code 41 it's called the nmb24 now code 41 has had lots of attention lately over the course of the year i think this last year i find it's i don't know if you would call this a um a micro brand or not but i find it well worth talking about because it does seem very well considered uh 78 grams without the strap it's a titanium case they're doing some interesting stuff you would and these watches aren't cheap by the way they aren't just micro brands they they are definitely pretty expensive in this category but worth attention i think this is their first chronograph they've released and they've done some good stuff with skeletonization you notice at the base of the dial we have something very akin to come on mouse spin with me here type uh the zenith the fire that we were looking at earlier very similar arrangement to how the date circles are on there just thought it was nice to look at i think the ergonomics and the aesthetics of the case something worth looking at and the evacuating very industrial i guess that's why it speaks to me cool looking piece kind of cushion case kind of radio mirror inspired great proportion and size on the wrist too my favorite i think is still the original i think that original skeleton is quite special with those those bridges and balance as far as micro brands go this one is worth looking at i think the hexagonal screw arrangement is nice and everything just seems considered i think that's the special thing it's not just like they chose a case and threw a movement in it they've had to adjust many little facets to get the movement to work properly and and everything there and there are a few matt i don't know if you're the owner of the watch but we featured a code 41 on the last wrist shot week show yeah so worth looking at nice change of pace okay and we're looking at the more obscure pieces there uh you might like the the alto 8 infiniti 2 designers earlier i will definitely look it up as it is we're running we're doing pretty good 102 minutes and 17 images i've got to move on i've got to move on uh the rotor looks large russell says i don't even know if that is the rosa it looks like it's secured maybe they have a rota on the outside again i haven't studied this watch fully but cool looking model cool looking example that's the combo that i think is very nice funny this reminds me of a modc master that i actually handled where the owner had actually put nail varnish on the tips of the hands i thought what the hell were you smoking why would you do that so that's cool okay gonna jump gonna jump to the next example here i just thought this was a cool piece to bring up okay this is the sea master professional bait beijing 20 something or other uh let's see beijing i'm just going to put in and i'm going to spell it completely wrong uh seymour professional beijing omega watches hold on a vlog to watch has it covered this this is quite nice i found it to be quite entertaining so the beijing 2022 special edition this we were chatting about uh the chronomaster sport and those daytona influences and now we have the yacht-master influences that everyone would probably jump on and say it's taking it from so they used this color arrangement the olympic colors of course so if you look on the left hand side or the middle of the screen you can see they they use the the red green yellow blue at the quarters there yeah it's it's a love it or hated thing i do appreciate this watch without the high reflectiveness i find it to be quite appealing a bit more like a watch from the earlier years when the sea master professional was just introduced you know speckled bezel yeah raymond that's that's a feature they've they've included worth looking at just for fun's sake um yeah that's me right so it was you matt awesome awesome sorry that i'm missing you guys i'm gonna hit some of the caribbean reserve i'll be with you in a moment but then again cmos professional will always divide opinion skeleton hands uh the helium escape valve and this one i like because it's a bit more toned down but we know that omega with their limited editions it's just consistent they don't stop uh dimitri says nice nice bezel nothing else uh it's so good it's so good informant says when the bezel is silver metal color it's better if the bezel is one piece rather than a silver insert hmm that's something else to add so this is the cheaper approach of just adding this in i don't know what the the limited edition amount is let's see uh how many of these limited do limited to i would have i can't see nothing i can't read it anyway nice looking example not for everyone as most of these selections go but that's the joy the dial is also pretty nice samurai says yeah fully blacked out cmos professional just came out too don't worry we'll be talking about that the black black definitely talk about that next is the grand seiko birch i think they've called it right i think that's the reference and again it's that whole they what i wanted to address in this segment is just how they continually mimic nature in such a clear and concise way i love i love their textures and i actually hold on i think when i was looking up this watch adrian bach and jack did a discussion around this saying that it's basically move over snowflake there's a new competitor and i agree i mean just from the thumbnail title this is something that definitely speaks our language plus it doesn't have a power reserve on the dial which is kind of nice makes it a bit simpler there um yeah probably limited to 2000 okay samurai talking about that olympic edition so the way they have done this birch wood finish looks just like the bark of trees and i've worked a lot with birch ply in my in my life gotta say that the texture and the grain looks so so true 36 000 so it's a high beat it's not a spring drive right they either have the high beats or they either have the spring drive arrangements but look at that texture that's what you can admire and just simple things like the way they've done the batons at the top really nicely centered very elegant blue deep blue hand it's got a high beat yeah yeah so and something else they have addressed which i think we can talk about are they some good the clasp is an issue we can definitely discuss that uh i wanted to have a look at the case hold on i'm gonna go back this the way the case has been done i think there are about eight facets to each lug which i think is very admirable we've seen how this watch has evolved over time with the seasons editions and the gmts and all those models going to be featuring them later on but they seem to have now taken it even further with the polishing in the way they do it um so i think there are at least eight edges to each lug which is quite something they're definitely pulling down on that effect that feature proof case profiles gorgeous very organic and it's just true to their language it's so nice seeing a brand that stays true to all of those motifs and typical to their their identity and their format uh let's have a look i'm missing you in the chats i'm going to try only drawback is its pricey chart says um sorry eric how did you talk about uh what the birds and and the i don't know what's going on it's all good um feature says great dial but the hour hand at the 12 marker is not elegant at all talking about that that double yeah that's something i've just noticed i didn't even realize having a look at the hand and and one thing just i don't understand about this is that they don't have they don't offer micro adjustments with their clasps you're paying a lot of money for these pieces i would imagine this is in titanium most of the time they are but maybe it's steel you would think that there is there would be a place to micro adjust this watch on the wrist sadly if if the half link doesn't fit then the watch is going to be loose and it can't you can't do anything about it the beauty is you have a double deployment which is more comfortable but the sacrifice is that it's not going to fit everyone michael says it's steel thank you thank you yeah it's beautiful thomas i agree as far as a watch that sums up grand seiko's method also nice to see that they didn't fully destroy the case back with a sticker on top of it you know so many brands seem to be doing this they love the idea of of ruining crystals by putting their logos on the back of them gorgeous looking movement i love that evacuated uh bridge oh it's stunning it really is nice three so power reserve 80 hours something else to pay attention to um the bracelet and watch is 175 grams and that's of that's before it's been sized right now it's nice looking piece cool to see that her dinky's covered all the macro shots too so look at those facets on the lugs yeah well worth looking at discussed this for long enough uh the day to be better at six this watch uh dates oh god i mean you know what i'll say about dates it would be so nice that they just eliminate dates on some models but at the six i agree it's just seiko's approach they always have dates at the at the three good thing they haven't put a day on it too you know heavier than birch shane that's so funny yeah nice looking feast gotta say well worth the dressing and i'm pretty sure the next watch that we're going to look at is going to be a gmt in a sec let's have a look no i don't know why i chose this but should we have a look at it it's the bull of a precisionist x or something let's see uh we're still in february now it's good yeah the precisionist x uh i found this to be i think it's the sport or the chronograph or something or other uh 21 here we go bulova debuts precisionist x sports watch series move aside g-shock you got a competitor do they have any i think these are all just let's have a look at it on the wrist if we can oh pixelated for days so oh yes don't worry ets we'll be looking at the docks of forged carbon of course that came out in march we're gonna definitely look at that uh so can we not tiffy that sums it up right move aside g-shock you got competition i just thought this was something to look at because it's so out you know similar to that that hublot rainbow and next watch everyone's saying look at the look at the carbon bezel though come on you gotta love that huh it's definitely not a watch for everyone i don't even know where it's taking its inspirations from it's got it's got g-shock to it but then it's also got the gent that obviously trying to hammer home the gentle-esque-ness i love it i love it this is what's cool about these releases that we could really have a i see vomit going on in the chats and uh um good fun yeah precision is 262 kilohertz let's do the the movement and all the rest there okay nice looking watch it's 975 bucks you know so for someone out there who who wants to start in this hobby and he wants to get something that kind of resembles a g-shock but also has the gen magenta feel to it the x-shock yeah the x-shock sums it up uh is it still on the screen no it's not mark uh let's have a look at this this one really really interested me uh professional and it's the america cup no and 2021 i don't know if this is much better realistically when we talk about the uh the aesthetics of a watch uh looks bell and ross i mean that's pretty good right oh i love monochrome why do they take such good photographs america's cup all about yacht racing and omega made yet another limited edition regatta timer so worth looking at here uh more like i am in shock not x shock g-shock raymond yeah right right yes they do megan they do make great watch their movements are just pioneers they they deserve a lot more love that's why i thought it would be good to chat about it but obviously the audience did not did not like it uh yeah understandably so i like this omega better so what just fascinates me about this piece you know i have this funny affinity when it comes to um diving chronos there's something especially in this this watch in itself that i love that it has all this stuff in it it's just so unnecessary needs it needs more pushes eric i agree i mean it does it needs a need an eighth one down at the bottom here there's something so cool about a dive watch the squeaking chair is two hours in the squeaking chair is starting to act up uh there's something so cool about just having a dive watch that is compact with everything on top of it so you've got the chronograph complications the dive bezel you've got a date but then you've also got this cool little feature at the side here which locks the chronograph uh while you're using it so if you want to be sure that it's not going to be interfered with you hit that lock mechanism and nothing will deviate the time tag and of course being a regatta timer basically counts in five intervals and there we go chrono lock i love these renders this format worked out pretty well i'm surprised um the funny thing eric isn't joking i mean eric knows his dive watches and he knows what he likes so this is it so we see the typical arrangement of having you know the counterbalance not double 07 here it's actually america's cup definitely divisive they've done some good ones of these in the past too i think they released one about five years ago the red button is the octopus counter i mean let's go right so regatta timing countdown indicator i think this i have no idea how this separate window works inside here but it has to do with minutes hours i really i haven't i haven't read up the specs another thing to address which really caught my attention was the way that the bracelet the strap or bracelet can be interchanged you now have isn't it great that we're moving in the modern direction where straps can be removed easily i love it i love it i'm going to make a video about spring bars suck and it's going to be all about you know you're dealing with something that's so archaic next to what you're working with on a watch today i love how we're starting to move in a place where we can do this kind of stuff the technology is is slow very procedurally slow but they seem to be picking up nice strap release tiny stacker says yeah and there we go bracelet attachment so what i loved mostly about this watch now that it's come back to me is the idea of concept of prototype of development amongst all of these little things you've got chronograph locking features you've got some very interesting hands on the sub-dials which are worth looking at you still got the skeleton hands but it's kind of it's actually very relevant with this piece when you look at it because you can read the chronograph through the hands which is important it could be useful on occasion uh and then it has these things like adjustable you know removable bracelet links and all that um and megan says that hublot came up with that on divers 10 years ago talking about the chrono lock i know it's not original to the piece there's there's lots of vintage chronos in this category too um that have the same feel oh no hold on hold on gonna get to awesome little breitling in a second nice to also see the movement to twin barrel the movement the watchmaking as we know is stunning so yeah good looking watch i i'm impressed by that development uh good time of the year to talk about spring bars but um thanks for that uh b dev moving to breitling deus i don't even know if i'm saying it right we're gonna try breitling top time deus deuce so this one came out quite recently i think do not open forbes articles you will get flooded with advertising just a hat tip i'm looking at revolution watchers discussion around this piece can we click on the images we can't i think i'll stay on this no see if i can find something else this is a nice shot though uh let's see let's see i saw one from a blog to watch that's a little bit easier to scroll through hopefully they have some shots to look at okay so breitling is killing it they're doing such a good job with their releases and old style hoya yeah edox that's the one megan edox has that locking system i remember now that's something they still use on a lot of their pieces um so chatting about their 765 avi and so many other examples breitling is doing such a nice job with their re-editions under new ceo he is he is taking back a lot of things they've wanted to do they've adjusted their prices they've made their sizes more attainable and the prices just in general for these watches are getting better and better and this is a limited edition release in partnership with deus which is a manufacture motorbike manufacturer i think deuce i i really really don't know samurai says stewie griffin what what the breitling do's that's it they call it the deuce or the day i don't know i see that and i see latin sorry but uh that's a typical family guy right there i love it thanks a lot samurai and in benzene veritas basically meaning that uh in in petrol in gasoline we trust that's the summary there but just simple things like that the cigarette hands are the reverse where the filter is longer than the actual cigarette itself very late 60s 70s top time i was told i've learned that it was a more attainable uh chronograph in this category where the navi timers and those avi watches were much more expensive in this category back in the day the top time was like the seiko five something that brings more people into the the area of watch ownership and i mean the top time made its debut i loved it in the infundable in connery's thunderball my favorite james bond film of all time i just i cannot get enough i could literally sit and watch that movie twice maybe even three times on the same day there's so many little things it's the watches it's the scene it's the setting it just feels so right and at the time you know sean connery had he'd nailed that role at that point uh he knew exactly what he was doing as james bond by then so yeah hamilton and dramatic we're going to have a look at that samurai later on very true i mean the way this watch has been arranged with the sub-dials very much like in dramatic piece but it's just the colors you know beside chatting about tropical i'm drinking a caribbean reserve this feels like something you would wear on the beach don't you think um thunderball shot in the bahamas oh it's my favorite i love it such a cool film um any more comments have a look is it a snap on case back you're kidding me raw of a tiger that's something well hey most of these chronos have 30 meters water resistance regardless so i mean it's kind of irrelevant right uh these watches aren't made for the water but uh just simple things like when you when you when you think about who it's catering to the whole racing scene you've got the appropriate rally strap not with hectic stitching or anything on it it's very plain and toned down the typical breitling color palette of the back of their straps i also just love that the deco sort of arrangement with the the sub dials there and the different colors you notice the oranges are different shades between the lightning bolts seconds hand and the typeface they're doing a good job really doing a good job german flag color samurai yes sure is you only live twice also great film yeah all good so we've had a nice chat about this watch it's definitely worth looking at i think they've had a few specials on these pieces and we are going to be looking at the hamilton and dramatic releases later on too i think march time they came out so closer around there just don't use the chrono underwater don't recommend it and megan mentioning don't you uh notice the two different colors yeah two different colors on the chrono hands it's nice it's really nice attention to detail okay so we're gonna shift now to another grand seco i think these are the seasons uh seiko seasons 20 uh seasons 20 21 i'm trying to look at the screen while typing it's not working okay hodinki do we have anything good live pricing okay are these all renders or we see the watch on the wrist so we've seen this before the cherry blossom and all the eventful springtime color schemes and everything there uh this this compared to that birch model is no the case design is nowhere near as exciting the tiny stacker says x-nay on the green dalai okay i won't mention it don't worry uh discover volante yes another one another one um okay dinner time back in a few brands take your time you're still going to be here don't like that crown that's it's yeah it doesn't oops sorry about that glitch there then what happened compared to that first model the birch case this one is just not isn't it funny to say it's just not exciting the dial is gorgeous the dial really is nice but the case is it feels almost uninspired which is weird to say and we were just looking at the the deuce with the straight lugs the deuce okay i'm gonna call it the deuce the the straight lugs feels i mean this is almost exactly the way it's been done but the 24 hour scale is great it's very practical i think as far as a daily wearer goes there's been chat about it before i think there's a couple of owners on dinky who talk about this watch being their only watch if given the chance um this seems to just miss the mark oh yeah i think there's something it just feels too plain wow okay now we're talking that's something else again the dials i don't know why the internet page is glitching out there but uh you know that's what happens at the two hour mark look at that dial it's so now this looks like a reverse birch it's a horizontal birch finish isn't that something turquoise blue this is on a ladies wrist by the looks of things yeah great colors that's what they do know how to work you notice how we have this emerald green textured emerald green with gold accents here we have a very pale blue oh it's nice very nice combo and here we go again yeah charming so again the one thing that just takes it away from me takes me out of the experience is that case and the crown is also it looks a bit too old-fashioned i think it would probably look a lot better if it was flat to the case and not as thick in profile given the perspective the yus gs i yeah again i haven't looked at the full i'll have a look at the article when we get to nice texture though it's great i'm really enjoying this segment we get to see a lot in this space and also just appreciate the little macro details um i hope it's working again this is me flying by the seat of my pants i don't know if this is the spring one samurai i'll have a look at the description once we through it still no micro adjust system here i do not understand why very unfortunate it's so easy for them to just add a bit of extension to the you know the full length of the clasp but still it's very neat and it would probably wear appropriately this is obviously the winter one okay uh white dial that's nice okay this is better i have no idea why the herding page is glitching this looks a lot more appropriate i do like that texture to that dial and the hand choice i mean this looks like a rose gold hand isn't that nice very clean and simple thin bezels there that's another thing i mean it's it's proportion based i don't even know the size i'm guessing it's 40 mils i'll have a closer look at the the specs before leaving the page um maybe see these in person will change how i feel yeah i'm sure we'll i'm sure it will i i've never actually handled any of these seasons models i have handled a spring drive diver before but other than that these these models i haven't seen so yeah that's the one thing just the criticism on the case design but that is also just classic timeless but then it just feels like another grand seiko you know grand seiko as a as a brand has pushed the boundaries the question is why i mean we were chatting about redesigning these watches and what we would do why do they still feature grand seiko at the base of the dial i if i could just oh hold on hold on come back i think i've just botched this presentation on the left hand side if given the choice to edit this watch all i would do would be to get rid of the grand seiko text and put the gs at the 12. it's simpler it's a bit more refined bit more streamlined and you have the full package it'll probably look a lot more exciting believe it or not um yeah anyway anyway i see tourists it looks like he's leaving us thanks for the mention thomas thank you for joining us tourists you've been with us for two hours you guys are all champions just sit and listen to me talk along and carry says we why can't we get one without a date i know i know that's something we all wish dead complications so there's lots this is the dinky article and they talk about the spgj251 and sbbr249 and it just goes on and on so four watches representing the seasonal pieces of uh every quarter it's nice it's quite fitting for the show um i can definitely discuss these in more details i like the cherry blossom is probably my favorite that they've ever done but the watch does still look kinda plain okay let's move on to our next example also seiko and it's the laurel alpinist i think they're calling it right it is this one was quite the surprise to anyone who knows the relevance i'm sure raymond is one of the guys here who loves his laurels uh rests on his law most of us i mean me i rest on my laurels right this is the original the og and watch talk with the punters covered this watch a couple of weeks back i think oh hold on hold on there we go so here's the original on the right hand side and there's the recreation on the left i really like it i really like they've done the bun straps so well too this is fun it's another thing watchers take themselves too seriously a lot of the time you know and it's this is what i loved so much about these reissue style pieces that that whole developmental period there was no right or wrong on sutras just slap it on have some fun put some craziness to the i mean the openness text is just gorgeous i love it so nicely balanced the handset and how it works with the quarters reminds me of am a zodiac sea wolf from the 50s why is this a thing carrie says yeah i mean that's that's another way to look at it um loving the strap yeah i gotta admit we'll have a look at some more examples now um yeah so further evolving through we've got more oh geez i got a full range of these i didn't know that i just want to stick to the original okay so that's something they've got a whole class classification of them so they don't have any profile shots of the watch in presentation but i like what they've done with the strap on this model i'll try and zoom out we'd look at really cool looking bun strap the stitching is crazy and it's it's fun these are also limited limited editions i'm sure limited releases but way too expensive yeah i can imagine they're probably stupidly priced let's have a look just about to take a hit from the coffee i'll have to go back so they give you the full history of this watch on a blog to watch um specifications i'm guessing it uses a similar 6l35 movement so it's it's in the new prospects range of course everything has a prospects badge on it regardless and prices i can't imagine what the limited one is oh here we go this is nice to see if it's too bright shield your eyes but uh hold on a sec here is some renditions of the watch for you to look at i don't think these are real but looks good nice to see a bunch strap date location yeah i mean that's another thing at 430. isn't that isn't that appealing i like it black dial you don't even notice it again i mean i didn't even pick up on it when i was chatting around it i like the i like that positioning fun fun watch i think a lot of us would enjoy wearing it doesn't it doesn't need to scream seiko to be something that's appealing i think aesthetics wise it has it in spades this is a really nice example check out that strap i love it that's so fun strap within a strap it's the way to do it double strapping okay moving on to 25 oh my goodness i think we are getting a bit grand seiko heavy now i've got to pull up the reference number to this thing ah let's see grand second i think it's the sl okay so it's the slg hd07 i don't know i guess these are all released in tandem a blog to watch i think we're gonna look at a dinky's piece here so another piece that uses funky textures and i think the reason why i shortlisted this was i found the texture on the dial to be quite amazing worth looking at um it's actually quite crazy how many seconds you've just been running through of this time uh any more chats that i'm missing yeah wood grain that's it it's very seldom we see wood grain textures on watches huh i'm thinking that the one that really comes to mind first is the fp jean partnership with that shotgun manufacturer that i can never name properly so here we see a similar case this looks exact i think this is exactly the same style case to that birch we just saw earlier looking at the facets on the on the lugs that profile is very nice i do love how they curve it there yeah i think we spent enough time on seiko it's pretty it's been pretty good they've had their own little segment during the show wow it's quite big i wonder if it's like 42. so nice presentation again the date window love it or hate it having grand seiko typed on the dial um remove i mean again i think just removing that putting the gs at the top would clean it up a lot more overall i think you'd the watch would look a lot more considered which is funny you would expect that removing more would make it look cheaper in a way but something about it tells me that this watch is all about simplicity and being as as plain as ever um megan says not sure about the blackwood dial i kind of like it kind of like plywood in its appearance mr c one dollar welcome bang bang bang face make nice and i don't know what the name of the manufacturer is you have to look just look up fp jean shotgun and i'm sure they'll give you something to uh check it out okay moving on we've chatted about grand seiko a lot please don't tell me there's another one okay this was something uh i thought this would be good to look at uh marie lacroix ventura what's maurice excuse me maurice this is not good and hold on a sec acorn ventura gmt all right so we can see where some of these inspirations are coming from clear as day but as far as a brand goes something worth looking at i do really enjoy i see oof in the chat yeah it's definitely not for everyone i really do enjoy the way they've addressed material on this watch the contrasting colors the ceramic bezel it's so weird you've got a ceramic bezel and then you have steel elements on the outside you know on the edges like black bumpers you would imagine that the ceramic off would be for the bumpers that would be reversed the system would be reversed if it was anything more practical and then we have this it's such a a typical ap royal oak looking bracelet too i'm surprised i haven't again i haven't looked at these too uh too much but and then you have the orange gmc you can see where the inspirations are coming from it's a it's a combination of of explorer ii and ap royal oak in a strange package very peculiar nice looking uh hex screws on the crown guard though taking a hit from the whiskey i think holland and holland that's it bdev thank you so it's f jean holland and holland collaboration i bet it looks like i'm in vegas samurai it does it sure does uh pretty nice looking watch it's uh mentioned about the the batons on the dial you put a hundred dollars on 22 black background says uh russell says absolutely fabulous i don't know if you're being sarcastic or not but the combo you know what the combo actually reminds me of elise nadan their their dive range in a way nice balance something worth looking at i think oh no this on the other hand this is so generic it's terrifying if you ever see a watch with a double deploy and looking like this i tell you what they cost all of five bucks to bring out that kind of ruins it a bit you can do so you can have so many other double deployments this is a bit i don't know what they're priced at i'll have a look in a second nice details though black window on a white dial that's that's something bold uh yeah worth looking at though nice presence chaz thank you for the super chat everyone happy passover easter weekend yes absolutely i hope you're enjoying yourself kicking back like everyone in the chat absolutely pleasure having you here thank you so much for the superchatman [Music] so yeah this watch is worth looking at we're talking about oh they have a black dial too can you believe they use a red hand too that's funny you can see where their inspirations come from and then we actually have the times that's nice they have the time zones printed on the back practical application nice spring bars to remove at the back they're easy to adjust okay yeah so you can kind of see why i liked bringing this up it's worth looking at it has some unique little aspects and elements to it a nice combination of pieces uh let's see what the price is basically two and a half thousand swiss francs not bad not bad we're moving moving into on the higher end scale in the territory cool looking piece nice features okay next up 227 the new one with this crazy looking dial let's see what the reference is here and now we've just jumped too much can you believe it's a new one and it's the bs i'd say it's called the ds now as they call it grinding dial i like that like most of us probably know this we've been chatting about this brand a lot lately and well deserving of attention as a maker it's it's crazy i think i saw a review from tim mosso today no it's uh he does that weekend watches show and you can just tell how much he loves another brand he that's great i find it fascinating he has the easy m1 1.1 and he seems to have sold his entire collection for that watch and that's all he wears as his daily and i find it incredible when he talks about just everything from loom to the tedumented steel the case is super well treated it's super hardcore um and then just i think the balance the whole u1 u50 line with these these batons and the handset it's gorgeous it's so 80s and the way it's been done the bezel similar way the offset crown is practical everything i mean it's so german in the way it's been done right it's it's been so considered everything down to the bracelet with the h links and the texture on the dial is the talking point and i don't know you either love it or hate it most definitely it's it's almost like you you sent this to your your watchmaker and they sent it back with a bit of a defect the watchmaker was having a very bad day and they decided it's going to take it out on the dial so they take a spring bar tool just give it a good hammering uh when you want something more industrial yeah that's it that's it why put zin on a rubber strap ets i find the um there's there's one example i'll actually pull it up for reference i uh i was looking at it u50 and it's on a red strap let's see if i can i mean that is just that is just sublime for me if i was to buy this watch tomorrow that's the one i would get how cool does that look i mean really this is like sports galore fun it's got it's got it all integrated i mean the straps actually integrated into the case you know yeah u50 with the black bezel black on black those those squared off bat on hand i mean this is the one i would jump on given the chance i will totally pick up one of these tomorrow but uh the fun is these watches are also strap monsters as we know there oh the irony of getting a u1ds tangemented scratched up dial that's not funny yeah i mean that as we know the tedumented steel is so scratch resistant it's ridiculous i think that was the idea you know germans can sometimes have a good sense of humor i'm kidding i know i've dealt with a lot of germans in my life and uh the approach can be either very serious or very whimsical and this is the whimsical take very good points irony with the way they've done their dials um and then i mean shouted about it before that zen if they had to boost their social media presence and push out their marketing and advertising more can you imagine the attention these watches would get they deserve it i think they deserve a lot more love um overall somebody says zen has lost their good value for money nowadays as they increase their price with almost no improvement so that's so and is that them trying to keep up with the industry and what's going on i don't know um still worth looking at they have some of the best loom in the industry they're definitely not afraid to experiment with materials with uh you know fabrication they they love it so it's good well worth discussing i'm glad that this watch came out and i do love their rubber straps i think if i owned this watch i would most definitely have it on a rubber strap with a deployment clasp i mean it's it's the business okay going to move on to 28 now we've got our intramatics hamilton in dramatics and they call it like the h or something hold on get the crib notes up uh hamilton dramatic chronograph h that's it there's gonna be a long one in dramatic h chronograph and monochrome these watches oh wow so there's the original i don't know what we should have reverse panda or panda we haven't had many panda dials on the display i'll leave that up there so here's the original in the center of the screen uh well worth looking at for a sec let me just get back to the chat samurai says in 556 yes gone up almost a thousand bucks really and maybe is that because of demand i don't know um if it was me the easy m lines and the u lines are so so good to look at so we can keep the panda up the intramatic is a classic we had a look at the top time nice how that rhymed in dramatic as a classic the whiskey is obviously working and they've just gone what i've noticed just briefly before starting the show i had a look at the original informatics and they all had date complications at the six so these watches are now taking it a bit further and keeping it more toned down dressed down notice that it does have the faux loom that you either love or hates but it's been used sparingly and on a chronograph as simple as this i really think it looks awesome hitting the uh the whiskey i'll be with you now mention that it's a perfect strap i think this watch just sings the dial too the dial color i love an off-white dial okay whiskey again and don't you think it's nice how i mean looking at the panda model how the the black hand for the chronograph is well set out it's just such a good understanding of what a chronograph needs to be something easy to tell the time but then you also have the ability to to run the chronograph read the scales very simply the pencil hands are great it just all makes sense i think that's the um the take-home that's a thick case though who mentioned that the case was like 15 mils in the chat um the loom is not real no it's not this is a a re-issue essentially again we're looking at another reissue model someone mentioned in the chat that uh the the case thickness was was tall that is quite surprising it's mechanical too so it's a hand wind hamilton watches for overpriced for what you get in my opinion making says yeah i mean best bang per buck in this category if it was if it was me it would be the car key compared to i was actually looking at the w10 uh recently not the w10 they call it the pilot the pilot pioneer let me pull it up quick for everyone um pilots pioneer mechanical i think that's the reference so i always just call it the w10 because of its its original call sign these watches you can get for extremely good prices uh simple hand-wound movement but it doesn't have things like a sapphire crystal and they are very expensive for what you're getting where next to it the hamilton khaki has all the quirks plus sapphire and everything there i think it's a much better value for money watch next to the so what you're really getting out of this piece is you're getting something that has those classical inspirations that a lot of us can love um but as for the intramatic it does staff it up a bit in this level i don't know what i'll have a look at the prices for anyone interested later on samurai you mentioned the case thickness it is a monster it really looks i mean it does look like 15 mils but the colors i just i'm so sucked into the thing that comes to mind when i look at this chronograph is yes everything is correct here right it just has this you know effectiveness it feels completed it doesn't feel like it's lacking anything there's good balance between the type at the top and the bottom the panda arrangement the by compacts there the contrasting whites it's very easy to read the black seconds hand is stunning oh my and this is even cooler it looks so good you got it you've got to admit this looks so good wow wow wow the only issue is you can't read the hands very well but you know other than that i love that reverse panda oh it's very nice um you also get better finishing tippy good points very good points yes um cashing up here in the chat is this a limited edition and what size andreas i will pull up the article now and have a look mechanical wording is stupid good point russell i mean why do you need to mention that i think the only reason why they did it i'm guessing it's keeping with the original let me go back hold on a sec oh that's very strange i do not understand that that is so peculiar i prefer this good point russell has his eye on detail the idea of the idea of putting automatic or mechanical on your watch doesn't make sense anymore really like like rolex oyster perpetual i guess that's their call sign but you don't need to tell people that it's a perpetual movement today but for this is a hand wound watch and it's that thick that's what i still can't understand but what an awesome aesthetic though this is like hoya carrera just nicely done so nicely done so that's it i mean i'm i'm falling in love with the aesthetics but uh not loving the the quirks um i do kind of in a way i do appreciate i'm saying kind of a lot i'll stop i do appreciate that the mechanical's there to counterbalance the hamilton name i'm wondering what else they could put there instead you know something a bit more meaningful impactful all rolex or oysters uh time to take it down yeah i don't know what that was about nice looking piece though the presentation worth looking at um so so samurai says right but when you see the thickness in person have you had a look at it i am i'm quite quite surprised you would only expect casing of this thickness when you're dealing with a fully automatic watch at least something with an automatic rotor this was made during a collaboration with breitling and hoya okay that makes sense top time error um anthony says this watch looks like a valjee's 7750 movement that is pretty thick and the 7750 was a is it a hand wound i'm sorry i'm very unversed not versed with these movement complications if it had a sapphire back it must look like a triple split at 15. yeah nice i mean i've got to say impressed nice looking aesthetics huge huge downside that they are expensive let's actually have a look at the pricing if i can get it for us to have it browse these articles are so helpful so it's a 40 mil case which is nice 14.3 mils wow that's insane that is insane that is so that's so unnecessary and that does ruin you know what this is supposed to be elegant right that's the whole like underlying theme to this piece it's supposed to have this elegance feel to it it's i mean the way the profile the way the aesthetics work it feels like the dress sports chrono that you want but that i mean you can't even slip that under a sleeve that's quite a quite an adjustment i'll have a look at the move hold on they say automatic execute contrast and cut it in the automatic hold on i think they'll give you the movement specs at the bottom superluminova really do this it's such a divisive watch when i think belgium 7753 okay okay uh yet without its automatic winding plate can you imagine if they put the rotor there as well what would happen it would be like 17 mils uh 60 hours power reserve okay still prices um us dollars 2 000 2 100 us dollars that's quite a lot yeah i'm so divided this is actually when i think of all the watches we've had a look at hold on and the voice is going fisherman's friends time got them on board let's have a quick if anyone is new to the page my unofficial sponsor is fisherman's friend because it always saves my life let's see cherry neat cherry i'm so drawn to the aesthetics of the style i think it's one of the best executed chronos out there honestly the presentation is gorgeous black dial white doll but then thickness that deserves an automatic rotor peculiar very peculiar okay moving on next nice piece um unfortunately not yeah 2k roughly chrono crazy mentions uh mine is automatic but it's not that bad to be yeah interesting moving to this funky thing this this will definitely divide opinion uh philippe pantone hold on there it is so this this cropped up we see a lot of collaboration watches this one's worth looking at we were chatting about um rainbow dials earlier on rainbow hublots and all that stuff here we go with another defy 21. uh mentioned about the retro logo yeah pdf of course i mean all those little things add up they're all just they feel appropriate to this watch and this model wow that case thickness i don't know what was going on there that is so peculiar you would not expect that so the philly pantone he's a he's an artist skittles yeah i mean we can definitely when we get to the macro micro am i saying macro micro details there's some funny stuff going on here the the one thing that's kind of defines his approach are these jagged edges to the lightning bolt hands just the the sub-dial here is enough to give you a headache if you look at it more like modern yeah more like arthur i mean this is definitely a different take megan i agree so we've had a look at the defy 21 this is just a collaboration project i feel like this is heat blewed but it doesn't look like it i think it's been painted this way nice looking movement great play on the lighting and the colors there and just on a side note i can't believe how quick it takes fisherman's friends to clear up my throats i mean honestly a couple of seconds ago i was i was really rough voice was rough i didn't even have to clear my throat the fishman's friend did it must be the eucalyptus or something it's incredible um so yeah i mean we've chatted about the defy 21 already but this philly pantone this is his approach i think he's i'll have a look at where he comes from i think he hails from brazil or something but the whole jagged edges and these funky looking 3d elements is what he incorporates there is so nice looking watch that's it's quirky there's some weird features like you have f p number one on the case which is it's a collaborative exercise we do like a black on black model though um oh brain power dwindling fisherman's friend plus whiskey a great combo not always the best though unofficial sponsor that's so funny nice looking model not for everyone definitely the prototype looking piece aha going back to longine now these did start stir a bit of interest call this the heritage ah i can never get rid the heritage diver and i'm just going to say 2021 is that right i don't know february 21 yes monochrome okay now we can have a discussion around these pieces i saw one of these going up for sale coming out of peru i think and this is the original by the way what an awesome machine you can still find these vintage models out there and would recommend highly recommend a compressor style model in this area i see towers joining us welcome welcome tao we've had a good time chatting about all sorts and mark's saying uh that is the sound bite we need to send fisherman's friends to get your sponsorship yeah right yeah i mean i've been meaning to email them it's just you know time gets ahead of you just today i first last time i checked the watch it was hotbox7 checked again it was hotboss9 the day just goes in a flash and i kind of overslept a little bit this afternoon to get the show going but it's all good we're back in our demetrius half past two in the morning i can't i can't thank you enough for staying up to watch these shows man really seriously i uh have an excellent sunday and i hope you have a great meal and just enjoy yourself in lovely grease making me jealous so long gene heritage diver beautiful compressor case and now we're jumping to i mean they didn't reference the earlier models with just the standard black dial and everything there but they brought out two models one in blue and one in brown gotta say i mean i think ninety percent of us here will be going let's get some community feedback in the chat uh either type in blue or brown in the chat and we can have a good reference to what we would be picking up given the chance i think most of us probably would be going for one over the other uh and demetrius saying thank you that's my pleasure absolute pleasure um but eventually that compressor watch is fine it's great there's one downside to it though which we can't talk about i don't think it affects this one as much as the other diver they have in this category but i would say oh okay seeing some bronze blues little box big box lots of browns judging by the arrangement i'm seeing getting some blues browns okay i'm seeing that brown is slightly ahead slightly slightly ahead do we have some real images of these pieces come on we have to please uh that's probably as good as we'll get so the brown resembles what we would expect to see from the tropicalized model that would be you know something that's very popular with the originals uh whatever has no date sadly sadly not that's another thing why would they put a date on it there aren't there are real examples out there the originals that do have dates but this just watches either a love it or hated it's definitely something that is true to its time uh yeah wilson still going strong uh of course i mean two hours two and a half hours tell you what coffee and whiskey they they do work wonders for the brand the whiskey gets you inebriated because this is like 40 percent uh 43 and the double shot of coffee is what keeps you going so you're riding this hammered but uh very alert state and it's quite good i mean you know it helps with the nerves it helps with the confidence but at the same time it just keeps you consistent nice looking piece these are these heritage models the only downside to them i think they have 42 mils in size let's have a look at the specs uh 1959 so they brought this out in 2007 the original that's crazy uh let's zoom in a bit classic so 42 mil that's okay 42 mil size is fine especially that you have the inset bezel that's good but the case they don't mention the lug to lug the most important feature that i'm actually so surprised brands don't cover why any why any blogger doesn't cover is that lug profile that is so important to focus on because that really is what defines the watch and how it wears on your wrist i didn't know until recently that my my ideal size my maximum is 49 mils like to lug anything anything further than that the watch looks a bit overblown and it's finding that proportion that correct proportion on the wrist where it doesn't look too big too small you know be very pedantic in this hobby don't you think uh yeah so so down the watchman says sounds like a fancy four loker it is most definitely um uh playing those hard techno tunes is that what you're doing at the moment eric it's all good that's great love it so a vintage 40 finishes 42 as well oh it says not upsize thanks orange hand uh that was dumb of me i should have thought that through so yeah the one issue with these divers is the lug length might be a bit too long for people but then you know that i have a soft spot for these reissue based models and i mean the brown dial is so nice blue dial is also good but i feel it's just been so overused today blue is everything you know uh like it says we need a watch club to share pieces like these and and rp can look after them imagine having this an ability to have this trade a trading scheme some kind of sharing program that would be so good brent thank you so much man thank you you've been a part of the show the entire time i appreciate it i really really appreciate it i hope you enjoyed we're still going we've got uh nine nine or so pieces left can you believe the show might be quite short how's that uh yeah but there are still some decent bangers now by the end because we've seen some good stuff sub the sub bass is rattling the windows erica so good okay moving to 31 okay nice okay this is going to be good it's just a cq i'm going to call it olive i don't know what they've what they've officially called it time and tired fratello let's have a look at fratello's discussion that's december oh 2021 come on i want 2020 articles here time and tired seems to have covered it the best okay yeah and it's interesting look what they've done here they've actually categorized it under olive and you've got separate artwork i saw this the other day you've got separate articles related no i'm obviously wrong from what i saw the other day you have separate articles linked to olive drab okay gonna scroll into this and have a chat do we have any real-life pictures or these all renders i wonder i guess these are all renders oh here we go how's the resolution not the best you're just gonna have to squint okay so let's get back into the chat and carry on wearing my 1655 orange hand we all want to 1655 in our lives aren't we ah you know yesterday good friday went to the hotel went up check in and asked the receptionist to pump him for the night nice raymond i did not understand that that line very well that that was a bit of a freudian slip from my end uh andrea says uh why don't you drink irish coffee during these shows yeah yeah i mean that's one thing i don't like you know what's funny i don't actually dig irish coffee it's never been anything that's gelded me much i i enjoy the separate tastes i guess it's just appreciating the flavors of each that's my excuse okay let's chat about the cq because cedar canoe actually left a comment on the community post when i listed this watch earlier wanting to know the my thoughts on it when i click on this image it takes me to blogspot so i can't actually go back to the original article which is strange anyway let's chat about it so this being the modern take i would imagine it's 41 mils based on that original 68 no 65 i can't remember the error but the the dial layout is is something to either like or hate like or loathe dear but the color it's it's nice to see olive being used instead of a more emerald finish this this color is very appealing and sadly i have to actually go back hold on okay these are good hmm that's quite nice in direct light it's a great looking piece and gnosis the bezel one of my pet peeves is the uh the green of the hulk submariner bezel that i don't know just that bugs me how it plays in certain lights what they've done here it looks like literally looks like nothing on your side i'm going to try and zoom in for you to look at so this is a live live picture you can see it in the direct light look how dark that bezel is i really like that it's subtle it's subtle enough the green is subtle enough that it's not in your face um ets says if it's 39 i will have a look and check the sizes do you prefer this or the version with the big date at the around the four i much prefer this i much much prefer this the the panda thing called the panorama date and it sits right here and it's a giant window it looks good don't get me wrong uh it does break up the dial a bit too much for my liking this this harkens back to the more original so i think it even size wise i think it's also true to form and it's good to see just getting that attention there uh good looking model the green you can either like it or not i i do find for a dive watch especially in this category that the the green just feels correct it's a dive watch you're living in kelp you know you're living under that that environment does have a good feel also surprisingly no faux style loom also a big bonus i think it does complete the arrangement there to be says it's ironic how they advertise the green cq as a field watch you're killing me do they that is funny let's have a look at some more images if i can it's not the easiest page to navigate maybe if i go to google images i might find something better for us to just browse i should have checked the sizes apologies uh see this is the model the panorama date that we were chatting about earlier yeah it's this is taking it in the next you know the next generational development where you have the data the base crown guards which is something else so you can see that this new model takes it back tones it back a little bit cool looking piece i do apologize for the the size of these images that looks so tiny unfortunately i mean that's the beauty of doing these kinds of presentations is that you can get these these shots up to talk about but the downside is uh obviously not many people have been chatting about it which is a shame this is well worth looking at so yeah it rides this line of dress and sports very nicely the color works extremely well olive drab is a nice very nice combo i mean someone who owns all the black dial submariners and and the other models out there that seamaster think about it this way you have how's this for a three watch collection uh rolex submariner no dates the latest one the one two four zero six zero you have a blue dial or a white dial c master professional three hundred and then you have a green dial glasses cq how nice is that you have three watches that all share the same common language of no faux lume on their dials they're all very true to their design identities this one's a bit more retro in styling but not bad the panorama dates 43 mils which isn't good and it's quite big that is quite big um it's a guy wearing a sea queue and a forest biking okay so we will that is peculiar that is very and yeah and thomas says love the olive it's nice is very nice sorry if i'm missing you in the chat flat four that's another i mean i should mention that very important you've got a flat four on the dial plus an open six and just to type the typeface i mean you know they know what they're doing here again excuse the the low res but that beautiful cursive typeface is so nice would make an excellent watch i wouldn't say it's it's an only watch there we go that's better look at that oh i wouldn't say it's an only watch for a collection this is i wouldn't say supplementary either but this is a watch that could definitely accommodate a collection it could complement what you have uh and i like this funny we're very close to looking at the um the new sea master 300m and we can definitely talk about that uh talk about death rating you're asking i do not 20 bar 20 bar or so it's 200 meters uh we see how this has been done where it's it's vintage inspired but modern looking uh forward you know the sea master that we're going to have a focus on just now is vintage inspired with vintage queues that feels strange in that sense yeah nice combo i'm impressed with this very impressed i think it's well worth your attention and you can get an excellent discount on these pieces of course you're dealing with glass suita it's high horology essentially awesome movements they have great power reserves yeah great size of course it's a skin diver inspiration let's have a look at the prices if i can find it so 28 800 beat rates only 40 hours power reserve okay that's surprising anything else nylon references 8 800 euros pretty good and remember this that on a bracelet you have micro adjust systems you can actually tailor it to your wrist so pretty good don't buy full retail no one should ever buy full retail don't do it okay moving on to the next and no movement picks you're right that's something else pierce i i guess they didn't want to share it it's probably a solid back so they haven't featured it but really as as something that epitomizes the skin diver the quirks of that time with that typeface it's so recognizable now amongst us as enthusiasts um who cares for power reserve really exactly when you're dealing with an automatic watch tile i agree um it's it's so unnecessary you're rotating watches all day every day right that's the enthusiast in us okay let's okay let's move on to the one of the big hitters that we can all enjoy i'll just leave it on the screen for us to look at i don't even need to talk around this watch actually uh monochrome come on monochrome [Music] wow wow wow wow it's so nice it's so nice and this is i mean this is why it was featured on the cover photo it's gonna hit the coffee so on the right hand side we have the original the left hand side we have the modern notice how different they look and if i had that okay i actually want to this is a good segment to focus on i'm just going to hit the coffee seems breitling blonde seems very hell-bent on using this modern case shape and style okay it's very different i mean it's it's squats it has a bit more presence where the traditional watchers had these these gorgeous straight ended lugs and what i find peculiar is that they have the capability of reintroducing a watch that looks just like this if i had to just pull up the air command as an example which surprised me uh it was daft uh blancpain getting shoes and all sorts let's just i mean here's a perfect example there's the air command next to the barracuda which i know is thomas burnett's favorite many of us love the barracuda for its quirks but you see how the lugs work on the air command that is the original arrangement there so it begs the question why would you do a recreation of a watch with a modern template where the original had lugs like this could they not do both that's that's the question and the no date i mean yeah we can definitely go talking about that now there's there's just so much to address that the balance and the uh again i have to emphasize blanpon had an amazing they put up an amazing video about the history of the 50 thousands check out their youtube page just look up blancpon i think it's just blancon uh as a channel should crop up pretty easily but they discussed the full development of the line the owner's perspective not the owner the ceo at the time who came up with the idea and you wouldn't believe it but 50 fathoms wasn't a name to designate the depth rating of the watch which i thought it was 50 fathoms was just a fun play on words that they found in a i think it was a shakespeare or it was a it was a mention in a book a classic wellian book i think i can't remember the back a while ago but it's it was essentially just that that alliteration that they liked and they used that alliteration to carry on uh the model so yeah the classic looks beautiful but now oh phillips auction come on it's an aqualung too look at that script god it's just so good oh it's so nice so this is the downside the tempest yes jules verne that's it eric thank you roar of the tiger it was it was a line it was a line in the book of the tempest where it was something along the lines of 50 fathoms related they mentioned it and they just thought it sounded so good as an alliteration this this of course predates the submariner by a little while and what made these watches famous most of us know is the the painting and the the development and uh the way they used gaskets on these models for the first time the insetting of gaskets around the crowns on the case backs made these so waterproof watertight okay full fathom five from shakespeare's tempest that's the one okay got it got it thank you that's awesome um i don't get the no radiation do you really think that it would be radioactive yeah okay we can chat about that it's it's a fun quirk and megan says it's the watch that everyone's talking about yeah so on the right-hand side that the whole as i'm trying to remember this history again i'd probably have to read the article to i could just do that zoom out of this and just check the article quick uh it had to at all to do with certifying that there was no more radium on the dials i think it was aimed at the german not the german the uh the american market if i'm not wrong because americans were it was during that time of the you know radium girls and all that stuff and people didn't want radiations near any of that so oh just look how beautiful it is no radiations uh 2010 watch no rad so that's basically the whole idea is that they they eliminated radium on their dials incorporated tritium that's all you need to know and you can see the designation here less than 25 that's the cool sign but you told them that you see aqualung and 50 fathoms as a double print it's very nice god it's just beautiful i love the originals so much why can't they just recreate it as it is oh this has a date complication how's that didn't notice nice so we get to this new model oh hold on that did actually introduce this before okay so we see there's a common trend here there's repetition with uh these brands bringing out these pieces but what they've done here is quite nice the downside of course they're very expensive which i guess is a good thing considering that it's a 100 hour it's very good complication very good movement 100 hour power reserve that means anything to anyone it's essentially high horology we can call it hierology the downside is they only made like 500 of them and it begs the question if if i had the opportunity of choosing a rolex submariner or this guess what i'd be going for this has just got so much more history to it and and you know so it bugs me i think it bugs a lot of people that bong pong just can't stick to their guns bring out a 40 mil watch whether it's the military whether it's the barracuda whether it's the snow rads version there's so many others as well they could do they could just milk it because everyone wants to see this watch and own it themselves uh yeah everything is just addressed so nicely great finishing there and it's beautiful it is absolutely beautiful i'm glad that this is now like the closing point of the show and we're discussing some of these models the date should be blacked out i mean that's another thing that the date window can really be a make or break another downside is that it's it's got this big white ring around it which draws more attention to it which is a problem you know uh not enough as we all could agree should have been five thousand megan they should just indefinitely make them what what is the downside as anyone in manufacturing knows the more you make the cheaper the production so why not just make these permanents have a full range have have the original military you know the american military one that looks very simple and streamlined have the no rads have the barracuda those three in a line next to your aqualung line and the the modern 50 fathoms from you know the the early years full fathom five thy father liars shakespeare that's exactly it dan thank you that is the exact quote that's where they were chatting about this and decided that 50 fathoms would make a good name all to do with alliteration it worked hell it worked well oh look at that that's so cool it is so cool it's so frustrating it's the thing of all the releases it's it's for me the most frustrating watch out there they're just they're pulling on your heart strings knowing that no one's going to be getting them i don't understand it i really don't if i had the opportunity of speaking to the ceo i'd say man what are you doing this this is a foolproof idea anyone would want anyone in the space whether you are an enthusiast for a completely different manufacturer yes this just does it and the best part of all is that the no radiations as a quirk it's such a good talking point the beauty the beauty about the beautiful thing about these reissues these recreations is that when you get them and you start studying you obviously start studying up about the history and you know with a lot of people who just buy a watch for the sake of it being a watch they don't know i mean in our space who aren't necessarily enthusiasts they just bought it because it looked good they don't know that this has a certain function they don't know where it originated for someone who has no radiations on the dial they they would have a look back in the archives and think okay what is this about i never understood why this is featured and any passing conversation someone will notice that and say what is that on the dial and then you can say well it was in a time when when radium was phased out for tritium and even though this uses super luminova and it's completely irrelevant it's a fun quirk yeah take the current 50 fathoms remove the name on the side of the case shrink it to 4142 done another good point i kind of like it in a way but it also sorry just spike i've got my hand resting on my chin i probably spiked the mic i like it but also in a way it's a bit tacked on feels like a signet to it look at that size it's so good and it's a flat matte dial too it's not gloss it feels very military focused and inspired so it raises a few questions we all want to see this watch mainstream and and introduced that's another thing beta of the invicta 1953 that's a great model really really great model and the come swimmer from les that's something we could pull up uh if that's so good i like that i really like it so yeah the the points to raise basically they have the opportunity of recreating the original i think they have to be they've got lots of photos here they could bring out the original case and have a smashing home run with these pieces but they also could make these in mass for everyone and they would sell so i don't know what the waiting what the wait is for why are they waiting on this you don't notice the side long pond when you're wearing one now that's the thing dan if it's on your if it's on your left wrist it's something you can admire i guess on the right wrist you would never see it which i dig i kind of dig yeah how these guys fisting the watches i know i mean that's something that's big on instagram they've got the first shot that's that's an example there oh what a cool machine i love these macro photos too oops i just clicked out of it anyway stunning piece one of the most interesting releases uh i just wish it was popular and and you know mainstream if any watch deserves to be mainstream this one does i mean it's just a piece of history real classic right moving on to slide 32 oh blue shirt has just joined us and we have just arrived at the dock sir 300 forged it's going to call it forged carbon i should i should get it as a sample uh but dinky what's the best article her dinky worn and wound let's look at one and one they have some great photos so the doxus sub 300 carbon this one really came out of left field let's open these images up hopefully can we slide through no it's not as sort of as organic to flick through some of these images so i think a lot of people are going to like this uh best or yes eric yes yes yes times a thousand the best offset logo arrangement by far uh i'm not so much of a fan of having to flick out of each image hold on let's go to maybe how dang he'll be a bit or let's look at a blog to watch this piece does deserve some love and attention hopefully we have some good shots to enjoy come on no are you also going to give me the full treatment okay i can scroll through oh right forged carbon essentially it's used because it's a lighter weight material it's it's strong i wouldn't say it's as strong as ceramic in in tandem but it's it's very light lighter than titanium lighter than titanium and what they've done here i mean this the reason why i chose this one on the left for obvious reasons look at it it's it's so beautiful black on black finish yellow accents and highlights it's good to see the swirling and i mean what i what i enjoy is in this case it's taking the concept of a reissue watch in quotations reissue watch but pushing it forward we've been chatting i mean this has been a good exercise we've been chatting about um the panerai's and where panerai could go with their technology here is a watch that's embracing its original aesthetic from the 70s basically don't you love the aqua lung at the base here too it's so nice geez they're embracing all of that stuff and then just pushing it forward with the materials and that's all they need speaking of your love for uh tiffany dials here is one um printing on the dial is sublime such good balance asymmetrical balance that just sings um okay i'm missing you in the chat let's get back in i see blue shirt saying docs the nation yep it's it's really nice megan says dad is keen to get one of these carbons yes um the colors i mean there's so many i hope they give us some more examples and aqua star tippy the most important person in doxa moved to aqua star doxa screwed up a bit after she left that's surprising um aqua star they are doing some good stuff i want to look at those watches love to get one into review actually talk about a quirky diving chrono fortman says i believe that these so-called carbon cases are plastic made with carbon fibers really i don't know i again i haven't read up on these articles i have to emphasize a lot of the time i am pretty much just flying by the seat of my pants looking at everything with you it says titanium case back okay 300 carbon patented bezel i don't know why this the page glitches at certain points anyway i hope it's hope it's all right to look at i just the downside to forged carbon is yeah like a lamborghini hurricane i mean that's something the downside to forged carbon cases is they um they only have one finish to them you can't you can't add anything else to them much so you can either appreciate the finish which kind of resembles uh what's the what's that steel damascus steel in a way or it's it's a little bit jarring it's a little bit too consistent you know nice swirling though i do appreciate the feature so the question is what do we prefer do we prefer the yellow accents do we prefer the orange if it was me i've always just had this click in the back of my head that says doxxer deserves yellow it's the aqualung it's the aqualung logo oh thomas goodness thank you so much that's it's been such a good time for the chair fun yeah thank you thomas really um you've been such a gent the fact that you've the fact that everyone has been able to sit and listen to me prattle on we've still got some more going uh we've got what seven more to chat about we've just passed three hours i can't freaking believe it i didn't expect it to go this long no cyrista says the word doxa in greek means glory thank you for that tourists christo got the helium valve idea from usnc lab results with rolex and rushed into production with the conquistador eric eric is a wealth of knowledge with divers they're just and they break yeah so to be says the downside of carbon is they break like eraser they do chip badly i agree oh my goodness this is insane i just i've lost track of time i had no idea that i've been chatting for three hours good thing we're kind of getting to the end now right it's good doctor expo hold on hold on oh no i just think i've just broken that slide oh look at that doctor experts in the house i love it i love it i'll tell you what eric if you want any advice on dive watches ask eric look how cool that is so fun you know it's it's a pro it's a super professional watch this is what i dig super professional watch that also has a bit of whimsy to it a bit of a fun side look at the when we look at them side by side here we have black on black yellow and yellow just how much diversity they have amongst each other yeah sneak peek we're gonna have a look at some aps in a second which i'm gonna enjoy and then we're gonna go to the sea masters and stuff um i am truly dull no you're not eric you're you're a legend eric is actually a wealth of knowledge on all things it's insane the one line is he drops well worth paying attention to um hans saying can you imagine me and penny yeah all in our movements we would be chatting four days we would be chatting for days so there's the lineup i mean look at it it's nuts did i get this wrong maybe this is i'm guessing this is the aqualung special edition this is one of my favorites i think that that hour hand oh i mean sorry the minute hand looks so good yeah doxa dox is doing a good job this forged carbon speaks to what we would like to see in the space of concept prototype development experimenting with materials and you know blue shirt i'm not done with that design work i'm going to do more of it i've been very i mean slacking a lot lately so i'm going to pull up a whole load you can use that original one you can use the one that i sent but i want to do a lot more and and go further into your logo because it's really it's very half-assed at the moment but thank you so much thomas and blue shirt thank you so much for the super chats and your artifact says here we go the artifact is a legend by the way get him on instagram follow him on instagram you will not be sorry i'm so happy to hear you speak to the foolishness that the 50 fathoms no rad is limited all the no all the watches in that military category i don't understand it i really don't uh blong pun has an opportunity to capture a large part of the dive watch buying market with this one yeah and just like the um the tudor ranger right wouldn't it be nice to see a tudor ranger that would bring people in from all areas of this hobby uh john flores leaves there's only three hours i cannot believe we've been going for three hours honestly this this has felt like two i've lost track of time should i carry on let's move next awesome pieces have a look at doxa father art is direct yes he is related to father after fact i don't know if he's in the chat is he with us i've missed you all uh that's pleasure and and jean-claude viva great having you here saw you earlier right on we're moving next to the royal oak offshore diver i'm just going to say 2021. now what is nice about this watch we all have a soft spot for the offshore diver i think it's a oh what i'm enjoying the most about this actually is that they they're digging back i mean these are not cheap by the way they're hellishly expensive i had a look at the prices um our resident photographer yes he turns pictures into art megan yeah i agree uh seriously dear artifact i'll put his um his handle in the chat uh dear artifact hope i get it right no the whiskey has definitely done this trick tonight dear artifact get on instagram follow his handle his this stuff is amazing he has the best photography in this space it's so good what i'm really liking about this watch and what comes to mind is the way the dial has been done this is so true to the original ap offshores from the 90s you know the very first models they're digging back into that history there it's it's so clean and simple of course i love the olive drab you see that there's a consistent theme throughout the show um i find it funny we've had a look at like three or four olive drab models but i i just like the the relative simplicity of how the dial has been done one thing that i'm a bit divided on is the texture is the you call it tapisserie no it's a pissery dial it's a bit heavy for the the simplicity of what the dial is they could have made it a bit lighter in weight you know um but it comes with a ratchet sock to wind it up be definitely talking about this look oh didn't even notice check the gasket it's that kind of stuff that's so good you've got to enjoy those little quirks so the gasket normally is black but but pairing with the strap oh very nice quick release a very cool quick release strap i mean we're seeing some consistency here amongst the brands no we were chatting about that with the uh the sea master professional america's cup clear case back so you can see the movement i don't think they had this in the original models this was a solid back before 42 mils is an excellent size yeah it's it's like the grenade mark ii mark i agree grenade mark two get it uh the gray finish is quite nice i still think the green is the one that speaks to me the best there's also a blue one which we'll look at and your artifact so kind my pleasure uh one of the best proponents thank you for your artifact really i know you need to send me more emails because i'm sure you've been dming me on instagram and i don't look at instagram dms to anyone out there i think i've got over 50 unreads i can't do it i just it scares me to think that i've got 50 messages to look at this is too much so uh and russell says not a fan okay i know russell's he's never really been a big fan of ap royal oaks but he has the the nautiluses and the it's divisive one one element that keeps dividing me is the is the the texture of the dial i don't know if it works as well as it could but the blue model i mean this is very good i think this works better blue model with this texture does look good so nice pairing nice collection of models in this zone and we're getting close to the end we have five watches left i think and we're gonna be chatting about omega i'm trying to think what else there's a couple more couple more good things i prefer the regular royal oak yeah i mean that's another thing this the diver is definitely not for everyone for all but uh oh uh very interesting point saying i think the breguet rene didn't oh i can't i'm sorry i can't say that out loud it's been three hours i'll definitely watch that badly that second hand is far from a gimmick aesthetically pleasing taking breguet when it comes to linked to the marine line and those pieces i do admire them so much they have really pushed their aesthetic i enjoy them i'd love to chat more about the reggae marine in future too as a line of watches um most of them will be inviting you to invest in bitcoin and become a millionaire yeah agree i agree uh awesome though so nice nice looking piece i'm enjoying it so you see it seems like they are also enjoying the uh the contrast of the olive drab on the finish and giza is back joining us good to have you here giza we are still going strong we're going to be finishing up in about 20 minutes or so awesome looking movements no not bad gotta say it's divisive it's not one for everyone for sure it's it's polarizing there are elements to it they've done some funky things like you have a cyclops lens on the dial which is a bit strange and other little factors but you know what good to see them bringing some life into the line a bit okay moving on to number 34 oh my right this is the one that i really wanted to talk about um royal oak offshore oh geez i'm just gonna say offshore 43 mil tourbillon chronograph uh there's probably a couple of them out there this is the only one who knows of course hype beast covers this because it's what all the interest is uh monochrome the downside is i don't think there are any hands-on shots with this piece this was oh hold on is this also new i think it is 16 seconds ago they posted this what okay that's good so we're kind of on top of things i haven't seen this before uh hold on what a movement oh my goodness this is what you get to appreciate that is amazing so again we're getting renders which i'm not too much of a fan of i'd like to see some real stuff hold on let's go back i don't i think they call this the skeleton to be i've hold on a sec uh offshore march 20 and that sounds about right 43 mil they brought out a whole new range of pieces not just one so this is taking long to load oh dear hold on australia it's taking a while to load into australia ladies and gentlemen uh what do we have why are we just come on sorry this is the watch that i want to look at but i'm not getting it i think it's best if i go to images and do we have to look at hypebeast i guess we do time and tide normally covers the stuff pretty well let's see there there we go that's better okay it's such a crazy looking watch i think the balance is just what makes it sing to me personally it's it's too much it's so excessive for what it is they've only made a hundred of them i think it's a tourbillon it's a chronograph it's skeletonized it's so nicely balanced for what it is there uh right and everyone's chatting about water and diving and i don't know what's going on in the chat i'm just gonna carry on reviewing it in real time yes justin i sure am uh this is this is real time sitting at the edge so self-winding titanium 43 mil it's probably one of the most advanced offshores they've ever made which i think is pretty exciting and it's just what i just enjoy you can see it's that symmetry on the dial that i really like the balancing between everything unfortunately i don't think there are any hands-on shots it's all renders because there's so few of them um hitting the coffee and it's just it goes very deep there's titanium cores and this isn't that look how the vents have been evacuated on all four all three corners yeah it's just exciting talk about prototype and development and if anyone who wants to know it's a three hertz 21 6 000 vibrations um 22 karat gold oscillating weight that has been coated with pvd well why would you do that seriously why would you do that 65-hour power reserve oh it looks great really is one of a hundred pieces yep really nice and i see bdf saying an idea for a future live stream under appreciated watch brands call it watches of a lesser god yeah we could i mean oh we could this format seems pretty fun the watch report arrangement could be something that we use to discuss a topic one topic maybe over the course of an hour or whatever there um yeah so i mean dad's got your name down for this watch right megan yeah it deserves it it does deserves a lot of love also it doesn't have all the funky quirks that we saw with the barricellos and the who else uh all those models of the offshore line that had funky looking pushers and uh crowns would look like gun barrels and stuff this is very restrained wouldn't you say it's nice nice looking example chatted about this enough i as far as presentation goes this is fascinating from a design concept prototype development point of view very interesting okay moving on to number 35. i can't remember doing this uh should we look at this it's an off it's a okay i think we're going to be spending some time now looking at a few amigas where are we hmm so it's the devil tressall power reserve okay let's have a look this is quite a different line of watches but actually the first time we've had a look at a dress piece and it's got the power reserve so it's double up anything on monochrome yes hands on that's what we like to see oh that's gorgeous okay moving in a bit of a different direction we've got an mba net we've got an mbnf and then we're jumping to the seamaster and the sp and the professionals and all those examples and then we can call it a show it's been pretty good so what can we say about this watch uh it does definitely call back to chronometers of the 50s and 60s nicely nicely laid out yeah and megan's saying new channel that's exciting that is very very exciting i'm looking forward to that very much if you need any help or advice you know who's a call so on the wrist love the presence i think it's a 41 mil case ish love the chronometer style i mean it's it's true very classic you know uh power reserve it's always appreciated especially on a dress styled watch this definitely sings the power reserve is at the top of the dial if you can't see it running seconds at the base double batons seldom as you see the omega logo on the right hand side that's a pretty nice take and just overall it's classic question is would you be picking this up over a longer saxonia thin first interview on vintage watches i think i'd be interviewing you i am i'm so bad when it comes to the stuff i just you know i guess it's a guessing game until you get something right it's like a lottery right hitting the whiskey again so the arrangement's good i like the balance is the omega logo bit too heavy on the right hand side hmm that's the question it looks a little bit bold it does look a little bit bold there but it is close as justin says classy as hell yes it is i'm just thinking maybe if it was any critique take the boldness out of the logo make it thinner i think in script to match the coaxial arrangement there but it's it's really elegant i've got to say the movements oh geez look at that that is nice i mean look how nicely balanced that is it's solder that you see so much symmetry to a to a base caliber like this um you know hand wound 30 joules twin barrel coaxial eight the reference is the eight nine three five if anyone wants to know omega and their movements they are charming bdf asking for price i'm guessing something like 20 grand this is gonna be good let's have a look 72 hour power reserve 20 25 to beat rates oh 17 4 swiss francs so what is that in dollars someone might have to do the calculation pretty good pretty good i am i'm impressed it's one thing about a dress watch i've mentioned this before oops hit the mic sorry let's try and get that at a better range so one thing i mentioned before about about dress watches is it's nice to see space allocation done correctly and you want to see some complexity to a dial you don't need it to be so sparse this is good this is really good it's restrained it's toned down nicely balanced it's an awesome movement uh 70 oh it's quite a lot of money fairly close in value yeah apparently it costs nope justin says but i mean yeah i mean megan says a long zone at the end of the day longer and zona get a saxonia thin easily for that money and you get into the high high horology as most of us probably hear what i mean russell especially with a test um stunning really nice example now we've got a quite a different departure are you ready for this we're looking at last last before we go into the the next omega category maybe i should have avoided this but it's the mbnf and i think it's the 10-year legacy machine legacy 10-year i'm going to try and get this right eventually is it called the lego i don't even see what i mean this is what happens when you get so invested and you can't even take the time to read the notebook 10-year anniversary so not legacy it's called the lmx right right and tenure come on give me something march 2021 uh monochrome has it hands on now these are just insanely just i i know wayco did an interview with with max booster um i think it's a recent live stream that he did actually uh discussing this watch 10-year anniversary and it's it's so easily identifiable we've had a look at other crazy bizarre monsters on the show uh it's so i mean there's the original how's that so easy to determine how it's arranged and very quirky with the the double you know the double bridge and the balance and the it's so it looks like a face it's definitely not for everyone it does look like an alien from another planet but uh and retrieving achieving hyt rip yep hey they went they went bust cool watch though gotta say alice in wonderland this is yeah that's that's you hit it on the head it looks like um what's the name of that cat again i don't know it's getting too it's getting too late for me to riff off names uh but he did discuss this watch at length and what it means and i i find it pretty incredible i don't even fully understand so it's a twin time basically you can set it to any it's two watches in one and you've got just i love it's all enamel painted and it's so much texture and detail in the dial it's intense this is high horology to the nth degree the downside i guess it's it's a big imp it's a big uh feature to this watch is that domed crystal you either love it or hate it on the wrist um and then they've done collaborations with moser and everything too they're doing so good these watches are just you know cut above and you know super next level in this in this category uh who is this bike i mean it's um mbnf mbnf and the reference is the legacy machine x the lmx celebrating its 10th anniversary grumpy cat you know what's called the cheshire cat i can't remember thank god sunflowers yeah i mean i love that teal teal dial looks so good but it does look like it's staring at you it reminds me of um you know those those beetles those beetles in nature that have uh printing on their backs that remind you of eyes similar to butterflies and then that this seems inspired by nature where the animal has that defense mechanism to ward off predators when their backs are turned this kind of has that effect on you oh it's a crazy looking machine it's definitely a machine and look at the finishing and it's just it's just next level it's above and beyond next level dome crystal is amazing and i would love as a spoof i would love moses to team up with nbnf again and have a spoof watch linked to um you know like a snow globe wouldn't that be nice snow globe based dial in case uh it's like wearing a globe of a watch yep yep old raggy thanks for that hans carpet beetles yep that's it that's it you guys are being so helpful thank you the whiskey is obviously working for all of you it's good it's good cheshire cat yeah i don't even is that what they call it honey remember i just remember it was purple uh oh look at that it's the photography is just amazing i can't get over it monochrome hats off to monochrome for for getting this done and out for us look at that arrangement so once we move away from the horde stuff we will you see what i mean about the face it reminds me i mean this does remind you of alice in wonderland beetle defense mechanisms what's going on with all these fist shots it's a very masculine thing i have no idea megan i really don't know look at that what an amazing i mean for any watchmaker to not only have a definitive approach something that's very defined by you know just you you've what am i saying you've created your own language that everyone now understands and can easily recognize but then to go even further when it comes to the watchmaking not just the external aesthetics but the watchmaking getting a caliber like this to work all centralized all nicely balanced you can see that these are quite literally two movements i mean that trigger is all linked to the crown on either side ah it's great it's really great so we chatted about this very similar i mean it's almost too symmetrical right but the uh i also wasn't also nice seeing that three-dimensionality similar to uh to group all 4c the three-dimensional effect that should i look at prices let's do it why not so technically it's a travel time because you can have two different uh time zones covered 44 mils 3d architecture floating balance wheel uh inertia blocks it's very deep there's lots going on of course the floating balance wheel is like the definitive element to this watch independent time zones crown at two o'clock yeah yeah uh rotating power reserve indicator i like that that's that's going on at the back here i'm guessing at the back of the watch over here at the top i'll just spin the mouse um and get to the price event geez this is like this is as bad as as um russell's tellurium we were chatting about there's so much to it thunderdome and now we're getting to mad max going on here availability and price okay 128k u.s not bad excluding taxes uh red so 18 pieces in red gold 33 in grand titanium you know it's a limited edition it's special it's an anniversary piece beautiful beautiful example okay we are going to jump to the final two watches of the show and megan says i don't like them at all oh hold on a sec oh the the fist shots yeah let's stay with wrist shots the watch is designed not on the wrist you have true true better back to front stunning nice arrangements uh forward says i would i mean get a better image up for you hold on a sec that's better come on full screen leave something on the screen for you to look at while i address the comments and then we can jump to the the big omega releases from late from recent from late i don't know what i'm saying i want to make mbnf really tacky and have a snow globe too wouldn't it be fun i mean that would be so good you could do such a nice job uh adding a snow globe dial you know snowflake it up and you know be similar to the spoof watch but yeah all good okay so next up okay let's have a look at these new sea masters let's have a chat uh sea master 300 m 2021 so about a week before the releases i did a video discussing wrong watch come on the the sea master diver you know first look at the twenty twenty watch and this that's pretty good should we look at time and tide come on if they're only renders i'm going to be so bummed come on please some hands-on time revolution watch sorry forgive me there's so many articles rob report maybe that'll be better nope come on hands on anyone beulah bueller nothing this bugs me hey look got some reviews that spark and jack got scientilia i'm at the top looking at that's great that's nice to see okay let's look at images anything i have to be more specific then obviously seamaster 300m what are they going to call it bronze right apologies for the delay ladies and gentlemen having a few technical difficulties thank you monochrome all right megan we're seeing a very consistent thing going on here it's wrong okay so what can we say about this watch uh so what did i say a week ago i did a week before the releases bend over hans exactly exactly you get it you're just right just see master 300 thanks justin um okay i missed you all in the chat let me jump back in and say hi i don't know what's been going on making a tacky okay good so i think the bronze looks awesome i think they're doing a great job here but this new piece we've been chatting about the whole idea of re-issues and the concept of taking re-issues further now my my review video i try to discuss the full history of this watch from the original which i love to the modern 300m i think they just called it the 300 to this current line and i didn't know they brought it out in blue that was a nice a nice change of pace and there was leaked documents of course this should have been brought out last year so we notice a few traits the numerals on the dial similar to panerai we've got a sandwich dial which is what we have seen quite consistently through the 300m development the blue bezel is very nice the actual blue color is very toned down which is good the lollipop hand i i do like uh one has lollipop seconds yeah they all do this is the theme so i didn't notice why why didn't they include it on this model that's strange lollipop seconds hand i really like it's not look i'll be talking about consistency and congruence between parts on the watch sharpness everywhere you want a sharp seconds hand i fully agree i'm looking at the left hand side of the screen and my mouse isn't getting big here we go get big mouse um so we have consistency here with the way the sharpness has been addressed the the dividing thing is this rounded part to the the lollipop hand but i think it's a nice quirk it's a good callback to the uh to the original the ck2913-5s and it's just a great character trait let's get to that first shot and have a look now this isn't the bronze this is the standard steel model with the sandwich dial arrangement and you get a good look at what this watch represents and yeah in this format this watch i think looks better on leather i think it speaks more true we'll definitely chat about the reverse reese's peanut butter cup crown uh they let the watch down again with the bracelet megan what's good is they actually do have a micro adjust system it's the exact same clasp two to mine to the 57 it's one of the best i hope hopefully they feature an image of it here so we can have a look it's one of the best clasps they've ever done i think it's small in size easy to adjust um we'll get to it in a moment so this is what i'm divided on looking at this watch in this this format here they they're trying to modernize this piece right move it into the next generation and one way we can tell this is the way they've put this crown on the watch this crown is actually very representative of their new line of aqua terrace that they brought out this this con vex con i'm gonna say i'm gonna go with concave concave crown uh which does look kind of old school but also is more linked to their modern line of pieces and then we jump to the arrangement of of the dial yeah i must say i prefer this watch on the leather i agree it just just feels more true to form with the numerals and this is the thing the numeral arrangement on this dial oh i didn't know i could do that numeral arrangement on this dial is either a love it or hate it you have a very old school aesthetic and it's something that you know if people don't want that it's it's going to drive them away from the watch even more yes justin it's an aluminium alloy as far as i know it's not it's not ceramic so they have this they have this uh aim to make a watch that is going to age over time similar to the the um what's the james bond no time to die titanium amalgamation um turbo t2 better late than never welcome to the show we've been running for three and a half hours i cannot i cannot believe it this this has gone so fast you know i could probably sit and talk about anything and when it would work out it's so weird man it's so weird i don't get it i don't get how my brain works the shark teeth cut out markers are really nice they are brands they really are and they're very different to the original actually they're more rounded they're not as sharp the originals were very very sharp these are scallops i mean this looks exactly like a shark's tooth so there's some good things to celebrate if it was me giving this given this option again i wouldn't have the sandwich numerals it's a nice feat i was close i almost lost it it's a nice feature to have fisherman's friends to the rescue that was close it's a nice feature to have but it's polarizing way too polarizing but they also did something great here they've gotten rid of all that subliminal text on the dial and just just kept it see master 300 it's all you need to know uh nice looking piece let's get to another shot oh so you see what so basically to sum up the odds to sum up the article i love their re-issues i believe their reissue category should be a thing on its own deserves to be its own thing but the the way they are trying to blend the reissue with the modern stuff and clashing them together of course we know that this line is here to celebrate the original 57 reissue and all those models that that development the older style they do have the professionals which we're going to get to in a sec but uh it's it's a it's an interesting way of addressing you i'll put it that way interesting way of addressing your models that hearken back to those re-issues while still trying to make them modern while writing the line blue shirt says he loves the blue it's a very nice color i'll give you that superb color also notice the bezel is not reflective and shiny and in your face that is so nice so easy to look at there's that's aluminium aluminum as they say um yeah i don't know what's going on in the chat and and russell said i missed the commando being featured we haven't featured a commando during the show no this has just been 40 plus watches in succession all the new releases of of the year so far so yes it being applied or painted than a sandwich but it's nice to look at any way forward yeah i mean if it was me i would keep i would keep the the batons suppressed no depressed i like the whole sandwich arrangement there but the the actual numerals should follow along with the type on the dial and it would look good also the the the panerai feel to them i don't know if it works that's going to be open to debate for a very long time is it the sea master anniversary samurai no it's not it's just a revamp of the original oh monochrome monochrome knows what they're doing with their shots it's just it's just the next stage forward the last one they brought out was in 2014 2015 and then between then they brought up the 57 reissue and this is the the further step forward it's such a good looking watch in the flesh you see how different see how different they look from render to real life how how much more appealing they look in that real scenario i think it works to be yeah in this in this setting it does look very good also enjoy that they've tapered the brace a little bit it articulates which is just fantastic the articulating bracelet is one of the best selling points of the sea master 300 so comfortable for so many wrists i'd like to lug length i would say is about 48 49 it's quite big the watch measures 41 mils i think i'll have to double check uh missing you all in the chats as always uh let's see what's going on um it is a loomed bezel yes it is ets i'm sure we'll get some shots there we go this is what we need to be happy to see i i'll go out there and say that this is the best class that omega has ever made um first debuted on the 57 model bracelets on the realm i don't on the rail master the speedmaster and the seamaster what makes it so good it's small in size it has two micro adjust positions and it it's it's just i'd call it perfect actually for what it is you notice how much space it takes up it's tiny and it just feels so correct this is what they should have on all of their pieces the speedmaster professional should have gotten this i do not understand why they didn't incorporate it in because it is brilliant as as an owner of of the uh the original i've i've worn it for what a full year at this point and it's so comfortable just a tiny micro adjust system no screws nothing to worry about no adjustments needed just push button i i would say you know i've also dealt with the glide lock bracelets from rolex and superbly built but they are very long similar to the professional models very long and kind they can be kind of unnecessary especially on the professional 300s a bit overbloated yeah the glidelock when it comes to build quality i agree it is it is better but i do like the push adjust funny when you when you're wanting to adjust on the fly this is faster because you only have two positions to move it to where the glide lock you have to take it off you have to kind of fiddle with it to detach it you know what i mean still uh one of the bit the best clasp i think omega has ever made it's good to see it on this piece then you have a clear case back to appreciate the beautiful movement uh megan says my ocd is out of control the bezel isn't lined up oh let's have a look i gotta torture her a little bit oh no that is shocking look at that how can you do i mean it's 120 clicks oh no what does that mean that that is when you start thinking you start getting a bit suspicious uh let's get back to it that's when you can start getting suspicious when no bezels line up does that mean that these um maybe these were dummy models did these dummy models have a bit of an issue with lining up that's funny how so length is a tad long that's a brilliant statement hans length is a tad long anyone who anyone who's new who doesn't know what's going on uh that that makes a lot of sense talking about the luck to lug it is it's about 48 49 but the beauty is that that articulating bracelet that end link female end link um 120 clicks means the bezel has 120 positions you know what we are being very on the nose tonight i like it oh it's a cool looking watch though i i do appreciate it they're doing a good job um why can't they make curved links version oh this is something else they have actually downturned the lugs on this model i think i do believe um nefarion says that the rolex class is way too long i would agree i love the size of the gmt2 and the explorer ii clasps i think those are really appropriate in the modern line actually you know what the explorer clasp was perfect absolutely perfect if they had a micro adjust system in there simple on the fly not not the the easy link what do they call it the easy link extension if they had a simple micro adjust in the same vein the best class by far finding the subs or being a bit too hectic uh yeah you can talk about that at a later stage but really cool on this one this one is the piece that stole the show for me this is a bit more lined up megan i think it's also off i don't know what's going on oh this is good okay i can't unsee the bezel position i know i know it's the worst thing it really is the worst thing um looks like jared is leaving us that's awesome in the chat it's a pleasure having you here thank you for joining okay uh gonna karen we're getting we're getting close to the end of the show just this watch and one more and then we're done three hours 40 minutes good god what is wrong with this guy the the whole i'm what i'm loving what omega does one of the best in the industry i think is the metal metallurgy metallurgy i'm not going to say it right but the experimentation with materials they seem to nail all the time so i like i like how they're mixing this alloy up they've got palladium they've got all these features on top of bronze and rose gold it's technically a 9 carat gold watch because it's it's 375 i think as the number i think it looks brilliant honestly i would go out and buy one of these pieces given the chance and and the bronze case in this form i you know i'm very against bronze on watches i think in this setting with that gold feature on top of it it's going to age a little bit differently so it's just it's fascinating it is a very interesting combination plus on the leather strap with the way the dial has been done it just feels appropriate it does feel correct to the line there it is on the wrist i think it's also the color you know what it's the color of the case and how it matches the loom on the dial too um it's not much more gold let's have a look at the at the comments sorry pdf saying 60 minutes only needs 60 clicks why 120 clicks i know um it doesn't make much sense it's not necessary it really isn't necessary i've dealt with 60 click bezels before and they just work as just as fine i i guess the issue is the reason why they have 120 clicks is because the hand as we might be able to see just for megan's ocd i hope you enjoy this as we can see the hand is not exactly on the minute mark so if you're in between minutes you can line up the 120 allows you to line up the bezel on that point if you want to be so specific which allows you to then you know be in between minutes if you're wanting to time something it's very unnecessary let's be honest um oh it's a good looking model though this one to me i wanted this to actually be on the cover for the show decided against in the end missing you in the chat megan saying i do like the bronze case with the copper it does look good it does look very good omega 16504 remake do it now dan i'm doing a video all about that actually uh collaboration with chrono 24 writing a video all about that watch and i'm going to word it towards omega and hopefully they'll see it deserves it tudor uses 60 clicks they do um 120 bezel has better action okay okay nice looking piece this arrangement especially look at that so i was right 375 meaning that it's nine nine carat essentially not for sale good to know um and then you have your hallmarks the base there cool looking piece so we've chatted about this watch long enough it definitely matters if you're really using it to time air in your tank i mean that's it huh you want to be specific you really do want to be specific that's something else we've got steel threads good thing good to enjoy some some steel threads to be sure that you're not going to be damaging anything along the way oh it's nice right moving on to the last watch of the show coming up to the freaking four hour mark what is wrong with this dude and that is the and i love the name of this watch it's called the sea master black black yeah now i'm not kidding when this watch launched uh should we look at monochrome let's have a look ugh when this watch launched i immediately jumped on and i just i said subconsciously black black funny enough that is the name and i thought uh you know it's pretty good it's pretty on the nose explain the mafia black watch yeah i mean i i'm really drawn to this piece i don't know why i think in a way what it does is it just masks a lot of features that i'm not so much of a fan of with this piece and just gets right to the point another fist shot for megan i hope she enjoys oh and the bonus is that the bezel does line up here that's nice uh you know what when i saw these original launch photos i've been looking at this watch a lot look at the strap look at the case don't you feel like this watch is made from charcoal that's something that just comes to mind when i see it a charcoal inspired model it was like it was forged out of that material unreadable it is absolutely unreadable it's it's just doesn't make any sense for a dive watch it's the most illegible dive watch out there but what i enjoy is that idea of of almost telling time with texture it's something that's frozen in time and it's the sculptural form uh and no date that's something i didn't notice that no date complication we chatted about the whole bezel that like stippled similar to the uh the 2022 beijing olympic model from earlier anthracite yeah i mean that's it it's really interesting for what it is everything's engraved in and it has all the quirks that we like and in this example i don't mind the the helium valve and all that stuff i think it just makes it feel more like a concept prototype carbonite grail watch literally han says it does look cool um and i think if we were to refer to a few models hublot does this a lot and so does casio with their catty oaks they're all the black on black finishes and everything there still i i just enjoy it for its outlandishness doesn't make sense it's so can you imagine how difficult it would be to read the time it's just fun it really just is uh fun around it uh foreman says 60 or 12 whichever makes more clicky sounds better i mean that's a talk about 120 clicks yeah 120 click masks qc issues better than the 60 eric very good points you can hide a lot of details there yeah megan mentions problem with this watch is that it's not legible to wear or read yeah i have a hublot and black on black and they're called the russian mafia watch as all the nyc monsters use and wear them so that's it i mean nyadlock system you get to enjoy the movement that feels so weird seeing the movements they should have just blacked out movement too to go with it but you can see it's very difficult to read it's it's all just shadows and lighting and i guess that's why i enjoy it it's it's kind of like a study not so much a anything practical at the end of the day wilson this was a presentation of a master hardly i don't even know what it sounded like to be honest i've been talking so i'm gonna have to listen back and hear if it's if it's appropriate at all but uh yeah i i woke up thinking how is this show going to work is it going to be consistent will there be anything worth listening to but apparently something worked thank you for that really wilson um 360 click bezel now that's an idea can you imagine can you imagine the scale of that so eric is now they're doing their bets 355 402 i'm probably going to call it i'll call it the next minute how's that helium valve nonsense we keep flicking through okay back to the first shot again so the question is which watch has won this segment um i could because i do have all the little thumbnails lined up which watch has won the day of all that oh i think this one does just has has something above the shade of gray that is so perfect i mean that's a i do love the color it's it's a funny thing this watch makes no sense as a diver on the right-hand side but on the left the other hand so that's it that is a summary of some of the best releases of q1 2021 and we will have three more of these hopefully over the course of the year i don't know how i'm going to cope during the summer months trying to run these shows in like scaldering heats but we'll try and uh it's it's nice because it just you know sums up some of the best launches that we've seen over the course of the year and megan says stop with the fist shots if anyone out there who's watching who's done these first shots stop doing it especially on publications i don't mind social media but when i mean it looks so bizarre these watches are meant to be seen on wrists um it's been good it's been a good time and anyone else great show it's my pleasure my pleasure eric and turbo t2 the chair fun thank you i've got to get one damn good chair i've got to find something that's gold-plated or something you know on top of it so it's it's pretty impressive that's what's the one thing i wanted to try and underline along with this i mean an absolute dream of a watch uh it's it's quite impressive seeing how much has been launched over the course of three months and what is out there for us and hopefully this is a good resource for future reference if anyone would like to look back at the shows and see just the sheer variety of pieces that aren't discussed on youtube i mean this was the watch that everyone was talking about so many of these other pieces go under the radar and deserve all that love thank you i saw a superchat from mark mark thank you so so much and happy easter i mean easter sunday now 10 to 2 in the uk i can't freaking believe it make make wrists not fists that's one of the best comments of the evening buck thank you uh and carrie my pleasure my absolute pleasure you have been such an excellent audience i hope you've enjoyed listening to me pratalon for three hours uh we'll do another wrist shot week let me close this off this has actually been such a i'm surprised how uh stop am i doing that right yeah i'm actually surprised at how streamlined that formula was and samurai mentioning a rolex explorer april yes uh it's exciting i'm actually surprisingly i'm actually very excited to see what they bring out i really hope the one my one thing is i really hope they don't ceramic the bezel and i really hope that they just streamline it a bit more make it thinner make it a bit more you know ergonomic i know that's the best word the explorer is a line of watches that has so much potential and speaking of which come q2 when i do uh the best watches of that segment rolex will be first so that'll be fun and and so it goes four times a year we get to sit back and chat about just i don't know what'll be 120 watches essentially uh thomas thank you so much again all of you guys it's been a lot of fun i hope you will have an excellent easter weekend over the next few days and spend it with the family enjoy good food enjoy good booze all that is um always a pleasure have a superb weekend and look forward fingers crossed if the rolex releases are good we'll be seeing it early next week should be a joy lots of love ladies and gents take care look after yourselves and we'll be seeing each other in the next one cheers for now

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Published: Sat Apr 03 2021