Exactly the same here. I had a Movado museum watch and thought I was good. For some reason YT algorithm threw The Urban Gentry & Teddy at me. After a few days of binging, I wondered why they didn’t do a video on Movado. “Oh! I get it now!” First watch: Orient Tristar 2nd: Mondaine Automatic 3rd: Tissot PRX (powermatic) 4th: CasiOak (clear) Today: 3 Omegas & one Longine + MoonSwatch & “System 50 Fathoms”. Of course I’m not done & looking to expand the collection. 😅
😂😂😂 I've got 148 watches, all working. Collected them since I was 16, when I got a job. In the last 10 years I've learn how to clean the movement and now I'm taking care of them all the time. I still got the watch from my dad, a 1980 Tissot, it's working better that all the others 😊
@@turbolenza35 it is a little difficult at first, you can see UA-cam videos, depending on what movement you want to work on. There are millions of videos on what to do, how to clean, what kind of tools you need
This is literally word for word what happened to me.. Seiko 5 gmt 1st ever automatic, then about 2 weeks later somehow mesmerised by the Christopher ward 12ti blue fumè dial obsessed with how I could buy one for a month before if course I did, now 2 months down the road and I've just had my omega aqua Terra bumblebee delivered.. I think I'm in big trouble 😮.. Help!
As someone with a small collection of quartz watches and only 1 automatic watch, sometimes it gets annoying to keep setting the time on the automatic if I haven't worn it for a few days.
I’m in the Chronic Terminal Phase where I scratched an expensive one on a parking meter, and now I relapsed back to a Seiko 5 and the Swiss Safe Queens are safe once more. And I am into Vintage Cameras as well!!! Having a sweet enabler as a wife is key to this Disease Process.
Agreed. I started with tissot and never stopped buying. Said to myself only three watches for tEveryday, dress, diver type. Now buying more watches for different colour and style combinations 😂
I stopped buying watches in 2017 with the purchase of two automatic timepieces: a diver (SMPc, black lacquer dial) and a racing chronograph (Carrera Heuer 01, non-skeleton). I have them in my daily rotation so that none of them should stop working 😊.
You're telling me to not get an IWC Portugieser Eternal Calendar, an automatic. If I ever get the money, I will certainly get this watch, one of the most incredible on Earth.
Esspecially when it stops not exposed to light in order to save batterylife and then comming back to life when exposed to light again. That's why I prefer japanese watches over those from Swiss. Japanese watches are better and more suitable in the everyday usage.
@@carpentersson77left my 12+ years old solar powered Seiko in a drawer for the past 2 years and the battery died. Now waiting for a replacement accumulator to come in the service where I left them and I miss them more than I have over the 2 years when I didn't wear them. Stupid me
I actually just bought the 42mm of that Arabic Seiko from Jomashop. Of course, the horrible bracelet got tossed immediately and was replaced by a leather band. I'm honestly surprised at how accurate that old movement on that watch is! But yeah, the Christpher Ward C1 Moonphase is next... :D
I started with an oris bcdp but I think im gonna pick up a gold pvd prx quartz as a secondary. Anyway I can get your help finding a secondary bracelet for the 40mm oris? 600ish $ is a bit too high atm lol
Check out Strapcode, Uncle Seiko, and Islander. They make some of the best third party bracelets I've found on the market. But you'll most likely need to get a straigth lug version. I'm not sure if any brands make third party bracelets custom fitted to Oris (I may be wrong!)
Except that once you buy your grail watch, it isn't a grail watch anymore, and you always seem to find the next "grail" watch. Like Lays...You can't eat just one.
I never buy automatic watches. They will NEVER be as accurate as a quartz. Also require regular servicing, and that's just too much hassle. Go for a kinetic or solar quartz, robust, accurate and way better than an automatic
My first watch was a Luminox Navy Seal 3051 for my conscript service. Great great watch. Then I bought a Luminix Constellation Automatic and it's still my main watch. I want a Tudor GMT but they're still out of my price range so maybe a microbrand GMT will do.
Yes, this is true. But thankfully I learned after buying my second Seiko 5 Sport series. I’m done for watches. I got 3 that are for different occasions and that’s that.
I was shocked when I put back on my only (new to me) automatic and saw that the time was wrong. Thought it was broken! Wait a minute... Hadn't worn it for a few days. No more automatics for me.
I would say Don’t start with a cheap seiko. Instead spend 500-1000 on your first automatic. If you like it congrats onwards and upwards and if you don’t like to interact with it, well now you’ve a watch that you wear on special occasion that gets interests from others
Automatic watches and expensive watches are one of the biggest scams going, next to women's handbags for tens of thousands of dollars. The expensive watches tell you the time, the expensive hand bags hold stuff...all of which can be accomplished by similar and often better products for a fraction of the price.
bro I didn't know about watches and the difference between their movements, but when I got to know Automatics, Quartz and Mecha-Quartz.. I couldn't believe how watch people prefer to pay thousands and tens of thousands for a an inferior and LESS accurate movement! I cannot believe people would use automatic watches. I came to conclusion that watch people are weirdos.
It is the story of every collector: A 1/12 Batman figure with 5 point of movements. Oh I did not know there was a 1/12 with 14 point of movements, I need to buy it. Oh the figure of the latest batman film is fantastic and I love the film. Well, this will be the last one but I will buy a storage furniture, just in case.
Sometimes I think its better when I was just buying Rolex and Rado coz it takes me about 2 years or so to buy a new one, until I got into seiko's and now I have 13 pieces in just 1 year. And still looking at stores like, FB marketplace, kijiji, ebay, amazon, etc.
I got tired of setting it. I just bought one of those watch cases that spins. I only have one automatic... But now i need to buy more cause those slots are empty lol
I own so many watches that I have a spreadsheet to track them, and track where they are. I own everything from my Swiss Army watch that only cost me $125 30 years ago on up to my Rainbow Daytona and Patek Philippe 5990R, and everything inbetween. I even own the ultra rare Rolex Daytona 24 Hours of Le Mans 100th Anniversary. My watch collection is worth more than my house. My car collection is also worth more than my house. I need help. Haha.
I started off buying a $80 Seiko field watch (the one in the video) then a couple of Pagani Design AliExpress watches and laughed at the idea of suckers buying a Rolex for crazy money. 4 years and around 40 watches later I've got a collection of 15 watches and I'm genuinely on the brink of buying a 40mm Rolex explorer because, you know, 4x Tudors just don't scratch the itch anymore... all this while driving a 13 year old car. This is not a joke... don't do it! 😂
I wear seiko 5 for 15 years it still running well but its glass scratch so much i start hating it, only then i regret i should get higher tier seiko with sapphire, but somehow i buy new watch and mod my seiko 5 to sapphire, now i think i want chronograph and diver to.
Yehhhhhh..... Prettymuch..... I bought a simple automatic watch, no new features..... THEN.... I found out about rotating bezels and dive watches. So i bought one of those, and then I found out about chronographs for racing. And then I found out that you can get 1000m dive watches...... Then theres automatic wandering hour movements..... Point being hes spot on, stick with the apple watch my friends, the amount of money you will save....
Really? I just bought the ADDIESDIVE MY-H2 Automatic Pilot 'Sterile version'. Stainless steel case and bracelet, with the Seiko Caliber NH35A movement inside. No logo, no nonsense functionality or adornments. Just time and date. Awesome.
When all else fails, Blame Teddy. (And you, and myself…you basically laid out my watch-buying trajectory over the last thirty years.)
Hahaha. It's not my fault... I swear 😉
Fucking teddy baldy made me start loving conventional watches. I was big on smart watches before
This hits home. The rush of buying a new watch is a real
Yup and yes 5 minutes after sizing it and putting it on for the first time your already thinking about the one you "need" now😂😂😂😂
@@chrissimpson453😂
Bro you are SO right.....watch collection is an addiction and mine started exactly as you presented...EXACTLY
Haha. I know, because I live it
Exactly the same here. I had a Movado museum watch and thought I was good. For some reason YT algorithm threw The Urban Gentry & Teddy at me. After a few days of binging, I wondered why they didn’t do a video on Movado. “Oh! I get it now!”
First watch: Orient Tristar
2nd: Mondaine Automatic
3rd: Tissot PRX (powermatic)
4th: CasiOak (clear)
Today: 3 Omegas & one Longine + MoonSwatch & “System 50 Fathoms”. Of course I’m not done & looking to expand the collection. 😅
😂😂😂 I've got 148 watches, all working. Collected them since I was 16, when I got a job. In the last 10 years I've learn how to clean the movement and now I'm taking care of them all the time. I still got the watch from my dad, a 1980 Tissot, it's working better that all the others 😊
Is difficult to clean?
@@turbolenza35 it is a little difficult at first, you can see UA-cam videos, depending on what movement you want to work on. There are millions of videos on what to do, how to clean, what kind of tools you need
This video is as accurate as a quartz watch
This is literally word for word what happened to me.. Seiko 5 gmt 1st ever automatic, then about 2 weeks later somehow mesmerised by the Christopher ward 12ti blue fumè dial obsessed with how I could buy one for a month before if course I did, now 2 months down the road and I've just had my omega aqua Terra bumblebee delivered.. I think I'm in big trouble 😮.. Help!
As someone with a small collection of quartz watches and only 1 automatic watch, sometimes it gets annoying to keep setting the time on the automatic if I haven't worn it for a few days.
Yeah, I don't bother setting the time on an automatic until I go to wear it
Understandable 😅
Sorry for your first world problems
I either have to set it precise to the second or I just wear it without setting the time when I just use it like an accessory
Time for winding box storage 😂
Everything I see a watch ⌚️ that is famous I get obsessed with it until I buy it when I buy it I get obsessed with another watch I just can't stop 😂
That's how it goes, my friend. :) Enjoy the process
I’m in the Chronic Terminal Phase where I scratched an expensive one on a parking meter, and now I relapsed back to a Seiko 5 and the Swiss Safe Queens are safe once more. And I am into Vintage Cameras as well!!! Having a sweet enabler as a wife is key to this Disease Process.
Agreed. I started with tissot and never stopped buying. Said to myself only three watches for tEveryday, dress, diver type. Now buying more watches for different colour and style combinations 😂
Hahahah, the collection grows and grows
Newbie question
What differentiates dress watch and everyday watch?
Teddy single handedly depleted my savings
I stopped buying watches in 2017 with the purchase of two automatic timepieces: a diver (SMPc, black lacquer dial) and a racing chronograph (Carrera Heuer 01, non-skeleton). I have them in my daily rotation so that none of them should stop working 😊.
I relate.
I went down this rabbit Hole, now i cant stop collecting.
You're telling me to not get an IWC Portugieser Eternal Calendar, an automatic. If I ever get the money, I will certainly get this watch, one of the most incredible on Earth.
So accurate 😂
Yeah my first one was a seiko 5 and two weeks ago i got a patek💀 rip my car dreams
@@otei5274 You don’t need a car when you have a Patek 😂
Woahhhh, congrats!!!
More accurate than my watch
please make a video about alba watches, a seiko sub brand!!
Have made a few. Nice watches for the price!
@@ChronometerCheckohh thanks! i found that one
I just bought the Alba Aqua diver 200m. It outdelivers for its price
Citizen Eco Drive’s are the best. Seiko’s too. Anything solar powered is pretty much a winner in my book.
Anything with a 10 year battery life is also acceptable
I have two solar powered watches, one sieko and one Citizen, I just leave them on a windowsill when I’m wearing something else, pretty unbeatable TBH
Esspecially when it stops not exposed to light in order to save batterylife and then comming back to life when exposed to light again. That's why I prefer japanese watches over those from Swiss. Japanese watches are better and more suitable in the everyday usage.
A citizen super titanium is always nice
@@carpentersson77left my 12+ years old solar powered Seiko in a drawer for the past 2 years and the battery died. Now waiting for a replacement accumulator to come in the service where I left them and I miss them more than I have over the 2 years when I didn't wear them. Stupid me
I actually just bought the 42mm of that Arabic Seiko from Jomashop. Of course, the horrible bracelet got tossed immediately and was replaced by a leather band. I'm honestly surprised at how accurate that old movement on that watch is! But yeah, the Christpher Ward C1 Moonphase is next... :D
I started with an oris bcdp but I think im gonna pick up a gold pvd prx quartz as a secondary.
Anyway I can get your help finding a secondary bracelet for the 40mm oris? 600ish $ is a bit too high atm lol
Check out Strapcode, Uncle Seiko, and Islander. They make some of the best third party bracelets I've found on the market. But you'll most likely need to get a straigth lug version. I'm not sure if any brands make third party bracelets custom fitted to Oris (I may be wrong!)
I think you've described the intro into watch collecting quite accurately.
The way to put this in check is to just buy your grail watch. Problem solved itch scratched then buy a casio for day to day use
Except that once you buy your grail watch, it isn't a grail watch anymore, and you always seem to find the next "grail" watch.
Like Lays...You can't eat just one.
binging on teddy’s reviews is an addiction
I totally agree with you. Digital Casio watch is better than Rolex.. well it’s time…
I never buy automatic watches. They will NEVER be as accurate as a quartz. Also require regular servicing, and that's just too much hassle. Go for a kinetic or solar quartz, robust, accurate and way better than an automatic
Can you suggest one good watch for budget with better function
Casio Royale with a 10 year battery, perpetual calendar, 100m WR, 5 alarms, 48 city time zone, very accurate and $30. If it breaks get another one 😂😂😂
This guy knows value
I got Casio Royale for $7 - now that’s a deal.
My first watch was a Luminox Navy Seal 3051 for my conscript service. Great great watch. Then I bought a Luminix Constellation Automatic and it's still my main watch. I want a Tudor GMT but they're still out of my price range so maybe a microbrand GMT will do.
Oh so true. Once you enter the watch market, it’s a roller coaster from there
Grey and olive green for dials.
🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
Yes, this is true. But thankfully I learned after buying my second Seiko 5 Sport series. I’m done for watches. I got 3 that are for different occasions and that’s that.
Yes, I will never buy another automatic watch again. I'm wearing the new mudmaster now, and I'm happy.
What model is the Seiko with the black face and Arabic numbers? Thank you!
I was shocked when I put back on my only (new to me) automatic and saw that the time was wrong. Thought it was broken! Wait a minute... Hadn't worn it for a few days. No more automatics for me.
garbage movement isn't it xd
So true that is exactly how my journey has gone so far.
My grand dad use to tell winding is not time waste, it's discipline which u show to ppl life time
Tell you what, when I finally buy the last two watches that you showed in this video, I’ll stop.
No you won't.
My wife gift me an automatic Tissot PRX yesterday! Don't tell me what to do! Joking, nice video.
This man explained my situation to a tee 😭
what do you think about chinese brand like naviforce, olevs
I would say Don’t start with a cheap seiko. Instead spend 500-1000 on your first automatic. If you like it congrats onwards and upwards and if you don’t like to interact with it, well now you’ve a watch that you wear on special occasion that gets interests from others
41 hours is not enough. I wish my watch had a power reserve display. so I know when to give it a spiny spin.
This exactly what happen to me with my SNK809 the no hand wind thing bug me to no end that I brought SRPG35
Up late binging @TeddyBaldassarre - that hits too close to home 😂
Been there too many nights
Absolutely true hahaa...that's why I am dreading picking up my first automatic next month 😅
Haha, just know, you don't have to follow this route. You can just as easily get one watch and wear it forev--- ahhh, who am I kidding?
Teddy, Teddy, Teddy! He is the man!
Don't get into watches. Period!
I have this exact seiko5 with the same dial and numerals and i wear nothing else
Bro talking about me and I haven’t even started my collection yet😂
You are so right, DAM youtube.
Automatic watches and expensive watches are one of the biggest scams going, next to women's handbags for tens of thousands of dollars. The expensive watches tell you the time, the expensive hand bags hold stuff...all of which can be accomplished by similar and often better products for a fraction of the price.
bro I didn't know about watches and the difference between their movements, but when I got to know Automatics, Quartz and Mecha-Quartz.. I couldn't believe how watch people prefer to pay thousands and tens of thousands for a an inferior and LESS accurate movement! I cannot believe people would use automatic watches. I came to conclusion that watch people are weirdos.
yes, so true. It's a deep rabbit hole
It is the story of every collector: A 1/12 Batman figure with 5 point of movements. Oh I did not know there was a 1/12 with 14 point of movements, I need to buy it. Oh the figure of the latest batman film is fantastic and I love the film. Well, this will be the last one but I will buy a storage furniture, just in case.
Sometimes I think its better when I was just buying Rolex and Rado coz it takes me about 2 years or so to buy a new one, until I got into seiko's and now I have 13 pieces in just 1 year. And still looking at stores like, FB marketplace, kijiji, ebay, amazon, etc.
I got tired of setting it. I just bought one of those watch cases that spins. I only have one automatic... But now i need to buy more cause those slots are empty lol
That aerobic dile is so sick.
Thanks. My addiction to watches has just gotten much worse since discovering this channel. Thanks.
Just ordered my first automatic watch. How much trouble am I in?😂
Let me ask you this... How much self control do you have?
@@ChronometerCheck If i can afford it? About as much as a kid in a candy stor.
A LOT!
you have no idea
You are doomed, my friend. Welcome to Horology. 😝😝😝
He's right.
...don't do it.
TOO LATE…..I’m already there!!!…LOL!!! “LATE”….Pun intended!!!….LOL!!!😂😂
I have Solar Eco drive very accurate and no problems
I’m into computers and cars, I think i’m right at home here lmao
This is why I have 16 automatic watches.
Dammit.
I own so many watches that I have a spreadsheet to track them, and track where they are. I own everything from my Swiss Army watch that only cost me $125 30 years ago on up to my Rainbow Daytona and Patek Philippe 5990R, and everything inbetween. I even own the ultra rare Rolex Daytona 24 Hours of Le Mans 100th Anniversary. My watch collection is worth more than my house. My car collection is also worth more than my house. I need help. Haha.
I only have 1 astron (solar powered) for everyday watch and 1 hamilton khaki king
Why did you told me what I thought when I bought my auto watch 2 months ago
Hahahah
Oh good luck most experts agree most watches that are worth anything are to expensive for the average person 😢
Or, get fed up with setting the time for all your mechanicals and binge buy all the solar quartz watches you can. Then live happily ever after.
This was my exact watch buying journey. He knows too much.
Quartz>>
Just sold my submariner, fortunately for more than I paid. Setting the Date and time everytime I wore was too much. Next watch will be a solar/quartz.
This is clever. And yes, you are talking about myself! 😅
Sounds like my obsession with collecting knives. Just bought my first automatic watch. If i get obsessed, I'm screwed.
I started off buying a $80 Seiko field watch (the one in the video) then a couple of Pagani Design AliExpress watches and laughed at the idea of suckers buying a Rolex for crazy money. 4 years and around 40 watches later I've got a collection of 15 watches and I'm genuinely on the brink of buying a 40mm Rolex explorer because, you know, 4x Tudors just don't scratch the itch anymore... all this while driving a 13 year old car. This is not a joke... don't do it! 😂
If I had the money and wanted to buy a watch, I would only buy a Ressence Type 3.
Yeah I don't need a watch I have to babysit.
This is so true. Been into watches for 4 months and I already have 10
I actually need a GMT watch. Just not sure what one is best.
Casio GODTIER is the answer.
Listen fellow horological fans. It’s only an addiction if you’re trying to quit.
Collect on my fellow time keepers. Collect on!
Also remember.... It's not an addiction. It's a collection ;)
I started with a GShock GSteel and just got a Seiko 5 Sport and looking at a Hamilton next. Oh no.
Every watch shown is a poor man’s watch.
I used to be a watch accuracy snob, but I grew to appreciate automatic watches. Now if I think a watch is pretty I get it :D
The only time you stop buying watches when you run out of money
Thats why the create the autorotate watch box 😂, to keep them moving
All this is keeping me from buying a watch. So much choice its maddening.
Truer words were never spoken. 46 watches and counting since 2022.
I wear seiko 5 for 15 years it still running well but its glass scratch so much i start hating it, only then i regret i should get higher tier seiko with sapphire, but somehow i buy new watch and mod my seiko 5 to sapphire, now i think i want chronograph and diver to.
what is the name of the first watch ?
Yehhhhhh..... Prettymuch..... I bought a simple automatic watch, no new features..... THEN.... I found out about rotating bezels and dive watches. So i bought one of those, and then I found out about chronographs for racing. And then I found out that you can get 1000m dive watches...... Then theres automatic wandering hour movements.....
Point being hes spot on, stick with the apple watch my friends, the amount of money you will save....
A gotdamn curse
I have one automatic watch but its still a hassle
I get that.
@@ChronometerChecki also have 8 pther quartz watch i didnt mention i wear them daily as a daily piece one watch for one day
I would rather set a watch than change a battery.
Dude is swatch yas100g good?
Poison drip 💧 ☠️
😅🤦🏾♂️ interesting choice of words
I have 1 Seiko automatic watch. I can't the amount of time I've spent drooling over watches on the internet.
I bought my first watch a month ago, now I have 4
Bro just give me a timex and a Casio and I’m happy.
Really? I just bought the ADDIESDIVE MY-H2 Automatic Pilot 'Sterile version'.
Stainless steel case and bracelet, with the Seiko Caliber NH35A movement inside. No logo, no nonsense functionality or adornments. Just time and date.
Awesome.
Should've bought the Mecha-Quartz one. Its too good.
Me me me me without a doubt me ✋🤣
The struggle is very real, brother.
The search for the “perfect” watch never ends