Hands-On With a Legacy Brand's Vintage-Inspired Timepieces
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- Опубліковано 27 лип 2024
- Hi everyone, Marc here from Long Island Watch to give you an overview of the new Swiss watch brand I'm carrying - O & W (Ollech and Wajs). I'll provide some background on their history, which dates back to the 1950s, and then give you a close-up look at three of their current watch models - the P101, M110, and Ocean Graph.
Ollech & Wajs made the first 1000M dive watch back in the 1960s! Their watches have explored the arctic, been in the air, gone to Vietnam and many other adventures. After some tough years after the Quartz crisis, the brand was revived and is now creating vintage-inspired watches with modern tech like sapphire crystals and inner AR coating.
First up is the P101 with a dual time bezel, ETA movement, and 300M water resistance. It has a great vintage military look with the squared-off hands. Next is the M110 field watch with a compass bezel and Soprod movement. The green dial with orange accents really pops. Finally, the Ocean Graph is a modern take on their historic diver. 1000M water resistant with a cushion case and domed sapphire.
I love that most models are 39-40mm, so they have heritage style but wearable modern sizing. The beads of rice bracelet is also a nice option. If you're looking for well-made Swiss tool watches with personality, be sure to check out Ollech & Wajs Let me know if you have any other questions.
Thanks for watching!
Check out the brand at: longislandwatch.com/ollech-wajs/
00:00 Intro
00:10 Brief History
01:57 Quick wrist check
02:08 P-101
04:45 Optional Beads of Rice Bracelet
06:02 M-110
08:27 Ocean Graph
10:32 Lume Shot
10:45 Wrist Shot
11:22 Outro - Навчання та стиль
My first trip to Switzerland I discovered this brand. It has over 90% swiss parts. I bought and O and W in Zurich! It was a bucket item list completion! I wanted to visit Switzerland and purchase a swiss watch. I have the P-101. I'm excited to see Marc carrying this brand.
This reminds me of the Doxa sub 300 divers. Love that 60s-70s vibe
Those macro lens shots are CRISP!!
First time learning of this brand. They're gorgeous!
O&W is a great brand with a lot of history. Their transparency on the sourcing of parts and production is an outstanding selling point. Glad they have a US based distributor and hope Long Island Watch sells these like hot cakes!
Really? Where do they source their parts from?
The new camera looks great. It really elevates the production quality. The only thing I miss is that the world time map you have on the wall is out of focus due to your new open aperture/narrow focal length camera lol.
Thanks, now all I can concentrate on is the fuzzy background!
Thanks for noticing
Agreed, the camera is awesome!! Really changes the presentation.
Agreed, looks fantastic
Awesome Marc !🍻👍🏻 That ocean graph is unreal !
Yeah. Awesome blue dial.
Very cool! Nice to see watches from a brand I’ve not heard of. Thanks Marc. Have a great day!
You too, enjoy
O&W has some amazing history and interesting timepieces. I almost pulled th trigger oh a new Astrochron last year but backed out due to the thickness of the timepiece being 17mm thick . The new O&W should continue to build on their heritage with modern re-issues of their former timepieces.
1:00 Yes, the "British agents" Bodie & Doyle.
I literally spat my tea out when I saw that. Kudos.
;)
I used to love 'the professionals' when I was a kid. Never knew what watches they had though till now!!
Marc, You've upped your game!
Trying!!!
A bit outside my price range but beautiful watches. Always enjoy learning about brands I did not know about. The stamped clasp is a hair disappointing for a watch at this price point. Thanks as always!
Thanks for watching!
yeah reminds me of seiko
@@zillsburyy1 Yup. Looks like Seiko’s reissue of their Navigator Timer.
Marc, really glad to see you are carrying O&W. A little known brand with an important history in the watch world. I currently have two, an older big pilot model and the re-edition of the Navichron. Love both! Please, please ask OWZ to release a new version of the Early Bird. My money is waiting for that one!
The P-101 its very tasteful executed, really a classic and timeless style, the minute hand is really cool. Best regards.
Thank you
Can really see the difference with the new camera, good call 👍 nice to see O&W reach out to a wider audience.
Wow, thank you
Great camera quality and good clip. Well done
Very cool, Marc. The black one looks a bit like my Timex Waterbury Dive style watch, but more robust for sure. Your camera skills are increasing by leaps and bounds!
I've had the P-104 (with bracelet) on my "WANTED" list for several years. Other watch priorities have prevented a purchase. A P-104 will be my next purchase! All of their watches are cool!
Love all of them. Another LIW winner! 🏆 🐶😊
Many thanks!
Nice watches. I have an older Ollech and Wajs "Aviation" chrono. It looks like an older Breitling Navitimer chrono. If I'm not mistaken, Breitling went into administration in the early 70's and Ollech and Wajs and Sinn bought some of the Navitimer tooling and movements and produced their own "Navitimers." Sinn still makes their own version, the 903 model.
Beyond my budget or needs but still a great looking watch brand
Exactly!
These are really nice! My favorite is the P101.
By the way I’m loving the ISL14 I bought last November. It’s 🔥
Love that one!
Many thanks.
Discovered the brand in the early 2K on PMWF and was very tempted to pull the trigger on them but at that time the QC were sporadic
I love that brand!
That's great to hear.
I’ve always liked their watches
Thanks!
Hot dang that Ocean Graph is nice looking
Sure is!
Hi Marc. I’m the person you sent the ISL 101 to in Canada. Love your videos dude!
Awesome thank you!
I quite like the 1000m rated piece, I have an affinity them since I also own a s23635j1
Bought the P1-01 2 years ago after seeing Jody's review on JOMW. Most of the time i wear it on leather strap. It does get a lot of wrist time.
My understanding is that the sixth position is what the other five positions are adjusted to.
"Sized with screws". Looks like push pins to me on the bracelet but I could be wrong. Good looking watch and great video as always.
Pretty sure they are screws. Been wrong before tho
@@islandwatch You are probably right as you are definitely the expert compared to me but I have a seriously bad watch addiction and to this day I have never seen a bracelet sized with screws that have arrows on the bracelet showing which direction to remove them.
Marc is "that boy bad!"
When do we get to see the new Islander?!
I think O&W, Jenny, Phillips and possibly one or two more manufacturers collaborated in the 60s to produce deep divers but isn't it actually Jenny with the Carribbean 1000 that is credited with the first 1000m depth rated watch?
Yes, but collaborated on with the genius at O & W to make it possible.
@11:20 "it's not about the size. It's about the function" . I've been telling women that my whole life. 😅 . Sorry couldn't resist.
pricey. is it COSC?
I remember they used to be quite cheap and simple back in the late 90s or maybe around 2000s but I thought Wajs retired or died and I stopped hearing about them.
Nice! And no “NATO” straps. See how much nicer and comfier the blue strap is.
That thing is super cozy
@@islandwatch looks like it.
Is the camera or something about it or the lighting new?
You are like the 4th person to say something. What do you think is different?
I know they used to sell Navitimers when Breitling was selling the house to pay the mortgage. Did they keep the rights to sell the style like Sinn did, or did they just sell excess Breitling inventory with new dials and packaging?
Didn't educate myself on this legal tidbit.
new year and new cam? xD
New Year, some new things. . .
The thing I care about is the power reserve of a new movement. Anything more than 100 meter water resistance is meaningless to me.
15.8mm thick is noticeable. The best watch I've owned (ran at a consistent -7 seconds per weak with a Miyota 9015) was the Borealis Bull Shark (inspired by the beautifully simplistic Rolex 6538).
However, Borealis wanted to build cred as a capable watch designer (watches made in Asia and assembled in Spain, iirc). So, they designed the bull shark for 2000m water resistance and it made the 42mm watch much too chunky.
While 1000 or 2000m water resistance might be a fine accomplishment to brag about, it really just says, "we're too stupid to realize that the case thickness required for such a completely impractical depth rating makes the watches too thick for everyday wear".
I ended up selling that watch and when I regret it, I'm reminded why I sold it. It was perfect, except it was just too damn thick.
How do you create a great looking bracelet and throw a cheap clasp and... and... pins instead of screws? I'd expect that from Seiko but not this prestigious brand. Shame.
Just another cookie cutter timepiece with stupid pricing
Really?
And what "cookie cutter" is it copying? If you don't like the watch, there is a solution. Don't buy it.
Opinions are like a$$ho!es. Everyone has one, but nobody needs to see or hear them.
Disagree. They look nice and they’re doing their own thing.
What a great ‘value add’ comment.