Myth No. 1. Rolex is a luxury brand.! How the hell can you be a luxury brand when you make in excess of a million watches a year, it's a bloody oxymoron.
Olden Days: Hmmm pockets for women for their pocket watches ABSOLUTELY NOT. Let's invent a new way to carry watches instead. Pockets for women? NO NO NO.
10:10 makes a very nice check mark, a psychological indicator that it is GOOD, CORRECT, POSITIVE, etc. and it also frames the logo / brand name nicely which is usually under 12 o'clock.
Nice informative video. 👍 Almost one uses $5000+ beautiful Omega or Rolexes for diving. I’ve recently quit the obsession with dive watches, all this effort and added bulk to have a clicky rotating bezel we never use, don’t need. A GMT is the only watch left that actually can use a rotating bezel for anything practical for people who travel all the time. Who is timing their egg or baking cake with a dive watch bezel rather than the timer on the oven or their iPhone? It’s silly and just a useless decoration. Of course, one could argue the whole watch itself is a useless decoration, but at some point we have to draw lines I suppose. On that subject, no one needs a chronograph either and that also makes the watch thicker and more complicated/expensive to maintain. The watches that make the most sense for the vast majority of people are time (and optionally date) only dress watches.
I would have to disagree. I am sure I am not the only person to routinely use the bezel and/or a chronograph function to time things. A quick turn of a bezel or start of a chronograph is far less obvious then setting up a timer/alarm on your phone, and quieter. Plus there are plenty of times, places, and situations where using your phone is frowned upon or discouraged.
i always thought the 10:10 thing was so the hands didn't block too much of the dials decorations and complications. the brand logo, date window, wr rating, and the quarter hour numerals...
You are great young Lady! I read in (remember I am old) in a photo course book for product placement put the hands there to not obstruct the name. And I will share something that made collecting fun. After I obtained my goal (or dream watch) I could have fun collecting I shall be nice and say inexpensive ones. I could have fun with funky dials and styles. So if I want a 100.00$ Asian with a vivid purple dial no pain there! We can agree the best cuc co clocks come from Germany! Keep smiling! 🕰🕰🕰🕰🕰
I bought my first nice watch, a Tag Heuer 2000 auto, in ‘04 & wore it almost exclusively for years. I did have a G-Shock during that time too, & then bought a Casio Pathfinder in ‘11. Then I got bitten by the bug in about 2018. Now I have 9 watches (3 quartz, 5 autos, & 1 manual-wind) & I’m pretty happy with that number.
Stop buying. That is the first step. Then Dump all you're fashion and Swiss Quartz watches not hitting the markers. Do a shoot out between watches that look the same. If you have 3 watches in 38 mm with a creamy dial just keep the Sarb. etc. . Subscribe to Jeff Mc Mahon.
I felt I needed to congratulate you for the constant enthusiasm of watches you talk about and the humble nature of your presentation . Well done I enjoy the videos
They can be used as a back up if their dive computor fails but this is highly unlikely! I went on a dive trip recently and not one professional diver wore a dive watch
@@CH-yp5by if you werre on a "dive trip" as a tourist, those aren't professional divers. Professional divers do wear dive watches. And computers, I have always worn both as a recreational diver. There are a lot of things I may want to keep track of like distance over the bottom that a dive computer won't track.
I'm a science diver usually do reef work. I wear a SKX013. Works great for low maintenance minimalist diving. When I do multiple dives daily every day the gear becomes a nuisance. Less is more.
The dive bezel is absolutely for timing your total underwater dive time, because it is critical to measure how long and how deep you’ve been diving in order to calculate how long your safety stop needs to be. In the era of dive computers this is no longer necessary. This is also why the bezel is unidirectional; if something accidentally moves the bezel, you do not want to think you’ve been diving for shorter than you actually have been. Hence, dive bezels can only move in one direction to err on the side of shortening your actual dive time rather than lengthening it.
@@ALL-il1sw you may take two or three tanks if cave diving three airtanks with you. Therefore have to change the bezel time, underwater,. She is half correct there are more accurate dive computers, but anyone with sense , will have a second way off telling you how long you have in case the computer stops working
@@ALL-il1sw You still need to adjust the bezel to be shorter when you start your safety stop. (Although this is one use case where you DON'T want it to mistakenly get shorter!)
Your total underwater dive time doesn't mean anything in terms of how long your safety stop is, only your bottom time, as the first guy said. You can dive for two hours at forty feet with NO stop, but seven miniutes at 150 ft is approaching ND limits and you should probably allow a full 15m. Your dive computer will correct for your profile, but the most important time on your wrtist is the time you have at depth, which is what the bezel is for- and the best bezel is really a countdown bezel IMO.
I actually think there are more people happy with just one watch than people who aren’t. Because most people are not collecting or into the hobby at all. They only need one watch and just buy one watch (like my father, mother, wife, brother etc). I’m the only one collecting and I’m the only one who “needs” more than one watch. So, we who need more than one watch are the 0.00000%. The others are normal people and they far outnumber us 😂
I have met many people that only have 1 watch (or even more common - no watch). Generally two types of one-watch owners. One that have a nice watch (might be expensive and maybe not) that they love and that's all they need, and the other type that really have a watch to just tell the time -- and own something like a Casio or a Timex and that is it. Now if you are in it as a hobby -- yeah -- hard to just own one watch. I think maybe what Jenni was saying is that IF you are a watch enthusiast (whatever that means) -- hard to own just one watch, which I totally agree with.
Another aspect of the 10:10 thing may be that the relationship between the space above the hands vs the space below the hands comes close to the golden ratio, which is often used in architecture and art and is commonly regarded as a very aesthetically pleasing ratio.
The most important use of the bezel in a dive watch in the Goode Olde Dayes of scuba diving was timing BOTTOM time. Bottom time is the critical duration that determines if you need decompression stops while ascending and how long your surface interval needs to be. Total dive time is basically irrelevant, from a safety standpoint. 😊
No, the bezel is used by all the pros to measure time in the water in order to avoid getting crinkly fingers. They also use it at home to time their baths.
The bigger myth is 'keeping track of your oxygen'. We do *not* have oxygen tanks; we have *air* tanks. The only people I know of who go down with pure O2 are those using rebreathers. But nobody's directly *breathing* pure O2 because oxygen toxicity.
@@halfsourlizard9319 haha, I hadn’t heard that one before. If I ever hear anyone say that I might reply „Yeah, cool, but the new model can track your Nitrox mix, too.“
I grew up in the era where almost no one owned more than one watch at a time. Even as a kid I loved watches. When I went off to college was the first time I had more than one watch. That's how fell into the proverbial rabbit hole.
Rolex invented, the water-resistant watch/the first automatic watch/first watch on Everest/ first watch to have a date complication/first watch to do blah blah blah. All lies. Rolex the company that relies on BS and people's stupidity.
After owning a few nice watches and when I finally got my dream Rolex watch in 2015 I fortunately do not have anymore lust for another Watch… saving money for other things
Interestingly enough It was modern warfare that brought about the necessity for men to wear watches! you dont have the ability to work an artillery piece and pull out your pocket watch but you need a watch to gauge velocity and such! Female nurses wore pendant watches! it was smaller watcheslike those that had wire lugs welded to them to wear on the wrist!
Men started wearing watches on their wrists around the time of the Boer war and WW1! Women of that time like nurses wore pendant watches? These smaller movements ended up as the first wristwatches,having lugs welded on each side!
Nailed it. 🙂 Just one little addition to the Swiss watch story. America. They were a huge influence on the Swiss because they standardised parts before them and were the leaders in mass production, higher tolerances and cheaper prices for the same or better quality(IWC was set up by an American to bring American Know How(tm) to the Swiss & avail of cheaper labour of course). They also influenced them with marketing. In certain markets people didn't buy watches by brands but by the retailer. This was very much the case in Britain and her empire. You didn't buy an Omega or Zenith, but a Harrods or Asprey. Elsewhere you tended to see the brand and the retailer on the dial. Even in the US this could be the case. Tiffany the obvious one and one of the last left. The Swiss went along with that in the early days and didn't put their brands on the dial or movements for the British market, leaving them blank for the retailer's name. Longines who were supplying lots of watches/movements even sent a letter around British retailers promising they'd never put their name on the dials or movements. One of the few actual innovations Rolex came up with in their history was Wilsdorf started to insist retailers carry his Rolex branded watches and that caught on after a while and the rest followed suit. Wilsdorf was a marketing genius, though again the Americans had led the way. They were even the first to show a "waterproof" watch in a fish tank, ten years before the Rolex Oyster came out and did the same.
You need to do some more research, a water restirant watch was displayed in a fish tank 70 odd years before Rolex tried to claim the first waterproof watch. Only thing Rolex are good for is stealing other people's Inventions.
@@garyboyle695 Yeah, I should have been clearer in this context and said _wristwatch_ There were "waterproof" timepieces before that, the British explorer type pocketwatches of the late 1800's for a start. Later that same design was used with Longines movements as the British diver watch of WW2. But long before that, The Great Exhibition in London in the mid 1800's IIRC, the maker, whose name shamefully escapes, displayed a pocketwatch in a tank full of fish.
You seem to really know your history, is it true that the modern keyless works configuration used by most of the Swiss manufacturers today is also an "Americanism"?
@@MrGrentchYou are right, today’s crown winding is the invention of Adrien Philippe. This is how he became famous and pulled the attention of Antoni Patek. What is interesting, apparently Abraham Louis Breguet also constructed such movement, but did not patented it. I’m sure someone knows why Breguet invention didn’t managed to get adopted by watchmaking industry and had to be reinvented by Philippe. I couldn’t find such information. Maybe it’s time to read Salomons treatment about Breguet…
Within safety limits you can only stay a speceific time at a specific depths. This is why you have to plan and time your dive. Old school you used planned a dive to a time and depth. Since the last 25 years you’d use a dive computer monitoring exact time spent on different depths. Reason for all this is not accumulate to much nitrogen in the blood risking ”the bend” when ascendeing (nitrogen bubbles expand when partial pressure is reduced). Decompression diving is sth else and is a bit complicated to track using a diving watch, but no prob if planned properly In my time as a diving instructor student learned to use a diving table and be very strict on depths and time limits. I always used a citizen dive watch as a backup. Never failed (but I’ve had many different dive computers throughout the years)
I very much use the rotating bezel of my my dive watch to time my dives, even though I have a dive computer as well. Having a depth gauge on it as well, it actually have saved my day of diving when the computer decided to die. Also, if experienced you will know based on depth and time approxmately how much gas is left in your tank without checking the pressure gauge. (You should still verify that gas with the pressure gauge)
The manufacturers know very well that the overwhelming majority who buy watches are men and that's why most of the designs are targeted towards them. And UA-cam and watch forums also a quite a good indicator that it's mostly a men's hobby.
I disagree because paying attention to small details and etiquette is important for a healthy civilization. Same as dress and actions on a golf course, restaurants, etc. One cursory look at Walmart and we see the degradation first hand.
YES!!! The start of this video! You are bang on Jenni! And I kinda feel similar when people hate gem setting. I mean... there couldn't be something more true to the heritage of watches and pocket watches. Ridiculous adornment! ;)
For most of my life about 75% of the people I knew had only 1 watch. Usually a Timex or Casio, with the more well off individuals also having a dress watch or a dive watch. It was rather odd to find someone with more than 2 watches.
The rotating bezel myth isn’t really a myth. In the early fifties there really wasn’t a good way to tell the air pressure in your tank, almost no one had a tank pressure gauge back then. The best way to estimate was to use your depth, the size of your tank (a lot of the common steel tanks back then contained 72 cubic feet of air) and your own air use rate to estimate the time your air in the tank would last. Thus the bezel was to show your bottom time you could use to calculate, roughly, your air usage. The other method, if you had the correct regulator, used a lever so your air appeared to run out at about 500 psi remaining, you then pull the lever to access that remaining air. Using that you knew when your tank was full, and at 500 psi your air status but at no other time. The problem was the lever could, and sometimes was (as during Biver’s epiphany dive), accidentally pulled and then, when you expected to get the last 500 psi you found it was already used. Time wasn’t a great method, but for a while it was a major method for estimating air remaining. But it is air remaining, not oxygen (though you could further calculate the oxygen I suppose, but really we rarely think that the air we breath is 78% Nitrogen). Later, we all carried air pressure gauges, then the time was so we could stay outside the decompression dive time using the new dive tables various navies and dive training organizations started calculating through testing to determine when bubbles form in the blood based on depth and time. Now they’re just back ups for our dive computers and becaue they look cool😁
Adding a watch-pocket to those flouncy dresses would have been easy, but women didn't worry about the time - that had wall clocks to tell them when afternoon tea would be arriving, and had no need to leave the drawing room unaccompanied. Fast-forward to today, and women still couldn't care less about watches - beyond having one decent piece of arm-candy (quartz please!, and forget 2nd hand!). So, all joking aside, let's not get too excited - the watch game is, and will remain, soaked in testosterone.
Also, GMT not really a myth either. The UTC became the new name in 1972, well after Rolex called their watch GMT Master. Before that GMT was the common name, especially for aviation which was the target audience when Rolex developed their watch. The International Astronomical Union did change their term for GMT in 1928 to Universal time. The “Coordinated” wasn’t even a thing until 1960 when, after the invention of the atomic clock followed by its adoption for use as the time keeping standard, the Greenwich Observatory, US Naval Observatory, UK Physical Laboratory, and the US National Bureau of Standards agreed to coordinate their broadcast time signals. Note that the US military uses the term Zulu for UTC/GMT, using a 24 hr clock and written 1200Z for UTC/GMT noon.
I absolutely do not buy the reason watches are set to 10:10 in advertisements. If you look at watches, even ones with multiple complications (subdals, date, day, moon phase, etc) they are almost always situated at the 3, 6, 9 and 12 on the dial. Leaving only the 2, 4, 8 and 10 positions where you can set the hands to not obstruct the subdials or other complications on the dial. Setting the hands at the 10 and 2 is aesthetically pleasing, much more so than say....10 and 4 would be, or 8 and 10. It also helps to frame the name of the manufacturer on about 90% of watches. So when you're looking at the time, your eyes are immediately drawn to the brand, which is generally right under the 12 and right in between the hands.
I disagree with you on Myth #5. I frequently buy one watch. In fact I have purchased one watch at least 25 times. Each purchase satisfied me once. So what are you talking about?
Divers watches were used to prevent decompression sickness or the bends. Not how much air is left. And yes Switzerland used to be the china of Europe. They used to make lots of garbage watches too.
I have a Tudor watch, it's only 7 months with me, not scratch and suddenly the ceramic bicel fell off. Tudor don't respond, so what is the use of buying a renowned watch?
If so, she's spot on. As a man I have several watches that were presented as a "lady's watch" at the shop and one even has the word "lady" in the name (but not written anywhere on the watch). In the approximately 15 years since I bought the first of these two watches, not a single person had ever commented that I'm wearing a lady's watch. The only difference is size and it seems to be a marketing tactic the companies use. I am certainly not a man who otherwise wears women's clothing or jewelry.
There's another excellent historical review of military watches. Many of the early wristwatches used by soldiers during WW1 were very similar in design to the women's wristwatches of that age. because that's what they copied.
Need advice. Which hand should one wear watch on, be it smartwatches also. I'm a left handed person. I'm confused I have tried on both the hands still can't make decide.
Nice one Jenni, as usual wonderfully presented. I use the dive bezel (assuming I'm wearing a dive watch that is) mainly for timing from when my home made curry from scratch is placed in the oven. Other times I use it to see how long I've been waiting on a phone call queue that can be quite some time. Being told that "your call is very important to us" every minute by a recording really does not help. I have known about the 10:10 hand setting for a long time, it's a happy time. Keep up the great work Jenni, these types of videos are fun with your own spin on the humour.
Before you praise Jenny to much ,. Her husband Kai is selling a course on how to beat the Rolex waitlist, at 200euros a pop, there are 93 stages to this course with a 14day money back offer . The problem lays with the fact the first course "now to visit the dealership" is locked until that two week money back offer has expired, dodgy as a second hand car salesperson Also there isn't a thing as a wait list for Rolex, if you haven't got any buying history with Rolex you can leave you're name with the dealership, but it will be forgotten unless you start buy other things,you neither want nor need,
The original RN requirement for the Seamaster elapsed time bezel was that it be BI-directional, not uni-directional, principally so that it could be set as quickly as possible. This was because of the wide range of uses that bezel was expected to cope with. Most of these watches were not used by divers, but by seaman officers for timing various operations. My Seamaster from the 1970s goes either way.
Why women want everything to be about them, and when something doesn't, they get mad and try te make it about them, maybe the only accessory that a lot of men use and appreciate and they don't like it, they want to get into male spaces.
If you have a certain amount of money to spend are you better off buying 3 watches one for a different style each or just one watch at the price those 3 would be?
Hey Jenni, long time viewer from Canada! Just wanted to thank you for creating such easy to digest videos and content around watches. You seem like a very nice and humble person, so glad to see you doing so well with your content. Wishing you all the best and all the continued success that is well earned!
@@garyboyle695 I call that BS. I am a modern man with a 18.5 cm wrist. I prefer my watches to be less than 40 mm. I do not care what other people think about that. Does not make me feel insecure or less "manly" .
Dive watches are also good for counting drinks when going out. Not their intended use but probably one of the more practical ones for all the city people with dive watches.
I am very a 36mm Datejust right now and don't feel my testosterone levels go down. I even have a 7.2" wrist and don't feel a bit insecure wearing this watch or even some of the vintage 34mm models I own. I think this is really only a problem for the insecure "Alpha crowd".
Very informative video. The history of Greenwich mean time is rather interesting along with solving the longitude problem. Jenni, I noticed an improvement in sound. What microphone are you using? It does sound like voice over which does give a disconnect between the audio and video. It would be worth recording the ambient room sound minus the voice and adding that to the mix. This is what's done in movies. Either that or add a slight room reverb to the track. The alternative is to speak into a voice over microphone and have it in shot.
Do you think that because we are already used to 10:10 subliminally, we automatically perceived it as the standard/normal, anything else is not right? The study was done recently and 10.10 been around for longer. Power of marketing. models are thin or buff, Pizza must be round?
#4 is a problem due to the canonized style of the diver watch, which excludes having a smaller watch in diameter and case with rotating bezel that ratchets to both sides over a military arabic numbers on dial to baking or check time on exercises. Casio MRW200 has been starring in this space, but I still think it's a little big and lacks better quality, so you end up going with MDV107 Duro at that price range.
Is a Tudor a good watch for a lady to start collecting .. my mom gave me a Raymond Weil watch before she passed , which I love .. I also was left a vintage rose gold Diamond / ruby watch ..it’s from the early 1900’s .sadly it doesn’t work and it can’t be fixed .I plan on wearing it as a bracelet ,tight now it’s to small . But, I’d love some advice on watches .
Hello Jenni, I would like to ask your help. I want to buy my first Swiss Watch, but im lost... I checked the doxa and tissot. Unfurtunatly some of the forums mentioned their parts made in china. The watches only assembled in swiss.... So what swiss watch can i buy in 400-600 € price range? I would like to buy quartz whatch , for daily usage , at least 100 m water resistance . I checked the Bergstern wwatches but i didn't find any forums about their watch... So i dont know what should i buy ?
I wonder if someone will invent a birthdaygraph watch, that shows a person's actual birthday, not the calendar birthday? (Another time thing, if a person is for example, aged 60, because of leap years their calendar birthday will be about two weeks out compared to their real birthday).
Another funny thing I noticed about 10:10, chinese copy brands often use the position to cover up some of their logos. For instance, the OLEVS, a blatant Rolex clone brand. The hands will cover up enough of the logo to make it look like the R and the X in the rolex logo is covered up.
Myth No. 1. Rolex is a luxury brand.! How the hell can you be a luxury brand when you make in excess of a million watches a year, it's a bloody oxymoron.
Olden Days: Hmmm pockets for women for their pocket watches ABSOLUTELY NOT. Let's invent a new way to carry watches instead. Pockets for women? NO NO NO.
It’s a well-known fact that pockets are dangerous for women. Give a woman a pocket and she will go quite mad.
Pockets for women? They’d have to be pretty big pockets to carry women around in them.
Mmmph... pockets are for the kangaroos... and thier is usually shit or Joey's in them!
Myth 6# Jenni is a German. Only an Italian moves their hands as much when speaking. 😉
A woman who is into watches, I feel validated that it started with us 😅
It’s part of a millennia-old quest to get women to be on time
@@pistonburner6448 ahahaha 😅 beauty takes time though!
10:10 makes a very nice check mark, a psychological indicator that it is GOOD, CORRECT, POSITIVE, etc. and it also frames the logo / brand name nicely which is usually under 12 o'clock.
Nice informative video. 👍
Almost one uses $5000+ beautiful Omega or Rolexes for diving. I’ve recently quit the obsession with dive watches, all this effort and added bulk to have a clicky rotating bezel we never use, don’t need. A GMT is the only watch left that actually can use a rotating bezel for anything practical for people who travel all the time. Who is timing their egg or baking cake with a dive watch bezel rather than the timer on the oven or their iPhone? It’s silly and just a useless decoration. Of course, one could argue the whole watch itself is a useless decoration, but at some point we have to draw lines I suppose. On that subject, no one needs a chronograph either and that also makes the watch thicker and more complicated/expensive to maintain. The watches that make the most sense for the vast majority of people are time (and optionally date) only dress watches.
I would have to disagree. I am sure I am not the only person to routinely use the bezel and/or a chronograph function to time things.
A quick turn of a bezel or start of a chronograph is far less obvious then setting up a timer/alarm on your phone, and quieter.
Plus there are plenty of times, places, and situations where using your phone is frowned upon or discouraged.
i always thought the 10:10 thing was so the hands didn't block too much of the dials decorations and complications. the brand logo, date window, wr rating, and the quarter hour numerals...
Beautiful video 👌👌
You are great young Lady! I read in (remember I am old) in a photo course book for product placement put the hands there to not obstruct the name. And I will share something that made collecting fun. After I obtained my goal (or dream watch) I could have fun collecting I shall be nice and say inexpensive ones. I could have fun with funky dials and styles. So if I want a 100.00$ Asian with a vivid purple dial no pain there! We can agree the best cuc co clocks come from Germany! Keep smiling! 🕰🕰🕰🕰🕰
At the detriment of sounding like a creep your such a cutie for your mannerisms
I was a one watch guy for 10 years. Then two for another seven years. Now I have nearly 50. And two more coming soon. I am hopeless.
I bought my first nice watch, a Tag Heuer 2000 auto, in ‘04 & wore it almost exclusively for years. I did have a G-Shock during that time too, & then bought a Casio Pathfinder in ‘11. Then I got bitten by the bug in about 2018. Now I have 9 watches (3 quartz, 5 autos, & 1 manual-wind) & I’m pretty happy with that number.
Stop buying. That is the first step. Then Dump all you're fashion and Swiss Quartz watches not hitting the markers. Do a shoot out between watches that look the same. If you have 3 watches in 38 mm with a creamy dial just keep the Sarb. etc. . Subscribe to Jeff Mc Mahon.
I felt I needed to congratulate you for the constant enthusiasm of watches you talk about and the humble nature of your presentation . Well done I enjoy the videos
I think the idea about dive watches is interesting due to that hardly any proffesional diver use them for diving… :-)
They can be used as a back up if their dive computor fails but this is highly unlikely! I went on a dive trip recently and not one professional diver wore a dive watch
@@CH-yp5by if you werre on a "dive trip" as a tourist, those aren't professional divers. Professional divers do wear dive watches. And computers, I have always worn both as a recreational diver. There are a lot of things I may want to keep track of like distance over the bottom that a dive computer won't track.
I'm a science diver usually do reef work. I wear a SKX013. Works great for low maintenance minimalist diving. When I do multiple dives daily every day the gear becomes a nuisance. Less is more.
The dive bezel is absolutely for timing your total underwater dive time, because it is critical to measure how long and how deep you’ve been diving in order to calculate how long your safety stop needs to be. In the era of dive computers this is no longer necessary. This is also why the bezel is unidirectional; if something accidentally moves the bezel, you do not want to think you’ve been diving for shorter than you actually have been. Hence, dive bezels can only move in one direction to err on the side of shortening your actual dive time rather than lengthening it.
I use bazel like crononeter when I workout, and like second time zone. Very useful 👍.
But what about all those people claiming the importance of being able to adjust the bezel underwater with gloves on?
@@ALL-il1sw you may take two or three tanks if cave diving three airtanks with you.
Therefore have to change the bezel time, underwater,.
She is half correct there are more accurate dive computers, but anyone with sense , will have a second way off telling you how long you have in case the computer stops working
@@ALL-il1sw You still need to adjust the bezel to be shorter when you start your safety stop. (Although this is one use case where you DON'T want it to mistakenly get shorter!)
Your total underwater dive time doesn't mean anything in terms of how long your safety stop is, only your bottom time, as the first guy said. You can dive for two hours at forty feet with NO stop, but seven miniutes at 150 ft is approaching ND limits and you should probably allow a full 15m. Your dive computer will correct for your profile, but the most important time on your wrtist is the time you have at depth, which is what the bezel is for- and the best bezel is really a countdown bezel IMO.
I actually think there are more people happy with just one watch than people who aren’t. Because most people are not collecting or into the hobby at all. They only need one watch and just buy one watch (like my father, mother, wife, brother etc). I’m the only one collecting and I’m the only one who “needs” more than one watch.
So, we who need more than one watch are the 0.00000%. The others are normal people and they far outnumber us 😂
I have met many people that only have 1 watch (or even more common - no watch). Generally two types of one-watch owners. One that have a nice watch (might be expensive and maybe not) that they love and that's all they need, and the other type that really have a watch to just tell the time -- and own something like a Casio or a Timex and that is it. Now if you are in it as a hobby -- yeah -- hard to just own one watch. I think maybe what Jenni was saying is that IF you are a watch enthusiast (whatever that means) -- hard to own just one watch, which I totally agree with.
Another aspect of the 10:10 thing may be that the relationship between the space above the hands vs the space below the hands comes close to the golden ratio, which is often used in architecture and art and is commonly regarded as a very aesthetically pleasing ratio.
It also does not obscure the branding mark for the most part.
The most important use of the bezel in a dive watch in the Goode Olde Dayes of scuba diving was timing BOTTOM time. Bottom time is the critical duration that determines if you need decompression stops while ascending and how long your surface interval needs to be. Total dive time is basically irrelevant, from a safety standpoint. 😊
No, the bezel is used by all the pros to measure time in the water in order to avoid getting crinkly fingers. They also use it at home to time their baths.
@@pistonburner6448 haha, yes, right, crinkly finger syndrome is definitely a hazard. And it makes those underwater wrist shots look bad.
The bigger myth is 'keeping track of your oxygen'. We do *not* have oxygen tanks; we have *air* tanks. The only people I know of who go down with pure O2 are those using rebreathers. But nobody's directly *breathing* pure O2 because oxygen toxicity.
@@halfsourlizard9319 haha, I hadn’t heard that one before. If I ever hear anyone say that I might reply „Yeah, cool, but the new model can track your Nitrox mix, too.“
@@cedshred1676 Oh, sure, but Nitrox is usually 31 or 36 ... Not 100 🙃
One myth you missed: There is no Rolex waitlist, dont pay €200 to sign up for a course that claims to teach you how to get on said list
I grew up in the era where almost no one owned more than one watch at a time. Even as a kid I loved watches. When I went off to college was the first time I had more than one watch. That's how fell into the proverbial rabbit hole.
Rolex invented, the water-resistant watch/the first automatic watch/first watch on Everest/ first watch to have a date complication/first watch to do blah blah blah. All lies. Rolex the company that relies on BS and people's stupidity.
After owning a few nice watches and when I finally got my dream Rolex watch in 2015 I fortunately do not have anymore lust for another Watch… saving money for other things
So when I show my wife my new watch, I need to set it to 10:10 regardless of what time it is. Got it
10:10 is so you can see the logo clearly, not the smiling face....
Interestingly enough It was modern warfare that brought about the necessity for men to wear watches! you dont have the ability to work an artillery piece and pull out your pocket watch but you need a watch to gauge velocity and such! Female nurses wore pendant watches! it was smaller watcheslike those that had wire lugs welded to them to wear on the wrist!
Men started wearing watches on their wrists around the time of the Boer war and WW1! Women of that time like nurses wore pendant watches? These smaller movements ended up as the first wristwatches,having lugs welded on each side!
Nailed it. 🙂 Just one little addition to the Swiss watch story. America. They were a huge influence on the Swiss because they standardised parts before them and were the leaders in mass production, higher tolerances and cheaper prices for the same or better quality(IWC was set up by an American to bring American Know How(tm) to the Swiss & avail of cheaper labour of course).
They also influenced them with marketing. In certain markets people didn't buy watches by brands but by the retailer. This was very much the case in Britain and her empire. You didn't buy an Omega or Zenith, but a Harrods or Asprey. Elsewhere you tended to see the brand and the retailer on the dial. Even in the US this could be the case. Tiffany the obvious one and one of the last left. The Swiss went along with that in the early days and didn't put their brands on the dial or movements for the British market, leaving them blank for the retailer's name. Longines who were supplying lots of watches/movements even sent a letter around British retailers promising they'd never put their name on the dials or movements. One of the few actual innovations Rolex came up with in their history was Wilsdorf started to insist retailers carry his Rolex branded watches and that caught on after a while and the rest followed suit. Wilsdorf was a marketing genius, though again the Americans had led the way. They were even the first to show a "waterproof" watch in a fish tank, ten years before the Rolex Oyster came out and did the same.
You need to do some more research, a water restirant watch was displayed in a fish tank 70 odd years before Rolex tried to claim the first waterproof watch. Only thing Rolex are good for is stealing other people's Inventions.
@@garyboyle695 Yeah, I should have been clearer in this context and said _wristwatch_ There were "waterproof" timepieces before that, the British explorer type pocketwatches of the late 1800's for a start. Later that same design was used with Longines movements as the British diver watch of WW2. But long before that, The Great Exhibition in London in the mid 1800's IIRC, the maker, whose name shamefully escapes, displayed a pocketwatch in a tank full of fish.
You seem to really know your history, is it true that the modern keyless works configuration used by most of the Swiss manufacturers today is also an "Americanism"?
@@mytuberforyou No Mytuber, IIRC that was an innovation of Patek Philippe, well the Philippe part of it, so originally a French innovation. IIRC... 😐😄
@@MrGrentchYou are right, today’s crown winding is the invention of Adrien Philippe. This is how he became famous and pulled the attention of Antoni Patek. What is interesting, apparently Abraham Louis Breguet also constructed such movement, but did not patented it. I’m sure someone knows why Breguet invention didn’t managed to get adopted by watchmaking industry and had to be reinvented by Philippe. I couldn’t find such information. Maybe it’s time to read Salomons treatment about Breguet…
And if a watch is set at 10:10, you could clearly see the brand name or the logo of the watch.
If 10:10 makes you happy : ) then 8:20 will make you sad. : (
10 past 10 it doesn't cover the brand name . It's this simple
Within safety limits you can only stay a speceific time at a specific depths. This is why you have to plan and time your dive. Old school you used planned a dive to a time and depth. Since the last 25 years you’d use a dive computer monitoring exact time spent on different depths. Reason for all this is not accumulate to much nitrogen in the blood risking ”the bend” when ascendeing (nitrogen bubbles expand when partial pressure is reduced). Decompression diving is sth else and is a bit complicated to track using a diving watch, but no prob if planned properly
In my time as a diving instructor student learned to use a diving table and be very strict on depths and time limits. I always used a citizen dive watch as a backup. Never failed (but I’ve had many different dive computers throughout the years)
I use the bezel on my Seamaster to time my chicky-tendies in the oven
Ten past ten also looks good because it frames in the brand name/logo.
And it looked like a smiley face.
Pocket watches, aka smart phones, are back.
The hands at 10:10 are just the most esthetically pleasing. That's why you use it to show off the watch.
I very much use the rotating bezel of my my dive watch to time my dives, even though I have a dive computer as well.
Having a depth gauge on it as well, it actually have saved my day of diving when the computer decided to die.
Also, if experienced you will know based on depth and time approxmately how much gas is left in your tank without checking the pressure gauge. (You should still verify that gas with the pressure gauge)
micros are creeping up on the swiss
This was fun to watch!
Thank you so much Jenni! 😁
The manufacturers know very well that the overwhelming majority who buy watches are men and that's why most of the designs are targeted towards them. And UA-cam and watch forums also a quite a good indicator that it's mostly a men's hobby.
Watch myth: You cannot wear what is not accepted by the community. DO WHATEVER YOU LIKE.
I disagree because paying attention to small details and etiquette is important for a healthy civilization. Same as dress and actions on a golf course, restaurants, etc. One cursory look at Walmart and we see the degradation first hand.
@@billybenson3834 you mean to tell me that civilization will collapse if some dude wears an Invicta?
@@billybenson3834 So who decides what is acceptable etiquette wise? You sound like someone who defines quality by price.
YES!!! The start of this video! You are bang on Jenni! And I kinda feel similar when people hate gem setting. I mean... there couldn't be something more true to the heritage of watches and pocket watches. Ridiculous adornment! ;)
For most of my life about 75% of the people I knew had only 1 watch. Usually a Timex or Casio, with the more well off individuals also having a dress watch or a dive watch. It was rather odd to find someone with more than 2 watches.
True. Most folks have one watch and when it breaks, they buy a new one. It's like any other tool for most.
Happy times.
The rotating bezel myth isn’t really a myth. In the early fifties there really wasn’t a good way to tell the air pressure in your tank, almost no one had a tank pressure gauge back then. The best way to estimate was to use your depth, the size of your tank (a lot of the common steel tanks back then contained 72 cubic feet of air) and your own air use rate to estimate the time your air in the tank would last. Thus the bezel was to show your bottom time you could use to calculate, roughly, your air usage. The other method, if you had the correct regulator, used a lever so your air appeared to run out at about 500 psi remaining, you then pull the lever to access that remaining air. Using that you knew when your tank was full, and at 500 psi your air status but at no other time. The problem was the lever could, and sometimes was (as during Biver’s epiphany dive), accidentally pulled and then, when you expected to get the last 500 psi you found it was already used. Time wasn’t a great method, but for a while it was a major method for estimating air remaining. But it is air remaining, not oxygen (though you could further calculate the oxygen I suppose, but really we rarely think that the air we breath is 78% Nitrogen). Later, we all carried air pressure gauges, then the time was so we could stay outside the decompression dive time using the new dive tables various navies and dive training organizations started calculating through testing to determine when bubbles form in the blood based on depth and time. Now they’re just back ups for our dive computers and becaue they look cool😁
Adding a watch-pocket to those flouncy dresses would have been easy, but women didn't worry about the time - that had wall clocks to tell them when afternoon tea would be arriving, and had no need to leave the drawing room unaccompanied. Fast-forward to today, and women still couldn't care less about watches - beyond having one decent piece of arm-candy (quartz please!, and forget 2nd hand!). So, all joking aside, let's not get too excited - the watch game is, and will remain, soaked in testosterone.
EASY : Do you know why the JAEGER LE COULTRE REVERSO has been built around 1930 (1932, i think ) ??????? Thank you for the video.
I'll bet, if you ask anybody to draw a clock face, they almost always draw the hands up at around 10:10 as well. It just seems more natural that way.
10 past 10 a smiley face?? Yeah, yeah smiley face. Doesn’t look like a V inside a hole at all…..
Also, GMT not really a myth either. The UTC became the new name in 1972, well after Rolex called their watch GMT Master. Before that GMT was the common name, especially for aviation which was the target audience when Rolex developed their watch. The International Astronomical Union did change their term for GMT in 1928 to Universal time. The “Coordinated” wasn’t even a thing until 1960 when, after the invention of the atomic clock followed by its adoption for use as the time keeping standard, the Greenwich Observatory, US Naval Observatory, UK Physical Laboratory, and the US National Bureau of Standards agreed to coordinate their broadcast time signals. Note that the US military uses the term Zulu for UTC/GMT, using a 24 hr clock and written 1200Z for UTC/GMT noon.
To paraphrase Carol Shelby, your favorite watch is the next one.
I absolutely do not buy the reason watches are set to 10:10 in advertisements. If you look at watches, even ones with multiple complications (subdals, date, day, moon phase, etc) they are almost always situated at the 3, 6, 9 and 12 on the dial. Leaving only the 2, 4, 8 and 10 positions where you can set the hands to not obstruct the subdials or other complications on the dial. Setting the hands at the 10 and 2 is aesthetically pleasing, much more so than say....10 and 4 would be, or 8 and 10. It also helps to frame the name of the manufacturer on about 90% of watches. So when you're looking at the time, your eyes are immediately drawn to the brand, which is generally right under the 12 and right in between the hands.
Very informative! My most use function of the diver bezel is timing when to get my laundry lol
I disagree with you on Myth #5. I frequently buy one watch. In fact I have purchased one watch at least 25 times. Each purchase satisfied me once. So what are you talking about?
Divers watches were used to prevent decompression sickness or the bends. Not how much air is left. And yes Switzerland used to be the china of Europe. They used to make lots of garbage watches too.
I have a Tudor watch, it's only 7 months with me, not scratch and suddenly the ceramic bicel fell off. Tudor don't respond, so what is the use of buying a renowned watch?
So what you’re saying is that men who want to be real watch enthusiast should wear womens watches?
If so, she's spot on. As a man I have several watches that were presented as a "lady's watch" at the shop and one even has the word "lady" in the name (but not written anywhere on the watch). In the approximately 15 years since I bought the first of these two watches, not a single person had ever commented that I'm wearing a lady's watch. The only difference is size and it seems to be a marketing tactic the companies use. I am certainly not a man who otherwise wears women's clothing or jewelry.
There's another excellent historical review of military watches. Many of the early wristwatches used by soldiers during WW1 were very similar in design to the women's wristwatches of that age. because that's what they copied.
myth #8 - all (expensive) quartz watches are rubbish.
Need advice.
Which hand should one wear watch on, be it smartwatches also.
I'm a left handed person. I'm confused I have tried on both the hands still can't make decide.
Nice one Jenni, as usual wonderfully presented. I use the dive bezel (assuming I'm wearing a dive watch that is) mainly for timing from when my home made curry from scratch is placed in the oven. Other times I use it to see how long I've been waiting on a phone call queue that can be quite some time. Being told that "your call is very important to us" every minute by a recording really does not help. I have known about the 10:10 hand setting for a long time, it's a happy time. Keep up the great work Jenni, these types of videos are fun with your own spin on the humour.
Before you praise Jenny to much ,.
Her husband Kai is selling a course on how to beat the Rolex waitlist, at 200euros a pop, there are 93 stages to this course with a 14day money back offer .
The problem lays with the fact the first course "now to visit the dealership" is locked until that two week money back offer has expired, dodgy as a second hand car salesperson
Also there isn't a thing as a wait list for Rolex, if you haven't got any buying history with Rolex you can leave you're name with the dealership, but it will be forgotten unless you start buy other things,you neither want nor need,
Great content. Also, liking your ink, very pretty design. Question: Does a Rolex need less servicing than an Omega?
The original RN requirement for the Seamaster elapsed time bezel was that it be BI-directional, not uni-directional, principally so that it could be set as quickly as possible. This was because of the wide range of uses that bezel was expected to cope with. Most of these watches were not used by divers, but by seaman officers for timing various operations. My Seamaster from the 1970s goes either way.
Thanks Jenni
Why women want everything to be about them, and when something doesn't, they get mad and try te make it about them, maybe the only accessory that a lot of men use and appreciate and they don't like it, they want to get into male spaces.
If you have a certain amount of money to spend are you better off buying 3 watches one for a different style each or just one watch at the price those 3 would be?
Yes, I just use the dive watch bezel to make sure I don't leave a can of beer cooling down in the freezer for more than an hour!
Hey Jenni, long time viewer from Canada! Just wanted to thank you for creating such easy to digest videos and content around watches. You seem like a very nice and humble person, so glad to see you doing so well with your content.
Wishing you all the best and all the continued success that is well earned!
Here’s another one I still see way too often: small watches are for women.
In the modern era a 36 or 38 watch is way to small for the modern man
@@garyboyle695 that’s bullshit lol
Don't look at every watch from your own obese point of view.
@@JeeGee114 if that’s directed at me you should learn how to read. If it’s not then you can still take your ableist bs somewhere else.
@@garyboyle695 I call that BS. I am a modern man with a 18.5 cm wrist. I prefer my watches to be less than 40 mm. I do not care what other people think about that. Does not make me feel insecure or less "manly" .
Hi Jenni, the 10:10 doesn’t resemble a happy face, it resembles open hands ….that is the reason…
I knew all of these but Jenni’s cute so I wasn’t really listening much anyway 🤣
Wicked! I'm hungarian and I never knew that apparently this is the cradle of the wristwatch-world. Cool video Jenni!
Maybe bake then but not eveny more even though thar watches out there for woman
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According to cyclists, the correct number of bike to have is N+1. 😉
Fun and interesting video. Well done on your native speaker level English.
I bought 60 watches over about 6 years..... down to 36 now. :)
Video titled 7 more luxury watch myths? But it's six?
It's bloody obvious, it's so people can see most of the complications.
Dive watches are also good for counting drinks when going out. Not their intended use but probably one of the more practical ones for all the city people with dive watches.
Drinks? The big ones? Or shots? One shot = one click.
And oddly enough the 10:10 time is also seen in digital watch adverts and they don't even have hands.
So it IS a good thing women's clothes never have pockets...otherwise we might never have gotten wristwatches! lol
Its pronounced GAYGE. not GOUGE for Gauge
Yes, they were made for Woman!! Boom!
Myth 7: my wife won’t get mad if I buy one more watch
😂😂😂😂
The hodinkee article regarding the Rolex OP 36mm was a women’s watch didnt stop me lusting after it but as a man with twiglet arms it’s ok
I am very a 36mm Datejust right now and don't feel my testosterone levels go down. I even have a 7.2" wrist and don't feel a bit insecure wearing this watch or even some of the vintage 34mm models I own. I think this is really only a problem for the insecure "Alpha crowd".
Does anyone actually take Hodinkee seriously any more? They are nothing but a paid for review channel now.
First! ;)
Broooooo watches where not originally for women lol
Fun video! Thanks for the video Jenni, and the smile! Best smile on the internet?!
Very informative video. The history of Greenwich mean time is rather interesting along with solving the longitude problem. Jenni, I noticed an improvement in sound. What microphone are you using? It does sound like voice over which does give a disconnect between the audio and video. It would be worth recording the ambient room sound minus the voice and adding that to the mix. This is what's done in movies. Either that or add a slight room reverb to the track.
The alternative is to speak into a voice over microphone and have it in shot.
Congratulations! Hope you will still have time to make watch videos. :)
Jenni is so entertaining and likeable
I wish men had as many twotones as women
The history of watches and timepieces is amazing really and was just like having a smartphone of the day.
Do you think that because we are already used to 10:10 subliminally, we automatically perceived it as the standard/normal, anything else is not right? The study was done recently and 10.10 been around for longer. Power of marketing. models are thin or buff, Pizza must be round?
#4 is a problem due to the canonized style of the diver watch, which excludes having a smaller watch in diameter and case with rotating bezel that ratchets to both sides over a military arabic numbers on dial to baking or check time on exercises.
Casio MRW200 has been starring in this space, but I still think it's a little big and lacks better quality, so you end up going with MDV107 Duro at that price range.
Is a Tudor a good watch for a lady to start collecting .. my mom gave me a Raymond Weil watch before she passed , which I love .. I also was left a vintage rose gold Diamond / ruby watch ..it’s from the early 1900’s .sadly it doesn’t work and it can’t be fixed .I plan on wearing it as a bracelet ,tight now it’s to small . But, I’d love some advice on watches .
The psychology of the smiley face made you smile (3:26)and you body language demonstrated a smiley face.
Jennie great stuff. keep smiling.
Jenni is so infective. Keep smiling.
Hello Jenni,
I would like to ask your help. I want to buy my first Swiss Watch, but im lost... I checked the doxa and tissot. Unfurtunatly some of the forums mentioned their parts made in china. The watches only assembled in swiss.... So what swiss watch can i buy in 400-600 € price range? I would like to buy quartz whatch , for daily usage , at least 100 m water resistance . I checked the Bergstern wwatches but i didn't find any forums about their watch... So i dont know what should i buy ?
10 past 10. V for victory ✌️
I wonder if someone will invent a birthdaygraph watch, that shows a person's actual birthday, not the calendar birthday? (Another time thing, if a person is for example, aged 60, because of leap years their calendar birthday will be about two weeks out compared to their real birthday).
Another funny thing I noticed about 10:10, chinese copy brands often use the position to cover up some of their logos. For instance, the OLEVS, a blatant Rolex clone brand. The hands will cover up enough of the logo to make it look like the R and the X in the rolex logo is covered up.
Interesting video, Jenni, thank you. The comments are interesting, too, especially about the dive bezel. Will have to read more of them.