I admire people who can own only one watch. Since the 70s, I have bought watches to commemorate specific events… wedding, birth of my kids, special trips with my family and memorable events (starting my own business). It doesn’t have to be an expensive piece… it must just capture the essence of that memory. While I don’t own a Rolex (and, honestly, wouldn’t want to), I have Seiko, Omega, Heuer, TAG Heuer, Hamilton and a solitary Tudor that document the last 50 years of my life. Looking and holding each piece takes me right back to that time, just like a piece of music does. My wife, on the other hand, has been wearing the same Citizen Eco Drive for the last 24 years while working, gardening, playing squash, and cannot understand my fascination with watches. When she asks, I just smile… 😊
Speaking of putting it all on "red", I recently became the proud owner of a Grand Seiko SBGA493 "Katana", with the red (more burgundy, actually) dial. As you so rightly put it, the "smooth sweep technology" of the Spring Drive movement is a sight to behold.
They should absolutely be here and 100% deserve to be. It’s “hip” to shit on them because they’re very expensive and very hyped, and everyone wants to be a contrarian, especially towards watches that are out of nearly everyone’s price range, and are very popular. Call them overpriced all you want, but the truth is that they go for even more than the retailers sell them for, so they’re actually underpriced. They’re not just hype watches, because they’ve been incredibly popular for a very long time now, and are timeless, iconic pieces, that are also good investments. They may not have the most incredible movements ever made like an FP journe, though they’re still gorgeous, but the design language just perfectly hit the nail on the head. You said you were glad the holy trininity wasn’t here, but I wasn’t surprised at all. I’ve noticed the vast majority of watch channels are consciously avoiding mentioning those watches for fear of their audience going against them.
I just got the C1 Moonphase with aventurine dial from Christopher Ward and it is magnificent. I wouldn't necessarily say it is my "endgame" watch, there will be others, but if I had to pick out the prettiest watch in my collection it's definitely this one
I feel like my latest pickup is my endgame watch. Seamaster Heritage in steel and Sedna gold. It’s about the best I can expect from a mass produced mechanical watch, and now that I have it (and am wearing it basically daily) anything else I see only at best triggers a “hey that’s cool…” response. Nothing else triggers an “I need this…” response.
When I got my Ed White earlier this year, I thought I was in heaven and done for a bit... then a month later my boutique called and my Silver Snoopy came in. Now I rotate a few watches and genuinely cant decide which is best.
I quite like the Tag Heuer Monaco Gulf Special Edition, but that's the ONLY one I like, and certainly NOT for almost £7K! As far as value for money goes, I don't think they do well at all, and some of their watches really do look like the sort of thing you'd find on Blackpool Market for £20.
The Seiko 5718-8000 Chrono Counter. Like the name suggests it has a chronograph and a counter which automatically advances at midnight so it can double as a big date if you so wish. Very rare as it was only sold in the Olympic village for the duration of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
I thought that I had aquired my endgame watch a few times already. So I don't think that my current watches to end all collecting will really be able to do the trick either.
Easy....love anything by Lange or similar high end - but for day-to-day flex, practicality and reliability full 18k submariner. Only slight downside - is to avoid anywhere where you might encounter hoodie wearing electric scooter riders (mainly in the West End).
@6:03 animation shows a column-wheel type chronograph while the Speedmaster Moonwatch has a cam-type cronograph improved from the Lemania one. Only the Speedmaster Racing has a column whel cronograph based on Longines 733, if I'm not mistaken.
Got two of those pieces. End game means I'm over it. In which case you are fed up with the chase or you have reached peak satisfaction. Both states I envy as an end to the constant gnawing distraction of collecting. Put a gun to my head and say "choose one to have and one only" and it will a bullet or the 114270 explorer, which I already have and wear most of the time. Hmmm...maybe that's it then.
Nice list - have 3 and waitlisted for 2 of your picks! The three I have are some of my most worn watches - Lange 1, Seiko 5 (Rolling Blazers) and Explorer. The new Explorer 40 is hard to take off my wrist - think Rolex have finally perfected it!
Andrew your writing and delivery skills are second to none. May I humbly suggest a merch line featuring some variation of "my old Nan" references, lol, not sure how it would look but sure you could make something good out of it.
I agree with the Tag Heuer Aquaracer proposition. Especially in quartz. Looks great, well built, and it is actually robust unlike mechanical watches so you don't have to baby it. It will last as long as you want it to. I believe it has a 10 year battery life, and you can change the battery quickly and cheaply. All you have to worry about is changing the gaskets once every few years (like every other dive watch). No high servicing costs or waiting for your watch to get back from a service. The price is great for what you're getting.
Mechanical watches are very robust. Quartz watches accuracy is very dependent to temperature, more than mechanical watches. Show me a quartz watch that survived from the '70s and I'll show you dozens of mechanical watches that are 80-100 years old and still ticking.
@@seabiscuit726142 Mechanical watches are by definition not robust, especially not in comparison to quartz watches. If you knew quartz watches, you wouldn't be asking for examples of working pieces from decades ago, including the 70s, as if that's some kind of a miracle.
I thought the same with my BB GMT two years ago. Sadly, not to be - one Longines green Hydroconquest, one Tissot Seastar, one Seiko 5, and one Japan only G-Shock Frogman later, and I am still looking at watches to buy!
To me an “endgame watch” needs to cover multiple uses yet still mesmerize and never get boring. I vote for the Vacheron Overseas with blue dial (either steel or pink gold). With the interchangeable straps/bracelet it truly is 3 watches in one.
Seiko 5 Ltd Heritage as Unobtainable as a Daytona waiting list. As easy to get, as an audience with Jabba the Hut. Loved the GS end game watch. My 2014 GV Black Dial Milgauss is now the Volvo XC70 sat outside on my drive. 🤪
Andrew, fun video. It actually makes me feel a bit better about some of my purchases (that were on this list). Suffice to say, you have served as both pusher and Methadone clinic for my addiction. Thank you??
My end-game watch is something complicated and in a timeless design. Just like so many Patek Grand Complications. But I also had Longines budget, so I opted for the triple calendar Moonphase chronograph instead with the black dial. And boy, og bloody boy is that a stunner. On the bracelet, it's a Speedmaster for James Bond's accountant when he goes to watch a sporty tennis match, and then on a black leather strap, it's suddenly what some classy bloke would wear to an evening drink at a yacht.
No such thing as end game. I thought I got my end game watch in 2016, my wife gave me a huge budget and said shut up now. Well 6 months later I was tormenting again.
My Seiko sarb033 is going to be a lifelong friend. I've worn it daily on a brown leather strap for 8 years and it is starting to show the scratches and patina of a watch that could be handed down to the next generation and tell a story of a life of use. For me it's as beatuiful and timless as the Rolex Explorer but without the fear of being robbed or drawing too much attention. I'm currently living within sight of the Himalays and it feels right at home on my current advenutre.
If money was no obstacle, and I was a Hollywood A-lister who'd be considered a client worthy of such things, my pick for the last watch I get before I die would be a Cartier Masse mystérieuse.
Ah Andrew, I see you've started playing the "UA-cam Face" game. I understand the need to compete with other channels and having a stupidly exaggerated expression on the thumbnail is the name of the game, especially when others practice this and thus have more success (in spite of not having the same quality content *cough* Nico Leonard *cough*). I wish your channel all success, but still, s'pity!
Fantastic list! Curious how you think the desire for a GADA watch or a one and done collection compares to the Exit Watch featured in this video. Not sure I’d be comfortable hiking with a Kodo Constant Force Tourbillon…
The Aquaracer’s hexagonal bezel hurts my brain. The inside diameter of the bezel is a circle, the numbers on the bezel are arranged and aligned on a circle, and then the outside diameter of the bezel is a hexagon. Short circuits something in me every time I see it.
All your fault, banging on about the Tudor Black Bay 58. Now gone and spent 2.5k on one at some place called Watchlocater or something. Of course it is absolutely gorgeous.🙂
How does Andrew keep this level of productivity while maintaining the quality of writing is beyond me.
I admire people who can own only one watch. Since the 70s, I have bought watches to commemorate specific events… wedding, birth of my kids, special trips with my family and memorable events (starting my own business). It doesn’t have to be an expensive piece… it must just capture the essence of that memory. While I don’t own a Rolex (and, honestly, wouldn’t want to), I have Seiko, Omega, Heuer, TAG Heuer, Hamilton and a solitary Tudor that document the last 50 years of my life. Looking and holding each piece takes me right back to that time, just like a piece of music does. My wife, on the other hand, has been wearing the same Citizen Eco Drive for the last 24 years while working, gardening, playing squash, and cannot understand my fascination with watches. When she asks, I just smile… 😊
Rolex Derangement Syndrome.
@@SopwithTheCamel 😂
Speaking of putting it all on "red", I recently became the proud owner of a Grand Seiko SBGA493 "Katana", with the red (more burgundy, actually) dial. As you so rightly put it, the "smooth sweep technology" of the Spring Drive movement is a sight to behold.
Kinda glad none of the holy trinity are here tbh.
The holy trinity watches are too fragile to fit the one and done category
Not Jesus 😭😭😭
Bc you won't be able to buy one in your lifetime
@@Chris-de2qc have one and there’s more to life.
They should absolutely be here and 100% deserve to be. It’s “hip” to shit on them because they’re very expensive and very hyped, and everyone wants to be a contrarian, especially towards watches that are out of nearly everyone’s price range, and are very popular. Call them overpriced all you want, but the truth is that they go for even more than the retailers sell them for, so they’re actually underpriced. They’re not just hype watches, because they’ve been incredibly popular for a very long time now, and are timeless, iconic pieces, that are also good investments. They may not have the most incredible movements ever made like an FP journe, though they’re still gorgeous, but the design language just perfectly hit the nail on the head.
You said you were glad the holy trininity wasn’t here, but I wasn’t surprised at all. I’ve noticed the vast majority of watch channels are consciously avoiding mentioning those watches for fear of their audience going against them.
I just got the C1 Moonphase with aventurine dial from Christopher Ward and it is magnificent. I wouldn't necessarily say it is my "endgame" watch, there will be others, but if I had to pick out the prettiest watch in my collection it's definitely this one
I feel like my latest pickup is my endgame watch. Seamaster Heritage in steel and Sedna gold. It’s about the best I can expect from a mass produced mechanical watch, and now that I have it (and am wearing it basically daily) anything else I see only at best triggers a “hey that’s cool…” response. Nothing else triggers an “I need this…” response.
My one-and-done is Omega Aqua Terra. Perfect watch
I have three of those! Good picks Andrew. “Ophthalmic Diazepam” is one of your top five of all time! Nice work.
Ill take the Lange 1 if you don't mind ...now if only i had the funds.
When I got my Ed White earlier this year, I thought I was in heaven and done for a bit... then a month later my boutique called and my Silver Snoopy came in. Now I rotate a few watches and genuinely cant decide which is best.
My grail/endgame watch would be the Lange 1 moonphase 192.025 or 029. Perfection of design and execution.
Never, never, never hang the loo paper wall side - it's madness.
Unless you have a cat. 😻
I've never been a big fan of Tag Heuer but I must admit they've been doing some nice work recently.
I quite like the Tag Heuer
Monaco Gulf Special Edition, but that's the ONLY one I like, and certainly NOT for almost £7K! As far as value for money goes, I don't think they do well at all, and some of their watches really do look like the sort of thing you'd find on Blackpool Market for £20.
The glassbox chronographs are amazing!
@@ozmondos Instant classic.
You're a thinker Andrew and I continue to delight in your content.
I got my eye on that Explorer! Perfect GADA watch!
Me as well.
The Lange 1 Moon Phase in platinum might very well be my endgame watch so happy to see the Lange 1 make it into this list!
My end game would be the Lange 1815 in white gold, black dial.
I tried that watch on, and I felt a love I’ve never experienced with any other watch.
There are plenty if watches that keep perfect time and are stylish.i have 10 watches, but i never spend lots of money on one. I am always on time
I do quite like the Aquaracer, especially the white/blue bezel version
I have a 2016 automatic Aquaracer, and it is class. If I were to ever do one and done, I would sell my others and go for this.
Omega Seamaster Aqua Terra is the forever watch I’m going for. A solid DAGA watch indeed.
I agree with you. A genuine "beach to the boardroom" watch
The Seiko 5718-8000 Chrono Counter. Like the name suggests it has a chronograph and a counter which automatically advances at midnight so it can double as a big date if you so wish. Very rare as it was only sold in the Olympic village for the duration of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
Very cool. Make a video about it please! 🙏🇺🇸🇮🇱
Well......that was fun for a Sunday morning! Thank you for the video.
Rolex explorer 36mm ❤
Yes. Absolutely getting one. (Someday. Still saving up.)
The Christopher Ward is my favorite. 🥃
VC Overseas 4500v-b126. Had it. Had to sell it. Now I want it back...
I like the beauty and elegance of AL&S .
I thought that I had aquired my endgame watch a few times already. So I don't think that my current watches to end all collecting will really be able to do the trick either.
“You just can’t underestimate that.” I agree.
Easy....love anything by Lange or similar high end - but for day-to-day flex, practicality and reliability full 18k submariner. Only slight downside - is to avoid anywhere where you might encounter hoodie wearing electric scooter riders (mainly in the West End).
West end of what? There's like a million different places with a west end. I googled "west end" and even my own city has one, lol.
@@Jake-bt3fc He means London.
Well, I recently bought the Omega Speedmaster "Ed White" and although I am not going to call it quits it is very close indeed.
@6:03 animation shows a column-wheel type chronograph while the Speedmaster Moonwatch has a cam-type cronograph improved from the Lemania one. Only the Speedmaster Racing has a column whel cronograph based on Longines 733, if I'm not mistaken.
Got two of those pieces. End game means I'm over it. In which case you are fed up with the chase or you have reached peak satisfaction. Both states I envy as an end to the constant gnawing distraction of collecting. Put a gun to my head and say "choose one to have and one only" and it will a bullet or the 114270 explorer, which I already have and wear most of the time. Hmmm...maybe that's it then.
I really want to believe that this guy walks around all day kitted out in head-to-toe Andrew Morgan Watches clothing
You better believe it
Lange Odysseus for me. Thank you Andrew.
Nice list - have 3 and waitlisted for 2 of your picks! The three I have are some of my most worn watches - Lange 1, Seiko 5 (Rolling Blazers) and Explorer. The new Explorer 40 is hard to take off my wrist - think Rolex have finally perfected it!
Your comments on the aquaracer are absolutely correct.
Awesome selection, finally not all the same old names. Especially like to see the tag heuer aquaracer there as it is such a great underrated watch imo
Can’t afford a Lange. So, Nomos?
After collecting for a number of years, I sold my watches, save one. Boring old Explorer 1 mk 2 dial 39mm. Haven’t regretted a thing after 3 years
That De Bethune ticking once per second... What kind of sorcery is this.... And with a tourbillion.... Witchcraft!!!!!!!
Andrew your writing and delivery skills are second to none. May I humbly suggest a merch line featuring some variation of "my old Nan" references, lol, not sure how it would look but sure you could make something good out of it.
I agree with the Tag Heuer Aquaracer proposition. Especially in quartz. Looks great, well built, and it is actually robust unlike mechanical watches so you don't have to baby it. It will last as long as you want it to. I believe it has a 10 year battery life, and you can change the battery quickly and cheaply. All you have to worry about is changing the gaskets once every few years (like every other dive watch). No high servicing costs or waiting for your watch to get back from a service. The price is great for what you're getting.
Mechanical watches are very robust. Quartz watches accuracy is very dependent to temperature, more than mechanical watches. Show me a quartz watch that survived from the '70s and I'll show you dozens of mechanical watches that are 80-100 years old and still ticking.
@@seabiscuit726142 Mechanical watches are by definition not robust, especially not in comparison to quartz watches. If you knew quartz watches, you wouldn't be asking for examples of working pieces from decades ago, including the 70s, as if that's some kind of a miracle.
Wall side FTW! And I don't think I could have an end game watch, I would always want another, no matter what I got.
My endgame watch will be the last one I've bought before I go in off the black & go to my permanent residence six feet under.
Love that he talked about tag in a positive way, there's a few YT who just bash on the brand cuz their ex had one or something similar 😅
My BlackBay 58 Gilt dial, I guess, will be my exit watch. When I say exit, I mean from luxury watches. Might buy the odd Merkur just for fun.
I thought the same with my BB GMT two years ago. Sadly, not to be - one Longines green Hydroconquest, one Tissot Seastar, one Seiko 5, and one Japan only G-Shock Frogman later, and I am still looking at watches to buy!
My ultimate ("endgame") watch: Jaeger LeCoultre Master Tourbillon with platinum case.
Without question, my endgame watch is the Jaeger-LeCoultre Duometre Chronographe. Absolute perfection!
To me an “endgame watch” needs to cover multiple uses yet still mesmerize and never get boring. I vote for the Vacheron Overseas with blue dial (either steel or pink gold). With the interchangeable straps/bracelet it truly is 3 watches in one.
Seiko 5 Ltd Heritage as Unobtainable as a Daytona waiting list. As easy to get, as an audience with Jabba the Hut.
Loved the GS end game watch.
My 2014 GV Black Dial Milgauss is now the Volvo XC70 sat outside on my drive. 🤪
Andrew, fun video. It actually makes me feel a bit better about some of my purchases (that were on this list). Suffice to say, you have served as both pusher and Methadone clinic for my addiction. Thank you??
You’re humor is so underrated 😂 good quality subtle jokes. The one with Bear Grillz really got me 😂😂
Your* humor (you're = you are)
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"like a deranged slinky" has gotta be one of my favourite ways anyone has described anything, ever.
Oh, that one is easy - JLC Master Grande Tradition Gyrotourbillon Westminster Perpétuel. One of the most insane watches I have ever seen
I can't wait for Andrew to issue his version of the talking phone book ....
My end-game watch is something complicated and in a timeless design. Just like so many Patek Grand Complications. But I also had Longines budget, so I opted for the triple calendar Moonphase chronograph instead with the black dial. And boy, og bloody boy is that a stunner. On the bracelet, it's a Speedmaster for James Bond's accountant when he goes to watch a sporty tennis match, and then on a black leather strap, it's suddenly what some classy bloke would wear to an evening drink at a yacht.
Yup. Indeed, going for that Explorer.
The Speedmaster is the greatest.
I really love you Andrew and that is the greatest human endeavor, love.
The only way to win is to not play, but god damn those are some beautiful watches
Oh my goodness I'm just looking at cw the twelve halo on black rubber.
That Grand Seiko is just beautiful ❤️
The Ed White 321 is phenomenal.
321 is THE Endgame😊
Friend of mine has an Oris watch for overv26 years so far no problems
As a Patek Philippe 5296g owner, consider me slapped to the pub. Ouch Andrew 😂😂
I agree..I’m buying the explorer
That Grand Seiko!!
About to buy mine. Jlc reserve de marche.
That Kodo is simply the top of the pyramid...Breguet would be impressed!
The Omega Speedmaster is now well within my sights.... Well done Omega
No such thing as end game.
I thought I got my end game watch in 2016, my wife gave me a huge budget and said shut up now.
Well 6 months later I was tormenting again.
Watching this with the Aquaracer on my wrist! 👍
My Seiko sarb033 is going to be a lifelong friend. I've worn it daily on a brown leather strap for 8 years and it is starting to show the scratches and patina of a watch that could be handed down to the next generation and tell a story of a life of use. For me it's as beatuiful and timless as the Rolex Explorer but without the fear of being robbed or drawing too much attention. I'm currently living within sight of the Himalays and it feels right at home on my current advenutre.
Fantastic
Jesus christ, will someone please tell omega we're fed up of the 1 million different speedmasters!
... we're* fed up with* the Speedmaster.
Thought the DB25 was a quartz at first. But gosh it's stunning
Wall side?? Are you trying to spark a civil war?
Great episode/show/vid or whatever they're called 😂
your the best!! i think the GS (and others,colab between moser and mb@f) r great, Seiko deserves beter branding
My next one and done will be the Tudor Black Bay blue bezel METAS certified watch with the new five-link bracelet - when they make it.
I own several of these watches (from early in the video) and the only thing that has ended is my will power to stop buying more watches.
Grand Seiko Snowflake. It is love at first sight ❤
Thought Lange 1 would be the grail watch, but keep on wearing the damn Rolex DJ because it’s an automatic and would die otherwise. So annoying.
I’ll have an Omega Speedmaster Canopus thankyouverymuch.
If money was no obstacle, and I was a Hollywood A-lister who'd be considered a client worthy of such things, my pick for the last watch I get before I die would be a Cartier Masse mystérieuse.
There are end-game watches, and then there are end-game watches.
I wonder what my next end-game watch will be.
I’ve got so many end game watches in my subconscious, that I will be dead before I get any of them! An Ed White and Silver Snoopy are on the list.
I have my endgame watch - an Omega Aquaterra. The problem is that I have my name down for an Explorer, my other endgame watch. Oh dear.
Did the Omega Speedmaster by any chance make the list?
Yeah the Ed White one
Red? Good question
I’d add: The Explorer II 16570, and the Omega SMP 300m 2254 ‘Peter Blake’.
Ah Andrew, I see you've started playing the "UA-cam Face" game.
I understand the need to compete with other channels and having a stupidly exaggerated expression on the thumbnail is the name of the game, especially when others practice this and thus have more success (in spite of not having the same quality content *cough* Nico Leonard *cough*). I wish your channel all success, but still, s'pity!
Pound for pound citizen competes very well with seiko.
...that Speedy is just calling my name....I have several Omega's and my old Speedy needs service.....maybe its time to step UP
My "Red" bet, Omega Seamaster 300 Spectre edition or an Aqua Terra 38 5 with blue face.. 😊
Your scriptwriting is next level.
I can't believe you forgot the g-shock square at very very low end but otherwise a good video.
My one and done g-shock would be the GW-5000u
Fantastic list! Curious how you think the desire for a GADA watch or a one and done collection compares to the Exit Watch featured in this video.
Not sure I’d be comfortable hiking with a Kodo Constant Force Tourbillon…
The Aquaracer’s hexagonal bezel hurts my brain. The inside diameter of the bezel is a circle, the numbers on the bezel are arranged and aligned on a circle, and then the outside diameter of the bezel is a hexagon. Short circuits something in me every time I see it.
All your fault, banging on about the Tudor Black Bay 58. Now gone and spent 2.5k on one at some place called Watchlocater or something. Of course it is absolutely gorgeous.🙂
Thank you ☺️