Watches and Wonders 2024 needs to be AMAZING!! Here's WHY!!
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- With Watches and Wonders just around the corner, I discuss my disappointment with the very average offerings I've seen lately. The big watch manufacturers including OMEGA, ROLEX, TUDOR, IWC, JLC, CARTIER etc need to WOW us, and it isn't happening! Given the huge price increases they've been firing at us for the last 3 years, I think we have a right to expect more than dial colour variations!
Start looking at older watches, there are so many half forgotten gems out there.
Check out some of my older videos. I'm a neo-vintage fan!
Great to see you wearing your watches and enjoying them the way they were designed to be. I salute you.
They're certainly built more than adequately enough for a bit of activity, so why not
@@TheRandomWatchDude 100%
That Tudor is the definition of rolling a turd in glitter 🤦🏻♂️ the Swatch land fill products and the lack of improvements from Omega with thick watches and poor bracelets and low power reserves is very disappointing and boring. A while dial stuck on an old model isn’t a new watch 🤦🏻♂️ the Black Bay company is becoming very boring too. I think the micro brands might be becoming more interesting 🤔
Another awesome video! As much as I am looking forward to the W&W releases coming out (like a kid on Christmas Eve), I am not holding out too much hope. Dont get me wrong, I would dearly love to regularly spend my money acquiring pieces... but the brands actually need to start releasing stuff that is super attractive to buy, and even when it is just that, their Boutiques & ADs actually need to let me buy it when I walk into the store !
You're correct. Really boring times of just dial color changes. 100% agree
Beautiful beach 👍. I think the luxury brands ran out of ideas many years ago, that is why they've all been raiding their back catalogues for models to re-invent. Mechanical watches have been around a long time and most things have been tried many times before: If you want something different, I think G-Shock are one of the few brands pushing forward and trying genuinely new things. By the way recession is two quarters of negative growth, negative inflation is deflation and you don't want to experience that ☹️
Maybe it's simply that you've already found what you were searching for and are now content?
You know what, that might be it. Maybe I've got the watches that excite me, and I'm done... hadn't thought of that!
I think celebration dial is nice, especially if you own the VTNR. Those two complement each other well. Personally I like freaky looking watches.
There’s plenty of micro and independent brands that are strikingly different and bold.
You have probably seen coverage of the recent British Watchmakers Day.
So varied and something for everyone. It’s just so nice to escape the major brand’s hubris and bs marketing!
And I must ask-in a previous vid you said you wear watches on your right hand so the crown doesn’t dig into the back of your hand. So why is the left hand Riddler on your right? Riddle me that Batman!
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Hi Mark I no what you mean by the new watch releases have been boring recently hope something is released in watches and wonder's that we can all get excited over .a new model would be nice that we can actually can buy and afford with out having to sell a kidney to own it.( that's probably asking to much) Great location brings back the memories of climbing rangatoto in 2006 and the rugby world cup in 2011 great place to live thanks John.
Thanks John, yes I still think that Omega hold the key to giving us watch enthusiasts what we are looking for. Rolex and Tudor, being basically the same company seem to be on a path of starving the market just enough, to try and make us pay full retail, and wait!
I agree that all the top brands are struggling to put out genuinely interesting or original pieces each year.
Sounds like it’s time for you to go vintage or neo vintage 🤔
Yes you're probably right that I am just not seeing anything that's worth dropping money on. Vintage and Neo is already a big part of my collecting journey
Watching whilst I wear my gmt Guinness, and I’m loving it.
Nice watch!
@@TheRandomWatchDude Thank you, I just collected it on Thursday. Keep up the videos, your perspective and sense of humor is quite entertaining.
I take a different view. Needing something new and different all the time feels very ADHD, but altogether in line with the insatiability of contemporary appetites. There is a huge amount of interest for me in looking back and learning about vintage and neo-vintage references. In the modern catalogue, I’d find it fascinating to see a brand taking one of their iconic pieces and rather than fundamentally changing it to peak interest, faithfully remaking that piece, but in every aspect, trying to refine and improve it. That would require a huge amount of critical thinking. For example, a ceramic bezel improves durability, but does it improve the aesthetic? Is there an alternative that might be more true to the tool watch heritage, yet provide the durability of a modern material?
I think you're right as my favourite watch is a 24 year old Seamaster with a basic ETA movement, and aluminium bezel.
Nice piece there. I'm excited by some pièces, but that were releases 60 years ago !
The old Seiko dive watches are a great attraction, as well as the late 60s GS dress watches
Beautiful sprite! it's still snow in North Europe so I'm filming watches in snow 😄
Sounds lovely!
TBH, I am feeling the same here lately and as matter of fact I stop putting on a watch for the last few days completely. It is so unlike me but I did it and it feels different and good at the same time. I am waiting for the urge again to ‘fall in love’ all over again with my watches which I am sure it will but just wait for that magic moment.
I was watching Paul Thorpe's watch stream today on his new channel 4P. They were all saying how bored they are with watches too at the moment. It seems to be a thing!
@@TheRandomWatchDude feels liberated😅
Agreed the watch companies aren't pulling their weight and the plastic toys are ridiculous and I can't understand why people are going gargar for them.,.,,
The moonswatch is made of eco friendly materials.
Eco Friendly is a term that should be used to define substances such as paper, and hemp! There is absolutely nothing friendly about the Moonswatch case material. It's this greenwashing that makes me even more annoyed about those throw-away plastic things
@@TheRandomWatchDude You might be conflating Eco friendly and bio degradable. Eco friendly is more like using recycled materials. It's made of ceramic and caster oil.
@@miabeatz80 Yep I know it means, but it's not eco friendly is it. It's reconstituted plastic or whatever, which is still going to break easily, and end up in landfill etc. So the advantage of steel watches is that they last 100x longer, and over millennia may biodegrade into their constituent parts which is iron, chromium, nickel etc.
The Tudor chrono aka the Miss Piggy would go nicely with a Kermit 😂
Yes, the Oris Kermit especially!
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Whoa ! hold it right there Mark , Rolex stuck a rubber strap on a Daytona, what more do you need mate ha ha. The main players are never going to stray too far from the norm because 99% of the watch buying public just want a ' look what I've got ' brand name on the dial , they know this and are not going to jeopardise a trillion quids worth of sales for a shit ton of investment on something 'slightly' out of their comfort zone ' that could fall on its arse. Cheapest option , bang a different dial on it and it will sell like hot cakes. If you need 'wowing' you need to go off piste like Armin Strom , Louis Erard , Kudoke , Konstantin Chaykin etc etc . Mainstream manufacturers... forget it.
You're so right Keith! I need to face the fact that I'm just boring, following the mainstream brands and expecting jaw dropping goodness every year.
LoL at your American accent “soccer”. Why the hate?! Jkjk 😅
OHH its not hate!!! It's LOVE!!! Friendly banter!!! I'm one of the few POMS who appreciate what Europe would look like if the American's hadn't intervened in Europe in 1941, oh and in 2022!
You’re right. They are getting lazy. It’s become like quick fashion.
Tudor has taken a cue from luxury fashion brands. They’ve ran out of ideas so they make ugly, quirky and gaudy the new trend. (Think Gucci and those grotesque oversized Balenciaga platform trainers on fashion models that look like dorks.) They know there’s an endless supply of idiots who will buy anything because of the brand name.
Laziness and lack of innovation are not new to the Swiss watch industry.
BTW, a recession is two consecutive quarters of GDP decline - not inflation. You need to brush up on your economics 101 😂.
Thanks, and you should try recording a 10 minute video with no edits and get it all word perfect, smart arse 😉
But what you like, if you don’t like it don’t buy it 🙄
100% agree. I won't buy a watch I dont like! Who would do that?!