10 Affordable Watches Watch Snobs CAN'T HATE.
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- Опубликовано: 20 июл 2024
- The inception of watch snobbery can be dated right back to the 1970's with aid of the quartz evolution and the fact people could afford watches that told the time more accurately than the high end watch makers watches,
Here I bring you 10 affordable watches watch snobs can't hate because not only do they have iconic status they are just..... well..... great!
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I think all watch enthusiasts should respect anyone who actually chooses to wear a proper watch (ie, not a computer linked to a phone) there aren't many of us left.
Great point!
Greaattt point!
he's right folks
Correct!
There is nothing wrong with smart watches. It's still a scientific measurement of time. Most of us don't need a watch. I have way too many and wear them more like a personal expression of my mood and personality, like a jewellery. I wear a Samsung watch when I walk my dog because I don't want to check my phone or scratch my dog with a steel watch. Yes I don't mind scratching my watch but not scratching my dog. Watch wearers should stop hating on smart watch wearers.
I know Tissot Prx is mentioned ad nauseam lately but I've actually picked my Ice Blue version 2 days ago.
Got the call from my local boutique and splurged 745 euros. It was my 40th anniversary gift from myself.
I've actually picked it up wearing my Casio a168w on which i was proudly wearing.
Loving the PRX actually, it's a incredible watch. Looks and feels like 5 times the price I've paid. Incredible accurate and such a beauty.
Congrats my friend!
Good list.
I decided to concentrate on a couple of classics as the mainstay of my collection:
-A couple of premium square G-shocks (GMW-B5000D and GW-5000)
-a Seiko Arnie SNJ025
-and a Citizen NY0040.
All very enjoyable watches!
Very good list. I also have the GW-5000U-1 and the Seiko Arnie SNJ025 (among many other watches). Arnie could possibly be my all time favorite watch. It just has one downside. It lacks a coundown timer.
I'm about to pull the trigger on my 5th NY0040. I keep buying and selling them but I now realise, I cannot live without it. Shame it has a noisy rotor, but for the price point, it can be accepted!
My friend, I can confidently 100% say that no watch is snob proof 😂
So true my friend..lol.
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Oh, I suppose you're one of those people who uses a smartphone to check the time are you? Probably wouldn't be able to set the time or work out how to fasten the strap! (You just got watch snobbed) LOL.
Casio DW-5600BB MIC DROP.
Something a snob would say
I hope this goes viral, Russ! Had a few good laughs and I agree a 100% as a couple of your recommendations are in my personal collection as well 😁
Thank you so much my friend!
I would add the Tissot Gentleman to that list for the lower end and a Nomos Club Campus for the higher end. Both serious value for money. 😎👍🏼
I think Tissot has a great range to start off. The Swissmatic V8 series are really nice. Well made and nicely designed. I like Hamilton, too.
You can’t beat Tissot for $$$, especially the quartz. Very high quality Swiss quartz, great designs & sapphire crystal.
@@ryanjofre Agreed. In this segment, it really is a nice small bump up from Seiko (plus different looks/not everyone has one). Mine keeps excellent time and as an actual timepiece, stomps on the rest of the cheaper stuff. 2-3 seconds a day isn't "accurate" for a quartz watch, but a lot of the cheaper ones are just off by a couple of minutes after several months. This.. about a second a week, at most. Not Rolex, but what is... I just checked mine - 4 seconds fast after 3 months. That I can live with. :) Of note, previous ones were a second or so a week, this quartz one is a little better/newer and seems to basically need to be reset every few months. And, yes, the quartz are more accurate than the automatics if keeping accurate time on a budget is a thing.
Swissmatic V8 = Great value for money Swiss watch 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
Content and delivery are GREAT!! No one can "Have a go" at that! This show was a delight, Mate!
Even I’m looking down my nose at that Knight Rider !! 😅
Hahahahaha
Great video as usual. I really appreciate how you quickly explained what the term horology really, really means. It simply just doesn't come down only to wrist worn clocks, aka watches. No matter how some people use that term when bragging about expensive luxury watches. Great list, I personally might've switch the Casio Calculator to the Casio Royale, but that's just me.
I remember watch snobbery being out into perspective when I was 18 years old, around 30 years ago. We had a manager at work who walked around wearing a gold Rolex shoving it under the nose of anyone wearing a watch... I used to wear my AE90W (I think it was) and over he came with the Rolex backed up with a comment like "If you work hard enough, you might own one of these one day!". Little did he know that at that time I'd been helping his wife out with a small hemorrhoid issue she was having for about three months prior to him being appointed as my manager. It always stuck with me that Watch snobs, or snobs in general, who think they have it all need to stop once in a while and double check who's rodding the soil stack whilst they're being dicks..... Jesus, she'd be 65 now Lol.
Kind of disgusting details but fun to read 😂.
@@OlafThorbjorn - I was thinking the same!!! 🤣👍🏼
🤢🤮😐
😂😂😂😂
Small hemorrhoid issue? What does that mean?
I bought a Zelos Mako with aventurine dial. I don't just like it, it makes summer days better. Staying in the sun and watching that dial thru the AR coated glass is pure joy. I'm in the process of switching to microbrands.
Great video! I always learn something every time I tune in. Thanks and have a great day!
Love the Bulova Lunar Pilot here, I would have also included the CWC SBS Diver I haven’t been able to take it off my wrist for 2 weeks. It’s Quartz so that may be an issue for some. It doesn’t get enough love.
I bought a dark green Tissot PRX 80 yesterday, my 1st Swiss automatic watch. I 1st tried it on 6 months ago, it feels great I love it
Orient, Citizen, Ball, just to name a few other brands that might meet the criteria. Great video. Thank you.
Fantastic video MWC, as always! Life is far too short to snobbery, and (more importantly) letting someone else's snobbery bring you down. For the most part, no one cares what watch you wear, so wear what you want and as you said, "like what you love." At one point my whole small collection of watches was Casio/G-Shock, but I've since added other military or military inspired watches into my 5 piece collection. Its what works for me. But if that's not the case for others, great! The only advice I like to give people is don't have a smart watch as your only watch. Slow down and enjoy the simplicity of time without notifications. Even if only from time to time =)
Thank you so much my friend!!!!
This is so well written ❤
Well said 👍
Great video again mate. Very entertaining and your usual high standard of editing. Love the list. Keep up the brilliant work.
Thank you my friend!
When I think about it, I have had quite a few watches so I must be a watch fan. Three Seikos, one Sekonda (I was a kid), one Mondaine, one Wenger (expensive rubbish), one Timberland fashion watch (fantastic value and did the job as a daily beater for years), one Oris Big Crown (gave it to my son), one Tag Heuer (very much of its time - the 1980s) and a Baum et Mercier for the evening (although I need glasses to read the dial after sunset..). The new daily beater is a Seiko SKX and honestly, it looks great and does the job. Even though it is a daily, I still take it off sometimes to avoid unnecessary damage. Maybe I need a Casio when angle grinding...
I'm a huge fan of watches. If I had the disposable income I'd have everything from a 10 quid F91 to a Grand Seiko. Incidentally, speaking of 80s memorabilia (Knight rider) no-one ever talks about Doc Emmett Brown's watches in back to the future. He wears one on each wrist in both the 80s and 50s scenes and they're dead cool.
Been wearing my F91 and loving it. My solar square on a NATO. Could do with a Hannu. I still love my SRP777 and got it on now. I need a smaller Bulova moon watch 38-40mm. The 60th anniversary version is gorgeous. I had a radio watch at school, got a fresh coloured ear piece, told the teachers it was a hearing aid, got away with listening to capital radio during class. I think I got it from Argos.
Let me tell you what my wife said...who the heck is that! That's the Mad Watch Collector. He does a real good job reviewing watches. I enjoy watching him.
great list, fun video. you've really grown on me, mwc. i got the atomic clock square and love it!
This was my answer to a watch snob recently - he said "oh, I see you are wearing a fake rolex sub mariner" I said "no, I'm wearing a genuine invicta pro diver".......nuff said. A bit of history, rolex started in London in 1908. The rolex name was used from 1912. Invicta started in 1837 in yodel land.
Epic!!
At this moment, I totally got the Vostok bug (just received a Komandirskie 650539 GMT this morning, such a beauty on a leather strap) , but my next will be a Casioak, I just love it
Fun you should mention these! I own a CA-53, two G-Shocks (even though they're not DW-5600s), a Hamilton Khaki King, a Lunar Pilot and a Seagull 1963. Unknowingly I've been collecting a substantial portion of your list 😅
Man your Out There and I love every second if it, got to look up that Bulova and Hamilton, was it the Jazzmaster, absolutely love the seagull display back, Great show
There was a Jazzymeister ther somewhere!;)
Ooh, Russ, you're on something of a hot streak the last few weeks, including this one. Great picks here (totally caught me off-guard with the Knight Rider watch). And, yep, snobbery can cut both ways.
My hanowa hans noll has more than held its own with watch snobs sporting everything from a rolex to limited edition tags.... i saw it in a jewelers window and instantly fell in love with it. Tried it on and knew there and then it had to be mine
Great video! I have almost 40 watches and the one that get most attention is not my most expensive one but the casio databank. Awesome watch 👍
Never really met a watch snob, only saw people who are interested in the hobby and happy to discuss any model or brand.
Neither have I! They hide behind their keyboards!!!
What a load of Bulova! Absolute genius! Keep the greatness coming and thank you for sharing.
Hahahahaha love it!
I've got my father-in-laws Omega Speedmaster Moon Watch, that he received as a gift from the company that he worked at in the early '70's. I'm not the biggest fan of it, but my oldest son absolutely loves it, he is going to get it this year for Christmas.
A watch handed down through the generations. I love it! ☺
Generally we are all respectful of each others collections. Personally I absolutely love seeing a vast array of watches no matter what the cost or quality. Great vid my friend loved it
Nice one Russell and agree with them ALL, except for the Casio calculator, I do have one though my digits are toi big for the buttons😂. I would swap that one for the Casio Royale, a good world timer is essential for me!
Thank you for your personality sir. It actually cheers me up listening to you every day.
Friendship confirmed
It would be very difficult to not love the Seagull 1963. A most charming watch, indeed. Cheers!
Nowdays watch snobs come in all sizes and variations: Classic snob, reverse watch snob, Casio snob, Seiko snob, affordable watches snob, microbrand snob, the list just goes on and on 😂😂😂
Wow, superb video, this went above and beyond a review. I enjoyed very much the history clips, ty.
Gosh! Ive had from Omega to Longines, Tag, Breitling, top end Seiko,
However the cheaper watches i have had and have G shock, Lorus, Seiko 5 , Tissot and Timex, i have always appreciated them more because your expectations are not as high,
Had a Seamaster that cost 5k and it had hairs wrapped around the hands, from reputable dealer.
My Seiko's have always impressed, Lorus can be excellent and as for Casio G-Shock, they make a mockery of expensive luxury watches!
Great video MWC! As ever ❤
Thank you!!
Good list of watches. I have all the Casio, and the Hamilton is my dream watch, too expensive for my pocket right now 😂
'If you haven't got something good to say, don't say it..." Well-said Russ, I reckon those wise words came from your Grandad. I'll be honest, I'm not a massive fan of Casios, but I make a point of listening to what you say and I respect your love and enthusiasm for them. Keep it up mate and pay no heed to the naysayers.
Appreciate this my friend! Proper gent
I don't even know when i bought my Seiko Monster as the original EBAY email disappeared with my LYCOS account. But they were only manufactured until 2008. The lume is still great and it's as (in)accurate as it ever was. Made in Malaysia pre Chinese Seiko days and everything lines up as it should. Think I'm going to stick with it.
Superb my friend!
My boss and mentor is an old guy. Wears a Rolex Day Date he bought before the quartz crisis. Only cost him $300 then. Still runs like a top. He said that's when the price of mechanical watches soared.
Superb!
The $22 Casio A168 has the top notch EL illumination, and in chromed resin with a steel band, it'll do for dressy occasions, if all your pricier watches look like sports chonkers. On the black plastic side, I think the W800 manages to feel higher-quality than similarly priced Casio models, more solid than anything short of a G-Shock. Just a few thoughts.
THis is BY FAR the most entertaining, well presented watch channel on RUclips!
Very kind my friend thank you!
@@THEMADWATCHCOLLECTOR I do charge for compliments, by the way. My invoice is in the post.
@@paul7t5 checques already in the post!
I’m a watch snob, I’m a tool snob and I’m also a fishing snob. I’m very proud of my snobbery .great vid as per.
That’s lovely
You forgot the Citizen Promaster Aqualand JP2000. Cult material from the 80ies and still selling. Especially worn with a Nato strap. Original 80ies ones now gracing collections.
Love this Russ .. we all can’t afford omega / Rolex etc .. some great watches on this video and another great video ❤
Never knew the watch Michael Knight used. Interesting. 👍
Hahahahaha now you know buddy!
What a start to the weekend! Thanks Russ
Thank you my friend!
Love the Knight Rider part of your show 😎
Love what you do Russ. Truly happy you hit 60K subs recently ... and you're already creeping up on 61K!!
You're "Fantasiiiiiique" - please read this in French ... I am a "frenchy" after all ... French Canadian that is 😁👍🏼
Thank you so much my friend!
My collection of five pieces is rather humble compared to many. Only collecting a few years now, I have encountered the watch snobbery as I am one to strike up conversation with other fellows I see wearing watches. All of mine have come from pawn shops, and I did the math yesterday and found I'm only in $640, one SEIKO, two CITIZEN, one BULOVA and a trusty $50 TIMEX. The CITIZEN radio- controlled consistently reads the same as my smart phone, as it should. The other eco-drive is a titanium body and strap and is also surprisingly accurate. The BULOVA, which is most recent purchase, an ACCUTRON Snorkel II cost me $75, and after battery and sizing I'm only into for about $115. The jeweler told me I did quite well. So far it's not lost any time. The SEIKO 5 automatic is a green, military looking knock off of the HAMILTON, I've added a nice leather strap to it which makes it worth about $180, but looks far more valuable. This brings me to the humble TIMEX. I set this watch a few years ago and it doesn't seem to have lost 50 seconds. I removed its strap and mounted it to the handlebars of my commuter bike for winter riding. This way I don't need to mess with mittens and long parka sleeves to check the time. I always look appropriate for whatever occasion.
lol i love the way you explained watch snob, i was in vocation with my family in Vancouver islands and i met a watch snob he was rude and keep criticizing my sinn 556i and my father inlaw's tudor 1926 white dail with blue markers 41 mm. it was really unpleasant to listen and deal with that rude snob
Fun video! I have both the Bulova Moon Watch and the Seagull 1963, both solid watches. In fact, this video has me swapping watches right now; the Seagull needs some more wrist time! 🙂
The CA53W is such a great watch. Even on my bigger wrist, it looks great.
Absolutely!!
I have several f91w's, got a calculator casio and a g-shock square (not the one in the vid). Got a Hamilton Field Khaki. Got a Bulova lunar pilot. No Longines. No Seagull and no Knight Rider watch. What i'm basically taking from this video is I need to buy the ones I don't have
Hahahaha
I am deeply sorry you skipped the part of your wife`s opinions. This is something that should never miss.
Great list and you really can not argue with you. I make you right on all of these watches. feeling guilty now as I have not worn my g shock or indeed another watch for days. too hot!!
The Bulova prototype that Commander David Scott wore during Apollo 15 was a failed attempt by Bulova to win the NASA contract that ended up going to Omega, and so was built to the same NASA specifications that the Speedmaster Professional was. It was gifted to Scott by Bulova, probably hoping exactly what happened did. So the fact that it ended up on the moon and already looked like a Speedmaster does actually make sense.
None of it makes sense man
I have 31 Casio watches priced from $80 to $275. I do have a $400 Frogman. I love solar/atomic Casio watches, usually I love digital but I do love a dual digital/analog display. What I’m hoping for someday is for Casio to make a solar/atomic watch with digital hour, minute and second hands and a readout digital display below. They have a watch with digital hands but it’s neither solar nor atomic and that’s disappointing
I’ll pretty much take any cool new Casio so say Casio and I will click like 👍🏼 , if you say new Casio then automatic upgrade to clicking the heart ❤️
A real watch snob thinks about how much it is before anything else which is sad but you get them with cloths ,cars, jewelry, ect, cheers russ for another fun show
Cheers Darren!
I'd include one more iconic Casio: the AE1200. I have one, and I LOVE IT!
Good to see you my friend - a little reminder of home 😘
JOJO!!!!!
7:00 Supa.
One thing about it, no matter what the interest or topic, there’s always another level of snobbery one can go to.
Good video.
what a mad review again !!! thanks a lot... i am in a hurry to discover these beauties... 😂😂😂
Thanks my friend
Life is incomplete without DW-5600😎
All the Hamilton's look amazing 😍🤩 p.s. You really really grew on me. Love you videos. Keep em comin' Subscribed.
Just came across your channel. Awesome stuff mate
Thank you very much my friend!!!! Welcome aboard!
Would love to see you review the Casio Duro - was surprised to see it didn’t make it on the list for the Casio’s.
I absolutely love my Casios I don’t even remember how many of the calculator watches I’ve had three years I’ve just recently in the last three or four years bought another one to replace the ones I had as a youth
great vid mate where you get the knight rider watch i want one? sean
Omega made a few digital watches in the 1970s just to "Dabble" such as the Omega 1601 TC2
Thank you for this video.
I bought the khaki field as my first watch. I love it. Seiko as my second. That's all I have right now 😂
I've worn watches from designer watches when I was a kid to Swatches in High School to Swiss Army watches in College to Casio G-Shock in my early employment years to Cartier Tank to a Seiko phase to a Rolex Submariner from my dad (Love you Dad🙏❤️☝️) to finally an Orient Green Kamasu... In the end what I realized is to just don't mind other people, respect each other's choices in watches and just enjoy the hell out of them since Life is too short...🤙 Thanks for this video as I enjoyed it really👊 I appreciate your way of doingnvidz about watches🙏 Just Suscribed😊
Well said my friend!
Appreciate it!
Love your vids mate!!!
You won't mind me wearing my citizen then 😂😂
Great video as always and an overall solid list. Seriously, though, how does the Knight Rider watch get the nod over a Timex?!
Timex is a weird brand right now. Run in America, owned by Norwegians with fingers in a lot of pies .
@@THEMADWATCHCOLLECTOR But isn't that just the same as a lot om the micro brands you've got all excited about?
Oscar Wilde wrote in his work Lady Windermere's Fan that a snobbish character knew the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Perfect!!!
The module in those calculator watches are amazing, mine lost about 5 seconds in 6 months.
Good one, mate. My watch roll for this week away?
5610, Longines Conquest, SKX009, Seagull 1963. 😂😂😂
Nice!!!!!!
Great, now I'm gonna have to go find them. I agree with the list and like that there are all kinds, all affordable and super cool to wear and enjoy...
I have the f91w the gwm5610 and seiko mini turtle cheers mate 🎉
Banging video once again mate. Cheers! 🔥
Thank you!
Hey Russ, great video! I know you were mostly looking at a lower price point- but I also feel that certain independent brands/large microbrands get a decent amount of respect these days- and although not cheap- offer a nice alternative to the more high end luxury watches for much less. Some that come to mind for me are Oris, Christopher Ward, Sinn, Monta, Damasko, Doxa, Squale, Zodiac...
Good shouts my friend here!
i have a 43mm Lunar Pilot on a new orange silicone strap. love it, love it. and i own a few watches with a higher price tag but the LP is like, you know, really accurate.
Love the watches and all your thoughts on snobbery and respect 👍.
Fun selection of watches. Have a great weekend!
And you my friend!
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who loved not only KITT but the watch.
I must take issue Russ. I believe originally watch snobs call it the “quartz crisis” although most people called it the “quartz revolution” but now crisis seems the usual terminology used by watch enthusiasts. Also a watch snub might look down someone wearing a dive watch with a tux, it’s just not done old man 😂
Hahahaha right Kirk!
I thought that it was called the quartz crisis because it almost put the Swiss watchmakers out of business.
@@markymarknj depends on which side your telling the story;)
@@THEMADWATCHCOLLECTOR okay, thank you.
@@markymarknj certainly the quartz revolution almost put Swiss watchmakers out of business but most would say that it was a revolution or evolution of watchmaking in general. Swiss watchmakers generally now make jewellery that also tells the time.
Great show Sir 👍 Hamilton? Look great but fog up. A field watch without a screw down crown, jings!!! It’s like a Panerai that can’t go under a tap!!! (You know the one) Love the Kitt watch, I notice you even have the 80’s hair 🤣
I hear ya!
I lost the count of how many Casio I have, but if I had to choose one with a peculiar design, and it's not a square, I'll say a Casio GW-056 (it was worn in Avatar I, just for reference), a brilliant work for me! It was the thinnest G, but they dropped the project, a pity if I can say it.
Then, moving to Bulova, why not the Accutron too? Who cannot love a diapason watch? 😍
The rest of the selection is brilliant for sure. 😊
Oh, wait, the knight rider watch didn't have the FM radio, noooooo! 😮💨
I like the fact you were wearing the 1963 in some shots and the aniversiry in others 😂
Absolutely!
wouldn't Guinness have the oldest trademarked logo ever? 1759 I believe, 73 years before Longines....or did Guinness not trademark their logo later than they were founded? Lol, it doesn't really matter, just having fun. Great video, as usual brother!
Go back and take whatever you can that makes sense my friend
A watch snob will probably be like “Hamilton Murph 38, nice!
… for a beater watch hah haaaaah (snobbish laughter)”
Hahahahaha
Apart from the night rider watch you more or less named my collection. That's made my day 👍
I get props on my Orient Bambino…$125 in-house automatic movement and a nice design.
A Khaki King, 2 Prospex Divers, 1963, Lunar Pilot (in PVD) and a Longines HC... I'm not doing too bad 😊
Sweet!
Have those as well! My Hamilton is fully engraved and I love it. Have to cut my 200+ down to a more manageable 100 or so!
Some great pieces, bud 👨🏻🦲👍🏻
I'm especially happy with your inclusion of the '1963' which has very quickly become the favourite piece in my collection.
Awesome my friend!
Mind you, in the 1970s, a Seiko quartz cost the same as 12 Rolexes. Quartz was super high end new technology that made the time telling accuracy of mechanicals silly. It was not until the late 70s, early 80s that quartz democratised watch prices. But then you also need to remember that Timex and brands like it had been selling 1 dollar watches with a pen-anchor movement since the late 40s. It seems the Swiss carnage was.... well, bad business acumen. :)
That all said: Lovely video. Punch and a scrap... I love it. But isn't it Buh-LOH-vuh? Instead of BOO-luvvuh?
What is Pen Anchor movement?