London, Passion & Watch Crime - My life story
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- Опубликовано: 21 июл 2022
- A Rolex Watch Dealers Story, Watches, London, Passion & Crime, join me in South West London for Episode 3 of the Life of Brighton. I talk about my passions, a very dark time in my life and I take a look around the affluent streets of our Capital City.
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Hey everyone, hope you enjoy Episode 3 of the Life of Brighton. This one took a lot of work and time! Have a lovely weekend. Your views and comments appreciated.
paul I think in life , to have a good family upbringing and values is a good thing ,your a top man , ps up the villa
It was a great, and well-appreciated effort from you guys!
Fantastic episode Paul very moving and very heart felt! 👍🏻
Ep3👏👏 Have a amazing weekend Paul.
Come on Fulham!
My father grew up in Wandsworth (Eglantine Road) and supported Fulham. He left the area and after his mother died, he never went back.
My son is an ex - Veteran and he was in Scotland and he was wearing an expensive watch and he had been in a pub with his mate and he got jumped neadless to say the guys didn't get the watch and ended up trying to get away. He didn't bother to report it as he still had his watch.. What a life when you can't wear what you like..Stay safe out there and I love watching your videos. By the way I used to do security in Central London and the amounts of shoo lifters I would stop were mainly women wearing long skirts with lots of pockets in. Thankfully I am always aware of my surroundings ears and eyes always BOTLO..
Thank you so much for your time, effort, and support for your help in watch crime. It's a pleasure to watch you, well done Paul.
"Wow" what can i say, thank you for sharing this life story with us, what a life and great that you have memories of your childhood and not affraid to share the good times and the bad, a real man. Great insight to london boroughs, proud to call you a friend x
Thanks Ian.
OMG WOW! I wanted to share my news that I’ve just had a call from my AD to collect a Rootbeer!!! I’ve only been with this guy for around 4 months. What a guy! Picking up later but so over the moon 🥳
I feel your pain I’m from Islington and worked in Notting Hill Gate for 20 years I moved out to Hertfordshire 12 years ago and when I come back into London my area as completely changed not for the better it saddens me
I remember a friend of mine who was working in a large hotel in Park Lane, she recalled that a certain chef she worked with, had his watch stolen as he went home one evening.
Reminiscing the good old days....very enjoyable to watch!!
Great vid Paul & Aaron. Loved the drone footage on Putney bridge. Great idea to do this series imo - makes a great change from straight watch videos. Looking forward to the next one!
Thanks Paul keep up the great work hands down one of the best storey tellers. You enrich us with your stories thank you
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Great video Paul, love the effort and passion put into it too. Thanks for keeping the awareness up
This was a good one. Thank you for posting. It's nostalgic, emotional and in some parts gave me ideas for father/son bonding. Thank you Paul.
And of course, very insightful on staying safe when out on the town.
I think part of the problem is that you become complacent over time. When I bought my first Rolex I was wandering around wondering if someone was going to chop my arm off for it. Over time it just became my watch that I wore every day. Now I have horses for courses watches, and swop them out based on where I am going. It’s sad, but I think prevention is the way to go, and the experience would be more traumatic than losing the watch I would think.
Agreed. Better to be safe than sorry 👍
Things have definitely changed. I bought a 116613LB in 2013 and wore it and a 16750 daily in central London. Worn with t shirts, open and visible. I’d regularly use the jubilee line from Canary Wharf all the way past Bond Street and be in and around south Kennington. I lived at royal Victoria docks and would travel on the overground there, through very poor areas and never once had any issues. But you get to 2017/18 and this all started to change. People I know have been robbed in the city and central areas, all of them aware of London crime but still fell victim to most likely spotters in restaurants or outside them. It’s really changed and now I completely cover up and most likely close to wear something on leather and of little value relatively. To think I use to wear something as in your face as a TT sub in these areas in a tee, is unthinkable now.
Thank you for sharing your memories. I really enjoy this series. My wife and I were in London a couple years back and had no idea about the watch crime.
As enjoyable as ever, your production quality is going up through the roof 💪🏻
thank mate
Congratulations on a wonderful video.
The segment around the FFC grounds were very emotional for those who lost our fathers.
Well done.
Great video, thank you for putting in the effort. Loved it!
Well done Paul another fantastic video from this great series. Fulham boy through and through!!
Very nice sharpe shirt as always👍
Appreciate theses videos take time but worth the wait and effort. Really looking forward to the next one!
Well done Paul another amazing video.
Nice getting to know you more and seeing where you are from.
You have always got the best stories.
Sure you will be making movies next 😎☘️
Very interesting . Many thanks Paul .
When you said lads wearing “Tags” I was like “They aren’t that bad… Monaco looks pretty cool and Carrera is pretty respected.” Then I was like… “Blimey… That’s rough!”
Me too.
Nice video Paul I enjoyed it. I always loved walking across Putney Bridge. Great views. I used to give driving lessons all around the Fulham ground. Lovely area. And I used to drive the 220 bus across Putney Bridge to Wandsworth. I love that area. Take care.
Very nice vid Paul, This is a great style and very interesting, Well done.
Your situational awareness is amazing; and you have camera presence at the same time. Good work. Stay awesome!
Very good video Paul. Filled with very useful information mr T 💯👍
What a amazing video, A little in sight into your childhood and your roots a breath of fresh air.. I’m from Worcestershire in the Midlands and have a Love Hate relationship with London.. I really got absorbed in this video.. Cheers Paul 👍🏻
Having had a similar upbringing, making some good and bad choices, in my fifties I found my passion for writing. I self publish on Amazon, with true crime such as Who Killed the Essex Boys, and Who Killed Stephen Ward. I also write fiction. My latest novel is a comedy called, We Appy Few, about a group of wideboys who go off to fight the Battle of Agincourt. Its also about men being men, and what it means to be English.
This reminds me how comfortable I am about the sector of the watch collecting hobby I circulate in. No way could I ever afford a luxury watch but I've no desire to either. My 3 'working watches' are:
Casio F-91W
Orient bambino 38mm
Seiko 5 sports 38mm
I then have a collection of watches that stay in my cabinet but none are expensive.
Great production Paul, I was sad when it ended as I was enjoying it just like a favourite TV show. Keep on with videos like these to keep us informed & aware 👍🏽
Another great epp. Keep them coming Paul! Nice getting to see where you grew up😎
Paul thank you for sharing this. I love seeing your beautiful cities.
Hey Paul brilliant video, your memories of beautiful city of London and high lighting the risks of wearing expensive watches and jewellery,I agree it's the mopeds snatch and go is the preferred type of street robbery,when i walk around the streets i tend to dress down and look less of a target 👍
Great video Paul 🙏 and filmed not far from me. Very impressed with the white starched shirt by the way 😎 🥃 The crime is getting worse but I refuse to just wear my watches in the house, but thanks to you and others I have become a lot more conscious and take as many precautions as I can.
Unusual video Paul but one that I thoroughly enjoyed, well played sir 👏 I really enjoyed the Q&A type format with Aaron.
Thanks for sharing Paul, a very interesting vid and funny to think how many are so oblivious to the very obvious dangers of street crime. Too many people believe that street crime only happens at night when no one else is around but the fact is that thieves are far more brazen about stealing nowadays so its really acase of being aware of your surroundings ALL the time
My tv don’t come on anymore as busy watching great, interesting content like this. Nice work Paul 👍
Great video, I also feel the same about my home town….I’ve been away too long to call it my home any longer.
Paul I watched this before good to revisit this touching to watch
That was interesting! Thanks 😊👍🏻
Great video Paul from Toronto. I really enjoy your content. When I come to Uk maybe I’ll just wear my seiko. Your a very good story teller. Keep up the good content 👍🏽. My wife never watches watch videos but she likes watches your videos and that says a lot.
That was really good Paul, do more stuff like that, got quite emotional when you went to Fulham FC, was the same with my dad, and Dundee FC. Thank you.
Very interesting video Paul.❤
Super stuff,
I know your area very well as friends have a apartment in Crookham rd (which was also linked to the Dando murder)
. It was a bit of a trip down memory lane and the Craven Cottage episode brings back memories of my first ever visit to a proper football club back in the 60's just a couple of miles away to the East.! and as you say that memory stays with you forever and when you choose a club as a boy it sticks.
You're way posher than me being born and lived my early life in Brixton but we overspilled out in the mid 60's although I moved back to Nunhead in the early eighties but moved out to the shires a few years later as with a new family we couldn't afford a house in London . However most of my work then was still in town so travelled in every day
Like you, I fell out of Love with London many years ago and whilst it remains deep in my heart, it's simply not the place we knew growing up and as a city it's been sacrificed on the alter of some misplaced Utopian dream which is fast turning into a nightmare. Yes it has it's nice spots and the history is truly amazing but the rest of it (90%) is a truly dreadful place to be. But for me the rest of the UK will go the same way. Most cities are already much the same regards crime and it can only get worse. hence why I left.
I now live in Tenerife which for me is as close to the summer of 1976 in the UK as anywhere can possibly be, so it's my home for probably the rest of what I have.
Thanks again
Hey Paul, really interesting video. I came across your channel today and it was a really interesting video for me as I live in Putney, and often walk past Fulham FC to Hammersmith bridge and back. Some areas are defo safer than others around SW London. Defo worse after dark. Interesting clip on tiktoc recently that some luxury shops around Knightsbridge are giving customers cheap branded bags to carry their expensive purchased goods, in order to hide the name of the top branded goods they are carrying. Will be following all your videos from now on. Top guy 👍
Great video Paul 👍
Honest as always tells it like it is.
Great episode Paul, very moving with the Fulham section
Fantastic Paul !!! Love all your content, just gets better and better.
Many thanks!
Thanks for the video Paul!
Paul I love your watch videos but this one is something special. Thanks for sharing this mate. What a bloke
Glad you enjoyed it Jamie, thanks.
The thing here Paul is I did some research on the UK property market as it currently is. London housing prices dropped more during 2023 than any other area in the UK. due to covid many professionals (most of who live in the commuter belt) now work from home. this has meant a massive drop in commuting to london....and you know what people who live in london are beginning to realise.. "hang on a minute I do not have to commute into london any more to earn my living but could move to a beautiful home say in Devon of Cornwall"..prices in london will IMO continue to drop until it all levels off. My advise to london home owners is if you can work from home do so...but you better act NOW
This is brilliant. Thanks for sharing
Great video Paul, thanks for sharing your story. Agree with your thoughts after this, wear a watch with pride. 👍🏻❤️
Thanks for sharing. I visited London in 2002. Such a cool city. Definitely wanna go back.
Fantastic video. Watched every minute of it.
That was a really good video Paul!!
Thanks for another great video Paul.
Enjoyed that Paul I’m the same when I go back to where I lived in SE London. I think we had the best of it and I’m so proud to grow up a Londoner but so pleased to live in Tunbridge Wells raising a family. All the best
I grew up in London, it has changed and don't recognise it or believe how the demographic is now, The son of writer/ &/or Director (I don't quite remember) of 'The Omen' went to same school, and I loved your video.
This new "series" is fantastic. I'm a long way from England but Paul makes it feel like I'm visiting.
Nice one, Paul ,👍 awareness is everything and what's happening around you .
Who is buying the watches, they also need to be caught.
Ok that does it, I have to get back to London. 8 years since my last trip. I’ll put a fresh battery in my Victorinox quartz from 1991 (Chrono24 value $49.00) to repel any would-be criminals. Your excellent video reminded me of how much I miss visiting.
Cracking video Paul, really enjoyable.
Nice video Paul! Shame about some of these things that are happening these days and in the past, I have been around some of the streets you mentioned reading gas & electric meters in the mid 2000's. Yes, I can understand that thing about going back to your 1st or second home and the other feelings you can have. And grief is something else that can hang on to you.
King's Road is cool and as you mentioned the "old bill" should have kept something under their hats and just kept their eyes "peeled" to deter and catch these criminals.
Tea time sirens on !
Hello Paul, lost my dad in March and I gotta say hearing you talk about the passing of your dad did tug at the heartstrings a bit 😢. Great video as always, keep up the good work mate. Cheers
Interesting family history and roots enjoyed today's episode.
Evening Paul. Many thanks for your story, and some "social history" I take your point about people wearing expensive watches in the "hot-spots" you highlighted. When I was in the Merchant Navy if you had a "luxury" watch it was 100% safe to wear it in Singapore, but Hong Kong was a different story:- take a stroll round Wan Chai at night and you'd probably get mugged/robbed. If I ever venture into London (usually passing through or catching a train) my watch (which isn't "luxury" by any means!) either doesn't get worn or is kept in my pocket. I think London is a special case, being so cosmopolitan, with so many tourists, who as you said aren't aware of the dangers. I will forgive you for burning my eyeballs with the green Urus! And Sophia Loren......Mama Mia !! Thanks again.
Loved this historical blast to your past.2 lads were wearing tags I thought you were going to talk how the youth have gravitated towards Tag Heuer watches.
5 Star Video Thanks for making it.
I like this format, well done
When he said "two of the lads were wearing tags" I thought he was talking about TAG watches lol. Took me a minute to clock to to what he meant lol
Paul good vid, very emotional at the start, then good advice of watch safety in any high end location, I just follow the 7 p's
Paul very interesting look into your past. Yes you can move away anywhere in the world but your football team stays with you forever. I've have been to Craven cottage when my team Wolves played Fulham. I found the Fulham fans friendly. Yes crime of any nature is a scourge of society in any town or city across Great Britain. I like your passion and vigor you can see it in your eyes and your feelings come across as love of London, your roots, love of watches, campaign on watch crime is so evidently to see.very moving and enjoyable to watch there are still some decent folk out there. Wolves FC have a great London fan base group that goes home and away to watch wolves around 500. Some great people I've befriended through football We never lose our identities, roots, I'm proud of my Wolverhampton roots, like you are of yours. 👍
Paul
Thanks for sharing - brings back memories of London
Though living in Texas
Nothing will ever beat London and Ireland
Well done Paul, I loved your story 👏🏻
Great video, excellent production and hopefully the message gets out.
Hi Paul - enjoyed this long form content.
Overall, I appreciate the efforts you have gone to, in highlighting the issue. I think it has been useful.
In my area - I’ve seen a spike and plenty of news reports.
Have switched out from Patek to Casio of late. Gives me great satisfaction to wear a £99 watch lately and beat the naughty boys 👑
Just to add - another topic that would be interesting…
The supply chain of what happens to the watch after the robbery? What percentage of the watches value would the thief potentially get? Where and how the watch gets taken out of the UK? Etc
Over here, they’ve recently caught some guys trying to take out several watches and caught them at the airport.
Awesome! What happened to these guys ? I hope they are behind bars for a long time. The way I would calculate their term would be (Loot Value/Minimum Wage after NI & Tax p. Month) x 2 = term behind bars in months. Without possibility of any reduction for good behaviour, etc…
Thanks Paul, touching episode.
Wow Loved watching your journey back Paul , Moving in parts talking about your dad at the football & the area , loved the Sophia loren story ! .. Take Care Paul
Top notch production quality on this one 👏
A very moving video Paul! You can see you have put a lot of effort into this. It’s such a shame the world is changing and not for the better. Wouldn’t it be nice to able to leave your front door open, not lock your car and be able to wear what you want where you want & not to forget these pointless wars!
I do sometimes think what it’s going to be like in decades to come when my kids grow up it’s a scary thought to be honest!
Thanks for the video Paul It was very heart felt your a top man! 👍🏻
I have always loved watches,have always wanted a rolex,but i would never steal one from another person, maybe one day i will get one only through honesty though.
Your spotters could be the barmaid ,pizza delivery, mainly people that work in an area ,they give the nod .its a side hustle for theme.
So remember that when you tip the bird ,that brings your drink.
24.36 when he said 2 of were wearing tags on the bus I assumed he they were wearing tag heur watches🤣
Thank you Paul
Wish you and your family the best 🙏
Hi Paul ! 👏👏scary, the same thing happens in Sweden, mostly in Stockholm, soon you won't dare to go out on the town with your expensive watches !
Not soon, already.
@@spyder_man 👍
Very interesting video Paul
Great video Paul 👍
When you say two of the guys were wearing Tag's, I guess you are not talking about Formula 1 Chronographs? 🤣
Fantastic video Paul
"You can't go back home again." Really nice content. Never been to London, so very interesting to me.
Really enjoying this series Paul 👍🏼
A view from the UK. This is the first video of yours i have come across and really enjoyed it. The reason is that i'm a londonner from a family in Tottenham - yes, yes i know, heard it all before. I was born in 1951 and we moved to Welwyn Garden City, a newly built town in Hertfordshire. Even lived in Brighton Kemptown for over 15yrs, how ironic until 1998. All of your memories going to Craven cottage were very similar to me going to White Hart Lane. We had "swing steps" that hung by 2ft lengths of rope from the retaining wall metal topping down at pitch level where the terrace finished 4ft below the pitch level. We kids were passed over the heads of the adults to get there. (We'd have surreptitious "wee's" 'cos no one would be able to see us). We would think nothing of running onto the pitch to touch our heros after the game like Jimmy Greaves, Danny Blanchflower, Dave McKay. Do you remember John White who was killed by lightening while playing golf, great inside right. The team used to run out accompanied by "Glory, Glory Tottenham Hotspur" playing over the tannoy. Then going home to listen to the results on the black and white telly. Went back once. The tenements were gone, Chestnut road where we lived is now part of a gyratory system. Tottenham High Road is not the same. It's all we have left are those young innocent memories when we were kids. D'ya remember the fizzy drink 7UP in a flip top bottle from the corner shop? 7 old pennies. Smiths crisps with a small blue wax bag of salt 3 old pennies. Going "up West" was, for us "Northerners" a great adventure. I'll stop now or i'll go on forever. Thanks for the memories as they say and keep it it up as my wife says.
Learned those tips when I wore my Hamilton rather than my Sub 14060 when I met up with you in Vegas at the Lilly Bar
Paul really enjoyed the RUclips Story of Watches London Passion & Crime.Regards Gershon.
Great episode!
Hey Paul, literally went to Fulham FC that same day with my brother who was in London for the first time and afterwards we went to kings road and I spotted probably the same lady wearing a 5711 and that was also my first thought. I must have missed you for a few seconds