AIRFIX SHOCK ANNOUNCEMENT - WATCHES FOR 2024!
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- Today I'm looking at the shock new range of watches from @Airfix in collaboration with AVI-8.
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Saw the announcement this morning, went to the avi-8 website, saw the price and instantly decided that sort of money will be better spent on actual kits. 👍
A lot of kits for that sort of cash..Well,ok,a couple of kits and the rest on after market.!
When you assemble it with glue, however, the Airfix watch only gives the right time twice a day 😂
first life scale model
I’m with you Gary. Simple and elegant when it comes to watches. In fact, that’s how a lot of people describe me. Well, simple anyway!
Agree about the plain watch face. My Dad picked up a Hamilton watch from Canadian forces in 1944, he wore it for years until his death in 1998 and now I wear it. Not fancy - but no batteries, a clear face and it keeps good time. What more can I say!
Cool :)
£210 isn’t a lot for a watch many that are described as “ affordable. “ can cost £500 to £1000 . Interesting idea though .
That’s a better announcement than earlier this year!
Very nice 👍🏼
And you’re PADI qualified?
What do you not do? 😊👍🏼
Love the Cosford Cold War background 😊
Yes i can see the attraction, and likewise the Spitfire one wouuld be my choice. However the price is too steep for me
When I saw this I thought you had to put it together your self. I had a couple of AV-8 watches a few years ago. Looked OK on the outside but had very cheap quartz movements for the price.
I see the title and I just had to “watch”,this.!..Heard Zvezda are bringing out a watch also..Wear the Zvezda watch and it will take you back to the Cold War.!Thanks for telling us the details Gary about the new Airfix bling..All the best👍
Aaaaa veee 8, as in aviator.
Maybe if they offered watch face fonts for Apple/Samsung digital watches? ☕🐢
Hello mr. Gary!its a little 2 l8 for morning Coffee and garys stuff.😂with sticky greetings. Your modellmate.christian
I would have preferred it if they had made replica RAF and Luftwaffe pilots watches.
Only problem would be finding somewhere for the Airfix logo to go that didn't ruin the classic Omega design...
There's plenty around at every price point, from sub $100 quartz fliegers, to brands like Laco (actual Luftwaffe supplier) at about $400, Stowa (also actual supplier) a bit over a grand, all the way to brands like Hanhart and IWC for several thousand.
If you're keen on the style, if strongly recommend looking at a brand like Laco for similar (or less) money than this trash from AV8.
Nice looking watches, but the average person isn't going to lay out that sort of money when virtually everyone has the time readily available on their phones.
I have 3 watches in my draw upstairs and haven't worn them for years and, more to the point, I can't remember ever looking at my wrist for the time.
Mind you, ever since I took early retirement, I'm really not bothered by time in the slightest.
Interesting. When my old watch went to the great chronologist in the sky I felt really uneasy without a watch.
Not everyone has a mobile phone though. I don't have one. I'd love one of these watching but the price is a killer. if it was £99 or so, I'd grab one.
@@SteveT-0 fair point, but like you say, a tad expensive.
They have them on show at the Airfix stand at model world live, quite a few people asking how much, then recoiling in shock!
I guess you must be very young
I'm a very young 63, age has nothing to do with my opinion.@@stenic2
2:00 It says "Swimming/Bathing" is OK, but "Brief Swimming/Water Sports" is not OK. I think they made a mistake there, because the first one entails having it in water longer than "Brief Swimming".
pretty sure its pronounced Avee-eight, I do like the AVI-8 brand but not sure about the Airfix branding
So I am led to believe now - I'm just an old school video guy so I only associate it with the .avi format...
AVI-8 is supposed to be pronounced aviate. As in "fly".
So I understand now. I'm so used to video formats that I see avi and pronounce it as such!!!
I wouldn’t really call an AVI-8 watch high end.
I love watches and I love Airfix, but for me the two have no place together. It’s an odd price point, £200-300 is expensive for most but too cheap for watch enthusiasts so I’m not sure who it is aimed at.
Also although I like building plastic models it is not something I like to advertise, fancy watches tend to attract second glances, wear an unusual watch and I can pretty much guarantee that someone will take a closer look and I, for one, don’t want to have to deal with the inevitable question “what’s Airfix?”.
Be interesting to see how this goes but in my opinion they are two expensive for a novelty purchase, too cheap for the watch community, and potentially, too embarrassing to wear.
I wish them luck, but my gut says these won’t last long.
"non radioactive phosphorescent material"....technically correct but did make me chuckle :) In the hundreds of watch review videos i've seen have never heard it called that. It just gets called lume. I shall now be on the lookout to see if any of the usual watch reviewers feature these.
They seem to use two or three variants based on doped strontium aluminate with a variety of trade names, so i thought I'd stick with something generic!
@@garys_stuff I really should look up the development of luminescent materials over the years.
I suppose it must be that model enjoyers also often know much about military history. Therefore they likely know that the earliest military watches intended for night time navigation had markers and hands painted with radioactive paint, containing radium. Products containing radium were really popular then, and the dangers of radiation poisoning were poorly understood.
Today, you can have radioactive markers in watches again. They use tubes filled with tritium gas though, and the type of radiation is safer to wear on your skin by massive leap.
First coffee and tea, then a paper airplane and now watches... when will the jackets, the clothes and boxer shorts arrive? 🤣Personally, I think Airfix should take an example from ICM. Engage in their main goal: making model kit. Italeri makes model kits of cockpits 1/12, now if Airfix wants to think outside the box could have made the horologe in model kit. Or any other item as model kit
Gary, your face says it all ! Airfix should stick to what they are good at.
Do they accept flying hours?
These look very cool - a neat idea but I would suggest they appeal more to watch enthusiasts like me than to model enthusiasts - and believe me when I tell you £200-£300 for a decent watch is nothing - barely scratching the surface but AVI-8 are decent - if you want to spend less but still have a respectable watch with a similar / military vibe look at the Timex range
I think they are awesome! I would really really love one but that price is just a killer :(
A bit disappointing that you don't get to assemble it yourself...
wat scale?
Airfix are they real or models will you have to glue them together?
Not sure about this item I will have to watch how sale go
Oisin should pay Ratso
Do they come in kit form 😅
You won't be suprised to know that diy watchmaking kits do exist. 🤷♂
Avi8 is not high end, as a watch nerd, not bad just attainable.
Higher end than most of my watches have been, apart from my 1988 Raymond Weil Otello....
I they cooperated with a somewhat "cheaper" brand, I'd get one, just because.
Being from Airfix the watches should come in a kit form to biuld yourself. That way the cost could be much lower. I bet there made in China 😊
Airfix trying the Marshall Amplification business model going 'Lifestyle' Didn't go that well tbh. And at £200+ out of my league for a watch.
Trust me, these are very far removed from being High End watches.
REALLY nice… but I’ll stick with my apple watch.
Lol I moved from collecting watches too painting models.... Cmon.
Hornby desperate for a few quid in the coffers are they ?
If my personal experience with Avi-8 is anything to go by don't bother!
haven't bothered with a watch for...years. I break them, can;t be bothered to take them off when working on the bike or whatever and they just get in the way. The time is everywhere nowadays from phones to computers, and these things become fashion items and status symbols. Both of which I have no 'time' for.... see what I did there.
Not sure who this is aimed at. Anybody into watches will laugh at a wildly overpriced low-end quartz novelty watch, that is also pretty gaudy in its branding. Average punters who like models and think a cheap quartz with airfix branding would be fun, would almost certainly balk at spending that much on *any* watch.
For the same money you could get an actual reproduction WWII flyer's watch from a brand like Laco that actually supplied them to air forces.
Thanks for the video though Gary, I hadn't seen any coverage of these in my normal watch hobby blogs and channels. Always good to broaden the hobby!
Not for me, I couldn't afford that even if I wanted one.
I could buy a lot for that kind money, I use sun for telling time!!😂
What about my mismatched heracles wings bloody watches
You'll need to be as thick as two credit cards to buy one of these..
I couldn't resist modifying what you said, Gary.
"Thick as two credit cards" 🤣🤣
Having said that i like Spitfire, black embossed watch. But.. no. At fifty quid, maybe.
AVI-8 = aviator, not A.V.I. 8. The automatics look a good bet.
Like an American Harrier then...
Maybe they should concentrate their resources on kits? Rather than say four kits all that have the same two P51D Mustangs.
Not sure how much actual Airfix resource was expended on this. Don't see them wandering up to Chris Joy and saying "forget the Halifax for a moment, how about designing a watch face?" Probably brokered between AVI-8 and Airfix's corporate design contractors.
@@garys_stuff Fair point Gary. It's more a /perception/ thing I suppose. What with the tea/coffee branding and now these watches the /perception/ is that Airfix management, if not the front-line staff, have taken their eye off the ball, and are branching out when what IMHO they should be doing is concentrating on their core activity and what their competitors are doing in that core activity. What I mean is, do I think of Airfix when I think of tea/coffee/watches? No, I think of PG Tips, Nescafe, Rolex etc. Do I think of Airfix when I think of plastic models? Yes, but less so than I used to and that's because they've /allowed/ their competitors to catch up by letting their (corporate) concentration wander.
Pricy ,but it could be an investment nice though all the same 😊,but it’s bad timing 😊,I have to Watch my pennies otherwise I’ll get a tick (tock) ing off if I wasn’t I wasn’t strapped for cash I would get the dambuster watch ,I’ll stick with me Apple Watch for now ,all the best mate Micky mouse wears a Gary Evans watch 😂
Take care mate
Mark 😊😊
1/48 scale X15 please Airfix….not watches
You have a couple of excusable mistakes here. 1st, AVI-8 is not high end, it really is a budget level watch which makes very interesting pieces at that price level. Secondly, 1atm is approximately 10.3 meters water pressure, a standard which is used at professional level and one used for professional Dive watches. This is only a critique, but please try not to misinform your viewers. I am a watch collector, so I have come to understand these things. BTW, AVI-8 makes nice watches, generally accurate, especially with the mechaquartz (a combintaion of battery quartz powering a mechanical movement) and are made in the far east. If budget is a constraint, you can do worse.
I defer entirely about the attributes of AVI-8 as a company, although to me £200 is hardly budget. However, the thing about diving and water pressure is that people often forget that at 0 depth the pressure on a watch is 1 atmosphere, because you're in the air. This was drilled into us as trainee divers. So a watch at 4 metres will be under 5 atmospheres of pressure - 1 for sea level and 1 for every 10 metres depth. At 30 meters the air I breathe is at 4 atmospheres pressure - I can actually feel the air going in and out of my lungs!
@@garys_stuffFor me £200 is at budget level. It is definitely not high end as quoted. Try to understand the watch industry better and you really will see what I mean! Innacuracies in your commentary can really put people off. Me for one!
@@JamesAlexander14 I have enough time trying to understand the model making industry. I aid I defer to your knowledge and I do know these guys are not £20k+ Rolexes, let alone anything bespoke. But this isn't a watch channel, it's a model making channel (mainly). Sorry if that upsets you so much.
20atm is dive
@@minixtvbox 190 metres? Yeah, guess that is diving...
Sorry Gary, but AVI-8 watches are faaaar from high end. One of these companies is scraping the bottom of the barrel here me thinks.
Mishaped parts in every single box, but they have the time for this… 🤦♂️
No not for me l like to build an Airfix kit not look at the logo on and off during the day nothing fancy for me 👍
Can't beat a Casio really...10 year battery life. Enough said.
Also watches celebrating British WW2 aircraft....with a Japanese mechanism? Huh
AVI-8 are far from being a high end watchmaker.
Laughable. Maybe Airfix should focus on producing new kits.
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I wonder if they might make some nice ones sometime. They are all pretty tacky and tasteless, aren’t they
It comes with an Airfix branded face mask, and a tag to tell everyone your pronouns.. GGGAAAHHHYYY!
Hello mr. Gary!its a little 2 l8 for morning Coffee and garys stuff.😂with sticky greetings. Your modellmate.christian
Hello mr. Gary!its a little 2 l8 for morning Coffee and garys stuff.😂with sticky greetings. Your modellmate.christian