My Biggest Watch Regrets
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- čas přidán 8. 11. 2023
- My Biggest Watch Regrets! We got together with Britt Pearce to talk about our biggest watch woes!
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I think the most helpful part of this video is... Honestly forget Rolex. I can walk into a Grand Seiko or Omega dealer or boutique and they will gladly sell me whatever they have. I don't have to kiss ass or wash the AD's car or sit on a waitlist forever waiting for the chance to realize the privilege of spending thousands of dollars on a decidedly mid tool watch.
"Suboptimal hitters"... "s..hitters" champagne comedy - I'm going to use that.
I loved this collab.... The watch finder boys and Britt really have some kind of chemistry going on.
Def good chemistry. I would listen to them speak about anything.
They need to Voltron it and combine forces.
My impulse buy is a watch I will never sell, a Speedmaster. Was Christmas shopping with my wife and showed it to her expecting to be shot down. She shrugged and said “you work hard for your money, why not”. I was aware of the brand but mostly just liked the look of it. Since then I’ve become aware of the history.
Have been scammed but it wasn't on buying watches anyway always when I saw some awesome deals on a website no too good to be true! Regardless too impulse buys that's was big problem on covid shut down bought few or better said sent few thousands on Swiss brands anyway at least the had value but have 3 that hunmm wish didn't buy them and wait but the watch's were on their pick price soo... Already trade 2 and hopefully more to go and I'm sure. Maybe one I'll regret but want new Tudor to. Y humble collection had the Heritage and the LHD Pelagos and now they have in stock the FXD aiaiaiai and went to my Ad try it but no no have other things to pay speaclly taxes plus car insurance etc. And now there's my FXD Pelagos looking and laughing 😂 😢😢
As an impulse buy, a Speedster makes an excellent keeper. If you're able to stop at one watch, you've made a great choice.
@@sophdog1678I completely agree, this watch is a lot of people’s grail watch, it does it all and can be worn in all situations, even people who are not in to watches will comment on it.
This is exactly my story.
Bought it at an ad whilst on holiday.
Sat at the restaurant and walked back and forth to the ad in between courses and glasses of wine.
My wife said exactly the same as your wife did.
It's not that I needed permission but more someone to back my stupid idea.
So I half intoxicated bought a speedmaster Chrystal Sandwich with the stupid large box
For 3250 euros.
Sold it 6 months later because I could not let myself Enjoy such an expensive purchase at the time.
Now I rock a 5 grand daily to work(building trade) but at the time it was a lot of money.
So now deeply deeply regret selling it.
I bought a Christopher Ward, paid the duties and taxes... it got to my home and holy crap the date ring around the dial was so small no one in my family can read the date - and I wear reading glasses and I couldn't read it. I felt so stupid thinking of all the Macro marketing shots that made it look big. I sent it back, got my money but never applied to get my duties and taxes back. Long story I won't buy another watch without seeing it in person.
You guys have such delightful chemistry. Glad you had her back on!
Bought an early Casioak brand new, was VERY disappointed with the digital display, absolutely unreadable in daylight, picked up a Casio Protek, with compass and temperature sensors, great backlight and 200 meter waterproof, can’t go wrong with that.
My biggest regret is deciding not to buy the TAG Heuer Monaco in my hand, back when it was affordable.
Bought my SMQ monaco at 5% off, wife was tired of hearing me whine for 10 years, pulled the trigger even though it was out of budget.
@@spittinvenom9843if you couldn’t stop thinking/talking about it for 10 years, you gotta get it!
I have learned im not a save for the grails only person. I like owning affordable watches and gradually evolving my collection to more luxury pieces so i can have ownership/firsthand experience with different levels/styles. I dont want to have a seiko cocktail and save up for a ALS. I want to own the Longines, the C wards, Sinns, etc at some point.
That being said, I regret trading an affordable 4 watch collection for a single grail. Might be a hot take but it’s my experience. I would have rather waited to get the grail and chosen to keep 2 out of 4 affordable watches.
The charisma of Britt Pearce drips.
Biggest regret was buying a Tag Carrera based on a picture in a magazine. It didn't look nearly as nice in person and the strap and buckle felt so cheap. It was even more regret when watchfinder offered me a quarter of retail on a exchange against a Omega seamaster 300m
Just because you have a watch you don't wear doesn't mean you love it less. You will miss it when it's gone.
I regretted selling a Nomos Orion 38 Midnight Blue to the extent that when another one came along at a reasonable price I jumped on it. Glad I did, it's gorgeous, and despite not having any lume it's very legible due to the shiny gold hands and markers against the dark blue dial. I'm definitely keeping this one.
Regret = buying a Tissot in August, sold it this week for a £90 loss. Impulse = silliness!
Which model
Seastar@@lov.2.g
I regret not getting into watches until after I got married and had children - would have had one hell of a collection if I hadn't!
I visited a jewelry store in Switzerland in 1971 and a new in the box Rolex Submariner was $160. I bought an Omega Seamaster 120 for $60. I love the Omega but I could have had the Submariner.
Delightful to see my two favorite watch channels smashed into one comedy of errors that EVERY watch geek can identify and also sympathize with. I, however still have my first watch given to me at age 12. It is a Swiss Vulcain hand winding tachymeter. It still works incredibly, even after tree climbing, and football and basketball games and the odd after school fist fight!
Ayyyy! Bargain bin Jenni Elle is on the show! 😂
Before I get slammed, she has literally described herself in this exact way.
Bro said "bargin bin" Jenni Elle.... I just pissed myself.
Love it! Good to hear from all of you.
Like a lot of people, I bought watches soley on pictures online and in the begining was totally oblivious to the importance of dimensions relative to your wrist size. Now, I know to always try on a piece in person or at the very least watch reviews with a similar wrist size as mine before making a purchase.
Watch companies’ pictures are absolute shit and I have no idea why
My first mechanical watch was a Hamilton Jazzmaster Maestro Chrono. Beautiful watch, but didnt know about size when i bought it. It is a 45mm case with 15mm thickness. It is a very chunky watch. I still have it, but it seldomly comes out. Luckily I have large wrists, but looking back wouldnt get something so thick.
Thank you Tom for calling it what it is, “watch buying” and not “watch collecting” ! 😊
you NEVER sell presents .... regardless of the motive
Memories are priceless
Out of the watches I have owned, I most regret selling my 2004 Tag Heuer F1 chronograph. It may be entry level but it meant the most.
This is funny....my main regret was getting into the hobby and not realizing only one watch is the way to go...one watch collection rules.
Just one. And done.
Money for so many other things.
I completely forgot about those Kahuna watches! I had one and it went perfectly with a Gul pencil case made out of the same fabric as a wetsuit.
The moment she said "I'll try to get it right...", I knew it was going to be A Lange & Sohne
At what point do you talk about the Tag Heuer Formula 1 WAZ1110 that’s on the thumbnail?
Britt and Andrew in one video. As good as it gets!
And Tom!
@@tonyr669 Tom made this lifeless channel lively.
Geez. Heart Break High is a blast from the past. Check out the reboot. Suprisingly fantastic. Love from Australia. Great chat.
So far, all of my watches have been impulse buys, I regret none of them as of yet.
My very modest collection is a Timex expedition that was my daily for the longest time, an Invicta Pro Diver that gave me the mechanical bug, a Tissot Seastar 1000 that is my current daily, and most recently a Mido Ocean Star 600 chronometer.
Yep. I spent on Tag AU$7k.
That’s my biggest regret on my watch Collection.
Totally understand the 'getting rid of watches' regret. Losing one in your own home is even worse. When I was a kid, my Dad gave me a manual wind Oris, it was sort of almost 'diver style' type thing, but a very 1970's design, and I can't for the life of me find it anywhere now that I'm into watches. I KNOW that I've not thrown it away, but can't find it anywhere :(
There's a trick for flushing it out -- buy another one. Within 3 days the first watch will miraculously reveal itself. It's an old practical joke the cosmos plays on me all the time.
@@OslerWannabe Oh I've known THAT trick to work MANY times! LOL. I've got duplicates of so many items, usually tools.
Biggest regret.. not having enough $$ to buy all the watches I want.
Don't get into watch collecting....bingo...one watch very good, two watches excellent, three watches pushing the boundaries of reasonable, 4 and you've lost touch with reality and are building a watch museum.
Only sold one watch, a Casio G-Shock - Ga-100-1A4Er which I had hard time to read the time easily enough, it was pretty mint but better some one got use of it than it spending time in my drawer...
Correct me if i'm wrong, but if you overset your date on a perpetual calendar, isn't it easier to just let it sit until it runs out of juice completely then wait until the actual time catches up to your watch date and wind it up again?
He literally said exactly this on the video
This was the first of your 30min videos that felt like about 5mins, sooo entertaining!
I was in my mid 30's and bought an Invicta watch off of the TV, never paid attention to a watch in my life. Browsing the channels one night and just so happened they had a watch that caught my eye and I impulse bought it. As it turns out it was a $75 piece of crap but I don't regret it one bit, 14 years later and I have a nice watch collection and I love the hobby. But if it weren't for that shopNBC or whatever channel it was back then I wouldn't have ever bought a watch....
"if it's got a moon then dont fiddle with it!"
truer words have never been spoken lmao.
looking at all my perpetual calendar and moonphases in different lunar phases and off by one day, hurts
My biggest regret was I passed on a Rolex Hulk pre-covid for around 12K usd. Put that money instead plus another 10K into risky stocks and crypto, so a total of just over 22K. You can see where this is going. Had I purchased that Hulk, I would be sitting on an 18K-20K watch now plus I would still have that 10K lying around.
Regrets:
Seiko Kinetic, two big, too, heavy and it broke.
1970 Seiko Quartz, invisible silver hands on a silver dial, integrated bracelet that broke repeatedly.
A Swatch. Just sweaty, didn't last.
That's it.
She loved the watch,yet she sold it. Her hubby gifted it for xmas to her,but she sold it.
She loved it soo much,but she sold it. Can anyone translate this for me,pleeease??
Sure. She invested in herself and her CZcams channel and now it has grown to over a 100k subscribers and is her dream job… that came from that watch, a watch that although she kinda misses, she never wore it before we sold it. I wore it more than her.
I regret all the years I spent telling myself I didn’t want to get into watches
One summer holidays as a teenager my mum bought me a watch of my choosing as a reward for being helpful and I chose what I thought was a really cool quite chunky gold (colour) Sekonda watch in the style of a Rolex Oyster. For the next year at school my nickname was Big Ben. No idea where the watch is now.
I would say you don't necessarily have to be in the watch game long to develop and rack up watch regrets in a relatively short time if you're impatient, didn't do your homework, too curious, and too hasty.
Andrew's story... Have you watched Ferris Beuller's Day Off? You know the scene where they were trying to reset the odometer by driving in reverse on the Ferrari? Sort of feels a bit like that.
My watch regret was having given up my CASIO CFX-40. It's super rare and never to be repeated by Casio and I know this as I contacted Casio direct. It's the only scientific calculator watch that was produced circa 1980's and the going rate now is 300x what it sold for iin 1985 here in South Africa.
Selling my Marine master 600 is my biggest watch regret, or at least that and my Chronomaster. But then there's selling my datejust for £900 back in 2008.... So many!
I'm looking to buying a 600m now actually. Found one for around 2600 but passed on it and it was sold right away...
@@dennischen8887 they're truly fantastic watches, I will have another one day. The case dimensions on paper wear big but in reality, it sits so well on the wrist. Get one, you'll be so happy you did
Is the problem you had with your IWC specific to that watch or would that be the same with other perpetual calendars?
My regret is having some pretty desirable watches (1970s and 80s) but completely misunderstanding the meaning of "sports watch". I've thrashed and broken some nice pieces. F'rinstance, trail racing motorcycles in the desert is not one of the "sports" Breitling had in mind for their chronographs. I have several stories like that. I wouldn't even play golf with a nice watch, today.
I had no idea you guys made this video great to see watch gringa on the channel she is such a fun wrist watch channel.
My biggest regret was for my 1980s digital Seiko. Some of the pushers weren’t working and my Seiko AD said it couldn’t be repaired. I loved that watch. Looked good. Lots of complications. I should have found a second opinion. It might have needed a good cleaning by a good watchmaker. Sigh!
Britt adds enormous value wherever she goes. Fantastic to see her here. The only (sort of) regret I have is getting into the watch game in the first place. Think of the money I could’ve saved and the frustration at not having what I wanted! I agree on the Explorer 1. I have my name down for one and, in the extremely unlikely event that I get a call, I won’t turn down the opportunity to have such a fantastic watch.
That is the first time I have ever heard someone mention Drazic! He was the coolest!
I still have a Kahuna watch I bought about 15 years ago. It still works - best tenner you could ever spend.
My biggest regret is my 10 year anniversary watch that I begged my wife to get. I had been in love with the Bell & Ross BR123 for years. I had researched the watch over and over again. The one thing I hadn't realized at that time in my watch collecting was how important lug-to-lug was. SO, when I finally wore the B&R, the lug to lug length was way too long for my wrist. What's the problem? Well, I got it as my anniversary watch, so I can never sell it as that would insult my wife. I can't really wear it either as the extra long lug to lug length bugs the shit out of me. So, it sits in my closet unworn and unsellable. That is my biggest regret.
Wear this on shirt.
The Citizen BN7020-09E looked like a cool watch to own, being the only solar powered 1000m diver. But wearing the 20mm thick 50mm wide behemoth to bed can result in head injuries to both the wearer and spouse.
My grandmother gave me a digital watch and died a year or two later. One morning I took it off as usual before getting in the shower and accidentally flushed it down the toilet when I washed my hands after having a whizz. That clumsy moment is still my biggest watch regret.
I bought a Tag Heuer Carrera Caliber 16 Chronograph in September because I thought it looked really cool...
Then it arrived and it's huge, I have a 6.5 inch wrist and it's just too big, and yes I know I should have thought of that before yet another impulse buy.
I really should have known better!😂
So great to see Britney.. Very informative.. Watch regret selling my 80s tag. First proper watch for £90. Would look good in my watch box now.
My biggest watch regret - A week prior to my first marriage (Feb 2007) I went to Tourneau to buy a wedding gift for myself. I was set on buying a Rolex Submariner. A clever and skillful salesmen convinced me to buy a Tourneau Gotham Chronograph instead. He touted the rareness of the stone used to make the dial and accentuated the exclusivity of the piece. Of course not knowing what I know now, I was convinced and bought the watch instead of the sub (both were price similarly). I soon regretted the purchase as well as the marriage. Needless to say the watch lasted longer. When I finally sold the Gotham I was only able to get $500 for it. It took me 14 years to make right a wrong and in 2021 I finally got the sub.
That is a very regrettable story, but a Gotham sounds so much cooler than a Sub. Amazing what Rolex had become in recent times. Did you ever re-buy a Sub?
If you wound your perpetual calendar forward by a day, why not just stop the watch, as in hack it, and wait a day or more then reset?
With the Iwc, can you not let it power down and not use it until the calendar catches up, then wind it up and go?
You can. Andrew didn’t. “Read the flippin’ manual”.
Oh mate, had no idea Britt was going to be here. I smiled the moment I say her come up!
FUN FACT; Oisin O’Malley dislikes this video 😂😂😂
I bought a Seiko 5. It was nothing like my first ($270) Swiss watch. I bought it from a dealer on Amazon and it would not self wind. Thankfully I sold it for a loss of $40 on eBay.
Little known fact is that there are two (most photogenic) positions to photograph the watch, 10.10 and 13.50, they're called WPN (watch photo north) and WPS (watch photo south). I made that last bit up.
My regret is to run to Rolex AD last month only 3 weeks after I put my name on the list for a 36 OP. Thought it was too good to be true, turned out to be less good than thought. Now a white 39 OP is for sale for less
Which OP did you buy? Why did you regret it? White OP is 👌🏽
@@comeonman7423 I got a blue 36. Very nice watch but maybe 1 or 2 mm too small from its thickness.
White dial of older 39 maybe a bit big for a bright color watch but is stunning and it's width offsets it's height.
Writing I see I might be too picky, but we spend a chuck of our lives looking at these things on screens or in person, so might as well get your "perfect" watch. A versatile 37/38, white dial no date or complication/drama.
Bought a massive g-shock online before i really knew anything about watches. It was "half off" so i thought it was a good deal and i liked the look. But when i got it, it was waaaay to big for me and looked terrible on my wrist. Luckily it was only an $80 mistake, but looking at it still makes me feel like a fool haha.
Most G-shocks are pretty chunky, however that’s part of their character. The G-shock model I’ve been wearing recently clocks in at 46mm which is ridiculous but it somehow just works on my tiny wrist
Still Crazy to see these people'sfaces if you've been a long time fan 😂🖤🖤
Bel Canto just won the GPHG PETITE AIGUILLE
A breitling 38mm I saw at a ONG second hand online seller for just 800. I still feel sad about not buying it
Wow a nice sized Breitling for $800! That regret would drive me nuts!
Went into an ad in 2007 for what would become the Kermit Submariner and got a phone call around 3 months later - £3250 but could only hold it for 12 hours. I had the money but I also had a 3 year old and common sense kicked in. I was a diver at the time and loved the history but just couldn’t as I knew I wouldn’t wear it daily.
Love that IWC story.
Bought a Rolex Cellini back in 2005 and to see if that helped me get on the "list" I asked them to get me an oyster perpetual. Not exactly the hottest of the line up so I figured its no big deal. It's been a year and a half and havent heard back from them. Rolex AD's are the absolute worst. Meanwhile my IWC/JLC AD has been an absolute blessing, nicest guy you could ever meet and he has always gone above and beyond to help me out with everything from purchasing a new watch to service on an old one.
One big regret is that I didn't discover the CWC G10 earlier...I could have saved a lot of money (current loss is probably around £2000 buying and selling various Omegas, IWC, Hamiltons etc)
Huh, same thing happened to me too. I heard about CWC from the Mad Watch Collector.
@@varanid9 exactly. Same here... and another watch pal who loves CWC and he lent me his G10 to wear for a week... now I've bought one myself.... just so damn light , beautiful, accurate and practical. I really love it. Just shows that we don't need to buy crazy expensive watches to enjoy this hobby...its a dangerous hobby and can make you broke ha ha
Does the second hand hit the markers?
@@JeeGee114 yes it does. I asked them to send one that did, and they picked one out. Stunning watch
I had the opportunity to buy a Tudor lollipop 76100 for £1,000 about 10 years ago. Was about to pull the trigger and got stage fright. I thought about that watch for a long time.
I got caught out by one of those scam auctions as a teenager. I was livid and I still am really, but I've never been caught out again so I kid myself it was a valuable life lesson, but deep down I know I was a sucker.
Britt great to see you on this episode... congrats on your quick recovery
I love that her regret was not buying the A Lange & Sohne which is at least $25k, and he said he regretted buying a GShock because he then couldn’t afford tires.
There are levels to this sh!t, lol
Selling my King Seiko KSK 140th Anniversary, i loved that watch, and now have too many money commitments to afford to buy one back😫
Suboptimal hitters
Vintage Omega Frankenwatches.
Buying a Timex is my biggest regret.
All show and no go, they look great but the build quality isn't any better than a 60 USD China special.
That said... I still haven't sold it!
You don't sell a Timex. You throw it out.
I have a 5.5" wrist. My biggest regret is an online purchase of a watch I like, but it's a 42mm. Whoa! Real big. Bummer!
Okay, as a "mid-sized horologist" (pieces between 50mm and 4m) that is just now getting into wrist clocks... er watches, I do have watch regrets like collectors of anything will have. My biggest is that I did not get into watches until later in life.I have bought a couple that I thought would be fashionable "field" watches for hiking knowing I will use my cheap Timex expedition when backpacking on the trail for weeks. I also, have had so many opportunities to purchase classic models (before the interweb) at incredible values. Another possible regret is that this morning I purchased a old mislabeled wooded chest filled with thousands of "clock parts" that I knew were vintage watch parts that come from pre-1970s watches. Oh well, I spent the same amount on beers tonight. Peace out.
When the photo of the Kahuna came up I thought it said "Sometimes Water Resistant" 12:35
The perpetual calendar story is actually really funny. 😅
I had an Explorer II 42mm black dial that I sold and I regret it. I think I just felt a bit big on my wrist but still regret dumping it 😖😖
I am currently regretting Seiko flight master ( had the cash atleast a dozen times ) but kept delaying it and now it's twice as expensive
have to agree on the Christopher Ward. I too left it too late to order the blue dial. Regretted it ever since
Just bought a Traska Venturer….. not a bad watch but all of the indices failed to be lined up properly…. Glad i can send it back.
Kahuna watches are great! Super comfy velcro straps. I have a bunch.
I keep looking at the Lange Saxonia moonphase.
I need to try one on before I consider buying.
I just got 36mm explorer and it is way better than I even expected. Hold out for it!
Andrew, Brittany, and Tom thanks this was very entertaining. Tom your story was very painful. Is Regrets the same as Buyers Remorse?
I am surprisingly close with my regrets to Britt: sold watch and not purchased one.
I owned a Seiko Pogue in the past and somehow as an result of rotation in my watch box I sold it. Normal thing. But I bought it and sold it for the equivalent of around 250GBP because that was the market price back then. I regretted soon after but I never found in such a nice condition that was in my reach and now you have an idea how much they cost :(
Another one Britt will be able to relate and understand very well how much of a regret it is. It's about Rolex Explorer 36mm. I was at the Airport in Munich (2 years ago or so) and I decided to step into a watch dealer store. From word to word I asked about Rolex sports models and initially of course nothing available but after a couple minutes of talking they asked me to come to other desk in the corner of the store and they pulled out brand new Explorer I 36mm and told me that this one is to take home if I want. As I am not a great impulse buyer when we are talking about Rolex money and also being in position when my boarding starts in couple minutes, I didn't pull the trigger on that one (I could afford it at that time and I regretted it really quickly). Now to get this one I will have to wait probably forever 🥲
With the IWC you can just put it in the draw for a few days (or his case months) and let time catch up and pass it
That if I'd foregone buying all the entry-level (say $2k) watches, I could have just bought the Speedie I've actually always wanted.
Time stamps man 😭 that’s a necessity nowadays