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Timeless watch channel

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,148 ✭✭✭893bet


    **** I hate Tim. Tim is dim.


    I see mention of a “letter” from the boyfriend.


    Link anyone?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,148 ✭✭✭893bet


    Also off topic as timeless don’t do live chats themselves yet at least but looking at Tim’s channel, watch cardinal, Archie etc


    what the **** is the story with superchats?? I see lads firing 5-100 quid to have their comment read….it’s like only fans for watch nerds.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,553 ✭✭✭Fitz II


    Dude superchats are the new subscriber counts. Its really weird. Marco shaved his head live on stream for well over 2k in superchats. I have seen 500 euro, 1000 euro single chats. I think its uber rich collectors exercising control....its like a form of prostitution. Same guys spending thousands a week on superchats across the various streams, digging up drama....Nico Leonard did a 9 hours live stream a few weeks back, whats on earth is going on?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,918 ✭✭✭hitemfrank


    I'm not sure how the superchats work in youtube, but on twitch there was a time of a lot of fake donations of large sums.

    So, someone will donate a couple of grand and then do a chargeback via their bank or PayPal leaving the streamer out of pocket if they've spent it by the time of the charge back.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,148 ✭✭✭893bet


    Watch collecting is a nerd pastime. It’s gotten a little “cooler” and mainstream lately.


    Those streams set it back. Middle aged and old me in their box rooms argueing and discussing watches. Begging for superchats and thanking then person that sends them over and over. Talk of the “community”. I find it a little nauseating.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,932 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    Superchats!

    OnlyFans for Watch nerds?



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,149 ✭✭✭redlead


    They are so boring too, just a load of nerds making small talk. Anyone that finds themselves looking at these needs to reasses what they're doing with their life.

    TTWC was kind of at its peak when he was at 20k subscribers. He seems to have just turned into a youtuber personality at this stage.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,599 ✭✭✭Cyclingtourist


    (1) My 9/11 story. What saved my life. - YouTube

    TTWC latest video where Oisín tells his 9/11 story.

    About 10 seconds of watch related content but it's 42 minutes of walking round one of the most beautiful cities in the world (IMO) talking about that terrible day and his own experience of being in NY then.

    "There are 8 million stories in the naked city, this has been one of them" Quote from a TV series I used to watch back (fado fado) in my youth. It was originally a film apparently in the late 40s.



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,696 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    Am I the only one that's thinking this little 'spat' is no more than a publicity stunt for both of them?

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,720 ✭✭✭scwazrh


    They both put up screenshots of messages between them on Instagram last night. From those she clearly asked him to edit the videos before uploading it and he said no.No matter who’s at fault It’s very immature carry on from a man who’s online persona is trying to be one of a travelled gentleman sharing his enjoyment of the finer things in life .

    Edit to add screenshots if anyone’s interested and not on Instagram




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,553 ✭✭✭Fitz II


    Do you know I tend to believe her more in this. Something very ugly, needy and narcissistic in his personality that the beauty of Venice can't hide.


    Also the large number of people killed in the 9 11 attacks in s dwarfed my the millions who claim they would have been there except for some twist at of fate.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,720 ✭✭✭scwazrh


    I think you’re hitting the nail on the head there. His comments about his ex in other videos is bad form as well. There’s two sides to all stories particularly when it comes to break ups but using his channel to speak negatively about his ex and Chloe doesn’t paint him in a good light .



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,599 ✭✭✭Cyclingtourist


    FitzII quote:

    "Also the large number of people killed in the 9 11 attacks in s dwarfed my the millions who claim they would have been there except for some twist at of fate."

    Millions. really? The Twin Towers were large office buildings that had thousands of professional and tourist visits daily, the Pentagon had staff and people doing business, the flight that crashed before reaching its target would have had people who might have been on it but for some chance occurrence. So if you take all these there are probably tens of thousands who can legitimately claim to have 'been there except for some twist of fate'.

    I tend to believe Oisín is one of them if for no other reason than he claims that the woman who would have been there with him married his 'best friend' so will still be within his wider circle of relatives and friends. If he's making it up then it will be known by people close to him and the embarrassment to him would hardly be worth the lie.

    As regards the French girl, who cares? I certainly don't.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,553 ✭✭✭Fitz II


    I get the impression that oisin cares about the French girl. He loves to tell us all about the Streisand effect...I think that's going on here.




  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,170 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Given she's in her early 20's and he's in his 40's(?), she's coming off a lot better than he is in this. Even if they're both telling porkies she's better at looking like acting the adult about it. The "Hey, is it true you were a hooker in Germany" bit is cringe. When you come across as more narcissistic, reactive and petty than a wandering instagram bird in her 20's that's not a good look for a middle aged man who's supposed to have his life together. Then again performers have a tendency to be a bit childlike, and often childish with thin egos in my experience, so maybe it's that. He should stick to watch videos and avoid the talking about my exes travelogue stuff becuase the latter tends to make him look like a twat more than it doesn't.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,553 ✭✭✭Fitz II




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,310 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    The guy is an embarrassment. If anyone can get through more than a minute of his video "Watches, Wine and Jealousy" without disappearing into yourself with cringe, fair play. It's an hour long! I think the comments sum up the majority of people who watches it. "I feel like oisin is becoming a friend" or "this is how real men behave". Christ almighty, the internet has failed humanity.

    No offence to people here who like the channel btw, suppose like watches themselves, everyone likes different stuff, but I'd much rather watch the 2 boardsies watch channels than this lad with 50k subs



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,599 ✭✭✭Cyclingtourist


    I do like his channel. Sometimes he can get side-tracked into subjects that I don't have much interest in like The Timepiece Gentleman or his dispute with the French girl and her friend but in general I find his videos well presented and entertaining. The Venetian backdrop of course helps. Adrian (B&J) walking round central London doesn't quite match.

    Maybe I have a higher cringe threshold. 😀



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,170 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Venice defo helps alright. Very cool city. The current pox really helped too as normally it's packed to the gills with tourists, or surprisingly cold and damp with wellies often required in the off season.

    His mid pox walkabouts reminded me that Venice was one of the most prepared and efficient city states in Europe when the black death hit. They enacted quarantine of ships and people for (quaranta)forty days, bans on people and goods from infected areas, shut down bars, cafes and church services and divided the city into zones that could be closed off in the event of a local outbreak. Lockdown pretty much. They built the first official quarantine zone and the first plague hospital and the first modern health ministry, even came up with issued travel passes for the healthy. It helped that it wasn't a walled city like others, and they had border controls before the plague hit, because people were always trying to get in and they were trying to control that so were better prepared than most.

    Haven't been there myself since the 90's. I went there with my folks as a kid. My dad had been there very soon after the war had ended in Europe. His take? It was a bit smelly. 😁

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 65,707 ✭✭✭✭unkel
    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    Never knew the word came from quaranta! Every day a school day 😁



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,599 ✭✭✭Cyclingtourist


    ROLEX FANBOY gets a CASIO G-SHOCK !!! - (featuring micro brands: Nove & Pantheum Roma) - YouTube

    Oisín reviews a couple of micro-brand watches and does an un-boxing of two G-Shocks. Seems to have dropped the 'full story' idea on French girl, thankfully.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,148 ✭✭✭893bet


    From girlfriend drama to reviewing shitters.


    unsubbed.



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,170 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Now that I think on it quaranta is forty, but so is IIRC quarantena, the latter's probably the origin. Plague could have a long incubation period, up tp 30 days again IIRC.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 65,707 ✭✭✭✭unkel
    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    Yes, quaranta is 40 and quarantena is 40 days

    One of the main reasons I like the channel is that it has some basic spoken Italian in it. We went to Italy for the summer holidays for most of my teenage years, must have spent the guts of a year over there. That was a while ago though 🤣



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,194 ✭✭✭osnola ibax


    Met Oisin recently, he is an extremely sound guy. Also, extremely generous in every way (especially with his time) and great company.



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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,170 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    He comes across like that tbh, but the lady drama stuff doesn't do him any favours. Though that said maybe it does? Given he's also selling a lifestyle vibe on top of watches it gets the views and attention so there's that aspect too. Would he be in live streams with the fat Australian without it? This youtube/social media/attention stuff is hard enough to navigate.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,720 ✭✭✭scwazrh


    youre probably right there Wibbs .His channel is not really about watches only ,it’s his lifestyle , Italy , wine and so on .I’m not interested in the drama side of his life but obviously a lot of his viewers are .He’s certainly carving out a strong following so most seem to like it.



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,194 ✭✭✭osnola ibax


    I suppose the video with the girl got quite a reaction so he’s leveraging that a bit. I’d say he’s realised now that he’s reached a tipping point on it. Couldn’t see what the fuss was about personally - 3/10 max



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,553 ✭✭✭Fitz II


    3/10!.....she was a honey trap but not a minger, but look maybe my options are more limited than yours 😁



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,194 ✭✭✭osnola ibax


    Maybe I’m being a little harsh, just thought the audience “phwoaaar”ing to fitness ratio was off



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  • Registered Users Posts: 467 ✭✭nj27


    I'd actually expect that, he seems like he'd be a hell of a guy to meet and talk to. Some of the youtube stuff is nonsense but if you're playing that game it's probably hard not to get sucked into some of it eventually.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,553 ✭✭✭Fitz II


    Finally the SOTC...in two parts first part has the lower priced stuff and the second had the rolex.


    Over an hour on the second vid, so time for the reasonably priced wine.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,148 ✭✭✭893bet


    A lot of watches. Can count on on two fingers which ones I would like.

    The hulk and the gold Daytona.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,148 ✭✭✭893bet


    At least he knows the VC and the JLC are a class above.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 65,707 ✭✭✭✭unkel
    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    Enjoyed that. But those two don't do anything for me, 893bet. Maybe my time will come 😂



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 65,707 ✭✭✭✭unkel
    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    He mentions his "tree trunk" arms often and I think I remember him saying that his wrists are 7.6". That's the same as mine.

    So how come the Yachtmaster and Daytona don't seem that small on him? Is it the way he videos them? Or is it just me being conditioned by big watches because of my massive 44mm James Cameron? I've tried on Daytonas (40mm) a few times, far too small. Tried a Batgirl (GMT Master II - 40mm) recently. Beautiful, but looks like a toy watch on me. The only Rolex on my wish list - I guess my only grail watch at this stage of my journey - is the blue Yachtmaster 40. Ichrono has one, hoping to go see it this week



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,148 ✭✭✭893bet


    Oh nor me! Just remarking that he admired they are levels above Rolex quality wise. I note on P Thorpe stream Oisin says if Rolex did not hold their value he might only have 1 in this collection.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,148 ✭✭✭893bet


    I noticed that also. I think the 36mm Rolex he tries on, think it was an OP even looked ok on him.

    The angle the watch wearer views a watch skews perception of size. Make a small watch seem too small and a big watch seem to big vs an onlooker looking from 2 metres away and hardly noticing a difference in size from that perspective.



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,170 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    I note on P Thorpe stream Oisin says if Rolex did not hold their value he might only have 1 in this collection.

    I strongly suspect that would be the case with a majority of general buyers/collectors, particularly latterly in the flipping/investment trend. And largely because of the same trend they get more flex points on insta and the like. One feeds the other. There were always Rolex specific collectors, as well as Omega and so on, but in the general collector arena far less so. A vintage or current collection considered rounded would likely have featured a Sub alright, but not much beyond that. Just like a Speedie would figure in a similar collection, rather than six "special editions" of same. Much has changed in the hobby in this regard.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,720 ✭✭✭scwazrh


    He does like to go on about his “ big arms” I noticed on one of those vids that he uses the same number of links as I do and my wrists are a little under 7” , plus none of the watches look small on him so there might be a bit of exaggeration going on.

    Wouldn’t be like men to claim 7&1/2 “ when the size is closer to 6..



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,553 ✭✭✭Fitz II


    Small wristed people tend to exaggerate how small they are, and big wirsted people exaggerate how big they are. Mostly people are in the 7-8'' range, there was a watchuseek survey a while back showed this. Usually when I hear people with obvious normal sized wrists go on about how big they are its usually in order to give some unnecessary excuse why they are wearing a big watch. Just wear the size you like the look of. Humblebrags about having giant arm unnecessary, want to wear a 50mm invicta good for you, its a look and a personal preference.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,720 ✭✭✭scwazrh


    @unkel either the yacht master is now yours or you were too slow



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 65,707 ✭✭✭✭unkel
    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    I rang him last week to arrange viewing it and he said he was going to be away until today. Was busy today, did not get a chance to ring him. I guess someone beat me to it and wayyyyy overpriced for that watch 😂

    The one in Belfast got sold a few days before I got there but I'm sure there will be others...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 65,707 ✭✭✭✭unkel
    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!



    Not so sure about that. Any watch I try on from other people and half the time I can't even get it over my wrist even with the clasp open. Funny thing is I always thought my wrists were small (they look small to me) until I measured them.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,553 ✭✭✭Fitz II


    You dont have big wrists, but that doesnt mean that you are going to be able to wear other peoples watches without sizing (one standard rolex link only add 0.4 of an inch). Not saying peoples wrists are not different sizes just that the "I have massive wrists and cant wear a 40mm watch thing" is an excuse for preference. Lot of people wear speedmaster professionals at 42mm and the whole massive wrists things doesnt come up. Hell my ap wears really big but I like it because of that not because it look "normal" on my massive wrists. I would say you have about 7.5 - 7.75 inch wrists...perfectly within 1 SD of average. That you are used to a big watch and a smaller watch feels weird is another matter altogether. Someone with a 9 inch wrist can wear a 36mm watch just fine if they want and like that "vintage" look...

    You have big wrists if you have to buy extra links for a watch cause it doesnt come with enough otherwise you are just a normal dude. Nothing about Oisin is ever just normal, ordinary or mundane, his wrists included. Hell he cant even take a sipe of wine without tipping the glass 90 degrees like a sommelier checking the legs.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 65,707 ✭✭✭✭unkel
    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    Cool graph. And yes I'm in the 7.5-7.75" category, so from the above chart roughly 1100 people are in a smaller category and 300 are in a bigger category. So yes that is clearly a lot bigger than average / median


    Any idea where this sample came from, USA only (with a lot of big / heavy people) or globally?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 65,707 ✭✭✭✭unkel
    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    I did have to purchase an extra link for two of my Rolex watches. I suppose that's an interesting marker for wrist size alright 🤣



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,553 ✭✭✭Fitz II


    Thats not how that works and is wrong way to think about it, its about the standard deviation that tells you are you outside the normal variance in sizes, an average means nothing when it comes to population variance stats like this, as no individual is average. For humans a measurable difference is totally normal if its within one standard deviation of the mean. Once you are 2 or 3 SD away from the mean you are an outlier. (assuming the trait follows a normal distribution which wrist size and most biological measurements do).

    https://theslenderwrist.com/average-wrist-size-for-a-man/

    1. The mean (or average) of all the answers is 7.28 inch or 18.49 cm.
    2. This was found by adding wrists sizes and diving by the number of answers. We tend not to use this value though, because discrete ranges skew the results. A mean value would be more truthful, so there you go.
    3. The median (or 50th percentile) – a more statistically correct average wrist size for a man – is 7.25 inch or 18.42 cm.
    4. That means that 50% of men have smaller wrist than 7.25″ and 50% of men have a larger wrist than 7.25″.
    5. The 20th percentile is 6.75 inch or 17.15 cm
    6. 80% of men have a wrist size bigger than 6.75″ (and 20% have a smaller wrist)
    7. The 80th percentile is 7.75 inch 19.67 cm
    8. 20% of men have a wrist size bigger than 7.75″ (and 80% have a smaller wrist)
    9. The standard deviation is 0.70 inch or 1.78 cm
    10. which gives us the last 3 statistics :
    11. 68% of men have a wrist size between 6.55 and 7.95 inch or 16.64 and 20.19 cm
    12. That is 7.25″ (the mean) +- 1 time 0.70″ (the standard deviation)
    13. 95% of men have a wrist size between 5.85 and 8.65 inch or 14.86 and 21.97 cm
    14. That is 7.25″ +- 2 times 0.70″ (the standard deviation)
    15. 99.7% of men have a wrist size between 5.05 and 9.35 inch or 12.83 and 23.75 cm
    16. That is 7.25″ +- 3 times 0.70″

    So at 7.75'' you join nearly 70% of men who are within one Standard deviation of the mean.....so your wrist is a very ordinary size. Sorry but you are not a special snowflake :) Someone was nicking links on you I would think. A rolex will fit an 8'' wrist out of the box (usually 12 full links on a oyster)

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,148 ✭✭✭893bet


    And that’s why watches are cool folks!

    Think the gentleman forum is looking for that kind of analysis also.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 65,707 ✭✭✭✭unkel
    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    Yeah I know what a normal distribution and standard deviation are 😂



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