Who Watches the Watchmen (Our Chit Chat Thread)

I ordered the Forstner 1450 bracelet from the US because there was a big online discount. I figured even if I got hit with import and VAT, it would still be as cheap as the UK source. I wasn't in a hurry either, so regular post was fine.

I was away for a few days and when I got home I had a VAT demand, one of the printed cards. I paid it on 15/04/2020. The tracking number was a US Postal service one, so using anpost.com told me nothing bar the extra costs had been paid.

The damn thing was not delived until yesterday, 13 days later! FFS!

No idea what any of that is about but that Tim fella seems like a right asshole.

A massive pack of ****. Who claim to be for “the community” but also are desperately clawing for pennies in the dirt ala Archie’s fridge, Tim’s superchats desperation and Paul selling jpegs, Oisins fawning over zero shite vest etc etc.

The community is pretty ugly at this point if they represent it.

Jesus. That’s a 20k gift! And the man is walking wan k stain.

Some ball of shite really . I can’t stand Archie, makes me feel weird watching him and not good weird.He seems to have a huge following though.

At this stage I only watch barker & jack , teddy balldaserrrreee however you spell that and watch finder.Granted they are all selling but at least it’s about watches and not drama .

The monotone is annoying at times but there’s no bullsh*t or drama with him, not that I’ve seen yet anyway .What do you not like about him ?

Repugnant is a perfect description for Archie

I stick to Tim mosso , no nonsense 😁

yeah I’d be with you on all that and like yourself I subscribe to them all but don’t pay too much attention to them.

forgot about David K , he’s a real wannabe Paul Thorpe ,same “trust me I’m honest “ style of video.

https://youtu.be/xh8l_x5O4D4

This is why I dont youtube any more. These lads are like children all cliques and clubs. Thorpe wants to control everyone in his cartl. He says its loyality he wants but really that just a code for licking his hole. Tim Write is bottom feeding sucker fish that hoovers up scraps of superchats. Archie is hard to listen to. Nico engages too much and is like the enforcer for the cartell because he is the biggest youtuber. Its all got nothing to do with watches. But problem is like I have said before there just is not enough to the watch hobby to keep 24 hour a day streaming channels busy.

Thorpe giving out about comments on other channels is a bit childish. Youtube is troll central. Trolling is fun,.

The two adverts ain’t flying off the shelf’s. One sold at 375 so market set at that.

what’s euro retail?

Adverts is always cheap. Plenty of them on eBay where bidding has gone far above that already. I think RRP is €250. Fair play to those flippers standing in the queue for an hour or so, buying 2 of them and flipping them for a profit worth more than a full days manual labour 😁

I'd love to hear it. But there's no way I would listen to that tubridy shite.

So A Lange have had massive price increases up to 20 percent.

As an example the 1815 chrono has gone from 55,400 to 64,400.

Every YouTube channel is doing the “it’s only the hype models are falling, small correction, April is a slow month”. When the tide starts to go out…..

Ok I know it's not a watch, but still I don't want to post on the fake watch for sale thread cos I'm not saying fake. Though 4200 for these runners. Does anyone have any idea what they are?

He needed to sell them last week ideally. They are part of Kobe Bryants nike run of player edition shoes. Kobe's contract with Nike had expired after his death and so Nike were no longer allowed to make any Kobe shoes, driving the price of all existing ones through the roof.

Unfortunately for our mate on adverts, the estate of Kobe Bryant reached an agreement with Nike last week to continue to produce Kobe shoes, including reissues of older shoes, therefore tanking the price of ones already on the market.

It goes to show how "exclusivity" sells.

I always notice peoples watch, I work in a place that has a lot of high level engineers and project managers. Would expect a few high end watches. mechanical watch in 4 years, one quartz citizen diver, one rolex (funny enough worn by a guy who wears canada goose jackets and nike air max), one gold dress watch that I couldn't make out and about 200 smart watches.

the dream for me is a simple wirstband that does smart tracking for steps/health that i only need to charge once a month.. why can't someone make one? i don't want a screen or charging multiple times a week... the fitbit wristband was the right form a few years ago.. but for all it did needed charging every two days

There's one without a screen?

The Sony Wena is the closest I've yet seen for this kind of functionality. TBH, you'd think the market would be there for it? Something like the Oura or Movana tech and sensors built into a bracelet or a clasp 🤔

I wear a mi-band 5 on my right wrist, fairly low profile and 2 weeks + on a charge.

I really want an Apple Watch without the screen. I really think it would work well. They’ve the most accurate sensors, very good selection of straps, great integration with payments and I do own several iOS devices. I have mine to only notify me of texts from family members and if it’s going to rain, other than that it’s a watch/activity tracker.

don’t think I can pull off the two wrist watch look so the Apple Watch is a daily wear as much as I would prefer to be wearing something more traditional.

Lewis mustn’t have fancied leaving any of his watches in the hotel room safe.

The mechanical wrist watch had an incredible 5 years and there are 12 month to 10 year wait lists across multiple brands.

They are two different markets with some shared customers. Both will exist for a long time.

Sponsored by IWC, so three of them.