Watches

There's no such thing as "value for money" in the luxury watch space. All luxury watches are overpriced - that is the whole point of "luxury" - duh. Speaking along the same lines, I saw a reviewer try to justify the price difference between two dive watches because one was METAS certified whilst the other was only COSC certified - literally for 99.999% of people this won't make a difference. Most of these luxury watch goobers take their watches off to wash their hands.

Smaller watches look good on men and the idea that a watch needs to be the right size is ridiculous. When people ask "is this watch to small?" my answer will always be no. 36mm and 34mm watches look great too, especially dressier options.

Stop worrying, if you love the watch and dial wear it.

Tissot PRX hater 🙋‍♂️

My unpopular take: people that can't afford luxury watches shouldn't go voicing their unpopular opinion about them.

The Air King 126900 is pretty fkn hot

Everything that youtube reviewers crack on aren't that important. If every watch had a sapphire crystal, an adjustable clasp, 200m WR with a screw down crown, was "value for money" and had good lume... well, we'd all be wearing a dive watch from a microbrand.

I like the variety of watches out there.

I don’t like color-matched date wheels. They’re always difficult to read, and it’s a cop-out toward placating fussy enthusiasts. I like a date with a white wheel that’s easy to read and framed prominently. It’s a useful feature; don’t try and hide it.

Miniature seconds wheel looks tacky to me. I know Nomos gets a lot of love, but personally I am not a fan at all. Having a sweeping or ticking seconds hand it quintessential watch aesthetic to me. It's the visual heartbeat of the watch. I love dial complications like date, moon phase, day, etc, but they should be visually secondary to the main watch face. By having the a small seconds hand being the only active thing on the watch face, it distracts from the rest of the watch. A full seconds hand draws the eye over the whole watch instead.

Big steel sports watches are the sneakers/street wear of the watch world. They are tacky as hell and their popularity is driven largely by hype.

The Powermatic 80 family of movements are unfairly maligned, and horribly underrated.

Hamilton and all field watches are dork watches

Longines is not that great and only pushed on Reddit for some unknown reason

Never be afraid of downvoting. If you say what you think nobody can take that away from you.

Every passing day I respect Jody/Just One More Watch less because of how much bootlicking he does for the Aliexpress brands. I don't necessarily hate brands like San Martin and Pagani Design on their own, but how much he insinuates that you'd be better off with Ali brands' (admittedly very well made and affordable) copies over the genuine article doesn't sit right with me for some reason. While Jody is right from a completely logical and financial perspective, I don't think he realizes that collecting watches is kinda illogical in of itself. People who can afford them WANT expensive watches because it makes them feel special and cool, and getting something that merely apes the look of a desirable watch when they could afford the real thing simply doesn't do it for a lot of people.

For example, he straight up says in his most recent 11/11 video that you'd be better off with an Aliexpress copy of a Doxa than an actual Sub 300 because he couldn't discern how the real thing would be any better. Given Doxa's reputation for making capable, well-crafted diver's watches that were able to stand up to the rigors of military operations, I sincerely doubt this. I also find it very hard to believe his claim that San Martin will become a legitimate threat to other affordable brands' sales, especially when 1. San Martin's sales are practically dwarfed by how many mall watches Seiko and Citizen sell, and 2. Their whole shtick and success is inherently contingent on either copying other people's homework, or otherwise producing original designs that range from generic to gaudy.

I respect Jody and like his content, and I don't mind his and many other people's affection for the Ali brands, but I have a hard time believing that some tried and true watch brands are shitting their panties because some niche hobbyists are buying homages of their watches.

The Omega Seamaster looks like when Homer Simpson designs the car. Way too much going on.

“It has wavy lines on the face. Oooh and big sword hands. And a massive ugly helium valve.”

80% of the people on here are complete pussies with their watches

"Fear of downvoting". I truly feel pity and a lot of contempt for the new generations.

Let's try, even if I'm afraid of everyone downvoting my comment: Your collection is ugly and irrelevant, what it needs is to be sold, maybe just that one watch can be saved; On the other hand, what your impressive collection says about you is that you have money, not taste. Yes, it's too big for your wrist. Ugh, another watch shot from a pov that includes your crotch and shoes. Stop coming to the internet to be told what to buy. It's the same picture. Yes, that shit is fake.

How did I do?

Watch size positivity movement is dumb. Sure enough, you can watch of any size on any wrist, but should you? Nope, because lugs going over the wrist by a large margin look ridiculous indeed. I am saying that as a guy with small wrists whose first watch was way too large, but who is happy now after having switched to a smaller size.

Square watches are an abomination. And I don't want to hear about how the first watches were square. A lot of bad ideas throughout history have been kicked to the curb.

I really wish women's watches could just be scaled-down versions of men's watches. I hate "feminized" styles, bling, and fewer available automatic movements than the male-targeted options.

Rolex is boring, and just a "look what money I can waste" purchase. There...I said it.

I hate Cristopher Wards branding. I know it’s not but it sounds like a fashion brand name similar to Michael Kors or Steve Madden. That’s my two cents

People who only have Casios and seikos are losers or students

Watch nerds are usually the least underwater group of people I've ever met and NEEDING high water resistance in a watch is silly (most of the time).

Tissot watches are ugly

1. I absolutely, positively hate the snowflake hands of Tudor watches. I don’t have any problem with people who like them or like Tudor… but, IMHO, that are UGLY!

2. Also, Chinese market will be competing with the Swiss market within the next couple of decades.

Seeing someone wear their watch up their wrist to the back of their hand gives me the same feeling as seeing a kid wear their dads suit.

Diver watches are ugly af. Especially the Rolex type ones.

Heritage is massively overrated.

Most of the exciting and fun watches are coming from the younger and independent brands in my opinion.

Most of the legacy brands don’t have a continuous history and have been bought/sold multiple times and in many cases resurrected with questionable links to the past.

Drugs should be legal

The green Seiko Alpinist is the ugliest watch regularly posted to this subreddit. That was until I saw one in person, in which I realized it’s uglier than in the pictures.

Actually I genuinely think the Tudors look better than their Rolex counterparts, the submariner just looks cheesy to me.

So I guess that's my hot take ^

My only other one is I think roman numerals look stupid.

Panerai should be commended for never faltering or compromising on their wild fucking design language.