Watches I’d 100% Buy Right Now

Oh the pain, the pain. So Glasgow right now is absolutely sweltering so if I'm sweating please accept my apologies. I've got some pretty sick tan lines. I went to Glencoe yesterday and I thought you know what really get me a girl, you know what really get me a date? A tan line and this is feast your eyes on this. So there's a couple of watches that have come onto my radar recently that haven't left my radar and I feel like when they don't leave your radar after the hype is gone that's when you know you really actually want that watch. So these are eight watches that I really want to buy right now. So let's start at the beginning and this is something that I reviewed very very recently. This is the Tudor Black Bay Chrono 39 millimeters Bumblebee. So this watch was released fairly recently. I'm gonna say about three weeks to a month ago from when you're seeing this video and honestly it wasn't the color that got me because realistically yellow is a hype color right? We all know that yellow is a hype color. It wasn't the color, it was the sizing. It was the subtle updates that Tudor have brought to this watch that make it so much more palatable for people with slimmer wrists and I am quite a skinny guy. I mean I have 6.5 inch wrists and the way that this wore versus the 41 millimeters was just wildly different. I mean the huge updates here are that it comes in at 39 millimeters instead of 41 and also it's a whole lot thinner but in general the wearability of this watch is just so much better than the 41 mil variant. Now do I want to buy this watch? Absolutely I do want to buy this watch but with that said the the thing that's holding me back from buying this watch is that I foresee new colors coming very very soon and actually it's interesting I walked into the studio the other day and I said to Caroline who edits a lot of these videos I said I really want that Tudor bumblebee and she looked at me and went what would you wear that with and in the back of my mind I thought well you know she's not gone she's got a good point I think the yellow goes with a lot but it's not exactly like a safe color you can't wear yellow with everything with that said I do think yellow goes with blue and I think Breitling the way that they play with yellow is really really nice so it's a bold color I really like this watch but I might wait for a couple more color iterations to come out because they probably are coming by the way this is not sponsored by Pratt and I just needed a coffee but if Pratt do want to sponsor the channel that'd be pretty cool can you imagine had the upgrades that we could do with the studio if Pratt sponsored the check let's get the channel to 200,000 subscribers and then let's ask Pratt for a sponsor if you gotta hit that subscribe button right now I'd really appreciate it so the next watch on the list is kind of a weird one it's kind of one that I've gone down a rabbit hole recently and the reason I've gone down a rabbit hole is because of James McVeigh a good buddy of mine in the watch industry he is totally set my sights on this brand this is Universal Geneve but specifically this model is the Polar Router reference 20368-1 now everybody talks about the Royal Oak and the Nautilus but the Polar Router was designed by Gerald Genta when he was around about 23 or 24 years old that is crazy like see when I think about my life I'm 28 when I think about things that I've done that are significant in my life there's not that many but Gerald Genta was designing watches like this at 23-24 years old that's wild owning one of these just feels like owning a chapter in arguably the greatest watch designer ever and instead of placing the automatic rotor on top of this movement which is this is actually a really cool detail instead of placing the automatic rotor on top of this movement Universal actually recessed it into the movement itself now for its time that was game-changing it was one of the earliest successful micro rotor automatics and it was highly innovative for the 1950s when it actually was released and then taking a step further to this you have even more history asides from just the Gerald Genta you know story which a lot of brands do hang on to the Polar Router was actually really historically significant and the reason it was so significant is that the Polar Router wasn't just given a pilot's style name it was genuinely developed with the Scandinavian Airlines for flights crossing the Polar Routes and at that time the stronger magnetic fields of these Polar Routes set challenges for the mechanical watches of that time now bearing in mind this was like the 1950s if a watch of really any automatic caliber went over them now they'd probably be fine but at that point it would have been an issue so really cool innovation really cool history really cool designer I'm kind of falling in love with this brand and specifically this reference I think it's really cool when people think of German watchmaking they typically and I can understand why they typically think of a Lange & Söhne and God I mean why wouldn't they think of that brand when they have things like this it's just unbelievable the honey gold on this model is absolutely wild this is the Odysseus honey gold but I'm not gonna talk about the Odysseus and I'm not gonna talk about a Lange & Söhne because there's other watch brands that are German that are absolutely banging this is the Glashütte original 60s chronograph annual edition now as the name suggests every year they do an annual edition I think the the last one that I remember that was really cool and really caught my attention was the green annual edition that they did same kind of dial texture to this one but you had beautiful green flares in there with that said this one is purple a purple dial in today's day and age is just totally different to what we see at the moment there's very few brands doing this very few brands that would even dare to touch it and the fact that a premium brand like Glashütte original are touching it is a stroke of genius it is awesome to me now I'm not gonna bore you with the specs because I've already covered them in another video but one really cool thing about Glashütte original that attracts me to this brand actually two really cool things this is where my ADHD starts to ramble one is that 95% of their movements are created entirely in-house that is very very rare for the watch industry typically what you get is people going that was in-house that was in-house but realistically what they've done is bought tons of components and then slapped a rotor on it with their name it's not in-house it's just that it has their rotor on it but with Glashütte original you can genuinely almost a hundred percent guarantee that it's 95% in-house I did a factory visit I asked them this specifically because I don't really enjoy brands that BS around that kind of stuff and then next up is that it's not really known in the watch space apart from with collectors I feel like if you were to wear this watch to a collector's event they'd understand and appreciate the watch whereas if you were to wear this around London for example where crime is rampant potentially the crime wouldn't happen because they wouldn't understand the brand they'd understand Rolex they'd understand Patek but Glashütte original maybe not it's more discreet it's more understated and I really like that now given the prices and the price is the price and I can't afford the price but a lot of these watches I can't afford but watch collecting is looking at brands that you can't afford and thinking I want that at one point and then challenging yourself to get there I feel like that's just part of collecting okay so next up and this one has been on the list for a while so apologies if you have heard this one before but it ain't going anywhere this is the Tudor Submariner Oyster Prince it's the 7928 PCG and it has a ghost bezel and what I mean by ghost bezel is when you get aluminium disc inserts as the bezel aluminium discs what happens over time is the color fades now ceramic doesn't do this the color doesn't fade so technically speaking ceramic is a better material for longevity but collectors like the wear and tear collectors like the vintage hues collectors like the ghost bezels now the bezel on this watch specifically used to probably be bright blue but over time it's faded to be that ghosty milky kind of color that I absolutely adore in fact I'd go as far to say that I actually prefer aluminium bezels over ceramics now I think that maturing as a collector is appreciating vintage watches and it's starting to collect more vintage watches rather than just new hype models and yeah maybe I'm hypocritical because I'm literally talking about a Tudor Bumblebee as well that's just been released but I feel like I'm at that stage where I'm starting to branch out to more weird and wonderful watches another reason why I like this one in particular is because of the Submariner history now a lot of the components of this watch are actually literally identical to what was used on the Submariner so back in the day basically what happens Rolex obviously owned Tudor they shared a lot of the same components so a lot of the components in this watch would also have been in a Submariner a Rolex Submariner at that point so you're kind of getting a Submariner apart from it just doesn't have the Rolex name on it and then following on from that something really interesting that I heard from Ben's watches he's a super cool watch guy and we've become good pals he was actually on a podcast time to talk that we do on the Chisholm Hunter channel he was saying that when it comes to the vintage Submariner Tudor Submariners only around about one in four of them had the blue bezel making the blue bezel much much rarer than the black I quite like that but what I don't like is the price because I can't afford it so I've been watching the Scotland team play football actually I watched them last night and they lost 3-0 which is quite upsetting but there is a guy there called George Hurst who has an unbelievable watch collection as I was flicking through his collection I spotted one watch in particular and it it's so not me but I've kind of fallen in love with it this is the Rolex Day-Date 40 millimeters in olive green it's an 18 karat everose gold and the class on this thing I mean it just oozes it it totally oozes it now is it totally out with my price range yes would I ever be able to afford one no can I appreciate it absolutely I can this watch on the wrist looks unbelievable and it's a color or colors that would never thought to have pairs now everose gold has a darker hue than yellow gold and I just feel like the combination of it with that dark green screams luxury and screams class this is one of my favorite Rolexes right now which is weird because for years it was the Daytona stainless steel bezel not the new ceramic bezel the stainless steel bezel white dial but I honestly think this might have replaced it it's totally unnecessary but it's really cool I mean what watches really are necessary I mean yeah next up we have a really special brand that literally nobody nobody talks about it nobody talks about it it's really weird nobody talks about it because the the guy behind it is a legend this is Corona Tokyo now there's two specific models that I really really like one is this the special project 37 millimeter in Seki but I've already spoken about this and the more I've dug into the brand I found another one that I really like this is the new one that I like called the Grand Jubilee calendar now what I love about Crono is that you're getting a watch designed by an absolute legend in Hajime Asoka now please forgive me if I've pronounced that name wrong I am very dyslexic I just want to remind people of that but I think that is how you how you pronounce it now this guy is a legend and let me just discuss why he's a legend so his handmade watches are basically unobtainable everybody wants them and this is the closest thing this brand is the closest thing that any of us will ever get to wearing his actual design language he is designed some of the most incredible watches in the world the guy behind Crono literally taught himself watchmaking and then built Japan's first handmade tourbillon that is insane he never went to watchmaking class he never went to school and then he just went oh here's a tourbillon what makes Crono so cool isn't necessarily the movements the movements are good but they're not anything to write home about it's that you're buying into the mind of this absolute genius one of the world's greatest independent watchmakers that took everything he learned making six-figure masterpieces and dialed it into something normal collectors can actually own and afford that's a really rare thing in the watch industry to top that off they do these drops so it's almost like a I don't know if you guys ever heard of Supreme actually I wore one of the hoodies on the channel and I got absolutely slated from you guys in the comments and fair play the hoodies maybe not the one but it's the same process as Supreme so they have like drops of watches and instantly the watch will sell out on the drop so you need to kind of wait for them to come up and it's because they're just limited to really small quantities so not that many people can get their hands on them but that kind of even builds hype and I'm trying to steer clear of buying into the hype but to a certain degree you've got to be like oh everyone wants this watch so do I moving past that you get to the design the design of this watch I love it the specs I love I'm not gonna bore you guys with it again but it's something that I can't afford and I'm very thankful to be able to afford but I just can't buy at the moment because it's freaking sold out it really annoys me actually but one day some bonus watches just before I move on but before I get there let me know in the comments what watches you want to buy right now also we're going to be doing another reacts video to your guys watch collections it's where we kind of react to your guys watch collections God sometimes I really am it smart but if you want to get involved with that all you need to do is hit that subscribe button and join us on the Chisholm Hunter watches Instagram page where I post all the updates for that and I'll see you guys over there alright so bonus watches firstly we have the Cardinal points overseas white dial inspired by the Corey Richards Everest edition I'm in love with this watch then we get to the Leica ZM2 is it potentially more expensive than it needs to be maybe but to a certain degree you are paying for the logo and that goes across the board at what point does value proposition get outweighed by branding this is a question I've been talking about a lot I think that when it comes to Leica part of the value in it is that you're getting that like a logo I think when it comes to Rolex part of the value proposition is that you're getting that Rolex logo is a Rolex watch really worth what you pay for it probably not is a Leica really worth what you pay for it probably not but people like the branding and I'm a sucker for branding I love Leica I have one of the cameras is it the best camera I own no I'm a photographer I've used cameras for years I was sponsored by Canon I love Leica but it's definitely not the best camera I've used isn't the most expensive one I have yeah why did I pay for it because it's Leica but there are some really cool innovations that went into this watch really cool stuff I love the wearability I love the look I loved the fact that one of IWC's most famous watchmakers worked on it and patented things on it and just kind of did some cool stuff to it so yeah that's a really cool watch but on to the next one that I really really want I can never afford but I really want it is this this is the Parmigiani Tonda PF chronograph Mr. Reeks now the dial on this watch is gorgeous it's an underrated brand but it's not about anything to do with the color the dial the brand that makes me fall in love with this watch it's the innovation that went into it and let me just talk about how this works before before we move on because I feel like it needs explained so at rest this watch reads like a pure three hand Tonda PF it's nothing out of the ordinary right there's no counters there's no indication there's no kind of visual disruption to the simplicity of the dial but even though you can't see it the chronograph is present a micro pusher at the 730 mark activates the sequence one press of the start button begins the measurement a second stops it and a third resets it to make it totally disappear so there are five hands on this watch that are that work as a chronograph and this is shoved in to 13 millimeters 13 millimeters in case thickness there's brands out there that struggle to do that with like three hands it's in the the watchmaking here is wild the movement in this model is the caliber PF 053 it has 60 hours of power and 362 components now when it comes to the actual thickness of the movement it's 6.9 millimeters now this entire watch is made out of stainless steel and 950 platinum it's extraordinarily expensive however again I'm gonna say it the technical innovation here it's genius anyway guys I am gonna go and apply some some aftersun I feel like I'm cooking in this room right now it's super super warm make sure you hit that subscribe button if you did enjoy and I will see you guys on the next Chisholm Hunter video that's not normally how I exit these how do I know I'll see you guys real soon