This is Watch Your Style.
Today I'm gonna be doing a video on some of the most exotic watches in the world and these
watches fit in their own category.
That category is, Crazy Watches!
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Alright, so in the world of horology, there's a lot of different levels to this Watch Game.
You have everything from your everyday beater to your Holy Grail watches, to the heavy duty
hitters that you want to really cause a statement.
But then you have these other watches that fall in a completely different category and
those are crazy watches.
These are not just big boy toys for the uber rich.
These are statement pieces.
There's statements for the people that made them and there's also statements for the people
that own them.
A guy doesn't buy a million dollar watch because it's a million dollars.
He buys a million dollar watch because he wants to be different and that's usually where
it gets to that point.
Anybody can go and buy, if you're finances allow it, a $100,000-watch at any big brand
store that's easily available, but these unique pieces are more works of art than anything.
Of course they're exotic.
Of course they're radical.
Of course they don't look like standard watches because that is the point.
There are supposed to be abstract, something over the top.
More than anything, they're conversation pieces.
You'd be surprised how many people own these watches and possibly not even wear them, but
keep them to themselves locked away and every now and then they open up the safe to have
a look at them.
Have some whiskey.
It's for themselves.
They buy it for themselves.
They buy it to talk to other guys and I want to talk a little bit about these crazy watches
with you.
So the first watch that I wanna talk to you that, for me, is just absolutely insane is
this Jacob & Co Opera.
Now, the three watches examples that I have for you here today all happen to be Jacob
& Co.
And now today in 2017, Jacob & Co has really stepped it up and they're coming out with
really over-the-top stuff.
For example, this Opera, which happens to be a Godfather Edition.
With a retail of $270,000 and it's limited to 18 pieces, this isn't just an entire domed
shape crystal with a bunch of stuff going on.
This is really a piece of art.
If you notice in the very center, there's actually a miniature Godfather sculpture.
Serious!
Talking about right in the middle of this watch, the Godfather is sitting down and smoking
a cigar.
The most important is when you hit this button, the whole entire dial, which is really the
entire watch, is not even just the dial, rotates, playing the piano of the theme of the Godfather.
That to me are the characteristics that fit into a crazy watch.
Not only does it have a triple-axis tourbillon, and besides the fact it's just out of this
world, including the glass enclosure, but those are the things that make a crazy watch.
This is something that is out of this world!
It looks like someone landed in a spaceship and had this watch on.
Another example would be this Twin Turbo.
Now, the Twin Turbo happens to have two triple-axis tourbillons, with a retail price of $360,000,
it's obviously an exotic watch for the uber rich, but something about this piece is just
says something else.
This is a statement watch.
This is not your average piece that you see on a day-to-day basis.
Has a crank on the side to crank up the power reserve, something very unique.
The finishes on all these watches are superb.
I'm talking about it's done to perfection.
Has a minute repeater complication and something like this, in my opinion, falls into the crazy
watch category.
Now, last but not least, if this isn't a crazy watch, I don't know what is.
A lot of people think that a crazy watch has to do with just being expensive, but that's
only part of the factors, OK?
These are pieces of history.
Any way you look at it, this watch was made today and it may not be made again, but forever,
this will be the Triangular Baguette Astronomia.
Now, ever since the release of the Astronomias, which completely, in my opinion, just blew
the minds of anybody that follows watches.
They stepped it up with this Baguette version, which is completely out of this world.
And this for me also falls in the crazy watch category.
Now, a guy that buys this type of watch, of course has the opportunity to buy any other
watch.
And it's just like the piano collector that happens to obtain Napoleon's piano.
He's not buying the piano just because of the sound.
He's buying it because it's a piece of history and this piece right here is a piece of history.
With a retail price of $1.3 million, obviously it's not for everybody, but this right here
is an incredible work of art.
You have to see this in person to really understand it.
Some guys that they say, �Well, it's too big.
Well it's kind of weird.
It doesn't look like a watch!� That's the whole point.
It's a crazy watch.
It's to really go above and beyond.
It's when you already have all the watches that you can think of and you really wanna
start having some really, really collectible and unique stuff.
Anybody can get some conservative artwork, like a Van Gogh and stuff like that, but then
you start getting into the progressive art, where it starts getting a little bit more
abstract, and for me, this is where the crazy watches fall into.
Now, as far as the Watch Game goes, it's pretty self explanatory.
If you happen to own one of these and you do decide to take it outside, it's pretty
much game over!
Unless you're going to a club meet where everybody's just bringing crazy watches man, that would
actually be an amazing thing to see.
In the Watch Game, I don't think...it's just a no-brainer.
There's nothing really to say here.
You're pretty much running the game with any one of these that's on the table, including
the one that's on my wrist.
So feel free to comment how you feel about crazy watches and if you're in the market
to buy a crazy watch, contact me at eric@crmjewelers.
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My name is Eric.
This is Watch Your Style.