Welcome back to Taking Time. I'm Jonathan. This is Richard. And today we got something,
a little different cause something happened with SwissWatchExpo.
That's pretty cool. So we're going to tell you about it.
So yeah. Something pretty cool just happened with SwissWatchExpo. We actually got featured in
Forbes Travel. So today we're going to talk about travel watches.
Heck yeah — and if you want to, if you want to read that article,
the link is going to be in the description. So, feel free to check that out. And they’ve featured
a bunch of different watches that we haven't featured here. Obviously,
we didn't want to piggyback completely off what they were talking about. So,
we've got different versions of the travel watches that we like, and we've got them here.
We wanted to ask by the way. We were looking at our recent videos and before we get too
much into this, what I want to ask you guys a question, because we wanted to get into
the, the Tudors and, and the Omegas here. And we did a video last time that we just posted
recently about entry-level or — well, I mean, entry level brands so not unusual suspects.
And like the Bell and Rosses, the Baume Merciers,
and things like that. We got a lot of engagement with that. A lot of people are like, 'Hey,
Greg, glad to see those brands featured'. What we want to know is tell us now if you want to
see more of that. We talk a lot about Rolex and Omega the big watches, big manufacturers,
let us know if you want to see more of that different brands, stuff like that, not the
usual suspects. Okay. And so, speaking of that, so why don't we start with not the usual suspect.
Okay, fine. We were going to do Omega first. You said Tudor, let's do Tudor.
So yeah, we have the Tudor Pepsi GMT, essentially 2018 caused a huge
buzz in the watch world. Came out with the 58 to around the same time. But
anyways, yeah, this has been a hugely popular watch. Why does it make a good travel watch?
Well, I mean, mainly, I mean, it's a GMT function. That's one of the biggest
things that we've used to categorize. The watches that we've chosen here
is it has to have a dual time function to be able to keep up with home time and local time.
In this case when you're getting a lot of bang for the buck, I've always argued that Tudor we used to
work for an authorized dealer that sold Tudor when it first reinstated in the United States
and bang for the buck Tudor hands down is probably one of the best pieces you can get
specifically this one, because you wear one specifically, this one, because you do get
the in house movement, which is, this is our second generation of their first of the in-house
movement that they first started putting in their watches after reinstating themselves in America.
And you get a phenomenal buy if you were to buy an in-house movement that has capability
of this and Rolex, you're looking at a $12,000 a piece nowadays. Yeah. Secondary market $10,000.
It's an expensive watch in this case. Tudor's not going to go above $6,000. In this case,
we've got it listed for, I don't know, what have we got? $4,200?
And I think this one's actually unworn. So, it's in phenomenal condition, but again,
it's got the GMT function. So, it keeps up with that date as well. So, you can kind of keep it —
Super understated to 200 meters water resistance. I mean, this is, I mean,
it's cool to just, you got the 24-hour bezel. I mean, like Richard said, in-house movement,
it started as a rock. So essentially, you're going to be able to wear this. Like if you're
crashing a hotel room for the night or you're going on a week trip, two-week trip to wherever
This is going to be able to go wherever. Yeah, absolutely. That's one of the things I like about
this most is the functionality of the date and the correlation with the GMT. That's what you call a
true GMT. I liked this a lot. So, I think when we, when we teach people, especially new people that
haven't really invested in these watches too much, we see that they, they they're like,
how do I set the date without screwing something up in this case, you don't have to worry about
that. You can't mess it up. You don't have to worry about trying to change the hour,
hand down below six o'clock or something like that and make sure you're not flipping it at midnight.
So, this one just adds a whole lot of convenience. You don't have to think about it. Yeah.
Sorry about that. There was a little bit of a sound issue, but yeah, we were just
finishing up with Tudor here, talking about the independent, our hand, also known as a true GMT,
right? Essentially, it's a little bit of a protection on the movement. You can set
the individual local hour and the date at the same time, but it does make it my opinion. It
makes it more convenient. Cause you got to sit there and go around and around.
You don't have to worry about it so much, but I mean on a short month, obviously you got to, you
got to move it around a little bit more. But I do like the idea that it's basically dummy proof,
you can't mess it up if you don't know how to set it, if you don't have the time to set it.
Yeah. Let's move on to the Omega. Well, let's move on to Omega. I think I, to talk about this one,
it's probably one of those capable watches. I think I've seen now full retail. It's a little bit
more expensive than we've got it here. Here. We've got an almost 50% off retail. So, in this case,
it's probably one of the most inexpensive capable watches I think I've ever seen from what you're
getting. You're getting an in-house movement from Omega and is the 9605, I believe, 9605.
So, this is a dual function. Major capabilities. It has got your date. It's got your GMT;
it's got your chronograph function all in one setting. A lot of times you see these so you can
time your flights. Exactly. Or if you're like if you're horseback riding in the mountains of Spain,
you can find out how much time we got left or something like that. I don't know.
Just kind of if you're traveling, just sort of thinking about that. Again,
just one of the most capable watches I think you've ever I've ever seen in terms of traveling.
One of the things that we use to decide whether these watches were
good travel watches was, were they indiscreet, were they something that not everybody's going
to notice? And I think I'll make it kind of fits the bill on that. The only exception I would
give that is that it does have a big old honking case at 17.5 millimeters. It is a 43 millimeter.
My watch is a 41, so it's a big honking watch. But it doesn't necessarily scream, 'Come steal me.'
You know? So, if you're one of those people, 'Come steal me.' I'm walking through the airport with a
brick in my wrist. It's not — I think a lot of people come;
we actually sold a watch to a couple of the other day who was looking for a watch that they could
travel with that. If they ended up needing to lose a watch, it wasn't something, it wasn't one of
their higher end Pateks or one of their higher-end watches that they have. I think this one fits the
bill very well, very capable. Again, just one of the most remarkable things that I've seen. The
one thing I — the downfall I would say is that the GMT hand is this a little bitty sub-dial,
but it's like a 24-hour indicator. So, it does take a little bit of effort to look at it and
make sure exactly what time it is. A lot easier if it's actually on the center, the center posts
with the rest of the hand. But other than that, I think that's probably the only downfall that I
can give this one. Otherwise, it's just, it's just an awesome —chunky watch — it is a chunky watch.
It is multipurpose. You can dive with it — not dive with it, but it's 150-meter water resistance.
So you can go swimming with it?
Yes. You can go almost anywhere you go to the beach again, go horseback riding
in Spain. I think that'd be neat back riding in Spain and that's what I want to do clearly.
Okay. Well next
Let's go to the Vacheron and my favorite piece of all time. All right, take the lead.
Then we'll dial dual time date. 150 integrated bracelet. 60-hour power reserve. Anti-magnetic.
fully made by hand phenomenal 2018 carat gold rotor. I mean, it's —
Phenomenal. The wind rose rotor. And I found out about that. That's the nautical. Yeah. Yeah.
Gives you a point of reference for
north, south, east, and west, but it's not magnetized so go to true north or anything.
Cool thing about this. It's got a 20 series. It's a 22-carat gold rotor.
Yeah. It's 22. It's got a little bit more weight. Exactly. Yeah. So that's pretty,
that's pretty incredible. And you can see how that even it's even printed out right there on
the, on that side. I don't know if I can, I'll probably, won't be able to show you that right
there on the edge there. A really neat watch. This is the third generation of the Overseas. So,
they they came out with the dual time for this particular watch in the second generation, which
was around 2004. The dual time came out in 2006 and I think this one really meant it's pinnacle
around 2016, when it came out with a Vacheron in-house movement, the previous models had a
Girard-Perregaux and another brand that they were resourcing and kind of modifying those movements,
but now it's a fully in house movement. So that's really cool. This is, this was the generation by,
and we're going, gonna look into it. And this one's indicative part of the reason you can
tell that is because the motif of the Maltese cross on the bezel used to be eight points.
Now it's six points. So that's how you kind of tell the difference when the second generation
Third generation, and it doesn't have the crown guards anymore.
Right? Yeah. I don't know. I kind of miss them, but it does add some symmetry to the case without,
and it's a bigger case too. It is —what size is this? 42. Okay. Yeah. And then another thing too.
So, besides the dual time system, that's very easily accessible, right? No, that's for the
date actually. The watch itself, that makes it pretty cool. In my opinion, besides being
a travel watch is that essentially, they designed this watch, and they give you the screwdriver
for the actual links and everything. All the links are fully removable on this bracelet.
And then, so you can get the absolutely perfect,
but you can interchange the bracelet with the strap without using any tools
You saw that this has a 1.5-millimeter adjustments. So, if you're find yourselves having
to watch fit just right, and then you are in Spain on a horseback and it's hot just slide these out a
little bit and then get the perfect fit again. And so, it's just really neat. I think that function
is really cool now, in terms of non-descript, this is not necessarily a nondescript watch.
I think this is probably one of the more recognizable watches that people would see.
No, because I mean, Vacheron in the last few years has just started picking up pace. Yeah,
that's true. I mean, it's not as noticeable, or I would say like, as recognizable as a
Royal Oak or like a 571. I agree. it it's got that same sort of shape. Yes. But like
anybody that comes up, it's like, 'Oh, that's not a Patek.' Right. But it's certainly something
classy you can have this at a fire on the side of the beach somewhere, like maybe in Italy,
I'm trying to, trying to think of where it well, other than it's vain somewhere.
Maybe do a donkey ride. I think that'd be fun.
All right. Let's go to the Patek. It’s sort of what I might considered to be the ultimate watch.
Very, very simple in this case. Probably the least complicated out of the ones we've got.
It's the least complicated. I'd say it's the most complicated, but the easiest use high. Okay. I
agree with that. Yeah. Because of these unique pushers Patek came out with this travel time
type watch, oh, this is a manual wine watch. This is the only one out of the four that essentially
is a manual wine. But yeah, this has a really cool feature. So essentially you can set the
local time very quickly, very easily by using these two side pressures and one goes forward
and it goes forward a full hour. And then the other, there's a 24-hour indicator that kind of
acts as your minutes. Right. So, you can essentially set a local time or a travel time or
whatever but this one's really cool because it's platinum.
Yeah. Nice. The diamond, right? It was heavy. You still get the substantial weight of it. This is a
main, this is a hands-on mechanical reference for this one is the movement on this one is 5110DT
nomenclature for dual time here. So, you do have to manually wind this one, which I think is cool.
Now I think on, on a travel trip, it may not necessarily one-on-one. So that may be something
that people don't like as much as sitting at the airport. Yeah. But you still you still get
a substantial power reserve with this one. I think in terms of being a nondescript watch, it's just,
it's really, it's low key. So you get the benefit of having a tech, you get the benefit of having
the precious metal, but no, one's going to look at your watch and be like, I know what that is.
I know what that is. So, it does, it does add that low key factor, but you still get to travel
in class and style and have something that people who know like you're talking about for people who
know. No. Yeah. But people who don't might just look at it as a different piece. Cause
it's very simple in design. I do love the symmetry that they've kind of put in this.
I like the crown garden, how it kind of hugs the hugs, the crown here, but it also almost sort of
acts as a counterbalance to the pushers that we have on the nine o'clock side. So that's really
cool, good design. It is a good design. And of course, you get your exhibition case back. So,
if you're at the bonfire on the beach, so where you can just take this, watch off and be like, oh
man, look at this, look at the, look at the craftsmanship that Patek puts in these watches.
So just a really cool, cool, cool watch to have, of course you can change these
straps out for any occasion, pretty easy for the most part. So, if you wanted to change
it for different instead of a black-tie fair, you wanted to put a brown strap,
maybe something heck be really creative and put it on a NATO.
Never seen that. I don't know about that. Would you ever put a Patek on a NATO?
Just the Patek. It's like its platinum. It is platinum, but I'm curious if you would, if you
were to put a platinum Patek Calatrava on a NATO strap, put it down in the comments.
You are insane.
Hey, different strokes for different folks.
All right. So, let's do the thing we always do. What's your favorite restaurant bathroom? Well,
yeah, I kind of saw that coming. I thought it’s funny cause I'm going to go with the Tudor.
I mean, I like yours. I love this one. I just think it's a, it's a really cool watch you get,
you get the experience curve of Rolex into it. Or I know a lot of people want
a separate Tudor from Rolex, but let's be, let's be real. Generally speaking, Tudor is
going to benefit from all the resources that I mean Rolex has because they are a subsidiary of
them. They all have the sister company Rolex wants them to succeed. So, they've got a lot
of technology that's embedded in this watch. They didn't necessarily have to put money into,
to begin with. And that's part of the reason they can make an economic piece. I think, think,
I mean they design their own case. Of course, it’s definitely its own thing.
It is. It is. But I just think it has aa massive amount of travel functionality. It's got the
date it's got the time of course you've got the temporary third time zone. Whenever you said it
now the GMT bi-directional bezel to find out what the local time zone is. You can
get three time zones all at one time temporarily. And of course, this is,
again, this is a case that you can change out straps very easily. So, it's just a cool watch.
Definitely fun looking. It's just like, I don't know. This just screams kind of like,
especially for the higher end stuff, this just screams adventure too. It's like
you wear this and it's like, let's go climb a mountain. Right? Let's go here,
lions in the Savannah Africa, or go horseback riding in Spain.
Okay. Let us know in the comments, your favorite out of all of these, if you had a different one
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