I have this Milgauss here. But this Milgauss isn't just any Milgauss,
not because of this rubber strap. The reason that this Milgauss here is special
is because my first video on YouTube was actually with the Rolex Milgauss.
This Milgauss also is special because a friend of mine brought it so I could do this video.
The video on YouTube was my first time of me recording a video and Dan, my uncle, and
my father Carlos both looked at me and said, "I want you do a video for YouTube?" They didn't
tell me a topic. They didn't tell me a theme. They didn't have no script, no ideas, no camera people,
so literally me by myself doing this video. I hated it. Today, I'm gonna react
to that video, so let's do this. Hello. My name is Charlie from CRM Jewelers this
is our first video so please bear with me. [laughter]
Bro, why do I sound like that? [background voice]
What? OK, let's play this, let's play this. This is hilarious. I didn't think this was
going to be this funny. I haven't seen this video, I think since I did this.
Today I will be talking to you about the Rolex Milgauss.
This watch was introduced by Rolex in the year 1956 for engineers and
researchers that would work in power plants that had very strong electromagnetic fields
and the watches that they were wearing back then were having a lot of problems
with the electromagnetic fields interrupting the hair springs and the mechanisms of
the watch; [laughter]
OK, so you could tell I was really nervous here. I did do a lot of homework on that watch though, cuz
everything that I'm saying is still things that I would mention today,
but damn, I was young there, I was like 17. Holy crap, that's crazy! And my hands looked large.
I remember, we did it with like the GoPro right here, and like just standing here and my hands
like twice the size of my body in this video. This is hilarious. Let's keep watching this.
So, Rolex came out with this watch. The watch,
as you can see here...the Rolex Milgauss. My voice was really squeaky too, damn, and my
hands are still good, my nails are good. A Faraday cage is just a simple enclosure
that prevents magnetic fields from getting in and messing with the mechanism. It also includes a
Parachrom hair spring which is an anti-magnetic hair spring.
Also prevents the electromagnetic fields from messing with the hair spring.
It is a slightly larger casing, thicker because of the Faraday cage as you can see here
compared to a Rolex Datejust 2.
This specific model has a green sapphire crystal...
Let me tell you, I was dork. This is pretty funny. Oh my God. This is crazy. I don't think
I'll do this again. As you see here...
Or actually, I should do one right now for you guys.
...versus the other Milgauss that has the clear crystal.
My voice was annoying bro, damn! Now, you may be wondering what Milgauss means.
"Mil" is actually Latin for a thousand and "Gauss" is a measurement for electromagnetic fields. So,
Milgauss, a thousand Gauss which... [laughter]
I don't know why I sound like that pronouncing it. It's hilarious.
What was that...I was wearing a Yacht II. Today I'm wearing a Sub. Let's see this.
...is how much Gauss a watch is resistant to. And is not how much Gauss it's resistant to.
Gauss is a unit of measurement. It's how much magnetic flux is resistant to, but
good job young Charlie. Just to give you an example the Earth
has a Gauss measurement of .5 Gauss, so this watch can hold fields stronger than two thousand times
the Earth's, I'm sorry, the Earth's magnetic fields.
[laughter] Thank God for Adrian now, that Adrian
edits the videos. No, no, no man, if not I'd still be pretty nervous like this doing this, but...
If you didn't notice, the second hand on the watch is a lightening bolt
and it's orange. This is pretty cool by Rolex to make the second hand a lightening bolt, its kind
of different and I personally like it. It shows that the watch is to prevent electromagnetism.
That's it. That's pretty much all on the watch. I'll let you take a look at this one again.
Here's a closer look. Man,
the video is blurry the whole time when I zoom into the watch.
This was actually in our first store. And here is the other Milgauss model
with the lightning hand also. Thank you for watching our video.
If you enjoyed our video, please hit like and subscribe. We will be posting more videos shortly.
As I said, this is our first video, so please bear with us. Thank you.
That's crazy. From 0 subs to over 300,000 today and it's changed a lot. That was our
first store. It was like 8 feet by like 16 feet. It was tiny.
We used to put all our watches in the boxes, so that it look like the store was full with like 10
watches in it. That's crazy. I remember that. I used to like get out of High School at 11
o'clock and go drive straight to Downtown and come to CRM. That was fun times.
I don't' wear glasses anymore. Got my eyes lasered, but yeah.
If I had to talk about this watch now today,
pretty much everything I said on that video is true.
I don't know if you care about all those details and facts. What I can tell you today,
this watch has increased in value since the time of that video, which is around 2013.
It's still not a very popular watch for whatever reason. It's not very high in demand,
even though the price has increased, but kind of everything has increased
in price. If it hasn't increased, it's a really crappy watch. It's a really bad watch.
From the time I made this video in 2013, I remember we used to sell these watches from like
5 to 6 thousand dollars with this green crystal and then the white dial that I had in that video
was like 4500, 5 thousand dollars for that one and today this watch would run you probably
around 12,000 more or less, depending on if you find it with box and papers, you know,
the dial combinations, so the watch has done a pretty significant increase in value,
but the Milgauss, I don't know if it's cuz I did this video on it,
but it's always been a special watch to me. I've always liked it. I've always enjoyed this
green sapphire, that Rolex did something out of the norm, the little orange seconds hand.
And if you see the blue dial one, it's pretty interesting. I think it's a great watch for
the money and definitely check it out. So thank you guys for watching this video with
me and watching me react to my self in 2013 when I was like 17-18 years old. Let me know if you guys
like the old Charlie or the new Charlie better. Hopefully we could do more of these videos
in the future. [closing logo sound]