These aren't sports watches, stick around. I'm gonna talk about it.
Hey guys. Welcome back to Taking Time. I'm Jonathan. And yeah, I did take off my watch.
I wanted to do something a little different this year. You know, a few of my friends are
actually getting married and you know, there's a special thing gonna be happening in my life soon.
Hopefully, somebody doesn't watch this video, but anyways, I wanted to cover dress watches,
which I never really cover, but they're actually very special to me because they're really
underrated, undervalued sort of aspect. And they're not really talked about a whole lot,
nor are they really appreciated. So I've got three watches here from three
brands that are just phenomenal in the dress watch category. So I've got the quintessential basically
like the gold standard for dress watches, the Patek Calatrava, especially in white gold. I've
got the value prop, which is the JLC or Jaeger- LeCoultre Master Ultra Thin, not a Master Control.
It's a Master Ultra Thin. And then I've got a Breguet Classique in 38 millimeters.
Now, what is a dress watch? A dress watch at least to me, because there's a little
bit of a gray area, is a watch that is at least under 9-millimeter, I would say, in thickness.
Not, you know, lug-to-lug, which everybody talks about, or the case's,
you know, actual diameter, which again, everybody talks about. I'm talking about thin watches that
would fit under, you know, a dress cuff or a button-up shirt, you know, a suit, you know,
whatever. As long as the sleeve goes down to your actual wrist. Now Patek came out with the
Calatrava, I forget when, you know, back whenever dinosaurs roam the earth. But anyways, that's
been pretty much like the go-to gold standard for all dress watches. It's very plain, very simple.
And that's another thing that makes it a dress watch is that usually there are
no complications whatsoever. There's like no calendars. There are no moonphases. That's all
pretty and everything, but the simpler the better, because whenever you're going to a black-tie
event, you're actually not even supposed to wear a watch. It's supposed to be focused on
the actual event. Now, JLC in my opinion, and a lot of others will probably agree with me.
JLC is barred none like the biggest value that you can absolutely get anywhere. That being said,
this is a Master Ultra Thin and I think it's like 7 millimeters thick, 7 millimeters thick.
Now it's 40 millimeters in diameter. So it is a wide watch. But this thing literally is going to
go under, I mean paper. I mean it's super, super thin.
And then I've got the unknown here, which is the Breguet Classique in 38 millimeters.
Now Breguet in the watch world has been around just as long as these other two brands,
which is close to, you know, getting up there in 250 years old. Breguet is, you know, very
well-known with watch people. Now you, people that are watching this that don't understand what you
know, dress watches are and you know, the history and everything, Breguet's influenced quite a lot.
And the Breguet, you know, Classique is just an offshoot. It's just kind of out of the left field.
I mean, it's absolutely beautiful. It's only like I think around 8 millimeters thick too,
but it's definitely something different. It's got the classic Breguet hands with classic Breguet,
I think Roman numerals, and it's an automatic versus this is a manual wind. So you are gonna
have to wind it if you're gonna wear this every ay, you know, you're going to have to wind it like
every other day. This is automatic, but you might forget that it's on your wrist. Now the Breguet
is something that's just different. So yeah. If you guys want to call me and talk about
dress watches, I'd be more than happy to talk to you, especially about any of these three, because
out of everything we've got, and we've got roughly about 3,000 watches in stock. These are probably
my top three, any day of the week for, you know, a dress watch. So do the usual. Like, subscribe,
you know, comment, give me a call, email. We'll talk to you later.