This video, we're gonna be talking about bustdown watches.
Has the iced out trend finally started to melt?
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So bust down watches or “iced out watches,” however it is that you like to call it had
been very popular for the last twenty years, or maybe better yet, maybe like 15.
However, there's been a history throughout this trend and I'm gonna go over first of
how it started and where we are at right now.
So in the beginning, there was only thirty six millimeter Presidentials iced out.
These go back all the way to No Limit with Master P all the way to Birdman and the whole
Cast Money Squad.
That's what really started off with the bustdown watches.
So after the 36 millimeter Presis, the next phase was when people wanted the watches bigger.
It went to a complete different opposite from the small 36 to these large case 48 mm Breitling
Super Avengers and Franck Mullers.
Even then they have aftermarket bands, back then for those Super Avengers to make them
as rocky as possible.
I'm not gonna lie, they looked pretty good in those rap videos back them.
I mean, it wasn't my favorite watch in any way, shape or form, but that's when the real
flooding of the watches occurred.
After that, the next trend right after that was stainless steel 42-millimeter Offshores.
That's when they really started to break out and say, “Wow, wait a minute!”
Now they're starting to ice out really fine watches, you know?
It was a little bit ballsy and brave at that moment to get a stainless steel AP 42, drill
holes in it and ice it out.
Now, these trends go through a wave and they go getting bigger and bigger till the top
of the wave, right after that, they said, “Hey,” Presidentials 41 millimeters, those
are the next ones that started getting drilled out and all iced out.
Let's not forget the Yacht-Masters with their size also became a very popular watch to ice
out in that time.
So now comes the part when things really started to get crazy.
From there, the iced out phase started moving into the 41-millimeter AP, both chrono, non-chrono,
both steel and golds.
And that's when I really started to worry and I said, “What are they gonna do next?
They're gonna start busting down Pateks?”
Sure enough!
Patek Nautiluses, everywhere started to get bust down.
That's when it really started to get crazy in my opinion, and I think at the end it's
still gonna be the height of this whole trend.
Wasn't long after that till someone finally did a Richard Mille in rose gold and then
followed by one in titanium.
Now, one thing I wanna point out too is that this is what I call the “First Stage”
of this whole trend because all of these watches were iced out with the traditional fashion
where all the diamonds are in rows, all in rows, then comes into the flower.
Now you hear this all the time, whether they call it flower or honeycomb or whatever name
they want to put it.
Pretty much what happens is these diamond setters then start using a new style of setting,
which is pretty much pave, where what happens is there's less metal, more diamonds.
Everything is more close together.
Instead of being these rows where it used to be before, with more like symmetrical rows,
they started flooding the area, with as many diamonds as possible.
This Patek that I have here actually has that flower honeycomb structure.
That completely changed the whole game because then it started all over again, back from
the Presi all the way to the RM that we just discussed, but now with flower and honeycomb.
So everyone started trading in their traditional old settings for the new flower settings,
so on and so forth, which then leads us to where we are now.
So like any trend, it starts escalating and escalating.
It started off first with traditional settings, then it moved to flowered settings, which
leads us to where we are now, into the baguettes, or like Khalid says, “the Chandeliers,”
or whatever you wanna call them.
Now we're in the new wave of baguettes everything.
It doesn't matter if it's the watches or the grills.
I mean, these guys everybody wants baguettes.
It's the newest phase in the trend, which leads me to believe now, have we gotten to
the final stage in this trend where things will perhaps melt?
It's tough to say.
The one thing that I could tell you is the older style, traditional settings are becoming
a little bit harder to sell and people don't want them.
However, it is a perfect opportunity for somebody that wants to pick up a diamond out watch
at a really good price, traditional setting will be right for you, which let's face it,
not everybody knows these difference and in the club the watch is still gonna look like
a million dollars.
So the question is, now with the baguettes being out and reigning supreme, is the ice
age over?
I mean, it's tough to know.
I would say that right now the baguettes are booming and we're gonna have to wait and see
what happens with these watches.
I mean, some of the work that these guys are coming up with is pretty much incredible.
Have you looked at those RMs full blow baguettes?
I mean, I don't know who's the one that's sitting in there and actually making these,
but I've seen a couple in person and the craftsmanship is incredible.
So that being said, I feel like nowadays the latest trend has been very much separated.
Now it goes from either all out baguettes or plain Jane, something like this.
As of now, the baguette game is super strong.
It flashes like hell and we'll have to see what happens.
I mean, I just don't see where else this could go from here.
So it's safe to say, it's not going anywhere.
People are always gonna wanna stand out and be extra flashy.
The question that I wanted to raise that now that we've gone to that top of the wave being
the baguettes, where does it go from there?
Maybe there's a whole new fancy, new setting that we haven't seen for baguettes perhaps.
We'll have to wait and see.
I mean, overall people wanna stand out and they always want something different.
So feel free to comment below how you feel about the ice age and if it's still going
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