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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL0_vOw6eCc

This video from 1949 produced by the Hamilton Watch company (A heritage American watchmaker), uses a Hamilton 747 movement to instruct the audience on how an automatic wristwatch (or pocketwatch) works. Save for some improvements and complications by various manufacturers, the general engineering concept for a basic timepiece has been largely unchanged for 300 or so years. I am not very mechanically minded, but certainly the Mechanics, Engineers and Architects amongst you should be informed/entertained by this video.

https://youtube.com/shorts/-U_VdoFsZqE?si=_3Brnvpaos3cqmvn

What is impressive about this particular guy is that he flips watches (kinda skeevy), but he has appreciation for them far beyond most people. He’s just a 24 or so year-old working class NYC Italian kid and he is already able to service and masterfully polish Rolexes and Pateks without ever having been to watchmaking school. He’s just a savant.

There are other channels where you can watch master watchmakers fully dissemble, clean and reassemble watches and it is almost serene to behold.

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Adjusted for inflation, that watch would cost $2853 today. While it isn’t a Patek, Rolex or an Omega, it would be something like a Tag Heuer or an Oris—a very respectable watch for a 20 year-old college kid to have and certainly one worth keeping and passing down.

https://nypost.com/2024/06/19/us-news/armed-robbers-steal-mans-100k-watch-outside-carbone-in-nyc/

This moped crime is on the rise. NYC is looking more like Brazil every day.

I have had it 4 or 4.5 years and this is the 2nd time this has happened. It is sufficiently charged, but will not pair with my phone or do anything at all.

I love the toughness of the case and bracelet and the functions like backlighting, but overall this watch has been quirky and disappointing.

Meanwhile, someone has found an 60 year-old automatic Longines or Hamilton in their dead uncle’s junk drawer and shook it twice and it’s working.

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Did they grift you?

"There's a clock on the stove."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bG1wWnzBlo

This is Austin in Japan. He knows 30x more about Rolex and watches in general than I do and this video really shows his unbridled passion and unrestrained autism. He is able to rattle off model numbers and features and how they have evolved for the entire history of the brand. It is similar to the guy who can rattle off all of the changed features of the different production years of Ford Mustangs and could tell you the year of every model simply by viewing a darkened silhouette. His love for the hobby is pure and he is not using his encyclopedic knowledge to fuck people over like a kikey 47th Street flipper, but just to gain further enjoyment and understanding. He's a guy with 2 kids and a wife and probably a relatively modest salary who is adding watches slowly to his collection and enjoying them. Guys like this can be a little scary, though, because they're real obsessive and idealistic purists who are put off by the slightest scratch, imperfection or polishing error, whereas a Philistine like me hardly knows shit comparatively and will walk around with scratches and an off-center index or a bezel that for whatever reason does not make the requisite noise when it rotates. Austin is very much like that as is J. Anthony,

https://www.alange-soehne.com/us-en/timepieces/odysseus/odysseus-honeygold/odysseus-honeygold-in-750-honeygold-363-150

$53K. Damn.