Lume is Overrated, Accuracy Doesn’t Matter, Plexiglass Over Sapphire - My Watch Collecting Hot Takes

The watch Internet: mindlessly enjoying its day Teddy: i woke up today and chose violence

Here’s a hot take: the history of a watch or watch brand doesn’t matter nearly as much as current build quality or value for money. A new watch with a rich brand history shouldn’t be the reason for a high price when the quality can be matched or beaten by a much cheaper watch

I'm someone who sets his watch to an exact time, waits, and closes the crown when my phone changes to said time

There is only one important purpose of a watch- that you enjoy wearing it. That's literally it. Nothing else matters.

I think we have lost our collective minds with watches. We all want a perfect size, long lasting Lume, on the fly adjustments, tapered bracelet. We want name recognition. We want 3xs resale value and COSC accuracy. We want a strap monster with an integrated bracelet. And if course, we want all that for under $1000.

I have my grandpa’s Bulova that he had during WWII. He went to Iwo Jima with it. Before he was shipped out, he swapped his old one out for the Bulova from his dad. The reason was because he didn’t want the lume on his old one to glow in the dark and be visible to the enemy. So you never know, maybe having no lume saved his life.

Teddy: "i don´t want or need accuracy on my watch." germans: close to a heart attack.

Hot take: Any features that eliminate any need ever for me to use a spring bar tool are highly valued features.

Comfort is vastly underated!!.

Accuraxy: the functional reason why I wear a watch. I hate looking at my phone! Is the phone accurate, yes. Does the phone make me happy to look at it? NO!

I’m just sitting here waiting for the second hands to reach 12 to synchronize my watch with the automic clock mumbling to myself “Teddy…pffff what does he know.” 😂

Teddy not wearing his watches to tell time is mind blowing!

Other than the lume part , i kinda agree, I am sorry but my old school kid kicks in when i see my watch glowing beautifully in the dark . I often show it to my friends because other than the molecules in the material , i get excited too.

The most frustrating type of caseback: a display caseback with printing that removes the ability to customise but also obscures the movement. Looking at you GS

I recently started wearing a watch again so I could keep my phone in my pocket. Generally, when I'm out in public what I want to know is what time it is. If I'm out to have a meal with friends my phone stays in my pocket because I don't like the whole move toward everybody talking on their phones while they're in front of you and not paying attention to you. So wearing a watch reminds me of how things used to be in my pledge to do my best to not be one of the many and keep my phone in my pocket unless there's something I actually need it for

I disagree with you on most of these points, most particularly those concerning the practicality of a watch: I rely on my watch to tell me the correct time and date (no, I don't verify it with my phone), so if my watch is off then I'm late to an appointment or miss it altogether, if the date is incorrect then I will fill out a document incorrectly, ergo I need the watch to function correctly and with a high degree of precision. Yes, accuracy matters, yes I need a date complication, yes I do actually use the lume.

lol im that guy who waits for the second hand to hit 12. why would you want the minute hand to align to the marker at a random second and not at zero?!

I am from an older generation, so I do rely on my watch for accuracy and legibility at night to tell me the time. The phone is not second nature to me.

Teddy has a very healthy attitude toward watches. It is supposed to be a fun hobby, but we sometimes obsess about certain things (like clasps, plexi, casebacks, etc.) that in the grand scheme of life, are just not all that important. Thanks for this episode. Cheers!

I was a dentist for 40 years I used dive watch bezel as a convenient timer