Ideal World - 'Watch Week'

[Moos3h]

I love this...compulsive viewing.

I'm guessing most of the stuff falls into 'overpriced tat', but are any of the brands they are promoting worth a punt?

[SirOcelot]

As a watch obsessive, I'm with you, I like watching people talking about watches!

But I'm inclined to say that IMO, most of what is offered on the show is tat.
Stuff like Edgar & Swann, Stuhrling, Constantin Weisz etc. I recognise a lot of the movements in them and if not Japanese Miyota quartz, they are generally Chinese movements with calendar complications. Certainly not "heirlooms" or "haute horology" as they like to say. Watches I wouldn't value over £70.

Having said that, the bona fide brands like Vostok, Swiss Military, Traser and to some extent Mathey Tissot are worth further investigation.

Recently (very recently in fact) I made a couple of impulse purchases while watching the show.
I bought a Duxot Accelero (seiko vk63 quartz) looks like a vintage Daytona but with dark green dial, and yet to be delivered; a Traser P49 titanium.
The Duxot is surprisingly good quality and I like it.

Edited by SirOcelot on Wednesday 18th November 16:22

[nikaiyo2]

I used to love The Watch Commander on the Tv

With his values only going UP

[r159]

There’s the V watches thing, ‘the longest running watch selling programme’ which despite this claim the presenters seem pretty clueless. A mix of tat and the odd brand such as Citizen and Bulova (coincidence?). The main presenter is British but butchers the English language with Americanisms - which wouldn’t be so bad if she was American.

The picture always seems a bit low resolution, probably to make the products look better...