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| 171: Is the dial or the movement more important? | 02 Sep 2024 | 00:16:55 | |
In this episode we answer a question from @see_me_watch about what's more important in watch buying decisions, the dial, or the movement? We use a couple of Grand Seikos that Vu is extremely interested in as examples: | |||
| 170: Reactions to Geneva Watch Days novelties! | 30 Aug 2024 | 00:22:30 | |
In this episode Lydia shares with Vu some of the watches that have been announced at Geneva Watch Days and Shanghai Watches and Wonders. | |||
| 161: Rolex + Mistake = Money? | 19 Aug 2024 | 00:21:28 | |
In today's episode we discuss some of the so-called error dials in the world of watches, and their perceived higher value in some cases. What makes some of them worth more? | |||
| 71: Lydia's Rolex Collection - part 2 | 08 Apr 2024 | 00:19:38 | |
Today Lydia talks through why she bought the second half of her Rolex collection, one watch at a time. Particularly interesting was the fact that she previously wasn't even interested in the ceramic Daytona. | |||
| 70: Lydia's Rolex Collection - part 1: how did she get here? | 05 Apr 2024 | 00:18:38 | |
Today Lydia talks us through the first half of her Rolex collection. Why she bought them, why she loves them, and what makes each one special to her! Our Iceland Rolex OP Turquoise video: https://youtu.be/ut4S5JqEuoQ?si=Qfy4_NXxamua9Ccr Lydia's Moving to Sweden vlog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWaVh1hulHU&t=1s More photos of each watch on thiswatchlife.com | |||
| 69: Choosing a new watch - how do you decide? | 04 Apr 2024 | 00:18:35 | |
Today we answer a question from listener Tiago Cruz about how to choose a new watch and add it to your collection. With Watches and Wonders coming up we thought this was a really important thing to remind ourselves... not to get caught up in the excitement and really think about what we want. | |||
| 68: Selling watches out of love? Can culling your collection make you happy? | 03 Apr 2024 | 00:16:51 | |
Today we answer a question from @seanaggie about culling your watch collection in order to spend more time with the watches that you love. Vu has already worked on that journey, but Lydia still has a long way to go. | |||
| 67: Rolex and Tudor and Oris predictions for Watches and Wonders | 02 Apr 2024 | 00:18:26 | |
Today we talk about some of our predictions and probably mostly just wishes for what we will see announced at Watches and Wonders, with a bit of a dive into Rolex, Tudor and Oris. | |||
| 66: We're Going to Watches and Wonders! | 01 Apr 2024 | 00:15:35 | |
Watches and Wonders is happening in Geneva, Switzerland next week! We are headed down there and will be meeting brands and humans and new watches and it's sooooo exciting and we definitely shouldn't have let Lydia drink coffee before recording this episode! | |||
| 65: To date or not to date? That is the question... for today. | 29 Mar 2024 | 00:18:34 | |
Today we answer Jim Crupi's question about date windows on watches. This is something that really divides the watch enthusiast community. We can't help but love a good date, but not everyone agrees. | |||
| 64: A new-to-us watch brand? Lydia's evening with Frederique Constant | 28 Mar 2024 | 00:19:48 | |
In today's episode we talk about a watch brand that we didn't really know about until we were invited to an event with them last night in Stockholm. Turns out, they're pretty impressive! Watches we mentioned in the episode: Frederique Constant Manufacture Slimline Moonphase Date Seconde Seconde | |||
| 63: Vintage watches vs modern watches? | 27 Mar 2024 | 00:18:24 | |
In this episode we talk about Vu's preference for modern watches over vintage, and Lydia realizes that perhaps she doesn't prefer modern watches, but she definitely mostly owns modern watches. We also answer a question about Lightroom and give our favorite tool and tips on how to use it for watch photos. Questions by: | |||
| 62: Birth-year watches, colorful Rolex OP dials, and film photography! | 26 Mar 2024 | 00:19:27 | |
In this episode we talk about (and completely disagree about) birth year watches. Are they as meaningless as Vu would have us believe? We also talk about Lydia's colorful OP collection, and answer a question about film photography in this day and age. Questions by: | |||
| 160: Is Vu a watch savant? And does he even want to be? | 16 Aug 2024 | 00:22:07 | |
In today's episode Lydia makes Vu take a quiz about watches from WatchTime Magazine. Here are the answers to the quiz: https://www.watchtime.com/watch-quiz-how-much-of-a-watch-savant-are-you/ | |||
| 61: Where do you wear your watches? Shower? Sauna? Vacation? | 25 Mar 2024 | 00:19:06 | |
Today we talk about where we do or do not wear our watches. We discuss things like wearing your watch to sleep, wearing them while working out, wearing them while typing on keyboards. Where are you not willing to wear your watch? | |||
| 60: Is lume useful? Watches vs. photography? Which color gold? | 22 Mar 2024 | 00:18:41 | |
Today we answer some questions from our wonderful listeners! We talk about lume and how useful it really is (or isn't), about which type of gold is our favorite in watches, and which we'd choose if we could only have one in our lives... watches, or photography??? Questions by: | |||
| 59: The all-white MoonSwatch Mission to the Moonphase | 21 Mar 2024 | 00:17:11 | |
Last night at midnight Swatch announced the new Mission to the Moonphase MoonSwatch with moon phase complication. And Snoopy is in it! We discuss this release and find out what Lydia actually knows about moon phases. | |||
| 58: Watch collectors vs enthusiasts | 20 Mar 2024 | 00:15:34 | |
Today we discuss what it means to be a watch collector vs a watch enthusiast. There are often strong definitions proposed by collectors as to what it takes to be considered a "true" collector. We argue that there probably shouldn't be. Article by Blake Buettner, Worn and Wound https://wornandwound.com/opinion-watch-enthusiast-or-collector-a-distinction-worth-making/ Link to @averagewatches post we reference: | |||
| 57: Sharing watches - with partners, friends, strangers? | 19 Mar 2024 | 00:17:37 | |
Today we discuss our own situation, as a couple, on sharing watches (spoiler: one of us is more open to it than the other). We also talk about trading watches with friends, loaning watches to people, and just the concept of sharing watches, in general. | |||
| 56: Why I love the Tudor Black Bay 58 | 18 Mar 2024 | 00:18:47 | |
Today we discuss the Tudor Black Bay Fifty Eight and why Vu loves it so much! It's the only watch he has bought in multiple colors and will soon be the only watch he buys the same exact model again after making the mistake of selling it (the Explorer II was technically the new model when he bought it again). Here's the Tudor Big Crown 7924 that the BB54 was based on: https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/tudor-big-crown-submariner-heritage-auction-world-record | |||
| 55: Speaking to someone who's NEW to watches! | 15 Mar 2024 | 00:19:29 | |
Today Lydia talks to her sister Mindy, who is a budding watch enthusiast, about what got her more interested in watches, what she is finding out about the community, and how listening to a watch podcast can be as only a semi-watch enthusiast. | |||
| 54: Changing your mind about watches | 14 Mar 2024 | 00:17:44 | |
Today we discuss some watches we completely changed our minds about after the first impression. This question was posed by Bianca and answered by Alon and David on The Real Time Show in their episode “Watchmaking Tattoos and the Roman Numeral Debate” | |||
| 53: Rolex Pepsi discontinued? Most painful watch damage? | 13 Mar 2024 | 00:18:38 | |
Today we answer a few questions from our listeners, one of them being about the first watch that got us interested in watches. And for Vu that was an Oakley watch. And for some reason during recording Vu promised to post a photo of himself wearing it, back in 2004. (it's posted on thiswatchlife.com) Please keep in mind this was 20 years ago! Watches discussed in this episode:
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| 52: Jubilee bracelets on tool watches? Instinctive watch purchases? | 12 Mar 2024 | 00:17:04 | |
Today we answer the question of whether or not jubilee bracelets belong on tool watches, and reveal our most instinctive watch purchases. Watches discussed in this episode:
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| 159: New watches from Longines, Oris, NOMOS, Omega and KUDOKE | 15 Aug 2024 | 00:18:06 | |
In today's episode we talk about some of the latest watch releases that have caught our attention! Longines Spirit Zulu Time 39 Titanium | |||
| 51: Watches of The Oscars - including John Cena's watch-only outfit | 11 Mar 2024 | 00:16:41 | |
Last night was the 2024 Oscars and there some amazing watches on display! But for a few people it wasn't about the watch they were wearing, but rather HOW they wore them. Both Ryan Gosling and John Cena made atypical outfit choices that paired with their watches perfectly.
Rolex and Cinema - https://www.rolex.com/perpetual-initiatives/perpetual-arts/rolex-and-cinema/oscars | |||
| 50: Happy International Women's Day! | 08 Mar 2024 | 00:18:37 | |
It's International Women's Day! A global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. Today we answer questions from some of the wonderful women who listen to our podcast. Questions from: | |||
| 49: Are mono-brand watch boutiques a good thing? | 07 Mar 2024 | 00:16:44 | |
Today we discuss whether watch brand boutiques are a good thing, and what watch we'd choose as a one-watch from a brand we don't currently own, and reveal our favorite watches that we don't currently own. Watches mentioned:
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| 48: The All New White Dial Omega Speedmaster Moonwatch | 06 Mar 2024 | 00:18:36 | |
Yesterday Omega released the new Speedmaster Professional Moonwatch with a white dial! We discuss how we got here and what we think about this new option for Moonwatch enthusiasts. | |||
| 47: Watch friends and the Arcanaut D'Arc Matter and M.A.D.1 | 05 Mar 2024 | 00:18:17 | |
Last night we went to a little watch friend dinner meetup and not only had a wonderful time eating Vietnamese food and speaking for hours about watches, but also got to spend time with two watches we hadn't seen in person. The Arcanaut D'Arc Matter and the M.A.D.1 from Max Busser. Arcanaut D'Arc Matter https://arcanaut.watch/products/arc-ii-darc-matter-badger-blue M.A.D.1 Green https://www.madgallery.net/geneva/en/creators/mad-editions | |||
| 46: Our favorite non-Swiss/German/Japanese watch brands | 04 Mar 2024 | 00:19:28 | |
Today we were asked to talk about our favorite brands that aren't Swiss, German or Japanese. It wasn't difficult! Although the watches in our collections are almost entirely produced in these three countries, we have really wanted some of these watches and it will be interesting to see which ones we go for first! Watches mentioned in this episode:
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| 45: Would you rather own only black dials or have none? | 01 Mar 2024 | 00:18:14 | |
For today's episode we play would you rather again, and have to decide between options like: black dials only, or no black dials? a few free watches, or any watch you can imagine every day for the rest of your life but you can't repeat the same watch twice? | |||
| 44: Swiss Watch Industry Sales Report 2024! Who wins? | 29 Feb 2024 | 00:17:51 | |
Today we review some of the interesting and surprising things that came out of the newly released watch industry report about fiscal year 2023 for Swiss brands. Rolex unsurprisingly dominated, but there were things that actually surprised us! See the report here: https://revolutionwatch.com/morgan-stanley-luxeconsult-2024/ | |||
| 43: Selling 8 watches in 18 months - lessons learned? | 28 Feb 2024 | 00:19:29 | |
Vu sold 8 watches out of his collection over the course of 18 months, and learned a lot along the way. In this episode we go over each watch and why he sold them and which ones he regrets letting go! Watches discussed:
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| 42: Zombie Apocalypse Watches, Small Watches | 27 Feb 2024 | 00:17:04 | |
Today we answer a few questions from our wonderful listeners and talk about the watches we'd choose to survive the zombie apocalypse, what our minimum case size is, and what old trends in watches we want to make a comeback. We answered questions from: Watches mentioned in this episode:
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| 158: Is Lydia a TRUE watch enthusiast? AI tries to help us figure this out. | 14 Aug 2024 | 00:17:50 | |
In this episode we let AI take over and assess the level of Lydia's watch enthusiasm. How does she do? | |||
| 41: Watch Specs vs Aesthetics - what's more important? | 26 Feb 2024 | 00:18:06 | |
Watch technical specifications or aesthetics... which is more important to you? @watch_girl_life asked us to answer that question, and as we discussed it we realize that this question isn't as easy to answer as we initially thought. Watches mentioned in this episode:
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| 40: Would you rather get a free $20k watch or a $200k watch with conditions? | 23 Feb 2024 | 00:16:45 | |
In today's show we play a game of Would You Rather (Watch Edition) and answer some hypothetical questions about watch scenarios that quite sadly will most definitely never ever happen in real life. | |||
| 39: Wearing a gold watch to fight fires? | 22 Feb 2024 | 00:17:15 | |
see the ad we are referencing at thiswatchlife.com In 1969 Rolex put out an ad that stated "If taming oil well fires was your job, you'd wear a Rolex". And the Rolex they were advertising was the yellow gold Day Date. These days many people don't feel they can put even their stainless steel watches, let alone their precious metal watches, through much rough use at all. But price aside, should that be the case? | |||
| 38: Watch Mistakes - which ones have we made? | 21 Feb 2024 | 00:17:29 | |
Today we had a question from @chrono_camera about watch mistakes. We discuss some of the mistakes we have made, many times, and how we hope to avoid them in the future. Whoops, in the episode I accidentally call the Grand Seiko SBGM221 the SBGM211 (which doesn't exist). Watches mentioned in this episode: Omega Seamaster Railmaster 1957 Trilogy Edition https://www.omegawatches.com/en-se/watches/seamaster/heritage-models/railmaster/the-trilogy-1957/product Grand Seiko SBGM221 https://www.grand-seiko.com/us-en/collections/sbgm221g | |||
| 37: Traveling with watches | 20 Feb 2024 | 00:16:39 | |
Today we take a question from @dogsontime about traveling with watches. We discuss our history of travel with perhaps too many watches, and where we are at now. And we briefly touch on which watches we plan to travel with to Watches and Wonders 2024. | |||
| 36: What three years on watch Instagram has taught Lydia | 19 Feb 2024 | 00:18:42 | |
Today is the THREE year anniversary of Lydia's watch Instagram account! She talks about how she got into it, what it's taught her, what she is trying to get out of it, and what the next 100 days might hold for her! http://instagram.com/lydiaswatches | |||
| 35: Q&A photo tips, watch winders, watch events, and new product ideas! | 16 Feb 2024 | 00:18:57 | |
We had some amazing questions for our Q&A today, and we answered with tips for watch photography, choosing watches for watch events, whether to use watch winders, and more! Our questions were asked by: Watch photography tip: https://watchstudies.co/blogs/notes/how-to-shoot-a-parrot-wrist-shot-with-a-camera-or-a-phone Delugs case that Vu gifted to Lydia: https://delugs.com/collections/eight-watch-case/products/zip-box-eight-brown-light-brown | |||
| 34: 5 Watch Things that Vu Loves! Explorers and Instagram and NOMOS and... | 15 Feb 2024 | 00:17:50 | |
Today it's Vu's turn to be inspired by Valentine's Day and share 5 things he loves in the watch world. From specific watches he owns to watch companies and watch communities, join us in a chat about true loves. | |||
| 33: 5 Watch Things Lydia Loves for Valentine's Day | 14 Feb 2024 | 00:15:06 | |
For Valentine's Day we thought we'd talk about love... love for watches! Here are 5 things Lydia chose as her loves from the world of watches. | |||
| 32: Movie Watches - Are people influenced by watch placement? | 13 Feb 2024 | 00:17:43 | |
We received a question from @poppingcrowns about watches in movies, and whether there had been watches in movies that affected us in any way. And it turns out there have! Watches mentioned in this episode:
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| 157: Can buying luxury watches make the world a better place? | 13 Aug 2024 | 00:15:17 | |
In today's episode we discuss the Rolex Perpetual Planet Initiative because they dropped a new video about the initiative on the Rolex YouTube channel: | |||
| 31: New Watch Alert! The Wonderful Grand Seiko SBGA415 | 12 Feb 2024 | 00:17:53 | |
There's a new watch in the house! The amazing Grand Seiko SBGA415. Very similar to what is probably the most popular Grand Seiko outside of Japan, the "Shunbun" SBGA413, Vu's new "Taisetsu" SBGA415 is a work of art and mechanical excellence. The "Taisetsu": https://www.grand-seiko.com/se-en/collections/sbga415g The "Shunbun": https://www.grand-seiko.com/us-en/collections/sbga413g My first Grand Seiko SBGM221: | |||
| 30: Q&A - stacking bracelets, limited editions, Piaget Polo pricing and more! | 09 Feb 2024 | 00:17:23 | |
Today is a Q&A episode! We talk about whether or not you should stack bracelets, whether buying the standard models or the limited editions is better, and what we think about the pricing of the Piaget Polo. And more! The amazing questions were from:
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| 29: What do you need to carry every day for watches? | 08 Feb 2024 | 00:16:45 | |
In this episode we discuss EDC (Every Day Carry) through the lens of a watch enthusiast. We talk about designing a kit specifically for the watch enthusiast, and perhaps the enthusiast with an Instagram account. My EDC gear that I carry in my pockets:
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