The Worst Watches (You Should NEVER Buy)

[@markjones8387]

Best comedy channel on the Interweb, occasionally talks about watches.

[@jbaillie]

No American comedian is safe from Andrew Morgan's strays

[@HoolieUK]

Swear to God these just get better and better! There is simply no equal on KZbin, hilarious and informative, my fave youtube channel of all!

[@b_altmann]

Just on the typography bit, which is an area that many watch brands ignore for some reason: The Romans used the Capitalis Monumentalis for stone inscriptions, which is quite elegant - and yes, fairly difficult to chisel. Its shapes are the result of the brush with which it is painted on the stone first. That's also where the serifs come from, the little feet at the stroke terminals that guide the eye. - On the Bremont it's Eurostile for the bezel, the date, and for the text on the bottom half of the dial, and Futura for the logo and the numerals 6, 9, and 12. Helvetica on the back. Eurostile has been the choice of watch designers since the 60s, when Aldo Novarese brought it into this world to convey modernity and speed. It can also be seen in every action fiction film worth its salt - and whenever things happen in space, it is there too. Think USS Enterprise. We need to talk about the ubiquity of Times New Roman and Arial on watch dials though. These top choices from MS Word have found their way mysteriously into high horology, including Patek Philippe and Romain Gauthier - the latter even uses Zapfino for his logo.

[@AndrewMorganWatches]

You had me at USS Enterprise!

[@camelotenglishtuition6394]

The Amy and Jimmy jokes were on point. Great video bud

[@ianbyford8565]

“No need to get it all the way up in there , just the tip is fine“. Never a truer word 😂

[@hullabamoo]

Another brilliant video! Waiting for next Sunday’s video already. Thanks Andrew!

[@doctorbohr1585]

9:12 "a strap of 23mm is like Amy Schumer with an original joke." 😂😂

[@remus2001]

One more design shortcoming in that Chopard bracelet is that the clasp is friction-fit. I have an older 1937 with the same clasp closing mechanism and one side won’t stay closed anymore. Indefensible at this price point.

[@billhatzistavros4824]

Everything looks good in an aeroplane, except the side of a mountain! LOL

[@BaddogSports]

“A pair of shoes filled with Legos” OUCH! 😂😂

[@adamwhite8258]

Lego, there is no ‘s’.

[@DC-uf6ve]

Yeah but the most annoying is incorrect use of the plural of Lego which is fucking Lego not Legos. Only those comedy yanks use Legos, let's stop with the yankisms Andrew. Or Larry perhaps?

[@aleksandarjevremovic2384]

Mr. Morgan, you are my Sunday's listening cup of tea.

[@cl60000]

Hello Andrew. Great video as always and very well executed about the details. It made me look through my collection of watches and now I can point out the flaws 😂 cheers mate

[@syktgrei]

Andrew is simply right. About (almost) everything.

[@errolmclaughlin1482]

“Cross eyed gun dog” is diabolical 😂😂😂

[@Bordashblades]

Thank you. I'm starting to learn what is acceptable and what is not. While the Bremont font distribution took me some time, the 4:30 date on the Breguet was an immediate WTF.

[@patrickhartmann1540]

Totally agree. That one bugs me the most. Funny that Grand Seiko did the same!

[@elosacle]

@@patrickhartmann1540 My first thought was the 45mm Bulova Lunar Pilot

[@turk914]

The Breguet is up there. But for me, the Patek Cubitus chrono, with the garish date wheels and the awkward cut outs on the number markers is the worst one to me. The other two Cubitus' shown there look pretty good to me. But that chrono version just has a cheap watch kitchen sink look to it. But I don't even think that was Andrew's issue with it.

[@bertilc]

Amy Schumer with an original joke…absolutely hilarious. 😂

[@bullnose01]

It could have been worse, Andrew, it took me 14 weeks to get a half link from Sinn for its fine link bracelet. I couldn't directly order the link from Sinn, but had to go through the AD, which in turn had to wait for Sinn to include the link in its regular restocking delivery. The good news, however, is that the link allowed me to perfectly size the bracelet.

[@V_Dubya]

Slick video with a bucket of subtle gags. Liked the Uboat line

[@Mall_Watch]

VC did a square 222 back in the day, AP did a square royal oak, both had the decency to not claim they were a new collection. Or that creativity was involved. Patek never did a square nautilus but they did do the nautilipse. Better times, better people.

[@diemes5463]

..better pizza, Papa John's

[@Archi2g]

my GMW-B5000TVA-1 has more text than the deep sea and i love it, wear it 4-5 days a week these days (used to be 7-days).

[@mosmarb]

I’ve always found Rolex’s dial essays a bit ridiculous.

[@woodrushwoodrush7076]

Rolex should change their dial script to say: ‘Superlative ability to turn a luxury experience into impostor syndrome “.

[@MERKAMGCLK]

Priceless, absolutely Priceless 😂

[@275lucky]

I'll never forget my Dad telling me a story about getting a suit tailored, and the tailor asked him if he dressed to the left or the right. My dad said "Huh?" 40 yrs later, it's still stuck in my brain.

[@theshadowman1398]

23mm lug weigh. I am a proud owner of such a watch. A Mido Multifort escape. And to get a strap in that size AliExpress was able to help.

[@kelvin.008]

Tudor black bay bronze bucherer ❤

[@AtheistOrphan]

Same here. Citizen Navihawk A-T in my case.

[@stephenmundane]

I'll tell you what use the IWC date display is and I won't kill you: if it's quarter-past the hour when you glance down to find the date, by simple mental arithmetic you can work out the date even though the hand is covering it.

[@moonfleet9537]

Oups that Chopard date….not at the right place….😊

[@riflemusket]

Fortunately, my Seiko Samurai's dive bezel is perfectly aligned. 😎

[@EEE_MMM]

I was under the impression that the date display on the IWC was designed like it is so the date can still be read (or deducted, if you will) when the actual date is blocked from vision by the hand...

[@russell996]

Cubitus is a great addition to the range for Nautilus owners and the new instantaneous day/date movement is a beauty.

[@drnick40]

Great video Andrew! Thank you. As far as the Cubitus, IMHO it is a homage to the Cartier Santos, just uglier.

[@al_in_philly5832]

There must be several million watch channels on KZbin; none of them come even close to being as entertaining as Andrew Morgan's. His wit is absolutely priceless. Every time I watch one, like this one, I say to myself "he needs to be doing something much more lucrative than this. I'm simply going to have to read one of his novels.

[@indramatic]

Ahm... there is no measurable extent of any kind where Jimmy Fallon is funny. No such dimension exists.

[@davidloveday8473]

You are absolutely spot on about date windows. And toilet paper and cereal milk. PS - you went out and bought yourself a Chopard with a 4.30 date window though, apparently?

[@maxinahunt8652]

Good one.

[@snowashesfilm]

Click! The sound of Jimmy Fallon unsubscribing from Andrew’s channel.

[@callumwarren801]

Strange my alpine eagle fits perfectly

[@deadboyzX8]

😂😂😂

[@callumwarren801]

@ 😂 no sarcasm intended lol I removed a link myself with a flat head

[@Feldos52]

I heard recently that Rolex Submariner with comic sans font on the dial. Just a rumor.😅

[@WrongTimeWatch]

I totally agree with you on the date window placement, and have been saying it for years. Also, I dislike round date windows. My favorite watches do not have the date at all.

[@LION_and_the_LAMB]

How anyone couldn't like that Rolex 😍

[@garydoherty600]

Excellent. Thank you.

[@thatguy6111]

13:40. Love timing bezels from Rolex. I have a 6609 TurnOGraph waiting to be unboxed tomorrow that I hope is everything I’ve built it up to be in my mind.

[@kfwimmer]

One of your BEST!

[@DavidRon]

About the IWC with the date window that shows three dates: there is a practical reason for this. You can make out the date no matter where the minute hand is. I have, in fact, wanted to know the date 15 past the hour and was frustrated by that pesky minute hand on other watches.

[@snakepitsam]

I just consider the alignment problems part and parcel of a seiko, after all these years its consistent

[@atthelord]

The Cartier tank XL also has a 22.5-23mm lug width. Bizarre!

[@chiguy750]

23 fits.

[@robertposteschild2353]

You should include all the multi-thousand watches that use cheap sellita movements, but somehow get a free pass because "SWISS". Breitling, for example, sells tons of them, including the superocean and the chronomat GMT. It's funny how Brick watch company gets blasted for putting cheap movements in $2000+ watches, but when Swiss luxury brands do the same shit (and charge you even more), it's "HoRoLoGy" and "HeRiTaGe".

[@matthewbrotman2907]

One word answer to that: Hublot.

[@rc8rider]

👏👏👏

[@damianosavraammisaelidis9727]

😂😅​@@matthewbrotman2907

[@starkparker16]

@@robertposteschild2353 everybody knows the rules

[@alanwayte432]

You Ok, blood pressure a tad high, Wife left you, dog died, must be something that’s rattling you cage, watch collecting has a simple rule, Buy what you like...so sit down, take a deep breath..and smile, it’s going to be OK unless your favourite criminal/political hero is Donald Trump

[@remus2001]

By the way, older Parmigiani Fleurier models used a 3-day date window, like that IWC, and while I love those older PF watches, I cannot get over that silly date window. It’s just ruined the watches for me.

[@mrlong6267]

Speedmaster is always the answer

[@FelixPerez-ts3lx]

Jimmy Stewart and Hitchcock 😂 references a-go-go....Nice

[@doctorbohr1585]

Jimmy Fallon and Amy Schumer, Piers Morgan and James Corden, and even Hitler! 😂

[@TheSlowoldman]

The Patek Phillip Swifty!

[@andrewalfe8433]

Lov the nod to Pink Floyd.

[@andyfrizzell4352]

Ticked a few of my pet peeves. Obscure date windows, no micro adjust on any but the absolute cheapest bracelets (the Chinese can manage it on sub $200 watches, font stew.

[@bt3750]

Mostly spot on, but I have no issue with the IWC date. I think it actually provides some appeal.

[@gordtulk]

I have that very bremont model. And like it very much. The font count is a point taken. But i am not bothered by it.

[@kakelards]

9:35 The 556 I hands were probably designed first for 556 A with arabic numerals on the dial. On 556 A the minute hand just reaches the hour indices at 3, 6, 9 and 12, and the hour hand just reaches the arabic numerals at 3, 6, 9 and 12. They use the same hand set on 556 I and the design doesn't work that well.

[@bscott8478]

As dialed in (yeah, I know) as your videos are, did you sneak in Easter eggs with the 4:30 date window on the GS and the Chopard after putting that little design detail on the list?

[@masterwatch]

but 2 of these watches I would definitely buy 😎.. But.. you make some good points.

[@teruphoto]

10:36 Grade A burn. A+ if you change "funny" with "isn't annoying"

[@SoFloCichlids]

lol the Seiko Samurai chapter ring was misaligned in the stock photos 😂

[@JamesAlexander14]

Nice video Andrew. What was it about again?

[@extremejoy]

12:45 - Oooooh “link”; I’m an idiot! For those Super Troopers fans would understand… 😂

[@johnmoorefilm]

Andrew, when you said “font” repeatedly, for some reason, white icing from a Mr.Kipling cake flashed into my head and now I can’t get it out no matter how much SuperGlue™ I huff…😮

[@peetiegonzalez1845]

"You never really own a Patek Philippe. Some people do, but not you." - Thierry Stern, probably.

[@billchan6180]

Best superlatives on youtube🎉

[@our_roadtrip]

Come on! The Rolex Deepsea in gold is perfection! It is everything a modern Rolex should be! It is the definitive Rolex. The only thing that would add more Rolexness to achieve peak Rolex would be diamonds and a leopard pattern dial!

[@danong9458]

Great point with too much dial text, it's one of the things I don't like Rolex

[@thephotochad]

Never once noticed or paid attention to fonts. Now that's all I see

[@JustAboutTime]

Poor Bremont … even the good one’s can’t catch a break!

[@javahaxxor]

Good vid

[@johnmoorefilm]

I think the real, unspoken factor in Rolex success is the Cyclops magnifier…is it not THE unique feature, your honour? Like the quintessential two-ness of the Twix - without that unique feature mate , what you have is a existential dilemma baked-in to every tea-break, wherein a single log of delicious, chewy, chocolate-covered biscuity goodness initially presents the golden-rays of optimism only to be crushed by the grim reality that that was it, it’s over, and you have at least a half-cup of tea to dispatch, which is always resentfully swilled , a tossable amount of tea remaining in order to be cast-out as a liquid-brown splash of displeasure? Twix solved that : Twix brought the second half, a concept borrowed from association football which is , of course , Greek tragedy as comeback ? And thats how we get back to The Cyclops…!😅

[@patrickhartmann1540]

Tighter than a billionaire at Christmas! 😂

[@gafakyusef6201]

Amy Schumer 😂. Jimmy Fallon 😂

[@CaptCanuck4444]

I can't believe you didn't mention the Nomos with 2 separate date indicators.

[@Koishishibaman]

I have a genault expedition on pre order. Think I may have a couple of extra lines of text on the dial😂 Most of my Seiko divers are JDM. They seem to be fine. My sla divers are aligned perfectly.

[@doelcam1302]

doris and me laughed cos we told you how we’d had a lovely walk on the sand due to low tide . and how we’d enjoyed your presentation for this week . and how we admired your perception re hour hands not being positive enough in pointing to the hour marker and the naughty minute hand being too long on one of the watches , leading straight on to the next watch , owners who , caught up in their own egocentricity , forget about customer satisfaction and just plain ordinary service and are unable to deliver the simplest of items to consumers who’ve already paid over the odds for original item . anyhoo , myself and Doris penned a long response to your situation , admiring your heartfelt admonishment of makers of a piece of horology close to your wrist . unfortunately. ??? we used a word which , it would appear , is not consistent with the rules of this channel , so my initial response hasn’t been published , so i’ll be interested to see if this response will be accepted ??? my usual baggsies !!! and nice one this week . l gooru 🎉

[@Obsid_Ian]

Did anybody else wonder why the minute hand on the Patek watch didn't line up with the ten past marker?

[@michele_]

9:00 it's ever worse with Daytona on rubber strap: they made it so it cant be used with their bracelet, so the Daytona rubber has a different case than the Daytona bracelet Also another thing i hate is that the odysseus from lange sohne looks like it would work even if it wasn't integrated, and the fact is that initially it wasn't integrated bracelet watch!! They REMADE IT integrated thus ruining the watch 🤦🏽‍♂️ (at least that's what i remember seeing)

[@TheZanshen]

Stick with the ole faithful Seiko turtle. Full in-house movement and iso rated 6425 .

[@watchchat]

Haha…after you pointed out all the fonts…it didn’t look as good as the first impression…I was thinking how I liked the Diver/GMT combo

[@turk914]

If you're a cat owner, you always put the toilet paper wall side down. But that Breguet 4:30 date wheel is obnoxious.

[@WAMwatches]

I agree with most of your points. But I do think you are wrong on the date window, watch geeks freak out over it too much. On the design you showed… it didn’t look good, but it looks good on others.

[@ulifluhme]

Blancpain FF has 23mm lug width. The bracelet is so gorgeous though, who would want to swap that?

[@cristiantrinca3140]

YOU MUST put the milk 1st and then the cereal!!! And I'll die on that hill! You microwave the milk in a bowl, so it doesnt give you a brain freeze, and THEN you put the cereal😊

[@Sozialkompetenz]

8 Weeks for a link? A❤re you kidding 😢 poor chap 🤗

[@hiphopgeeks]

Sorry Mate..this video made me feel like Aunt Flow was in town. Midol and heating pad chap. 🤠 Great nonetheless. ⌚

[@hattyfarbuckle]

What (irrationally) bothers me more than a multitude of Alpha fonts is hours, date and bezel all having vastly different numeral fonttypes (size is understandable) e.g. 1 with an eyelash at the top or not should be easy to be consistent.... and the more expensive the watch the less acceptable it is to me.

[@TheKopolanpoika]

Don't forget that 20k golden Tudor

[@UltraDoug]

11:26 Butthole dial is the real problem

[@brittwebb5602]

Breguet got blasted for a 4:30 date window but the very next watch (Grand Seiko Chronograph) got a pass for it?

[@Nedus343]

Cartier also loves the 19mm lug width, which is annoying as shit.

[@davidhoyt-hoyt]

Ach. I rather like the date there. Presuming I have to live with the date at all. Half four can be utterly unnoticeable. But it requires some design. It shouldn’t pop out and hit you on the head. Many companies can’t even get the background the same or harmonious color of the face. B did well there. The color of the numerals should be harmonious with the other colors on the face. For instance, it should not be whiter and brighter than the minute and hour markers (sorry B). Regardless of position, it shouldn’t remind me of the over large person sitting in the seat next to me on my last economy flight. That 25 doesn’t fit in that space. Then the numbers should be readable without throwing a vertebrae in my neck. Having a date wheel number that’s upright at 3 or 6 and putting it at a 45° angle just doesn’t do. It makes it look like a Timex using the date wheel that comes default a the supermarket movement caliber it’s using. I’d also like it if the peekaboo didn’t look like a Sudbury open pit mine. Squeezing in “swiss made” to make it feel like I’m in Guantanamo Bay does no favors.

[@verynormalman]

At 2:32, you say that a PSA poster at your Doctor's surgery had many fonts? Why is this noteworthy or funny? Please can someone explain. Thankyou.

[@morgan97475]

There is nothing wrong with pouring the milk followed by pouring the cereal. That allows the cereal to float on top VS. getting soggy on the bottom. No one likes soggy cereal, do they...?

[@Casiotron74]

I shave my face with some mace in the dark

[@helenrushful]

Font ignorance pisses me off, you are right to highlight it. I think watch aesthetics in general suffer from a lack of artistic input, balance, form, focus etc. You wouldnt ask a builder to design your house would you, thats what architects do ? So why the f*** would you rely on a watch maker to design your watch ?

[@kurtklimisch7498]

Yeah, a pencil is bad news in space - to easy to have broken graphic floating around. BTW the pressurized "space pen" had already been invented prior to the space program, so NASA just had to buy the pens at retail.

[@dazherbert2782]

Hmmm, every misaligned seiko.

[@christian_heine]

bring a pencil to write in space....that got an audible chuckle

[@WalterKovacs...]

Hahaha, iirc the Zenith Type 20 has a 23mm strap width.

[@arranree]

Everyone knows the pinnacle of fonts is Papyrus

[@mitchparker7652]

Good fun