Motorcyclists Tool watches! The inexpensive Orient Flight MkII, Automatic!

Another tool watch Im sure many modern classic motorcyclists will will love.
One of my favourite inexpensive/ high quality watch brands ORIENT, & their famous Orient Flight MKII automatic Flieger style wrist watch.
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[@tonydenial1485]

Strange how we all seem to like the same things, I don't sport any jewellery/earrings/ noserings/ dangly gold ropechains but I am a lover of watches and particularly fond of Sekondas and anything chunky or diving related, the timepiece you featured was an excellent looking piece, which I'm going to research and possibly buy as you've regenerated my interest. Thanks for another interesting vlog Stu, be well 😊✌️

[@johnhudson1692]

For me, the Orient Ray II (blue dial of course), is the ultimate 'beater' watch. A do everything 200m mechanical diver, hacking with day date complication. Now that a broad range of Orient tool, dress and dive watches are available on Amazon, these seriously underrated time pieces are accessible to a wider audience to enjoy.

[@Trevor_Austin]

I find “aviator” watches a very interesting subject because I have actually used them in anger. For me the most important things in such a watch are 1. A clear unambiguous display where none of the hands can be misread as another (it really buggers up your nav. Been there. Seen it. Got the T-shirt.). 2. A very clear second hand (useful for not bumping into hills and things in a let-down). 3. No superfluous guff. 4. The ability to read the watch in low (typically red) light conditions. This watch ticks those boxes pretty well and is a good looking bit of kit and certainly one that I would wear. The big question is, which would I prefer; this one or Seiko’s Military watch? A legacy from my grandmother enabled me to buy a Breitling Aerospace watch (the less blingy blue one) some years ago and even though it is 30 times more expensive than the Orient Flight Mk.II it is less useful as an aviation watch than this one. Believe it or not, although nowhere near as pretty is any of the watches above, the best watch for aviation I’ve actually owned is a Timex Expedition - £19.50.

[@webz3589]

How can you use a watch in anger?

[@Trevor_Austin]

@@webz3589 It’s no more than a figure speech. When I first flew commercially I had to have a reliable time keeper and that was my watch.

[@interestedlen8823]

@@webz3589 Example: 'What flaming time d'you call this, then...?' Tap, tap, tap. I thank you.

[@andrerobertdrouin3642]

My old Vostok i loved it because it had the 12 and 24 hour dial ,the bezel i used all the time .I always stayed on home time and used the 24 hour and bezel to compansate for the time difference for the visiting country i was in .

[@listentowhatihear]

Thank Stu, I came for the excellent commentary and instruction on motorcycles. This extra on watches and aquariums is a bonus. ~Fred in NH

[@chrisbittlestone9264]

I’ve had a Seiko military chrono (not auto) since @‘96 and only put two batteries in it so far. Great commentary, as ever, Uncle Stu 👍.

[@davidmuir6849]

Nice watch Stuart and another fantastic clip . Im a light aircraft pilot and this would be a good watch for flying ,taking times from each waypoint ,and would look superb on my Mr Clean Cheers Dave from Scotland

[@ianseddon9347]

Just found this video when scrolling through your back catalogue. We gents of a certain age do seem to have similar tastes and interests! I have a few mechanical watches but hadn’t come across Tus or ever paid attention to Orient! Now you’ve put me onto another like of research. Thank you I very much enjoy your videos and like it or not your common sense conclusions about the way the (motorcycling) world is going are exactly ‘on the money’.

[@EuFaloDeCarro]

Yes! Whatches! Didn't know I liked them until your video

[@kevinwykes5501]

Watching some of your videos should come with a warning that they may be a contributing factor in emptying your wallet! About a month ago I watched one of your reviews on an Orient watch, I think that it was the Defender. I was quite taken with this review and looked at Orient watches out of interest and ended up buying one of these Pilot watches. I must admit that I have no regrets, it is a thing of beauty. Thank you for the light hearted, entertaining and honest reviews. And don't worry, you are not alone in your obsession with the Bullet, I have the same obsession with mine. 😂

[@robertakerson7186]

Mr. Fillingham- Like you, I enjoy the "mechanicalness" of my auto-winding watch. Mine is a Hamilton because my Dad and Grandfather favored this maker. I find the day and date features are even more helpful to a retired person such as myself than the time hands.

[@paulwhiteley6235]

Great binoculars, fantastic views of the Humber and all the way from the Dales, some zoom that 😉

[@rouju]

Nice video. Concise and entertaining. Kudos for the info.

[@evanjames2821]

Thanks mate, I’ve been looking for something like this for a few years. I’ve had a few replica fleigar watches but they’ve just been cheepies that break almost immediately. Still the most complimented watches I’ve ever worn

[@Beanerds]

Nice watch , Orient build good watches , I am a Seiko guy with about 20 of them ( like mushrooms they just pop up ,,, ) from a 1971 automatic chrono , my 1st automatic got new , Turtles , Monsters , Baby Tunas , MM300 and the ultimate my Titanium GPS Astron . Thanks again Stuart .

[@johnratcliffe4105]

Nothing to worry about about there Stu.. Typical Yorkshireman behaviour that.. You never know, by the end of therapy session 3, you may even have a craving for getting the wallet out.. But then again, we're talking Yorkshireman so maybe not...😉

[@robedmunds7163]

Nice watch. I like a Vostok Amphibia, goes with my MZ. Maybe a HMT auto from eBay to go with the Indian Enfield😁

[@whatsstefon]

Careful with those eBay HMT’s. Sadly a lot, but not all of them are bastardised examples with rough cases, “custom” dials and worse…. Dirty movements that need servicing and cleaning the moment you receive them.

[@robedmunds7163]

@@whatsstefon yeah I bought a couple of duds, but two good ones and they are pretty cheap, so probably worth rolling the dice.

[@nickmason279]

A very nice watch! I have a couple of Vostok watches, an Amphibian, black with orange bezel, and a Komandirskie with a 24 hour face. Both are automatic and their combined cost was £150 direct from Russia. I put a very nice leather Nato strap on the Komandirskie and an Orange Nato strap on the Amphibia. Both are fantastic watches for the money and get generate far more interest than my more expensive watches.

[@wolfhalupka8992]

Hi Uncle Stu.... seems to be a love for classic motorcycles and real, meaning mechanical watches, go together. I've obviously got a few, grinning when I think that riding the Bullet helps wind the watches! got myself an Orient automatic following your 1st vid about those and like it very much. thx!

[@northwestbiker3681]

Have a look at smiths watches. Used to be a thing in the 40s and 50s and now recreated by a guy called Eddie. Unbelievable watches and fantastic prices. Smiths do the military watches through to exclusive ones.

[@matthewdavis8199]

Well done. A lume shot would have been a great addition.

[@ayanchalk]

I own a CI engine Bullet and an Orient Chronograph so no wonder I like your videos so much! But this is a very nice watch.

[@andrerobertdrouin3642]

Love that watch , good presence

[@DrZeTech]

Hi, thanks for the video, nice work! I have a question: does the mechanicals watches suffer from the trepidation riding the bike ?

[@stuartfillingham]

No

[@DrZeTech]

@@stuartfillingham thank you.

[@darrellmeganfoxall8830]

Awesome, love your videos, 👍👍👍

[@stuartv-e8161]

I'm worried the hypnotherapy may work.....but I don't it! 🤣🤣. Thanks for the video. Bye Stuart 😊

[@beardypete]

Nice watch. More classic looking than your Seiko 5 (though I have one of those and love it). What was the objection raised about it? Is it the link between flieger style watches and their original use by the 2nd World War Luftwaffe? Time to start saving for an RAF issued Omega instead maybe?!

[@stuartfillingham]

Yes!

[@granty1150gs]

Just an Idea....That watch is $93.49 in the states on amazon, $1.37 to the £....thats £68.6p if you shop US Amazon.

[@damianmcnulty7663]

Looking forward to your underwear collection review.

[@michaelblandina7405]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@matthull7504]

I bought this very same watch last year , l work in the construction trade and wear it every day it has a hard life do far with out issues ,

[@BilgemasterBill]

That's a fine looking watch. By the way, "Flieger" (German for "flyer" or "pilot") is pronounced like "FLEA-Ger," not "FLY-Ger"

[@joelness]

All I could think about was Napoleon dynamite explaining his liger. "It's pretty much my favorite animal. It's like a lion and a tiger mixed... bred for its skills in magic."

[@KRAM-zb2vc]

Brilliant video as always Stuart and I certainly will look at these very smart watches 😊👍🏻

[@garycarr2530]

Stuart if you like mechanical watches with an aviation theme have a look at Oris Big Crown collection. Really enjoyed your video

[@andrewd7586]

My other fetish, well hobby is also watches. Numbering close now to 300 pieces. Everything from WW1 Trench, WW2 Rolex, flieger, Vietnam issue to everyday Casio, Seiko, Citizen etc, etc. My attraction to military watches in particular came via my late father who was in the Australian Imperial Forces in WW2, along with 5 uncles. All came home thank God. No physical injuries but all plagued with what we now call PTSD. I have tried not to wear watches while on my bikes but I’m fully addicted to them. I love these flieger homage watches or the like with the stories behind them. Good topic Stuart. 👍🏼🇦🇺 Oh & you seem completely normal to me mate! 🚽🤭

[@Durkan34]

Love my orient mako - great watches and not silly money. I don’t know if I should thank you or not for this link - that could get expensive 😂 Ps ie in German is an “ee” sound, so flieger is fleeger rather than fleyeger.

[@themoog3889]

Haven't worn a watch whilst riding since 2008 when I took a Suzuki Bandit into a ditch at 65mph ! Not sure what caused it but I ended up with a chunk out of my wrist ( steel strap ) and a rather worse for wear Citizen watch ....not to mention the bike ( new exhaust fitted 2 days previous) and my severely dislocated shoulder ! Bike and watch right offs ...I survived ! Nice watch that but I wish you'd stop spending my money ! 😉

[@stevehoward1679]

Being a lad of simple tastes, I think I like this one the most out of all of the Orient reviews you have done. Lovely, clean & classic looking watch... thank you for reviewing! :-)

[@willisbcteoh9840]

Stuart, Orient is the new Seiko. This watch is very liegeble. The enhanced minute hand makes all the difference. Very practical tool watch design. At £164.00 👌 a watch to look into. Thank you 😊

[@renevanderkraats224]

Not wanting to be nitpicky, but it's pronounced as in 'flee', and a 'short G' (like you did) as you would say in 'Guffin' :)

[@stuartfillingham]

I pronounce it in Yorkshire!

[@universaljustiniani5798]

Another great video. Nice watch. Nice review.

[@MsWorkboots21]

Hi Stu - wandering through the channel last night & my wife said "Have you got a brother in Yorkshire, or is that just you doing the accent?" (I'm Glaswegian) - confirming that there is indeed a community of us older blokes fed up with disposable consumer culture and tending to embrace the same kinds of things - real clothing, real bikes, real watches and so on. One of the things I most resent about late capitalism is that it intentionally de-skills you to increase your dependency on one corporation or another for products or services. Over-complicated, un-self-serviceable machinery is a prime example. Another is shaving. We got used to paying more and more for overboiled cartridge shavers that require (apparently) ever more blades and strips of chemical slime to do an adequate job of scraping stubble off your face. Fed up with this, a few years ago I dug out my old Gillette safety razor I'd had since I was a boy ("I'd no idea they still make the blades") and reverted to that for a while, but it still bothered me that I was entirely dependent on a disposable component of uncertain quality; besides I still couldn't get a nice clean edge around a tache or beard. You can see where this is going... I began a small collection of straight razors picked up from local antique shops mostly, for which I've rarely paid more than a tenner. I watched KZbin videos, bought a couple of whetstones and leather strops and set about acquiring the skills to maintain and use them that my grandfathers took for granted. This morning I used a Sheffield "wedge" from around 1830 (£15) that after some light restoration delivers in half an hour a barber-shop shave that will last all day. Few things are more satisfying - the beauty of the tool, its antiquity and hand-made character, the skill to bring it back to serviceable condition and then to use it confidently to get a far better shave, leaving your skin in far better condition, than ever before in half a century of face-scraping. It's such a small thing - shaving - but it represents how poorly served we are by a consumer culture that disempowers us and robs us of everyday satisfactions.

[@chrisc5275]

It’s a great little watch. I picked it up in Saigon. Orient have some very nice designs and the prices are great.

[@mengaw-yong6414]

Nice road where is it ?

[@Ed30675]

Great review...

[@fuloplehel]

Great presentation, I recently bought the version with the black leather strap, 145 euro. It is a great watch for the price. 👍👍👍👍

[@marcinm9974]

How about accuracy of the watch during motorbike riding? Any remarks?

[@stuartfillingham]

I made a video covering that last year.

[@tjschmal]

It‘s kind of funny: I was searching for a review of Orient Flieger watches, saw a thumbnail that looked nice and clicked on it and suddenly a video started to play, made by Mr. Fillingham, my beloved one and only motorcycle channel. Triumph, RE, Tripmachine and these watches obviously have the same vibes. And the best of all: the black watch is out of stock at Amazon but i got one from this company you linked to. 😎

[@lowersaxon]

I didnt know of this Orient. Keep on reviewing watches, please. Btw, I think all of the five brands producing the German „Fliegers“ then are still on the market today: 1) Stowa and 2) Laco still make exact modern replica pieces of their original Flieger watches type A and B and have many friends all over the world, 3) Wempe is a German manufacturer of which you probably have never heard of but 4) IWC is a very well known Swiss luxury brand and, yes, 5) A. Lange und Söhne (lets say „Lange and Sons“ in English, cause A. actually is the abbreviation of …) is t h e super duper German most luxurious brand well known to most watch enthusiasts all over the world like IWC, Breitling, Omega, of course Rolex and many more. Rolex, did you know that (?), actually worked for the Brits in WW II, although Hans Wilsdorf, the founder of Rolex and a very anglophile man was a born German. Well, understandable one would argue after WW II.

[@barryhughes1612]

Nice watch, I am a bit of anorak when it comes to watches got a few myself might get one those...........

[@HoratioBlogs]

LOL, Love the humour. My Orient Defender II isn't bad either.

[@deasertmo3501]

Nice watch. I buy the citizen promaster eco-driver.

[@henryhartley9993]

Nice one Stuart, great review of the Orient...

[@Jones-xx2gc]

Nothing wrong with a nice mechanical watch.

[@_Just_Some1]

Love the watch, the bikes, the channel!

[@kottomack]

FLYGER hurts my ears...😆

[@bernardhorrigan4753]

Paul you beat me to it 😹