6 Sports Watches Every Man Needs

Tim Mosso discusses the most popular class of luxury watch: sports watches. Between dive watches, pilot's watches, chronographs, and antimagnetic watches, this episode offers an option for every kind of adventure. From the Omega Speedmaster Moonwatch to the Swatch Scuba Fifty Fathoms to the Tudor Black Bay Ceramic Blue Edition, this show features a sports watch for any budget.
The Omega Speedmaster Moonwatch family is best known for the NASA-approved Speedmaster Professional. But the grey ceramic Speedmaster Moonwatch Grey Side of the Moon is a better match for everyday life on earth. With a 44.25mm ceramic case, automatic chronograph movement, and solid platinum dial, the Omega Grey Side of the Moon is impressively refined. Due to the lightness of ceramic, this chronograph is easy to wear and scratch resistant in equal measure. Although its current retail price of $13,600 is not cheap, you get what you pay for.
Tudor launched its original Heritage Black Bay in 2012, and it has become a franchise for the Rolex sub-brand. The 2024 Tudor Black Bay Ceramic Blue Edition is a special release launched in association with the Red Bull Formula 1 Team. This scratch-resistant dive watch boasts a unidirectional diving bezel, 200-meter water resistance, and a screw down crown made of stainless steel. The blue dial features classic Tudor Submariner "Snowflake" hands and a blue base with subtle granular texture. With a Master Chronometer certified Tudor automatic caliber MT5602, this Black Bay Ceramic offers a lot of watch for its retail price of $5,150.
The Swatch x Blancpain Scuba Fifty Fathoms was a sensation when launched in the fall of 2023. As the follow-up to 2022's Swatch Moonswatch, Scuba Fifty Fathoms helped to roll out the new Fifty Fathoms 42mm case size while also upholding Blancpain's boast of having never built a quartz watch. The Scuba Fifty Fathoms is water resistant to 300 feet - 50 fathoms - and ticks with an automatic mechanical caliber borrowed from the Swatch Sistem51. Several versions of the admittedly plastic Scuba Fifty Fathoms give the buyer a choice of different colors and dials with or without date windows. At a retail price of around $400, the Swatch Scuba Fifty Fathoms is one of the most affordable mechanical dive watches available from any source.
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[@RolexAddict]

This is my new must watch horology show every week! Keep up the amazing work Tim & crew!

[@the1916companywatchreviews]

I'm honored and grateful that you've joined us! Best, Tim

[@kbarnbrook4993]

​@the1916companywatchreviews uptickwatches youtuber lives in hk, and has a great collection of watches.

[@Kyle_Chad]

Another great show in the books. Thanks for the shout out! And yes, I did colour match my watch with my dog. Tim, you da man! 😎

[@the1916companywatchreviews]

Thank you for supporting the show! Best, Tim

[@fieldwalker]

ahhh! these drop mid day when I'm in the middle of a case. someday, someday... I'll be here in person!

[@the1916company]

Thanks for supporting the show any way you can! Best, Tim

[@Not-a-bot222]

I am never able to catch the live due to work, but man do I live relaxing after work to these videos !

[@the1916companywatchreviews]

Thank you for supporting the show any way you can! Best, Tim

[@AcmeRocket]

Im pretty sure wearing a ploprof (love that watch) to the office still makes you weird.

[@dannysimenauer5745]

Tim, damn it, you did it again! You know I am a value collector and now I added 3 more watches to my "wish list" from today's video! Thank you for thinking of us value collectors, and your service to the watch collector community. As an aside, one of the best benefits of Rolex not allowing you to talk about its brand is every watch (at least for the most part) is available!

[@Theo-ul8qm]

Happy to see the Type XX mentioned! I think it's important to mention, though, that it can never be Breguet's icon the way the Submariner, Navitimer and Speedmaster are for their respective brands. The reason I say this is because the original type XXs were produced by many companies, not only Breguet. Much like the fliegers in WW2 were produced by several companies, and today the flieger design is not exclusive to any brand, so is the type XX design. About Breguet's current version, what surprises me is the use of a date window. It seems so out of place because it cuts into the numerals. Also, the original type XXs did not have date windows. The watch feels like a bit of a letdown for me. Especially at the asking price, you can get quite a nice vintage example.

[@the1916company]

That's true, and even the original Breguets were made by Mathey-Tissot FOR Breguet. But Breguet was the longest running and most prolific supplier of the Type XX. For example, nobody is going to claim the IWC Mark XI isn't an IWC icon even though JLC made it, too. I don't see a problem with Breguet being one of several suppliers. None of the others persist in the Type XX's manufacture. Best, Tim

[@RinMagoo22]

Best show on KZbin

[@the1916companywatchreviews]

We're very grateful for this compliment! Best, Tim

[@bubbabrannan5915]

Great show, Tim and Crew. It's been a while since I got to see your live watch show 🥃🥃🥃

[@the1916companywatchreviews]

Thank you, Bubba. It's great to have you back. Best, Tim

[@richardwarren2024]

Excellent show, Tim. So many of these watches you featured could be a one and done watch. But we all know that we’re never done!

[@steve_troy]

Great show as always Tim! Love that Octo, they really knocked it out of the park with that model.

[@PabloTBrave]

I prefer the original Tudor ceramic over the blue edition myself ... That watch is on my erm watch list

[@NikonD3fan]

I have the Tudor Black Bay ceramic blue. Dial really pops!

[@BenTramer]

Tim, as an East-Coaster, why are you so fond of Los Angeles? As a New Yorker, it didn't speak to me. Great show, watched it twice.

[@the1916company]

I just like Southern California generally. Weather, the scene, and maybe a level of LA access that doesn't come standard since I've always been there as a luxury industry VIP with all that entails. Best, Tim

[@BenTramer]

@@the1916company Interesting analysis. What does "the scene" mean to you? Thank you.

[@Epicacactus]

@@BenTramer scene: 💸💸💸 🌴🌴🌴🍑🌞

[@NineHellHeaven]

I love the Grey Side. I have the Meteorite version which is a bit more delicate due to the Sedna gold bezel. If they weren't too similar, I'd be tempted to get this one as well. Great value used as well, way less than Tim suggests.

[@logwind]

Great topic of discussion!

[@JustAboutTime]

Nice to see my White Desert in the mix :D .. Sure, it might not be as flashy as a Patek, or Regal like an FP Journe ... but it's a really unique piece (doubly so now that Bremont has chosen self destruction!). Thanks Tim, great show.

[@user-dz1cm6er4q]

Tour de Tudor, cycling and chronos - Thoughts? Team Tudor, lots to discuss Festina fiasco to Fabian Cancellara. Steel is real, titanium, composites, lugs and work, Passion, style, motion and flight

[@gyang333]

The Omega Speedmaster might be the only instance where the buckle version is cheaper than the clasp version. If buying new, you can buy the buckle version + get the deployant clasp separately and the price of both comes to less than buying the watch on the clasp new.

[@amintaslneto]

Great to hear you'll be in HK Tim!! Come to Latin America next!!🙂Josh and I had a good talk about this market during our last gathering at the 1916 HK!! Best, Amintas

[@gareth3100]

Black Sabbath also had a track called E5150, on the Mob Rules album, which I seem to remember reading at the time was an LAPD call sign for a potential psychiatric incident

[@megasoid]

The Tudor is very nice.

[@Makingnewnamesisdumb]

Would it have killed swatch to put powermatics in the scoober snail watches? They would have been so much better and that much more serviceable so they won't inevitably end up back in the ocean or landfill.

[@hopeenquiries3638]

Hi Tim, I am a collector living in BKK and will be in HK the week you are there so would love to meet up for a chat - Simon

[@MrPolowu]

Thank you Tim & team. Kindly. PT.

[@seannotaro473]

Tim, an affordable alternative integrated sports. Take a look at the F77 from Nivada grenchen. I have the blue dial. Subtle AP and Hublot vibes from a brand that has heritage from the 1920's. Thanks

[@ziperian1000]

5150 - Mental code . High School for me .

[@gorter23]

@Tim have you ever seen an Audermars Piguet Ref. 3233 ?

[@robertramer6461]

Amp 5150?

[@malcolmmartin3206]

Any update on your old pal FP Journe and the market for his watches? Following on from the fall out with some of his collectors. Or is that too much like actual horological news rather than this fluff?

[@HarryJoiner]

30:38 -- anyone know what this strap is?

[@mazarashiuchiha9928]

It is from Bark & Jack. You can see it engraved on the metal strap holder.

[@landocycle]

Anyone else only getting 360p quality?

[@Thankyou_3]

Buddy, you need to get rid of that massive watch on your wrist, it’s too big. 40mm is the biggest case size anyone should wear, unless the lug to lug are short then you can push for up to 42mm…36mm for dress watch and 39mm for sport watch is perfect size.

[@steves8322]

Tim is the Clint Eastwood of the watch world…wears what he wants when he wants. He could care less if you think his watch is too big. The man plays by his own rules. Legend 😁

[@craigriley9892]

Why do you care what people wear? Some people have very large wrists. They supposed to wear a 38mm watch? It'd look tiny. You do you. Tim knows more about watches than you ever will.

[@Thankyou_3]

@@steves8322 Just saying what I see.

[@willburrows8834]

Did you used to Tweet Tom Brady with advice about throwing a football?

[@merc7paul]

Wear what you like ignore this idiot

[@Makingnewnamesisdumb]

Shouldn't a man be speaking on this topic?