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This content advises consumers on which types of watches to avoid purchasing, emphasizing that smart watch buying involves understanding what not to buy, beyond just knowing desired models. It highlights common pitfalls like fakes, poor value propositions, and impulse buys that ultimately lead to dissatisfaction.
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you probably have an idea of the watches
you want to buy but do you know about
the ones you really shouldn't today I'm
going to set the matter straight and
tell you which watches you shouldn't
even Sully your barge pole with the last
important watches that look deceptively
similar to the one you really want I
know what it's like those pesky watch
makers keep making watches that you
really want but you can't have them
because those same pesky watch makers
also really want to make a lot of money
and so as we've all done at some point
or another you found yourself
entertaining the idea of purchasing a
fake it's like the good old days of
movies surreptitiously filmed at a
crotch ey view there was that one guy
your dad knew down the pub that had all
the latest Blockbusters Jurassic Place
men in suits and of course the animated
classic lion time the sound quality was
so good you could almost hear it and
despite being harassed by videos you'd
actually paid for that your actions
would destroy Hollywood nothing happened
well they can't blame you for Marvel at
least so what harm is getting that fake
really doing well Lots really watch
makers aren't just companies they're
groups of impassioned people making what
they love and their HR departments okay
so they're not all beaming at their
workstations like happy little elves but
they are doing work that makes you want
that watch and when you buy a fake
you're only buying that fake because of
the work they did and so if you like
what they do support it and if you don't
don't make other people think you do by
buying a fake either the same watch like
a 100 times you remember during the
pandemic there were people loading up
their shopping trolleys with a mountain
of toilet paper and the world
collectively wished upon them a night of
a thousand shet doubly so when they
weren't just Panic buying but
intentionally creating scarcity to push
up resale the feeling is mutual for
people who have a whole ton of the same
watch now I'm not talking about
collectors who like to stick to a theme
that's a special kind of weird but I get
it got to catch them all no I mean when
you've got so many of exactly the same
thing it starts to look like you might
be the kind of person who has a hidden
chest freezer but instead of a simple
social disconnect SL murderous tendency
buying lots of the same watch tends to H
towards the side of resale and that's
kind of unfair if the watch is hard to
get there's no way anyone is enjoying
nine of exactly the same thing except
for my wife and pastels she'll only eat
the red ones watches from the same place
you get your clothes like any
self-respecting man I have my favorite
store for buying all my clothes I found
a pair of jeans I liked bought nine of
them and that will keep me going until
the smell becomes too unbearable or I
blow out the underside t-shirts too I
have all the colors except for the ones
on the next shelf along because I
couldn't be bothered to reach for them
and if everything is perfectly optimal
on my denial shopping trip I will buy
both jeans and t-shirts from the the
same Shar doesn't matter how much the
bill is at the end it's always too much
there's no jeans and t-shirt Emporium
expensive enough to also consider buying
your watch from just don't even think
about it would you buy engine oil from a
Dairy Farmer aside from running the risk
of a greasy Milkshake the two things are
so completely different it would be too
ridiculous to even contemplate and given
that the seams of my jeans seem to blow
out faster than ever I'm not sure I
trust them to make a watch that won't
have a pair of Wheels hanging out the
aside before too long I watch you sold
because you didn't like it but now you
think you do have you ever heard of the
expression out of sight out of mind well
there's also the less popular but still
relevant out of sight but I want to put
it back into my sight because I've
changed my mind they're still working on
it if you've gone to all the trouble of
getting rid of something it was probably
for a reason don't do what my Dar dog
does with Anchovies and nibble it spit
it out in disgust look at it on the
floor think ooh delicious and repeat the
whole process ad nauseum you may think
you've matured or you'll feel
differently about it this time but
that's exactly what the English public
thinks every time the men's team plays
football on the world stage no we won't
be good this time we'll be crap like
every other time try a different watch
and if you still can't stop thinking
about that old watch you had and got rid
of because you didn't like it anymore
try as anx the watch you think makes you
look like a big shot I once bought a hat
I thought I'd look incredibly cool in I
didn't I look like I'd lost my carer I
realized some things that day one I
didn't have a head for hats and two
inanimate adornments aren't a Magic
Bullet For Change really these
decorations we buy for ourselves are
just that decorations that accentuate or
distract from what's already there take
the humble Christmas tree if we could
get away with wrapping tinsel and
twinkly lights around a vacuum cleaner
we would instead we use it to Hoover up
all those supposedly non-drop needles so
don't don't buy a watch thinking it's
going to change your persona and make
you look different if you saw Jason Stan
wearing a Panerai and think it's going
to make your thinning hair a feature
instead of a flaw think again watch is
in disrepair you think you can fix yes
I've watched wristwatch Revival too and
now I think I'm an expert I can say
things like there's endshake in my
balance how much hope do I have in
repairing a likely damag wristwatch less
than zero hope Marshall makes it look
easy because of an unfair Advantage he
has called practice I know in the same
way we're all above average drivers just
waiting for our Breakin F1 I imagine
we'd also be expert watch makers in no
time if only we got around to it and why
waste time by practicing it when you can
immediately get to work on what was
still a pretty expensive watch that's
now not going back together properly and
I think I've broken it more fixing
watches is a lot like picking up dog
crap if you finish up without getting in
the you've done a good job and when you
first try watch making it's like picking
up dog crap in a hurricane with your
your eyes shut learning is fun and I
encourage it but maybe start on
something simpler like an old pocket
watch or Lego watches with stupid Back
stories and pictures of people Outdoors
computer design cheaper manufacturing
and cheap business loans have made it
easier than ever before to make a watch
now before you go off a hollering and a
hooting I said a watch not a good watch
making a good watch as is immediately
apparent when you go trolling for one is
not easy at all it requires things like
creativity experience and an
understanding of design without those
things there is another option make a
watch anyway and give it an origin story
to make up for the sheer lack of
anything else interesting to say about
it perhaps the watch was concocted mid
hot air balloon race or perhaps the
founder has The Uncanny ability to talk
to dogs or maybe just maybe the company
was founded to honor the Fallen of the
great cheese roll of 2005 don't form for
these Illusions it's trickery deceit
behind the the beguiling Tales of
romance and Adventure on the number four
bus from centry are watches that are as
Bland as a clip Show episode of Two and
a Half Men sponsored by bread but if
that doesn't get you they've got another
trick too and that's not just showing
you the watches but showing you the
watches on the wrists of people enjoying
this big scary place called outside look
what fun they're having see how they
Frolic with their friends that's not
real that's a casting call for handsome
30s somethings cheap watches because
they're cheap the fear of missing out or
fomo as I believe it was coined
according to the Internet by Dr Sigman
Freud during a conversation with Abraham
Lincoln is real and it runs deep in
watch collectors there's even a
mathematical formula that goes something
like this am I buying a watch right now
plus no equals sadness if we had all the
money we'd buy all the watches but
unfortunately for most people that's not
how it works we have some of the money
and usually not that much of it so the
opportunity to buy a watch doesn't come
all too often when those watches are as
they so often tend to be skirting the
limits of our financial boundaries like
a Russian sub there is a solution to
that although I don't condone it buying
cheap watches are there great cheap
watches out there yes should your
collection include some of them why not
should you buy cheap watches literally
because you can what do you think a
watch you can buy right here right now
can become overwhelmingly tempting
despite not actually being the one you
want simply because it's available sober
up or you'll regret it in the morning
flick through the Rolex catalog and get
it out of your system because when
posturology Clarity hits you and you
realize you just push the watch you want
back another month you're going to wish
you hadn't the watch that laughs at your
salary and then eats it I don't really
like the idea of logic because logic
isn't infallible it should be by
definition but as my old Nan used to say
it's not what it is it's how you use it
let me give you an example let's say I
can afford about $5,000 at a push on a
watch that's the big one the 40th
birthday or whatever but let's say if I
bought a $10,000 watch I could get one
that's worth 2 Grand more out the door
sounds like sensible reasoning doesn't
it except that plan relies on the sale
of said watch which isn't the plan at
all it's a mirage a ghost and paying
$10,000 still costs twice as much as
$5,000 they call this kind of thinking
man maths and it's used to justify
irrational and dangerous expenditure I
don't call it that I call it passion
rationalization or passional
it's fine to play fast and loose with
the rules because it makes us happy yeah
sure it does until it doesn't we work so
hard for our money and sometimes it
seems like we can't get rid of it all
fast enough they also say money can't
buy happiness I don't know I've never
been able to hang on to it long enough
to find out any watch that claims to
make your life better I don't mean how
protectful makes an adjacent promise to
stop your son growing up to hate you
with the offer of a free watch but risor
smart timekeeping devices that claim to
improve everything with data people seem
to be covering themselves with more
senses than a Formula 1 car under the
guise that it'll make them a better
person I don't know if you've noticed
but we come fresh out the box with
inbuilt senses already they're called
feelings and generally speaking they do
a cracking job of telling us when things
are good and things are bad I get it if
you have some sort of medical thing I
don't expect you to guess your blood
sugar based on feel but more data
doesn't always mean more good in many
cases it's more overwhelming more
confusing more stressful especially in
relation to health and relaxation it's
so easy to draw the wrong and worst
conclusion from data that really all it
does is spiral the problem it was
intended to fix as in F1 even with all
the satellites and Radars and sensors
sometimes the easiest way to see if it's
raining is to hold your hand out watches
that lean too heavily on the word
Innovation right I don't know if you've
noticed this but watches mechanical
watches are pointless once upon a time
they were the the greatest thing since
we broke at a deal with dogs to bite
other people and not us but now they're
consigned to the same bin as the filofax
and mixtapes so when I'm enjoying my
daily dose of watch blur and I see the
word Innovation pop up I'm always
intrigued surely not has this
200-year-old manufacturer of sparkly
Antiquities finally invented a portable
way to itch the part of my back I can't
reach or perhaps they've discovered a
form of leather that actually smells
better the more I sweat into it no
whatever it is it's always as Innovative
as a soluble anchor yet they just can't
help themselves but dish out that word
like horological Oprah it's all part of
Watch manufactur Bingo and the more
words like that I read the more
disappointing I know the actual watch
will be on paper watches that are uglier
than death I bought a printer recently
yes sick of the inkjet cartel and its
self- ulating cartridges I invested in
lasers the future we were all promised I
never knew life could be this fun the
criteria for me was that it had to hold
a bunch of paper fit on the table I
already had and print what I told it to
when I damn well told it to and not
after printing out something it fancied
with bits missing never in that
decision-making process did I care what
it looked like would it be cooler if it
were styled like a 50s jukebox business
idea of course it would did that matter
to me no because I hadn't dreamt of one
day owning a laser printer okay maybe a
little watches a different it can have
all the sapphire all the chronometer and
all the hacking you like that doesn't
mean diddly do if it's ugly than a pig
on a pylon these watches aren't white
goods they're pointless for a start you
can't fulfill the want of wanting with a
SPC sheet a watch you're pretending to
like furthermore don't say you do like
that watch when you clearly don't no one
can it's an Abomination yes it's the
cheapest insert complication here yes
it's got 20% off in the sale that
definitely doesn't happen at every
legally allowable opportunity and yes
it's made by a brand that somehow
escapes the eye of the watch's circle
jerk subred it but stop that's not love
your feeling that's a desperate hope
that somehow the universe has cut you a
break sorry it hasn't that only happens
to other people any watch you could
realistically use as a shield I'm not
really one for telling people what kind
of style suits them best unless it
really really doesn't and I'm afraid
when the watch looks like it's wearing
you that's my threshold the big watch
Trend died with short sleeves over long
sleeves and home ownership and we're
heading back to where this all started
small when a watch is doing a possible
impression of the Space Needle on your
wrist I'm afraid it's just not going to
work out why does it look so wrong
clowns maybe if we lived in an alternate
universe where people didn't dress up in
equal parts amusing and terrifying
outfits to entertain and traumatize an
oversized watch might look fine as it
happens they go in the same pile as long
shoes big noses and vacant murderous
stairs the watch you think is going to
make you rich there are two ways to make
a fortune one way is to work hard and
the other way is to have someone give it
to to you one is easier than the other
and statistically speaking neither will
work for you because actually there's a
third way and by Third Way I mean only
way look some people made a whole ton of
money buying steel some people made a
whole ton of money buying Bitcoin some
people made a whole ton of money buying
watches loads more people didn't most of
them in fact and by the time the news
reaches Us slot that it's even possible
that ship hasn't just sailed it's been
decommissioned and dismantled for scrap
the guys who made a bunch of cash on
watches had the watches before anyone
had any idea that they would be worth a
bunch of cash the people who own them
now are the ones who got stuck with them
after they stopped being worth a bunch
of cash it's for the best to just be a
casual Observer a watch you hope will
stop you thinking about that other watch
it's pretty wild when you think about it
that we can take a pill that stops US
feeling pain like whatever's causing the
pain can still be there but that pill
stands in front of it points somewhere
else and says to your brain oh look a
squirrel and it works now I may have
flunked my online med school course and
I may be practicing without a license
but I know enough to tell you that
buying watches doesn't work in the same
way you can't pick up something that's
available to you and hope it distracts
you from something else that as of yet
isn't if anything it does the opposite
by making it more apparent that the
watch you want is now even further away
it's like a hammer Blow To The Head to
cure knee pain which I am proud to say
my medical firm no longer practices any
what you plan on getting used to here's
a real fact for you about me I don't
drink I mean I consume liquids but
non-alcoholic ones only it's not a moral
or religious thing I just don't
particularly like it no not even that
one yes I have tried it why are you so
desperate to justify your day drinking
to me arti Merill upon hearing this
information the reasoning I receive in
reply most often is that I'm simply not
used to it yet not accustomed like those
first few ball shriveling moments in a
cold sea that eventually fade away well
news flash I don't like the cold sea
either and I already have a list of
things I very much do like I'm happy to
try new things but I'm not willing to
keep trying them over and over in the
hope that one day they'll become
tolerable and I implore you not to apply
anti maral's advice to watch it either
don't buy it thinking that if you wear
it out and about a few times that you'll
start to warm to it doesn't matter that
everyone else has got one if they all
jumped into a hublo store would you do
that too watches you have already
decided you won't wear have you ever had
that experience where everyone else in
the world does something different to
you something you thought was completely
normal like wearing swimming trunks in
the shower or standing up to wipe sorry
dude I hate to break it to you but
that's just you well apparently there
are people who buy watches that they
know they won't wear before they've even
got them I don't have any particular
advice or Insight on this one because I
don't really understand why I'm not even
talking about people who buy them to
invest but who genuinely pick a watch
they think they want and order it whilst
also being pretty plain with themselves
about their likelihood of actually
wearing it is that you help me out here
why a watch you didn't know about more
than 5 minutes ago impulses are great
things there's one that says take your
hand off that it's really H I use that
one a lot when cooking or another one
that goes why don't you steer the car
into the central reservation and see
what happens that one's less useful I've
only used it once somewhere in between
the really handy ones and the plain
psychotic ones is that fell that tells
you to buy something you've literally
just discovered it very rationally lists
all the clear-cut reasons why that thing
is the answer to the mysteries of life
of the Universe and everything and why
it will help you achieve purest
Enlightenment and I will admit there's
nothing quite as satisfying as finally
discovering the perfect Gizmo for
solving that very particular problem but
with watches there isn't a problem to
solve in fact so much of the enjoyment
comes from taking the time to mull
mulling is also one of the most
satisfying things to do I've mold over
things for literal years take time to
enjoy taking Time watches that attempt
to meet an empty need for fulfillment
think of the human brain as a piece of
unironically relevant swiss cheese there
are lots of different holes or different
shapes and sizes that can be plugged by
doing different things some of the
smaller ones are indeed fulfilled by
making a watch purchase or by going on a
trip or even eating a damn good sandwich
but others are different those only fit
spending time with friends and family or
feeling like you're actions are a net
contribution buying watches just won't
cut it for those fundamentals if you do
feel like something is missing like you
don't have Worth or that your existence
is Superfluous I'm afraid something
material isn't the answer speak to
someone engage in a dialogue just
because you can afford watches doesn't
mean you're invulnerable to how tough
things are getting don't self-medicate
with watches and don't suffer
alone what are your top watches to avoid
let me know down in the comments below
thank you so much for watching and if
you do know someone who's being a little
quieter than usual check in and see how
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