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30 May 2023, 03:28 AM | #31 |
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The general hostility towards youtubers is always amusing on watch forums.
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30 May 2023, 03:36 AM | #32 |
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Yes, really. I said entitled. To differentiate from homage, e.g. Steinhart etc. And really, Tudor equals Rolex to some.
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30 May 2023, 03:47 AM | #34 |
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If you say so, then who am I to argue? And yes, I like Tudor.
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Tudor quality control sucks
I had issues w brand new watches Bb58 blue and pelagos 39 Pathetic Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
30 May 2023, 03:57 AM | #36 |
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30 May 2023, 04:03 AM | #38 |
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Now it’s him going on about how Tudor is decent “for its price point”. Always has to score his ‘prestige’ points. I like a watch if it does what it sets out to do well, not whether it ticks some kind of gimped pride curve. I like Seiko 5s and I like Pateks. |
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The video gets better when it’s actual footage of Tudor but on the whole pretty strange. The Hodinkee article by James Stacey on the Tudor factory showed and explained much more.
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Forum cultures cultivate people learning about and gaining context for the topic. Influencers, whether on YouTube or Instagram, take a very different approach. Yeah, maybe they're the smart ones because they're getting paid for it and we aren't, but on any given topic, the average forum weirdos knows more than the biggest #influencer. Nowadays we even have sponsored content mills posing as online magazines, like Stitchdown in which influencers write 'reviews' of boots and clothes sold by the stores that fund it. Last edited by Scholar; 30 May 2023 at 06:11 AM.. Reason: Combined replies. |
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30 May 2023, 02:29 PM | #41 |
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30 May 2023, 02:33 PM | #42 |
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Oh god, another Tudor video. How many Tudor videos do we need? They make great watches, but I'm just so done with the Tudor hype train by every YouTuber.
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30 May 2023, 04:25 PM | #43 |
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I watched the video and I quite enjoyed it, not normally a big fan of watch YTers. I work in tech R&D and have been involved in automation projects, so i really appreciated seeing that in the Tudor factory, the are quite state of the art.
Adrian Barker, and a lot of YTers in general, they are cheap marketing for the watch brands. Barker has done a few videos of "exclusive" content on Tudor releases, I seem to recall him going to their London HQ for some releases. Tudor know they can feed him some little bits of info, feed his ego and he'll put a lot of free work in to help market their product. Hence we see a factory tour video. Will be interesting to see other YTers release their videos on the Tudor factory. |
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I don’t know that much about Tudor, but didn’t they stop using ETA movements a couple years ago? They are now all in-house produced movements?
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Just being sarcastic, Paul. They're still using ETAs on some of their models, of course. But this doesn't make them any worse. In fact many prefer the ETA older versions over the newer in-house. I don't mind either one.
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30 May 2023, 11:17 PM | #48 |
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Pretty harsh comments about those poor YouTubers :/
I don't have anything against Adrian, The Urban Gentry, and not even against Paul Thorpe (surprised he hasn't been mentioned yet). On YouTube, you get different opinions, different production quality... This is what makes YouTube interesting. Sent from my Pixel 6 Pro using Tapatalk |
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I really wonder if the degree of automation in the movement assembly is one of the reasons Tudor seemed to have such a difficult time addressing the date issues that would plagued the Black Bay GMT for as long as it did.
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Intriguing question; this leads to another: if the movements are made by Kenissi, did other watch brands that used the same movement have the same sticky date issue… |
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31 May 2023, 07:17 AM | #51 |
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Good question! I do understand from someone who is pretty connected to the industry that the reason behind the lack of availability of the Black Bay Chrono was an issue they had with QC of the movement. They seem to have sorted that out, as they are now extremely easy to find in dealer cases. I believe some of the Breitling chronos share that movement.
It seems the more automated manufacturing gets, the less capable it seems to be able to deal with problems that come up. The date issue on the GMT literally continued for years, and after watching that video I think I understand why. The system is so regimented that even knowing that it's a problem it probably makes more financial sense to just fix them all under warranty later. Of course that doesn't take into account the damage done to the brand equity. |
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I think all the non in-house Tudor movements are now Sellita, even in the Asia-market Prince line. But yeah, I have two Tudor/ETA 2824 movements still going strong and true (COSC specs) after a decade with no service, and I would still choose them over Tudor in-house if it was an option, even at the same price. (I'd even take them over a Rolex 32xx but that's another story).
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