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Everyone is entitled to their opinion, I think he’s wrong and recently decided a Green Glass is my next watch.
Have you seen this one? This is a good example how the bloggers and Youtubers are trying to get views with negativity and controversial sh*t. Archie is another good example... most of his videos are crap.
Technically great video, gorgeous shots of a very, very nice watch.
Hey, I wouldn't buy a Milgauss because I'm a 5-digit guy through and through but I'm the first one to admit Milgauss is very nice looking watch and quite unique too... with that green crystal.
Yes its purpose is silly (antimagnetism, etc) but who really uses the GMT function or how many "cave dwellers" actually buy Explorer II's? This ancient technology is all a bit pretentious now... very few people probably even use the stopwatch in their chronographs or dive with their Sea-Dwellers or SuperOceans.
Rolex has even more pretentious models (like the YM2 or Sky Dweller) and dreadful diamond watches that even Liberace couldn't wear so why did he pick Milgauss? I don't understand.
How can this guy call it "the worst watch ever"? He has no real arguments. I'd understand the YM2 as most people think it's ugly. Milgauss is very nice looking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUr5q7HuhdI
PS: Before anyone asks why am I sharing this and complain at the same time how some of these YouTube bloggers beg for hits and attention...
I linked this just to demonstrate and create a discussion about what's the problem with Youtube generally. You get people who don't really have a clue what they are talking about let alone a modicum of basic intelligence broadcasting and yet this video actually has 120K hits. More misinformation polluting the internet social media platform.
Last edited by JPE; 22nd January 2019 at 21:36.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion, I think he’s wrong and recently decided a Green Glass is my next watch.
Speaking of polluting a social media platform, are we going to get a thread for every nonsense video on YouTube?
I bet he wouldn't dare criticise a Richemont brand
This isnt a blogger/vlogger... Its Watchfinder... with a very annoying Clickbait video. I usually like their stuff as its pretty informative but this is a load of drivel. Someone in the marketing department must have decided they needed some controversy in an aim to get some exposure.
I guess its worked... we ARE talking about it!!
You could always have just ignored it; but here you are (as well as starting a thread on TRF) giving it the air they crave.Originally Posted by JPE
Last edited by Oafley Jones; 22nd January 2019 at 21:51.
I don't know. Would you rather have another "Let's see your Submariner" thread?
You don’t bite the hand that buys you for several hundred million.I bet he wouldn't dare criticise a Richemont brand
I like the milgauss - when I can afford one I’ll remind WF of this video as asking for 20% discount
You're right, a thread about Watchfinder's opinion of a Rolex is real left-field stuff.
Sure. But instead of that I opened a watch discussion in two watch forums. I'm such an evil and sinister person.
You're complaining about this type of content, while doing your best to drive up their view count. You don't see the irony? How many other forums did you alert to this video?
The clear message at the end of the video is that he likes it very much. The rest of it is all discounted as tongue in cheek, I think.
I'm off to start a thread complaining about people starting threads complaining about YouTube videos complaining about watches. I wonder if deep in its heart the Milgauss is complaining about anything? "Tick tick tick that's all I ever do, I don't even have a date wheel to turn every night". If I was lumbered with that seconds hand, I would be pretty bitter about life.
TRF and here.
And there was a "disclaimer" in the original post which explained this.
I thought this was potentially interesting discussion. If you're not interested in this topic (or it offends you) just stay away. Nobody is putting a gun on your temple and forcing you to read it.
You sound like a guy who gets offended really easily. Maybe you should avoid more controversial watch topics. Someone might even insult your watch eventually.
Guess what - they have some for sale, and above retail.
Objectively... I’d say they’re making a killing...
Of course you could have had this discussion in the abstract, but there you are driving traffic to it. Which is hilarious because you’re the fella who took a dislike to something and decided to tell the world, I’m just letting you know how counter productive your approach is. So please, don’t be projecting any inadequacies on to me.
The Milgauss is a great watch, I don't get the video.
I think you've missed the 'tongue in cheek' point of the title and what WF are actually doing/ saying. I've watched all there videos and find them very informative, funny in places and very well shot, love some of the macro work. He has a point on the price, seconds hand and green glass, but at the end actually likes it. I think you find they know what they are talking about and have intelligence. Next to Tim, who does the GovBerg videos, tons on info & knowledge.
This and those who don't see that, maybe shouldn't be watching the video!
So what if my original post creates a few hundred clicks for the video? Is it a problem, really? Not for me. I have nothing against these clickbait videos... it's you who's doing all the complaing... I wasn't complaining at all... just stating the facts. Doug DeMuro is mostly clueless about cars but I still watch his shitty car videos occasionally. They're funny... just like this Milgauss video. It's the modern Internet.
Have you seen Archie's videos? The guy gets a lot of views. Those are mostly just negative rants. Those Youtube videos get 100 times more exposure than forums like this. That's where the watch community is now.
Why shouldn't we discuss this phenomenon in the watch forum? Why get so heated about it?
Have people commenting on this video actually watched the video?
Lazy Jeremy Clarkson-esque pastiche of ‘I’m saying lots of negative stuff, but then three quarters of the way through I’ll pause for dramatic effect.....
........before declaring I quite like it after all
A bit of a strange video - but he ends up basically saying the whole is greater than the sum of it parts - and looked at as a whole it all makes sense.
Regardless of that - I quite like the lightening bolt second hands - the watch has bags full of character
I admit, I didn't watch the last 2 minutes (at first). It was too annoying. Either way, he trolls for views with controversy and making as provocative title as possible... then in the end he just says it was all joke.
It was all about whoring for views and clicks. Very cleverly done. Nothing wrong with that.
From Jeremy Clarkson you could always except that... but not from the WatchFinder.
Last edited by JPE; 22nd January 2019 at 22:56.
I think you’ve missed the point of the video actually. I think it was an attempt at being funny. Just saying the watch is an odd ball when looked at in pieces. I mean they are trying to sell the watch after all.
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True. I missed the joke, my mistake. And was too annoyed to watch the last minute.
But there's 1.8K thumbs down. A lot of others didn't find it funny, either. :D
Clarksonesque but without the content, structure or timing. Just poor, but plenty of views so probably fulfilled the brief.
Yes, I agree that there are tens of thousands of bloggers and vloggers who have half a wit and barely more knowledge, and flog their drivel online as “my channel.” Stupid dolts. The older I get the less tolerant I become of fools.
I don’t think Watchfinder is one. One in ten videos I catch some factual or historical error, but generally well stated and authoritative IMHO. Great photography, I just wish that when they are discussing historical models, they SHOW the historical model, rather than the pornographic quality macro shots of a current model.
You know that Archie Luxury is satire, right? The host is an actor. Hope that news flash didn’t blind ya.
Kind of amusing video, just imagining all the fatboys raging up until the end where he makes the last deliberate contradiction with "sometimes they don't always make sense".
Why shouldn't they have a bit of fun now and again, seems harmless enough to me. Some folks are too over protective of their favourite possessions, they're only purchased objects(easy for me to say as most folk I know find 90% of my watches ugly).
It's a good example of advertising techniques in 2019 and the age of social media. I wish it didn't exist though.
The Rolex Oyster Perpetual Air-King ref. 116900 is worst watch ever made. :)
It could be made worse by fitting the seconds hand from a Milgauss.
F.T.F.A.
See, why do people not watch the entire video? It's clear in the end that he loves the Milgauss. He's saying how objectively the Milgauss shouldn't work. But because we tend to buy watches with our heart and not with our head, it doesn't really matter if it's ugly.
I see the Milgauss kind of like the Nissan Juke, an objectively ugly car - it's got odd angles, weird headlights with an odd tall-short stance. It shouldn't work, but people seem to love it. Me included.
[QUOTE=magirus;5003815]It could be made worse by fitting the seconds hand from a Milgauss.[\QUOTE]
Yes, you have a very good point.
I used to subscribe to Watchfinder's YouTube channel, but it was too many videos along the line of "Why this watch that costs as much as a house is better than this watch that costs as much as a car."
I'm just not in the target demo. (But some are interesting, sure.)
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The watchfunder videos are good quality content. I think I agree with much of the video and I have a Milgauss. The first time I saw it I was not sure then I grew to really love it.
Well it’s one thing to call it the worst watch ever made, but to compare it to a Nissan Juke? - that’s stepping over the line.
Maybe I should view the video but, assuming the watch is a blue faced GV, does the reviewer comment on legibility in artificial light?
Like mine despite it being hopeless in this respect...
Storm TeaCup comes to mind. Shame there were some personal attacks mixed in with the comments.
“Next week we will mostly be discussing tulips.”
Have a happy Thursday.
Martyn.
Hey he could have compared it to the Fiat Multipla.
Agree, I found it quite entertaining and I can definitely relate to some if not all of the sentiments. With all due respect to some of our overseas members who's first language isn`t English, the message is open to misinterpretation if the comments are taken to literally.
I pride myself on taking an objective view of most things, but even I'm prone to the odd bout of irrational subjectivity. I`ve just spent the last two weeks wearing a watch that I struggle to read in anything other than bright daylight, yet I love the watch and it's definitely on my 'keeper' list despite it's shortcomings and despite my decision to reduce the collection this year. looking at it now, in my brightly lit work area, it looks fantastic; this is the same effect as viewing in a brightly lit AD's showroom. I know the watch is useless in most light conditions but I`ll forgive it, subjectively it's a great watch, objectively it's no good!
Limited market The Milgauss , meant for Scientists needing anti magnetic timekeeping or nowadays good for persistent package holiday goers looking to evade magnetic fields in airport X-ray devices . I guess they hope they might be identified as scientists but the lack of IQ and the fact they go to Benidorm three times a year puts end to that dream . Milgauss a watch that is totally pointless . I suppose they will bring out an Astronauts watch next ..
Good points, only no one has the attention span to get to the end of a few minute vid these days, so the clickbait works but they cover themselves, very cynical.
I suppose WF don't care anymore as everyone hates them with their recent moves to price gauging.
Wearing mine today. It’s certainly a watch that divides opinion. I love the way the dial changes colour in different light. I love the history and the lightening second hand. If I could improve I’d make it a mm or two smaller.
You don’t see many in the wild, I’ve only spotted one other blue (worn by a lady sitting in front of me at the ballet) and one black gv (belonging to a client of mine). It’s relative uncommon nature appeals to me a great deal.
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Polarizing title to drive likes and view counts. Welcome to the YouTube generation and the internet in general, where everyone has a voice. Great thing is, you can completely ignore these voices and opinions.
Kinda did the opposite though, by posting the link on a forum, driving up his view count and earnings, encouraging him to do more of this.
What's your point? Automatic watches in general are pointless, but here we all are, discussing them ad-nauseam, spending considerable sums of money on them.
Miligaus does something for the folks who buy them just as whatever watches you own do something for you.
Well, I'll start by admitting that I haven't watched any of this youtube video, not even a second of it.
And I'll make a massive assumption that the reviewer doesn't have a scooby-doo about even the most basic physics or indeed where the name Milgauss comes from, but instead is obsessed with his own shallow opinion of what looks good (ie blingy) and what doesn't look good (ie grown up and subtle).
It's a tool watch designed to withstand a thousand gauss magnetic field, which is enough to pull the braces out of his teenage teeth (again an assumption that he is a teenager and wears braces).
When it comes to the world's best watch for a particle physicist, then I suspect the Milgauss fits the bill.
Top tip for any youtube review, if it starts with the words 'hi guys..' then immediately click the back button and watch something else.
Could think of a million watches I’d rather NOT have than a milgauss so guessing he knows nothing lol
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I guess they haven't
I don’t like Watchfinder or this watch. I’ll try not to lose any sleep over it.
I don't suppose I'll ever own one but if I did I would get the case magnetized and then stick it to the fridge at night.
THIS. ^ It's satire/sarcasm, which seems to be lost on those too impatient to watch the whole thing, or too dim to "get it."
Many of the ones I've viewed take the opposite tack, arguing for the virtues of more affordable watches.
RFLMAO. I highly doubt that Watchfinder & Co's videos are monetized. Even harder to do after YT's changes last year.
And your massive assumption is wrong. Might just click to see who's the author of the video. :-\
I think Watchfinder & Co. have a wee bit of expertise.
I suspect many of you are making these comments without a) seeing who the video is by, and b) not reading the comments above which identify the author. It's a mistake I've made too, only human.
You chose a really poor example, IMHO. Watchfinder are not "some blogger." And the punchline at the end illustrates that the preceding statements in the video are tongue in cheek.
https://youtu.be/rkUkVxM6R8o
Perhaps not directly through YouTube, but indirectly by increasing brand visibility and driving traffic to their site.
Same way lots of people start good informative blogs not to directly help others, but to show how much they know so as to help land a new role or more contracts.
Traffic is internet currency.
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