A Rookies Guide to Watches

This phone is a masterpiece of technology. It's synced to a satellite network. It tells time down to the millisecond. Costs a thousand dollars [music] and in less than a decade, it's going to be completely obsolete. It is a tool with an expiration date. Now this is worse technology. It's not digital. It's not perfectly accurate. It doesn't

have a battery or any circuits, but if it's taken care of, this will be ticking exactly like this in a hundred years. But here's the thing though. Watches can be intimidating. They're like cars or going to the gym or clothes or art. They're potentially expensive and it's really disappointing if you get them

wrong. But I'm here to tell you that they don't have to be intimidating. After countless hours researching on the internet, after talking to multiple experts, after going to freaking Switzerland and reading two books, we've put together this complete rookie's guide to watches. We're explaining how they work. We're diving into the history. Why are so many of the fancy

ones made in Switzerland? And we're going to tell you [music] what to look for when buying a watch. Spoiler, they don't have to be expensive [music] to be cool. And the first thing we're going to learn is vocabulary. There's no worse feeling than trying to get into something and have a conversation about it and accidentally

using the wrong words. You're talking to a car guy, you want to call it a wheel, not a rim. If you're talking to a clothes guy, you don't want to call a shirt with a spread collar a button-down. So to save yourself from this embarrassment embarrassment, today we're going to break down the complete anatomy of a