Watchmaker Breaks Down Swiss vs Japanese Made Watches | WIRED

Professional watchmaker Ryan Jewell breaks down two different Carpenter watches; one watch with Japanese movement and another with Swiss movement.


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Watchmaker Breaks Down Swiss vs Japanese Made Watches | WIRED

[thelexico]

When I was in Austria I found a whole TV channel dedicated to a guy making watches, saying nothing and with no music and 8 camera angles. It was really nice to watch in the evening.

[TheRockerX]

I felt a very weird combination of fascination and boredom while watching this

[awatson]

‘Hmm I understand how it all works now’

- No-one

[BernardTheMandeville]

Comparing a ~$250, - ETA movement to a ~$75, - Miyota seems unfair when you never mention the price difference of the movements themselves.

[azmanntoz]

What I like about brands such as seiko and orient is that you can purchase a well made, budget watch with its own brand movement. With Swiss watches you tend to have to jump many price brackets to get the same claim. Even some of the so called luxury brands just run decorated ETA movements.

[MaxxSend]

Can you imagine if your cat jumped on the table and knocked that entire parts tray to the floor.

[FleshWolf]

This is really cool, but... finger condoms

[omegagavin]

Grand Seiko vs Rolex comparison would be interesting.

[skism]

Keep in mind while watching this that some of his phrasing is very misleading. For example, when he says "the Japanese movement", he's referring to that specific Miyota caliber. Makes it sound like Japanese movements in general all share the same traits. Even Seiko's cheapest automatic movements wind in both directions. That's not something exclusive to the Swiss.

[jong]

Comparing a $50 Miyota movement with a $250 eta

[HHgPaveHawk]

Odd they didn't compare more... equitable movements. a Miyota 9015 would be a much better comparison to the 2824 in both price and quality

[chrono_ninja]

20:20 Did you just remove the pallet fork bridge with power still on the watch? You naughty boy.

[toyotaprius]

WIRED, you need James May to do this.

[halicusnguyen]

I can imagine accidentally inhaling one of those parts.

[rajgill]

17:00 seiko's magic lever brings bi directional winding to watches under $100

[hellraiser]

funny how his hat steals all the light he needs ^^

[schmerol]

the swiss flag is square. kind regards, a swiss guy

[sestrelbethesda]

The best thing I’ve watched on YouTube for a very long time. I love my small watch collection, and you have given me a better understanding of their beating hearts !

[AvroBellow]

I'd say that the most iconic Japanese movement out there (simply by volume) is the Seiko NH35A. That's a far more refined movement than the Miyota 8000-series.

[AlreadyTaken]

Got "The carpenter watch with the swiss movement is $825 and the japanese movement retails for $595". Everything else is lost on me.