Correction: Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned by polonium-210

We’re was the Casio calculator watch??? First watch to help us cheat maths exams

I think Bulova was missing in your list. Accutron was revolutionary back then. The gemini and Apolo mission used bulova watch.

Don't confuse "Russian" and "Soviet" words, they have different meanings. Shturmanskie (Штурманские) is the Soviet watch series.

The Sturmanskie was most certainly the watch Gagarin wore in space. He can be seen wearing it in many pictures before and after the first launch. Sturmanskie and Vostok both have been known for years as watches built like a tank. Ruggedness and reliability are two essential Russian qualities in industrial design.

You must be too young to remember the Bulova Accutron. An engineering marvel. The tuning fork design that did away With the centuries old balance wheel movement.

You missed Bulova. The watch that actually worked on a space mission. The crystal didn't pop out like the Omega did.

Bulova Accutron not even metioned...unbelievable!

Sturmanskie is a good watch. Most Russian watches are. I have the same caliber and is very accurate.

I own a Sturmanskie … so I like to think it was the actual first watch in space… why not, Yuri Gagarin was not supposed to do anything but just sit there and look around, so they probably didn't question him wearing his watch… I like the idea that he looked at the same brand-icon when he was sitting on top of that rocket in the 60's waiting for the countdown...

Great review, but shame there was no room for Casio's GShock. Which is not my favorite, but it's the most popular for field, police, military, fire and even space exploration

I am glad Casio is mentioned here, as they truly made digital watches attainable for everybody. They are a great company, they have their place in horology. Proudly wearing my GMW-B5000, a true icon.

Glycine Airman? First GMT watch!

Very informative and thoughtful video. Others say the Omega SMP 2531.80 was the watch that saved Omega. James Bond turned out to be the ideal advertising icon. That said, that is thinking only of one brand name. I believe you have done an excellent job identifying watches that changed the world! Thank you!

All of these timepieces were iconic but the H4 merits a special place.

Bulova accutron not on there or the speedmaster moonwatch that was worn on the first moon landing, seems a few have been missed

Of course, you missed the Bulova Accutron tuning fork watch that dominated from 1960 up to 1976 when Quartz watches took over, The Accutron tuning fork movement was far more accurate than any balance wheel watch and Bulova sold millions of them worldwide!!!

Very informative. I watched the full 17 minutes. Thank you for your hard work.

Neat mate, subscribed! This was enjoyable, and even a nerd like me learned a few new things, great content, and lovely presentation.

Totally agree with no 1. Without swatch, we will not be talking about mechanical watches today

I live in Biel, the absolute heart of the Swiss watch industry. I love what you’re teaching me about my new home town!

Sturmanskie honoured, bravo ! I would only add the first watch in outer space , Strela, handwound chronograph.

The poison was polonium, not radium.

Your telling me the Omega isn't in the top ten madness my friend

rolex movement used in panerai has been originally a cortebert movement... and first dive was omega ;-)

Thank you for being so quick and informative! Amazing video. Personally, when there is too much animation/music on presentations it distracts me, this was perfect.

I had a black resin Texas Instruments red digits digital watch in 1977 when I was a kid, what an awesome feat of a watch it was back then.

The big question with Gagarin is not which watch he wore, but whether he actually went into space at all. He was chosen because he was good PR. He was paraded around BEFORE, as well as of course after the flight. Given how unpredictable the entire space thing was at the time, it was very risky actually sending the poster boy. It’s highly likely someone else actually did the mission touted as the first manned space flight. This begs two more questions: Was that mission actually successful - to the extent that the real cosmonaut survived? Who was he?

Great video…I appreciate all the research you put into your content?😊

Slight detail - I don't think that modern quarts oscillators are at 32768Hz. I think they run slightly higher and use an individually digital programmed counter to remove some counts based upon calibration. That way, in mass production, the frequency could be measured and a digital compensation burned or permanently programmed into a counter to calibrate them instantly after measuring the frequency of the oscillator.

Thank you so much for including quartz.

Thanks for sharing this historical information. Love hearing background on some famous horology.

Very nice and informative video! Learned a lot.

Great informative video. I own several watches from Citizen Eco Drive to Seiko and Casio. I also like Orient watches and own one of their 3 star mechanical watches after viewing several reviews on them and have found them to be very rugged but also accurate mechanical watches, they also produce Solar Powered quartz chronographs which are also very accurate of which I own two of them in the Neo 70's Panda range produced for the Japanese market but are available in the UK if purchased online. Orient are not well known in the UK but they are now owned by Seiko so you can expect good quality timepieces. Thankyou for posting your video. I have now subscribed to your channel. Keep up the good work.

Really nice video! Not a single second bored ;D

Great and very informative video!

Nice job!

Great video! You deserve more subscribers, so I subscribed...;)

Your watch info was good, but you missed the mark pretty badly on other points. Santo-Dumont's 14bis did use wheels, for sure, but as of 1908, no European had flown more than 7 minutes in a heavier-than-air craft, while the Wrights were flying an hour or more and no European was able to control and aircraft in the yaw or roll axes, so they had no true control of their planes. They were still attempting to control their turns with just the rudder and very few had anywhere near enough vertical stabilization. Also, Litvinenko was killed with polonium, not radium. Polonium is second only to uranium hexaflouride in toxicity. Radium does kill, but over several years. Marie Curie died from it, over a 15 year period. You also forgot the invention of the Swiss lever escapement by Thomas Mudge, which almost all modern mechanical watches have used since the 1870s, or the Gruen's safety pinion, which prevented a failed main spring from completely destroying the movement.

Outstanding video! Keep up the great work.

Great Video, but at 10:01 this is Valentina Tereshkov the first woman in space, she wore the same watch like Juri Gagarin

Interesting video, thanks. May I suggest the use of a pop filter or windscreen on your microphone to furter enhance your sound? Good luck!

Del Boy and Rodney had one of #10. Lovely Jubbly!

Very very interesting. Answered lots of questions. Thanks

Great educational video! Thanks for all your efforts.

Nice video, thanks....yes I think the Sturmanskie you have featured is pretty widely accepted as the type Gagarin used

"ALL" PILOTS WEAR A WATCH ... Common sense tells us the first Russian in space wore a watch, however its condition on its return no one knows ... but it took Omega with the Speedmaster to market & publicize it to Make More Money, something Russians are Not good at ... Don't forget Ingersol's DOLLAR WATCH in the 1900's which made a $ 1.00 watch affordable to countless Americans, & their Popular Mickey Mouse watches thereafter. GREAT REVIEW, Thanks, Major Jim, USMC

Great video my brother! Very interesting!

No 1 Harrington, saved countless lives in the age of sail. No 2 Blancpain 50 fathoms, so you don't run out of oxygen in the depth's, as well as being drop dead gorgeous and hand finished still today.

Great video, thank you.

Very interesting and informative, thank you, great video !

Great video!

Great video with some surprises. Thanks for sharing!

Seriously no japan watches on this list? Japan watches cause the quartz crisis and now every people can have watches because of japan watches, that truly shape the world. And they also produce many hi tech and good quality watches.

bulova accutron

Great work, well done, cheers

I love watches. I love the fact they brought up Napoleon sister in this.💚

Why did you show a picture of cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova when talking about Yuri Gagarin ?.

Good video . Most people do not know a thing about the quartz crisis .

Very informative!

Great program. I agree with your selection.

I dont know much about watches... but i know that You are gooood. Thanks

Enjoyed your informative video.

never knew about the 1926 rolex oyster being the first waterproof watch

Litvinenko had been killed with Polonium, not Radium. BTW both Gagarin's Sturmanskie and the Speedmaster moonwatches still had radium indexes (in case of Gagarin's watch, cause it was an old piece. Soviet Union already forbidden the use of radium indexes in new watches in 1957, and newer ones used tritium).

A lot of information, tnks and regards!

I'd say the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak should be there as it saved the mechanical watch industry (at least in part).

Thoroughly enjoyed that. Thanks

If folks want to know more about the impact of radium on dial painters, check out Moore's The Radium Girls. It's a thorough, excellent, and depressing read.

As 11 I would suggest to take Balls Standard Time watch. It contributed to the safety of the new railways in the 19th century. The watch ist still produced

Omega speed master spent million of dollars to develop it? It wasn't developed for space travel.

Seiko 6139 or Pogue. The first AUTOMATIC chronograph in space. Omega was a manual chronograph

Not a word about Peter Petroff, the inventor of modern watches (Pulsar) :)

That was an awesome ride my friend.

Casio should have had a slot somewhere, with the development of gravitational shock watches, nothing existed like it before the g-shocks came to market.

Nice and very informative video, too bad the sound is awful, which makes it hard to enjoy

A lot of inaccuracies here. Not least of all the rolex. He did not invent any of the innovations he merely used his marketing ability to advertise the watch. And Harrison dudnt get paid the prize money only part of it.

very interesting. thank you!

I had an all white swatch back in the 80s. It was rad. Looked like disco dust.

Cool video!

This is an excellent, well-researched list for the most part, however making the iconic Speedmaster a mere footnote while listing a Russian watch that you think may have been used in space, but has no documentation regarding its use or whether it performed and survived such a journey is out of line. The Speedmaster is one of the two most iconic watches made, and its documented performance in space is legendary. It is a big part of the reason the crew of the Apollo 13 made it back to earth when their computer system malfunctioned. How could you miss something like this? Leaving out the Speedmaster is a glaring error. I respectfully suggest you edit an otherwise excellent video and correct this mistake. BTW- I don't own a Speedmaster.

I just aquired a military CYMA Tavannes watch with black display and triangular 12´ index with dots ( B-Uhren type-a inspired ) 36 mm diam. and in very wearable condition (military steampunk kinda vibe) without noticible restoration except the crown wich i suspect it was replaced for civilian use (aviation watches have large unconfortable crowns), i thinck i found a history jewel for 165 buckaroos, what do you think?

Dear author, tell me please whether there is a difference between the 9:45 USSR and Russia?Maybe Canada is a part of USA?Dislike for such big mistake,sorry.

WHERE IS THE WATCH THAT CHRISTOPHER WALKEN IN PULP FICTION GAVE TO THE LITTLE MAN BRUCE WILLIS ???

Subbed. Now yer 4 digits. So what about Timex the only watch anyone had in the 60's 'Takes a lickin' & keeps on tickin'.

very good

It is all about Swiss watches. G shock should be one of it.

A great article.

Panerai watches have massive history

So only 539 subscribers? You deserve many more!

I had a few of those plastic 80's Swatches. A pop swatch as well. Oh, and a Swatch wall clock, in the shape of a big giant's wristwatch, same black and white design as my wristSwatch too. God, I sound like a tit. I was still only wee, though. And my girlfriend had a small lady sized one, the identical version of mine (we thought it meant kind of a 'thing', hardehar). Bonkers thinking how 'must have' a fashion item they had so many people believing they were. Must have been some serious marketing genius at work there! I always wondered: why that loony proprietary strap fitting design, though. I suppose both to seem like a more secure system than spring bars while, at the same time, it was actually their fly way of building in a 'planned obsolescence' because I'm sure that was what eventually killed mine, when I think about it. If that didn't end them then the browning of the clear jelly parts and the yellowing of the white ones probably sealed the fate of more than a few on their inevitable trip to a thousand landfills. If people wore theirs, that is. There's probably lots that have been lying in drawers, just waiting for the invention of eBay. I thought most of them looked horrible but I was still sucked in. I suppose they really had something for everyone. Maybe everyone thought most of them were horrible. I've really enjoyed this little walk down shit Swatch memory lane. I might even consider getting another. Though why I would think that; I don't even know. Glad I helped save Swiss autos though, even though their current pricing policies are bordering on criminal. Longines just seem to add about £50 a year to even their lowest priced models. Maybe it's more marketing genius of a different kind; keep making them more expensive so that they get more 'luxury' every year. Anyway I am in utter awe of the fact that my Hydroconquest only gains, on average, 4 seconds a day 'dial up' and half a second when worn. A mechanical marvel. Once again a Swatch (well, a 'Swatch group' watch) is one of my most prized possessions only this one I am never going to break. Thank you for your really good, very informative and thought provoking video and god damn that Panerai Luminor! I would never wear one in a million years.

You forgot the Seiko Quartz Astron 35 SQ, the first commercially available made quartz watch in the world. So famous one was entered into the Smithsonian. Your lack of it made me reconsider my subscription to your channel. I hope you learn from this for next time. Regards, G.

You left off the Bell watches... and ignored/disdained the Japanese contributions. Only the European watches (Swiss) got any love. Still, this was a very interesting video. Good job

Although you'd have a job getting it on your wrist, I'd perhaps start with the 15th century clock in Salisbury Cathedral.

This is great!

Fascinating video

It does not make sense stating that the GP was the first Quartz watch (being cronologically 2nd) to Seiko just because was more advanced and easier to produce, if you look at history being the first is whats important despite being backward and rudimentary to the subsequents examples.

I do like the Steinhart ocean 1 very much

Hallo... nice video...

I do believe gagarine, took that watch to espace. I think that he only had that one. And the soviet focus was the space run, not testing things..... and personal objects.