You know what we need? More Jack. These need to be 20 minutes long, on him pontificating on whatever he wants to talk about. That ST:TOS deepdive was unexpected and welcome.

I always assumed a pilot's watch had larger easy to read numbers and a field watch was also easy to read but was crammed with numbers. Didn't think about the magnetism of the watch. Cool to know.

This gentleman rocking 2 watches like nobody’s business. An absolute utilitarian.

If Jack Forester were my professor, I'd show up to class every day

"introspection like we find in the Space Jam watches" resulted in me spitting out my coffee. Jack owes me a new keyboard. Great vid as always Team Hodinkee!

Never thought I'd see a shot of my humble Orient Defender in the annals of Hodinkee in all my years. Gonna bump it up in the wrist time pecking order just for the occasion.

I love that Jack is double-wristing to capture those health metrics on the Apple Watch. Let’s get that trend going strong!

This is a rather pedantic point from someone who used to, on occasion, give university level material science lectures, but it's not technically true that every alloy will experience fatigue under a cyclic load... In fact, steel and other BCC metals have a "fatigue limit (or endurance limit)," which is a stress amplitude under which the material WILL NOT fail from fatigue. Having said that, it may be true that in practical application a mainspring will always be cycled above its fatigue limit. One could run an example calculation and find out for themselves if interested.

Insightful considerations about the pilot’s watch. Always worth watching these short Q & A.

Hodinkee Travel Clock must be the best collab. Jokes aside, I would've liked to hear concrete opinions on some collaborations, rather than trying to wriggle out of answering the question.

I feel like complaining about lug widths fall to the same category with the endless nagging about date windows, or mourning about the lack of lume in a dress watch.

Hey Hodinkee ... where the " Reference Points Rolex Explorer I " episode ?

Impressive Star Trek knowledge 🖖🏻 Excellent episode, thank you 👍🏻👍🏻

This series is great. What encyclopedic knowledge! Keep em coming, so much better than a lot of the inane commentary

My favorite "collaboration" was Sean Connery wearing a Submariner as James Bond.

Happy new year Jack and hodinkee all 🎉

Isnt a pilot watch also supposed to be a bigger watch? So that a pilot can see it without taking his hands of the controls.

I think the issue with weird lug widths is people want to use their existing strap collections. Not many people own 19mm straps.

The only thing i dislike about these Q&As is that there isn't enough of them. 🥰

I think the 19/21mm lug width question is a fair one. I have an Omega speedmaster automatic with 21mm lug width and I wanted to get a quality leather strap for it, but couldn't find many. Last time I checked, Hodinkee had NO straps for a 21 mm lug width. Even Omega doesn't have much of a selection.

Thank you, i learned a new word today from your video. :)

Nice Doors reference (or perhaps the Odyssey). Now I feel old. Great video!

What I don't understand is why motorsport themed watches don't have better lume more often? I'm not talking about the gimmicky surface level motorsports designs you mentioned. But, true motorsports, either simple 3 hand or chronographs. The lume on those often are quite small and when they have it, even if a little larger, not all that bright. Ok, I guess there can be an argument that 1)too bright a lume could be distracting in the dark. However, I doubt no more brighter than glowing instrument gauges and what nots inside the car at night.. And 2) you shouldn't be looking at the time while driving... To the latter I would say that's maybe precisely why one should have better lume to quickly get a better reading in the dark so you can concentrate on the road and driving. Idk? For me, with abundance of excellent modern lume formulas, there's no excuse not to have great lume regardless of the theme and design style of the watch... Which, as an offshoot to this lume question, I don't understand why a fair number of Swiss brands that have been making dive watches for decades still use surprisingly weak lume on their modern dive watches? They are adequate, but annoyingly underwhelming considering some brands are only mostly known for their dive watches and still don't offer the best lume in them.

Excellent twist at the end (space jam). Really cool and smart guy. Regards.

Re: odd lug widths, I think all but a few niche brands don’t really consider or care that someone would change straps. I’m lucky that by chance my Reverso duo and Hodinkee x Longines both have 19mm, my previous watch a grand Seiko sbgw235 also had 19mm lugs bizarrely.

Another very cool episode. Well done, Jack.

NASA and the Speedmaster is hardly a perfunctory collaboration. Remove the “Flight Qualified by NASA for all manned space missions” from the back, and I would still proudly wear this pilot’s watch.

I’m a little confused about the name change, but sounds good!

Hey Jack, what is the reference of your Apple watch?

This whole video for me was about that bird thing behind. It's so distracting yet interesting at the same time. How is that thing 'loading' the liquid to the upper side and how does it keep moving? Anyway, what did Jack say?

The pilot vs field watch was educational!

Best collab: Patek and Tiffany. No one else comes close

I would like an unbiased opinion on the Sturmanskie Gagarin with a poljot movement.

Haha sehr gut, but what really bugs me is the use of Ceramics on the cases in any form and irregular lug-spacing! :)

Has there been a watch and whiskey collab??? I must know about this.

Best one yet

Hey Jack Did you change Cartier's mid video.?

Wow at the end i thought that the late and great Jim Morrison had came back from the grave and working for Hodinkee 😁

I was hoping he'd point at Rolex airking x Dominos collaboration, but the space jam was definitely a better point. 😂

I think Jack can have a pretty successful KZfaq channel if he wanted to. He could talk about whatever that he finds interesting, and I'd probably watch it. I feel like he's some kind of a human encyclopedia.

I think the Panerai/Ferrari collaborations are among the best looking Panerai's ever made.

I'd love to see a copy of these ww2 jet engine manuals

PILOT WATCHES should have a triangle at 12 instead of the number 12. Historically, pilot watches should be larger with disproportionately large crowns.

Lol, the 'values of the watch brand'. I wonder if those are analogous to the values of the Carphone Warehouse...

The answer to this question: About $5,000.

The end. ZING!

Brand collaboration hmmm is that like what hodinkee did with the longines sector - look we’ve removed the numbers and cross hair wow

I spent most of this episode watching the changing plants.

Marketing....

is best boy zack you son, jack?

welcome to Not answering a single question!

Odd width straps are there so that you go back and buy an official strap. Simple.

Breitling *

Kudos weaving Star Trek lore into this. This is highly illogical, but I wonder if there is Spock watch that collectors seek?

Design wise similar but Isnt Pilot watch bigger with an oversize crown? But I guess its bigger partly because of the faraday iron inner case and hey why are you wearing an apple watch 🤣

Space Jam Watches 😂

You have two watches on.

The odd lug widths have nothing to do with "design choice". Its about the companies being able to only sell you their straps.

If you wear two watches at the same time you look like a WW2 soldier 🤷

First

Easy answer,they are both worn by “tools”.

If I were more like this guy and less like me, I would have more and better options for sex.

“Has that plant always been there?” cringe… Stop trying not to be pretentious Hodinkee. It’s who you are! Embrace it!