Timeless watch channel

So "artistic" type, who tend to be histrionic, hysterical and fragile of ego as a mark of the breed* catches covid, has a few days feeling sorry for himself, in a hotel no less, claims he nearly died? Mhahahahahahhahahah. Twat. There was a twit on Newstalk who came out with similar. A couple of days off, bit of a cough and sniffle, claimed he felt he was dying. 🙄 Let's face it, unless you're already fecked health wise, or horribly unlucky even tubby feckers like him have a tiny chance of pegging it from the pox. In Ireland in the 45-55 sge group out of the confirmed positive cases the death rate was 0.1. Even the risk of a hospital stay is 3% and the bulk of those stats were in play before vaccines. If you've been vaccinated, drop those risks by a massive factor.

And on top of that he attends a mass circle jerk of people from all corners, indoors with no basic precautions in sight, man hugging, back slapping each other and pressing flesh and isn't vaccinated or recently recovered from the pox and is surprised he caught a sniffle? Poor dear. Double twat. Actually outside of an Eyes Wide Shut type orgy, which would be fair bit more interesting, it would be hard enough to imagine a better event to spread a respiratory virus.

I haven't been at a watch fair for over two decades and to be fair it was a vintage watch event, but complete chalk and cheese compared to that show. Like an antiques gig really. Mostly an older crowd, a bookish, nerdy, very quiet affair, with as many reference books on show as watches. I'd say the fairs our Irishplayer recently attended would be of that sort and I'd further bet bugger all came down with covid after it. More actual experts on show too, not just reference number rattlers like Nic O'Subsecondsisacomplication selling snake oil to other montebanks and the gullible revving each other up like a revival meeting crossed with Amway.

*About the main reason why it's long fascinated me why people listen to and put such store in the utterances of celebs.

Interesting about the antibodies nuking the nasals. I have no idea what levels mine were at. Low I would have thought as I had zero symptoms, that I noticed anyway. Nada from the vaccine either. One chap I knew who caught it last year ended up in bed for a few days sick as a pig, but he didn't lose the sense of smell/taste and when he got his first vaccine jab it laid him so low he never got the second. Interesting how it varies so much.

I never liked Thorpe, but it was clear from the get go he was playing to the gallery for laughs, the problem these days is so many are not. They're being serious. 😮😁 Watches are a hard sell for youtube minus the BS, even now when it's trending. So you have to have Oisin rambling around Venice talking about dollybirds and vino, or Nic cursing like a docker shouting about god tier nonsense looking at rapper's watch collections, because like you say one watch starts to look like another. Especially as the trend de jour is Rolex and Patek, with the occasional Omega(Speedy) and AP. Those get the views but after a while if you've seen one Royal Oak you've seen them all. It's a self limiting market. On the other hand at least the cheap as chips lads have variety, but their brands don't get nearly the same views so they're self limiting too. The vintage crowd have pretty much zero presence on the Tube, or anywhere else really, but that market has stagnated in a big way. Nobody's buying and nobody's selling.

The watch hobby used to be tiny, a bunch of collectors and nerds with a much wider spread of subject matter and just enough of an audience to sustain it and it wasn't nearly so expensive to buy into and the aspirational stuff was minimal. Oh you always had the "check out what I've got" guys, but they were much more of a minority. Go back ten or fifteen years on say TZUK or further back on the Timezone forums and there were fewer posters but a much wider spread of stuff in general. When the big money and dealers and wider audience got involved and then flippers and escalating prices and then new social media look at me stuff like instagram took off the ecosystem changed a lot and contrarily the focus narrowed, and I think much of the BS we're seeing today is down to that. I can see it going back to the nerds in time.

Or maybe he's just being clever. He sees that there's only so much mileage in yet another Sub unboxing, that there's a time and attention limit on that and it's a far better bet to go the whole 'lifestyle' direction which has more longevity and more options for sponsorship and ad revenue. Let's face it that's what got him noticed in the first place. I seriously doubt he'd have a tenth of his viewers if he were wandering around Bray with equally moody shots of watches, no matter what they were. The 'American in Europe' adolescent and midlife fantasy is what sold and sells him. The watches are a small part of the lifestyle angle(which is how a lot of these watches are sold anyway). Look at the hits and attention he got with the French dollybird, even after he came across like a sullen 15 going on 50 year old. That he happens to be Irish and a one time muso with tales of life on the road in America is the icing on that cake.

For my sins I looked at their website. That crap is three grand sterling. 😯 🤣

Yep, classless would sum him up in one word alright Fitz.

Early on he was interesting enough, but that was more to do with the Venetian backdrop, for me anyway. I like the place and during the pox it was weird to see it so empty. He was a little different to the other watch tubers too. At first. The cut price bonoisms started to grate mind you. The saddofest over the French bird was the nail in the coffin for me tbh.