In today’s UNBOXING Roman Sharf and Ana unbox a Hublot time machine that can slow down or speed up time! They also unbox some amazing snacks from the infamous @Marc Gebauer, as well as some more beautiful timepieces!
Roman Sharf:
Hi, we’re live. You guys get to see me and a much prettier version of Adrian now because I decided to-
Ana:
Ah, much prettier?
Roman Sharf:
Much, much prettier, yes. I decided to go with Anna banana this time. All right, guys, I’m going to start with a note. Hey Roman, kind regards to your wife. She has good taste. Enjoy and we’ll see you soon. Ask and you shall receive. I literally shouted out Marga Bower and said, “I ran out of the beautiful popcorn and coffee that you’ve sent our way”, and literally, sends me a box full of goodies. Nobody touches this.
Ana:
And it also has a note. It says, “Also, half of it is for Anna.”
Roman Sharf:
No. This popcorn, I mean, I’m drooling talking about it. Do you know what this is?
Ana:
No. The nuts?
Roman Sharf:
These are the nuts. This time, I’m not giving this to anybody. Although I think he sent enough for everyone. Mark, thank you again so much. Let’s get some watches going. Nobody touches this. I’m going to start with a Marco watch. A Marco watch is obviously going to be some crazy independent and this time around, we’re coming in with a Moser Moon Phase. Moser is, I feel like, still that… Hold on, I think I have to sneeze.
Ana:
Bless you.
Roman Sharf:
Not from that. Hey, can we get back to watches? Ergonomic design, making this watch extremely, extremely, extremely comfortable. And I do believe I say this is a Marco watch. And actually, this is a watch that Marco purchased, I believe but sits well on the wrist, in a reasonable price range. And we’ve been on an independence kick and the reason for that is because, A, they don’t make many of them, they are different in their own right, and the cool story behind pretty much every independent watchmaker, which we’ll get into on a one minute reel that will be created by Nicholas. Here you go.
Ana:
I got an offshore.
Roman Sharf:
Reference number, Alex.
Ana:
I love this one.
Roman Sharf:
So this offshore, not… This is less comfortable than the newer 43-millimeter counterpart unless you have a bigger wrist. For me, the new 43-millimeter works best. But even still, I know it’s huge, but still, I feel like it kind of works. And if you compare size-wise: longer-
Ana:
That’s what she said.
Roman Sharf:
That’s what you came here for? Another one. Hold on, did we sell the one we had?
Ana:
Yes, we did.
Roman Sharf:
Oh, Chris sold the one that we had. Meteorite GMT. What was this thing at the highest market at?
Ana:
Um, $95?
Roman Sharf:
$95,000, and what, they’ve come down to what now? $70’s, depending on condition-
Ana:
Depending on the condition and the year.
Roman Sharf:
So this watch didn’t really take that big a hit. Again, a watch that I absolutely hated when it first came out, because I’ve always said, if you’re going to put in a beautiful meteorite dial, don’t take away from it with this loud-
Ana:
I actually love that.
Roman Sharf:
Bezel. But a lot of people love that. And I guess I’m being biased by the people around me because it’s starting to grow. You want to put that back first?
Ana:
Yeah, sure.
Roman Sharf:
Good idea.
Ana:
Not a good bad idea.
Roman Sharf:
Oh no. It’s another Batman. I swear it-
Crew:
1-0-6-7-1-0-B-L-N-R. I just said it.
Roman Sharf:
How did you know that I was a Batman?
Ana:
Because he looked at everything before you came in.
Roman Sharf:
Stop chewing, Alex. We have a Nico watch. Where’s Nico? Ooh, this is nice. Anna, do you want to talk about this?
Ana:
Yeah, it’s the Orlinski 200-Piece Limited Edition.
Roman Sharf:
Alex, who is Orlinski?
Crew:
He is a… musician.
Roman Sharf:
Magician, musician, you’re so wrong. He is an artist. Again, everybody talks about Hublot but, look at the watch. But something that can be in a collection because look, at the end of the day, they make good-looking watches.
Ana:
I agree.
Roman Sharf:
How about the ones with the diamonds that they do, the Orlinski’s? I mean, the only thing I wish they would do is to make the watches as exclusive as art. There’s more of these watches I think made than he made sculptures. And they made a lot of variations. With Hublot, the whole part about capitalizing, the whole part about making too many limited editions, they capitalize on their relationships. Can we do a special watch? Speaking, since we’re on a Hublot kick, here’s another Hublot. This one is called what?
Ana:
Key of Time.
Roman Sharf:
The Key of Time. And the Key of Time, there’s a message behind that. This is a tourbillon, but the complication is one of, right. Don’t quote me. The development was done by a company called B-something or other, it starts with a B, I forget, but I did a video on this thing, you guys can check it out on YouTube. And what Hublot ended up doing is he ended up buying that company. So therefore they owned the technology. So what’s the complication in it?
Crew:
So you can actually either slow down time to take in what you are witnessing. So if you want to have time with your kids or whatever, or do I speed up time to-
Roman Sharf:
So there are four-speed variations, you can slow down time on this watch up to four times or speed up time up to four times, which is kind of like lying to yourself. But the idea is that let’s say you’re spending time with your kids, and your wife, and you’re enjoying your time, you can slow that time down and click a button that goes back to whatever time it was. And if you’re doing annoying jobs or work and you want to speed up time, you do the same, again. But this is kind of what it is. But the complication in itself of how this works is, it’s pretty damn amazing. I mean the only comparable thing I can think of is maybe the Journe Quartz, the Elegante, where the time stops and then you shake the watch and it goes back to what it was. But this is not Quartz. Anna, how about another reference number? What do you got now?
Ana:
Alex.
Roman Sharf:
This is cool.
Crew:
2-6-3-3-1.
Roman Sharf:
Missed the reference number.
Crew:
Is that it?
Roman Sharf:
So-
Ana:
Probably
Roman Sharf:
Rose gold, two-tone. It’s steel with a chocolate dial. It’s got to be the prettiest two-tone combination. I mean, I think this is just as nice as the Roubier two-tone.
Crew:
And you never see these out in the wild.
Roman Sharf:
Because this is probably the best-looking two-tone 41 out there, as far as I’m concerned. Anyway.
Ana:
I like all the combinations.
Roman Sharf:
It kind of matches the… It kind of goes with that.
Ana:
Yeah.
Roman Sharf:
All right. Anna has her grandfather’s Orient watch from the sixties.
Ana:
Or fifties, even.
Roman Sharf:
The fifties. So in Soviet Union times, I was just telling the guys, if you owned one of these, you were like an oligarch because back then, this watch cost like 350 rubles, while the average monthly salary was like 50 or 60 rubles a month. I got another olive day date, reference number?
Crew:
Oh, 2-2-8-2-3-9. I’m sorry.
Roman Sharf:
It’s all the popcorn you just ate you got a sugar rush. So we’re still buying these. We’re buying the white gold ones. We’re buying the rose gold ones. We’re buying… Actually, haven’t seen-
Ana:
Why still?
Roman Sharf:
No, because people are like, “Oh my God, these dropped in value”. These didn’t really take a big hit.
Ana:
They just adjusted a little bit.
Roman Sharf:
What were these at the highest?
Crew:
High $70’s.
Roman Sharf:
And now?
Crew:
Mid $60’s.
Roman Sharf:
Oh, okay. So not so bad. Didn’t suffer the fate of the-
Ana:
Depending on the condition.
Roman Sharf:
We have a Panerai. Anna, did you buy this?
Ana:
Mm-hmm.
Roman Sharf:
What is it?
Ana:
9-64?
Roman Sharf:
Pam-9-64. So-
Ana:
Actually, no, I totally butchered that. I don’t remember the reference number.
Roman Sharf:
See, and Alex has another reference number, but you know what?
Ana:
It’s 8-94.
Roman Sharf:
See, here’s the thing. I don’t know Panerai reference number… Ooh, this is cool-
Ana:
Because it’s impossible. There are so many numbers out there.
Roman Sharf:
No, I remember all the Panerai numbers when there were the double and the one-hundreds digits. This is a Pam-6-84. You were close.
Ana:
I was very close.
Roman Sharf:
So this is a carbon bezel, submersible rose gold. The older submersibles were much thicker. What I do like about this, love the rubber strap. I feel like the leather strap is not necessary because this is a diver’s watch. I do like the Velcro strap, which obviously, will fit a regular wrist. But the idea behind these Velcro straps, originally, a lot of them came a lot longer and were not usable. Because the idea is to put it on the watch and put it over your diving suit, you need a much larger strap. And they kind of did away with that because guys that got these watches, the extra straps just laid in the box and they never used them. What did you get? Speaking of diving watches…
Ana:
Speaking of diving watches…
Roman Sharf:
It’s James-
Ana:
James Cameron.
Roman Sharf:
Came out of the gate. Everybody. This was before steel, Rolex models were all over-list. This is where you can still get a slight discount on Rolexes, but people were paying full pop for this. And even more when it came out, then it dipped back under like every other new Rolex that comes out on the market. But I remember selling the first one for 10 grand, which was over-list at the time. And I was just like, why would anybody do that? But case in point, years later, they’re still trading on almost two-X so, and that’s used. Last but not least, we got in another Alacrite concept.
Ana:
Now you can take a picture next to your painting.
Roman Sharf:
Oh yeah, there we go. I guess we didn’t show that on Instagram. So I got a gift from Father’s Day from my family, which is that. That is my favorite complication from AP. And my wife knows that and she ordered basically a portrait that’s made out of all family photos. There are like 2200 photos in there that make up this watch. And this is a watch that again, is not the easiest to sell because of its size. Right? But I think this is one of the most iconic modern-day AP watches out there because it started the whole concept line and you know how many spinoffs came out of that, right? There were a lot of spinoffs that came off of this, but this is the original, this is Alacrite, a metal that spaceships are made out of or blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, right. And you’ll notice this is very reminiscent of some Richard Milles that you see, right? There are certain settings to wind the watch, to change the time, as well as a neutral position as the watch is running. Why, because this came via who? The movement-
Crew:
Was it Renault & Papi?
Roman Sharf:
Renault & Papi, exactly. And we have… actually, hold that thought. If you zoom into here, you have those same settings. You see that changing, which is wind-neutral and changing the time it’s on both the three and the two as well as you see here. So yeah, a little bit of that for you. Again, my favorite complicated watch again is something that’s super undervalued. The prices have been curved around $200,000 and again, yes, they only made 120 of these but require a very large wrist. Mark. You are supposed to be unboxing with me. Look at you. Mark, you see what happens? Do you see what happens? I literally lose everybody immediately the minute your package comes in. Guys, thank you so very much for tuning in for another, what I hope was an exciting unboxing for you. And thanks for your contribution. Next time, can you not chew on camera?