In today’s UNBOXING Roman Sharf and Adrian Taskin are unboxing some UNDERVALUED timepieces and an INSANE Jacob & Co. Astronomia!
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Video Transcript
Roman Sharf:
All right, guys, let’s get to an unboxing. It’s an exciting Adrian buy. I was going to say, why are there two buckles? That means this is from the box.
Adrian:
In the box here.
Roman Sharf:
It’s a 5205 rose gold.
Adrian:
Yes.
Roman Sharf:
What’s the first… One word that comes to mind when you see this watch?
Adrian:
Value.
Roman Sharf:
Thank you very much.
Adrian:
You’re welcome.
Roman Sharf:
Took the word out of my mouth. We got a 5205R and for the life of me, I don’t understand how people are sleeping on these things, because that is beautiful-
Adrian:
As a matter of fact, they’re not. If you recall, they used to be a lot, a lot less A, in demand, and in value. I mean, they used to be pushing the mid-30s at the top.
Roman Sharf:
Right.
Adrian:
Now they’re depending on condition, high $40s low $50s.
Roman Sharf:
What’s the retail?
Adrian:
Somewhere around there.
Roman Sharf:
Okay. I guess people aren’t sleeping on them as they used to. Yeah. This is Zenith’s take on a three-dimensional tourbillon. As you guys know, when Louis Breguet created the tourbillon full pocket watch for the queen, that was… Her pocket watch was running fast and slow. It was meant to work when the tourbillon is perpendicular to the ground and many companies out there have done various things, as you can see, in order to be able to negate the effect of gravity in any position, and with this tourbillon spinning around three axes, that accomplishes just that.
Alex:
Why does a queen need to tell time?
Alex:
Can’t people do that for her?
Roman Sharf:
No, but that was… I mean, pocket watches were a big to-do with royalty, because it was part of that…
Adrian:
Why does a billionaire need to wear Sky Moon Tourbillon for $8 million when his phone does way more? Now, why are you in the business of selling the time when you could just find it on your iPhone, Alex?
Adrian:
Time is your most valuable asset.
Adrian:
I am Batman.
Roman Sharf:
So Batman, what has been happening with the Batman on the market?
Adrian:
Stable market. For whatever reason, I cannot really identify why. This is a watch mass-produced that didn’t meet the same fate as a lot of other things. Yes, granted, it did go down in price, but it’s pretty stable and yet very popular still.
Roman Sharf:
How about a date, date, date, date? Date?
Adrian:
Date justice.
Roman Sharf:
How about a Datejust, jubilee band, fluted bezel?
Adrian:
Just enough jubilation for me.
Roman Sharf:
Jubilation. That’s right. Do you guys remember that word? Something Adrian came up with a few unboxings ago. I really like this dial. It’s pretty, it’s bright.
Adrian:
The blue’s nice.
Roman Sharf:
It’s bright.
Adrian:
I’ll take the Wimbledon at number one. I’ll take the blue at number two.
Roman Sharf:
See, I don’t know. I’m still, I’m still… On the Wimbledon, I’m still… The jury’s out for me because I feel like the dial’s a bit too dark or not as readable. I don’t know. Maybe that’s me, but-
Roman Sharf:
How’s this? Is this…
Adrian:
Same thing.
Roman Sharf:
Stable.
Adrian:
Same stabilization. Okay. I’ll say it like this-
Roman Sharf:
Stabilization for the Jubilation.
Adrian:
It is stable now, based on the price heights that it reached, which is a good sign.
Roman Sharf:
Well, I think that article-
Adrian:
So this watch was $32,000 two months ago.
Roman Sharf:
Did you actually read the article on Bloomberg?
Adrian:
I did read the article.
Roman Sharf:
Yeah, it was pretty good. It literally hit on me, because I’ve always said watches are not an investment. They’re an expensive toys. But at this point, people have realized that this is a real market. It’s a real commodity.
Adrian:
Everything’s an investment if you’ve bought it low and you sold it higher. That’s what an investment is.
Roman Sharf:
Speaking of investments, buying low, selling high. Where are these at right now on value?
Adrian:
These have come down significantly in value.
Roman Sharf:
At the highest, they were $55,000 brand new?
Adrian:
I saw $60,000 fully stickered sell.
Roman Sharf:
Sell.
Adrian:
Yeah. And at that point, I was like-
Roman Sharf:
Where are they at now? Is this new enough?
Adrian:
It’s like new 2021 when you sell cars, so you can still pick that up in the mid to low 30s.
Roman Sharf:
This is mid to low thirties?
Adrian:
Which is a reasonable price.
Roman Sharf:
Hold on. But where were they then?
Adrian:
What?
Roman Sharf:
Like this very example. Where would that be before it corrected?
Adrian:
Like I said, I was in the mid $50s. The mid to low $50s.
Roman Sharf:
Would you say the Daytona took the biggest hit out of old sports rollers?
Adrian:
Absolutely.
Roman Sharf:
And I’m talking about not just steel, we’re talking about steel, black-
Adrian:
I would say the Daytona across the board as a model took the biggest hit out of any model in this industry.
Roman Sharf:
Here’s a Calatrava. Oh, this is the new Calatrava. We had one of these.
Adrian:
The 5119G, yeah.
Roman Sharf:
This is the new one, with the hobnail bezel. This, when it first came out, I remember selling one pretty much at list.
Adrian:
We were selling them over list. The first one we sold was $35,000. I think list is like someone near $30. And the cool thing about this watch for all you Calatrava fans out there. And I don’t think there’s a lot of them, right?
Roman Sharf:
There’s plenty. There’s plenty.
Adrian:
It’s a grandpa watch or was a grandpa watch-
Roman Sharf:
Was.
Adrian:
…until they came out with the 6007 and then the 6119G.
Roman Sharf:
And the reason for that, I’m going to say, is size.
Adrian:
Size.
Roman Sharf:
Absolutely gorgeous dial. I love how they brought back the hobnail bezel from the older ones. You know? The older ones were damn near half the size.
Adrian:
Why not give the Calatrava line a little bit of character?
Roman Sharf:
But at the end of the day, the Calatrava client isn’t a…
Adrian:
It’s got a nice look. It’s got good size.
Roman Sharf:
But look at the size. Look at the size of this. This makes a statement.
Adrian:
Exactly.
Roman Sharf:
You know what I mean?
Adrian:
Yep.
Roman Sharf:
I do like this watch a lot. Next, we have a… And I do have a special watch today, guys. I can’t leave you without an unboxing. Well, first of all-
Adrian:
Here’s what we do first.
Roman Sharf:
…first here’s what we’ll do, yes. First of all, the last time we did an unboxing, we unboxed a 5712-1A and we were… I was expecting that day to receive a regular 5712, which I thought this was. But then I realized that this came earlier than it should have. This is actually a 5712-1A, Tiffany dial. On the Luxury Bazaar channel, the night that we started posting unboxings, I saw somebody comment like, “Oh, you’re just not going to… Nonchalantly not mention that this is a Tiffany & Co. Patek?” And I didn’t realize that’s the one that we unboxed. The Tiffany writing is so small. Did you get that?
Roman Sharf:
That I actually literally missed it myself.
Adrian:
And as I and Nina like to say on my Instagram, it’s all about the subtle details.
Roman Sharf:
There you have it.
Adrian:
Subtle printing.
Roman Sharf:
5712 Tiffany dial. Super rare. Don’t ask me how many are made. Anybody that tells you they know how many of these were made, they’re lying to you. Patek will not release that information. And here we have…
Adrian:
I’m just going to glance over the Astronomia.
Roman Sharf:
Absolutely we will.
Adrian:
The way we do.
Roman Sharf:
We will absolutely not glance over to Astronomia. Shout `out to Jacob Arabo.
Roman Sharf:
Yes.
Adrian:
All right. So overall thoughts on the watch, and I’m going to let you go first.
Roman Sharf:
I always start with the man, where he was, and where he’s gotten to.
Adrian:
Okay. Let’s talk about the watch. Not the man. I know you like talking about men, and it’s like talking about yourself, and you like talking about this. Let’s talk about the watch.
Roman Sharf:
Let’s talk about Adrian for a second.
Adrian:
What’s up?
Roman Sharf:
Why are you so hostile at this moment?
Adrian:
I am not hostile. I’m just very straightforward.
Roman Sharf:
All right.
Adrian:
I like to get to the point.
Roman Sharf:
If you want to talk about the watch, how about this? Name me a watch brand, let’s say, that is so different that there’s no other brand out there that has anything like it.
Adrian:
HYT, is also known as the biggest piece of shit.
Roman Sharf:
No. No. I’m talking about current brands that are selling, outside of, for example, even if you take like an MB&F, right?
Adrian:
Yep.
Roman Sharf:
Every single MB&F is so different from one another. You can’t say as a whole that, “Oh my God, that’s definitely an MB&F,” right? There’s a brand like Heuer. Unmistakably, you can tell a Heuer from anybody else. No other brands out there have similar stuff. Jacob is really one of the very, very few… You take a Royal Oak versus a Nautilus versus a GP versus… Everybody’s following suit in the industry. He’s the only one that doesn’t follow suit. There’s no other brand or watch company out there that has done this or the godfather watch or anything else. That’s what makes him special. That’s what, that’s what I have to say about this watch and any other watch that comes out from him. The Bugatti watch. I was a Bal Harbour Mall. I walked up to… They had one in the window and I walked up. And when I saw the pistons going, it’s insanity.
Adrian:
It’s insane.
Roman Sharf:
But if I show you this watch, name me one brand that remotely even comes close to this.
Adrian:
There isn’t another brand.
Roman Sharf:
And that’s all I have to say about that.
Adrian:
I will say that I absolutely hated the brand Jacob & Co for many, many years. The five timezone stuff, the gaudy stuff, the big south diamond stuff. It was all close-out. It was ugly. Nobody liked it. Horrible retail value.
Roman Sharf:
I’m sorry, no. It started with the fact that it sold millions of millions of fucking watches. And then it kind of got played out.
Adrian:
It got played out, right. It was only when they came out with the Astronomia line that made me wake up to the brand itself. His line of Astronomia and all the different ones in between sizes. The only thing that I have, the issue I have with this watch, is wearability. I had a little bit of wrist time with it. And on the wrist, it looks phenomenal, but I was literally afraid to walk through a door. I’m like, I’m going to blast this crystal-
Roman Sharf:
It seems fragile, doesn’t it?
Adrian:
Extremely. I’m afraid. I’m afraid to wear it. I feel like I’m going to bump into something.
Adrian:
Oh, it’s incredible. Yeah. Every… It’s all hand handmade. The attention to detail’s incredible.
Roman Sharf:
It’s comfortable on the wrist. I’ll tell you that much.
Adrian:
It is comfortable, but it sits like-
Roman Sharf:
It sits tall and that’s what makes you nervous.
Adrian:
It’s tall. I’m super nervous to walk around with it.
Roman Sharf:
Not a watch for Roman to wear, because Roman walks into every door handle with his watches.
Adrian:
And funny enough, Richard is pretty much the same exact thickness. It feels more protected. This just looks like a globe that I’m just going to crack.
Roman Sharf:
It’s because what you’re looking at is you’re looking at basically a piece of crystal that… It seems cracked.
Adrian:
Literally, it is a globe. Look at that.
Roman Sharf:
Yeah. Oh, you got to fit all the planets and stuff and you know.
Adrian:
Anyway.
Roman Sharf:
The earth is round.
Adrian:
That’s my thoughts on Astronomia.
Roman Sharf:
Let’s look at a Panerai. I love Panerai. This is the PAM 183.
Adrian:
No.
Roman Sharf:
What is this?
Adrian:
PAM 193.
Roman Sharf:
PAM 193. Okay. Pop quiz, which limited edition was this?
Adrian:
Pop quiz. What was the first watch that I ever saw Roman Sharf wear? Circa 2007.
Alex:
Wow.
Adrian:
It was a Panerai.
Roman Sharf:
Panerai. That’s right. This is the submersible.
Roman Sharf:
All right. This is the Panerai duct gauge, right? When you dive with this Panerai on, that is going to… This is the number of feet that it will show you. Now, the very first watch that… Okay. Obviously, based on a submersible line… First submersible, Panerai PAM 24, if you remember. They started with the PAM 24 and then they started making certain limited editions.
Roman Sharf:
They made a PAM called a La Bamba. It was a Pam087, which took the existing submersible and made it as thick as this one, meaning you can dive deeper in it, up to like… Up to a number of meters that nobody ever needs to dive. How about that? And with that said, they started making different things. They added a depth gauge to this. My favorite limited edition from the submersible line before this guy… This would be my second favorite. The second. My first favorite would be the Art Coast limited edition. That’s when a gentleman by the name of I don’t remember went on an Arctic expedition, climbed mountains in minus 55,000-degree weather, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Adrian:
That’s pretty cool.
Roman Sharf:
And they called it the Arctico and he actually crossed… I think he crossed the Arctic or something. He did like a big to-do.
Adrian:
He, swam from Antarctica to the north pole?
Roman Sharf:
No, no, he didn’t do that. Huge watch, but much like an RM20.
Roman Sharf:
Much like the RM28 that I put on the other day, if you guys remember, how I could… Here: 40 millimeters, 47 millimeters. Huge, huge difference, right? But yet, somehow on a wrist, it works.
Adrian:
It’s all about the girth.
Roman Sharf:
It’s all about… That’s what she said, but it’s-
Adrian:
Why do you got to go there?
Roman Sharf:
All about the ergonomics of the strap. These little rib pieces, you would think they’re for looks, but no, they actually add to the ergonomic ability.
Adrian:
I have… I have a great marketing idea.
Roman Sharf:
Yes.
Adrian:
Remember that one time we… Nick went skydiving?
Roman Sharf:
Yeah.
Adrian:
We should Nick scuba diving.
Roman Sharf:
I think at this point… I think at this point, our followers think that we’re just legitimately trying to kill Nick. Last but not least, a couple of very special… Before I get to the last watch, I have to show you this. All right.
Roman Sharf:
Audemars Piguet had big relationships with car people, right? A lot of car people and from the Montoya to-
Adrian:
Barrichello.
Roman Sharf:
…Barrichello and et cetera, et cetera, cetera. They also had a big relationship with cars related to it. And one of those, Adrian, was the Maserati, right? The very first thing they did is they came out with a trilogy of Maserati watches in the millenary case, which is called the Maserati Limited Edition. They did it in steel, rose gold, and platinum, as they did with all the other offshore trifectas, as I like to call them. But they also came out with a limited edition MC12 Maserati tribute, an MC12 like the car. This was all the rage when this watch came out, I believe it’s a limited edition of 120 pieces, but don’t quote me on it.
Adrian:
In platinum.
Roman Sharf:
It is not in platinum. Does it say how many? No, I’m sorry. Limited of 150 pieces. See, I was wrong. 120 is the Concept, out of the crate.
Adrian:
We’re going to go-
Roman Sharf:
Everything about this watch, if you close in on the back, if you close in the front, is screaming Maserati MC12 car, right? And-
Adrian:
I have a sales goal for you.
Alex:
What’s that?
Adrian:
We’re going to… You’re going to follow every #MC12 on Instagram. You’re going to find out who the owner of the car is, contact them and sell them that watch.
Roman Sharf:
Of course, it’s suffered all the fate of all the other millenary’s out there, where it wasn’t the most popular line. Everybody wants to Royal Oaks. And what ends up happening is watches like this come through at a deal. We have the same thing. We have a millenary Cabinet Five. All of them carry high retails. I think the original retail on this was $282,000, if I’m not mistaken. And today, these things are being picked up around $100,000 and again, a stupid deal for a tourbillion as far as I’m concerned and-
Adrian:
That sure a smart deal, if you really think about it.
Roman Sharf:
Yeah.
Alex:
Would you like to own it, though?
Roman Sharf:
Well, first I’d like the watch-
Adrian:
I like the value to that watch, absolutely.
Roman Sharf:
Yeah. I mean the value-
Adrian:
He’s not going to say that.
Roman Sharf:
Okay. But do you like that? You don’t like the actual watch? See, I love this… I guess I’m a little bit biased because this watch came out when I was just starting out. And this was like, “Oh my God, this is like a gray oval watch.” And it was. This watch, at one time, the 408 sold upwards of $250,000, because the hype on limited editions was real. And this thing is absolutely amazing. And again, the front, that’s a thing of beauty Anyway.
Adrian:
Hashtag MC12.
Roman Sharf:
Guys, thank you so much for tuning in to yet another unboxing.