Split Seconds: Calendar Watches for Under $6,000

In this Split Seconds, Tim answers a mailbag question about watches that can be obtained for less than $6,000 with a calendar complication. Tim suggests watches from bands such as Ulysse Nardin, Zenith, and (of course) Jaeger-LeCoultre. For the full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzGb_wFRO5Q In the full episode, Tim Mosso discusses how to buy watches, collect watches, pick the best chronograph, and how to find oversized watches for normal sized watch collector wrists. Our show opens with a viewer-refereed shootout between the TAG Heuer Autavia Jack Heuer 85th Birthday limited edition and the Eternal Super Kontiki chronograph dive watch. The TAG Heuer Autavia is a special panda dial commemorative tribute to brand patriarch, Jack Heuer. The Eterna Super Kontiki Chronograph is a dive watch with a flyback chronograph, a manufacture movement, and a mean value proposition. Which one will our audience of watch collectors choose as the winner? One viewer, a newly-minted watch collector, asks about which affordable watch he can add to his Omega Seamaster 300M; the only qualifier is that he wants a sub-$6,000 calendar watch. We discuss options including the Jaeger LeCoultre Master Moon, the Ulysse Nardin Marine Flyback Annual Calendar, the Maurice Lacroix Masterpiece Flyback Annual Calendar, and the Zenith Chronomaster triple calendar chronometer. We discuss large luxury watches that fit small wrists. Highlights include our account of the Blancpain Fifty Fathoms 5015, the f