What would your ideal Smiths watch look like?
Prompted by a post from Grizzlymambo with his specific requirements for a watch and a response from Snowman wondering how popular that design functionality may be, I thought I’d add a thread for us all to state our favourite requirements which might be fun and also offer Eddie some targeted market research/more PITA requests to consider.
I’m new here so my apologies if there’s a similar duplicate post somewhere.
Thinking of some or all of the following, and adding anything I’ve missed, what is it that you’d like in your ideal Smiths watch?
Bezel: yes, no, hours, minutes, hours & minutes, countdown minutes (60-0 rather than the other way), no bezel, or whatever.
Crystal: sapphire, mineral, acrylic plastic.
Case size in mm
Case shape, traditional, barrel, square, oblong, whatever.
Water resistance depth
Hand shape
Luminosity
Crown, big, small, retractable, size in mm etc
Complications: chronograph (double or single pusher), date, day, moon phase, whatever
Movement, automatic, manual wind, quartz, type of quartz (solar etc)
Strap, bracelet, rally/racing style etc
Mine would be countdown bezel, traditional shape 37/38mm 30m water resistant case with lugs, acrylic crystal, large crown, hand wound chronograph on a beads of rice strap. Applied indices, with lume on these and M and H hands. Two or three sub registers.
I suppose that would be a Heuer Autavia from the 1960s look alike, like the popularly named Rindt or Andretti models.
What would your ideal Smiths watch look like?
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markrlondon
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On a serious note though, this is very true I think. We often think we know what we want, but the watches I’ve ended up loving are designs that appeal to me when I see them fully formed.
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