Reply With QuoteThe best looking Rolex sports watch is the 16570 Explorer II with a black dial.
(pic stolen of the bulangandsons website)
Unpopular watch opinion - Some RM's are phenomenal and id have them in a heartbeat. Particularly some of the sub 40mm offerings.Originally Posted by Longblackcoat
The best looking Rolex sports watch is the 16570 Explorer II with a black dial.
(pic stolen of the bulangandsons website)
It’s really hard to tell the time on reverse panda chronographs
More of a fact than an opinion but the Longines logo is the oldest unmodified registered trademark in the world, having been registered with the World International Property Organisation in 1889.
The winged hourglass logo appears on the caseback of all Longines watches.
AP crowns and pushers look like daft little Lego heads
That's why it's unpopular and he is doing precisely what the OP asked for, so stop picking on him.
Agree, people seem to have misunderstood the thread.
Prefer Hardlex over sapphire
Date on 5 o clock ruins the watch.
Compensating for not having one.
I don't mind Aquanauts, but I do find the Nautilus design ugly and dated. Still. Can't afford one so hey
Absolutely - I mean UGH! Poor people and their nobody-at-the-golf-club-recognises-it poor people watch brands - dontcha hate 'em?!
If only there was an appropriate thread where he could voice that unpopular opinion!
Those sticky out lumps of metal on the case sides makes the watch look like it was inspired by the head of a cyberman.
I was a sat in a busy beer and pizza place. At the next table leans over and asks, is that a PRX? He cared. And got to say, the chat you get from someone who recognises a PRX is better than the chat you get from someone who can only recognise a Rolex.
Rubbish, the only good-looking Rolex is the 16622The best looking Rolex sports watch is the 16570 Explorer II with a black dial.
(pic stolen of the bulangandsons website)
Spring Drive are just quartz with the world's most expensive battery.
Or perhaps the one Irvine was wearing - which was an Ingersoll Radiolite.It would have been the one Mallory was wearing 30 years earlier
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Not sure what wealth has to do with it or golf for that matter.
They are probably the 2 most famous brands out there so when people see what they perceive to be an expensive watch they are generally the brands that come to mind. A simple “No it’s whatever brand” is usually enough rather than the WIS trading places style explanation as to why while it is not it’s just as good if not better.
About as interesting as people who drone on about cars to people who have no interest in cars.
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Modern enamel dials are boring and overpriced.
Rolex doesn’t make luxury watches. They are good but they are not luxury.
the guide at the Patek museum said the Nautilus was originally an object of widespread derision with people referring to it as Dumbo because of how the "ears" stuck out. maybe it's common knowledge but it was news to me
Prefer plexi over sapphire but sapphire over mineral glass.
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Grand Seiko produces superior watches to Rolex.
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REALLY wasn't expecting any agreement with that!
I actually think that it's a quite a popular view rather than an unpopular view. It's just that anyone who voices that opinion feels as though they'll be ostracised by the Patek loving watch community. Admittedly not as much as someone who doesn't like Rolex.
a touch of sarcasm I believe. Poor people can't afford Omega or Rolex, don't play golf and as a rule of thumb, golf club members are a bunch of snobs. Before anyone has a mild panic attack about that last comment, how many other sports clubs only let you join after being referred by a current member - the it's not what you know you know and how you play, more who you know scenario.
I meant an actual military (eg issued watch or regimental special edition) as I clarified in a later post as many watches designs are derived from military issue pieces.
But glad to know I'm living rent-free in your head anyway
Ploprof. They look like they been cut out of a sheet of plate steel on a bandsaw. By Stevie Wonder.
Tudor's price point in relation to other Swiss brands is too low. They'd probably increase sales of units sold if their price point was the same as Omega as many luxury buyers are put off by something being perceived as a 'bargain'.
Stainless Steel is worthless.
I’ve read so many comments this week about how a plastic watch is a rip off at £300+ yet 316 stainless steel is worth less than £2 per kilo meaning the amount used in a watch (150g approx) is valued at 30p.
That’s the biggest marketing con in watchmaking, and we’ve AP to thank for getting that ball rolling.
Don't even get me started on ceramic as a 'premium' material as well!
But in the watch world a steel watch can be worth more than the same watch made of gold, just think Daytona. Absolute madness, but another piece of nonsense drilled into WIS types, it must be steel or it ain’t a watch.
back in the old days James Bond could never afford a gold Submariner on a government salary. these days, for want of a sufficiently lengthy relationship with a dealer, he'd have to settle for one.
maybe that makes the gold version the modern sports model?
At least they have to invest some machine time (apart from the steel Swatch Irony cases, which are made with a metal injection moulding process).
And the night spent outside on the cobbles to acquire said plastic watch, it's a helluva a price to pay, for any watch, any frippery.
The Rolex Explorer should just be a dial option under the Oyster Perpetual range. It bares no similarities with the Explorer II and much closer to the OP range in style and size.
The Explorer is the most boring Rolex.
Which is a remarkable achievement.
All chronographs are poorly designed except for centre minute & second ones. If they had been invented first, people would look at the 'new' 30min unintuitive scale, too small to read subdialled chronographs as if you were introducing the horse to replace the car.
Legibility is overrated. Most of the time, when I look down at my watch, I have no need to know what the time is.
Ditto for accuracy.
A lot of people in this world would be just as happy buying and selling vintage toenails, as long as they were reassuringly expensive.
I prefer snowflake hands to mercedes hands
With you on that.
And too small.
Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
mechanical watches are my grab and go watches.
Serial accumulators don't exist.
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