Ah yes, because I need Moonphase and Calendar in a dive watch?
Anyway, want a Rolex nomination? A flyback dive chronograph in gold white and blue.
Ah yes, because I need Moonphase and Calendar in a dive watch?
Anyway, want a Rolex nomination? A flyback dive chronograph in gold white and blue.
This is 100% (one of) the correct answer.Originally Posted by Scepticalist
Ah yes, because I need Moonphase and Calendar in a dive watch?
Anyway, want a Rolex nomination? A flyback dive chronograph in gold white and blue.
Except not really. It's not a dive watch, not even sold as a dive watch.
But that wasn’t the question.
It doesn’t matter if it’s a dive watch or not it whether it’s likely to be universally disliked by the watch ‘community’.
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What are the chances of a TZ member walking into a shop and dropping £9,890 on this ?
It'll be lovely when it's finished.What are the chances of a TZ member walking into a shop and dropping £9,890 on this ?
It's in their Sports collection with 100m WR, so I think I can be forgiven a typo.
RM38-02 bubba
- Richard Mille
- Hot pink and white
- Skeletonised
I used to look at RM’s and think WTF.RM38-02 bubba
- Richard Mille
- Hot pink and white
- Skeletonised
Now I’d love to own one, and I don’t know why I really like them.
I really like them too, and id have that bubba in a heartbeat!
They probably use the same designers as Invicta.RM38-02 bubba
- Richard Mille
- Hot pink and white
- Skeletonised
I want to see somebody wearing this watch!RM38-02 bubba
- Richard Mille
- Hot pink and white
- Skeletonised
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The Daytona sported by Nick Cage there is just so extravagantly crass and vulgar that one can only assume that it's deliberate - therefore, for me at least, it has a certain validity as a sort of wrist-borne art installation. The sheer ostentation, coupled to the bombastic, unapologetic bad taste is really quite affecting. Of course if you think about that too much it becomes self-defeating.
More interesting to me though is the Longines chrono pictured above. A delightful example of something being greater than the sum of its parts. I don't like lugs that looks as though they've been soldered on. I disdain date windows at 6. I really dislike cathedral hands and I normally shun onion crowns. And yet on these piece, they complement each other very nicely. I really like it.
I don't mind the half-eaten numerals or the contrasting date window in any case (pun not intended).
Given the economic crisis, perhaps the phrase "poor man's" should be replaced by "fool's". As in, a Breitling is a fool's Oris.
There are some strong contenders on this thread, but that will take some beating. If only it had an onion crown and a date at 4, then it would be game over.
And made of brass, with green mould 'patina' some rave about.
Need a sticky on this, most entertaining thread in years, a proper 'slow down and look at the car crash' vibe.
It also needs to have a wide gap between the case and the spring bar lugholes, have a non-standard lugwidth (let’s say 17mm) and be simultaneously too big and too small to stay on the wrong side of all TZers.
It would be easy to populate this thread with China's unceasing output of absolute horrors - novelty designs intended to be sold cheaply on market stalls and in bazaars the world over, ebay, Amazon and Ali Express are crawling with them...
This abomination however, comes from the shame-wracked stable of Swiss 'horrorologists', Corum, and was not their idea alone - Rolls-Royce's actually officially licenses it, and it somehow persisted from the shag-carpeted '70s, all the way to the 1990s. Various versions exist, some with even more 'ice', some with nasty-ass precious metal bracelets, and some that you can even see what time it is!
I kind of admire Corum for somehow making a commercial success of churning-out so many godawful-ugly mutant wrist-carbuncles over many, many decades - not least because the exact same factory full of deranged acid-casualties somehow manages to produce the elegant, minimalist gem that is the Golden Bridge!
...albeit, iirc, the movement wasn't actually their innovation, just licensed by them...
Confused much?!
There were people buying these. Somehow the slab-fronted Rolls Royce grill looks so good on the car; it looks less good on a watch.
I used to be deeply impressed by this but then I discovered that you can buy a bare movement that, to be brutally honest, does not look significantly different to this for £55 on eBay. And there are Chinese vendors selling complete watches for not a lot more .
To my horror, I've just noticed that Invicta has put this movement in a Submariner-style case.
Hey guys, we don't have room for the usual 12 line essay we put on the dial.Ah yes, because I need Moonphase and Calendar in a dive watch?
Anyway, want a Rolex nomination? A flyback dive chronograph in gold white and blue.
No problem, let's just put the name on the bezel in giant letters!
...and we had better add 'Swiss Made' twice....just because.
Brave man very brave man
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A hand grenade with a dial.
You rang, sir?
...aaaand to further alienate WIS - I actually rather like those Grahams, though admit they are crass, vulgar and unwearable, still, my inner-8YO likes them.
I recall some poor soul buying one in the last few years and posting it in the 'Incoming' thread - it all went a bit tumbleweedy for a bit...
Crass, vulgar and unwearable, the watch isn’t very nice either.😂You rang, sir?
...aaaand to further alienate WIS - I actually rather like those Grahams, though admit they are crass, vulgar and unwearable, still, my inner-8YO likes them.
I recall some poor soul buying one in the last few years and posting it in the 'Incoming' thread - it all went a bit tumbleweedy for a bit...
I never criticise the appearance of most things until I see it in the flesh. I saw this monstrosity at an ADs a few years ago and it was bloody awful. Wrongness everywhere.Ah yes, because I need Moonphase and Calendar in a dive watch?
Anyway, want a Rolex nomination? A flyback dive chronograph in gold white and blue.
I dunno. It’s the perfect watch for a bronzed, hairy chested porn baron isn’t it??!! - tbh if I came into an obscene amount of money I’d buy one - there’s something admirably cheesy about it!
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Has this been mentioned yet?
Why would it be? It's awesome!Has this been mentioned yet?
This one's a puzzler - I mean, the watch is right up there with the most gratuitously nasty, vulgar and ostentatious displays of wealth that can be crammed onto the limited space of the human wrist, then we notice details like the crusted filth right around the bezel, and the broken button on Cage's sports jacket... I'm not terribly familiar with his oeuvre - was he in-character for this shot? Or does he routinely prance-about in such carefully-contrived déshabillé?Has this been mentioned yet?
I bet he hadent changed his under wear that day either !!
ps: Well spotted.
It's Nick Cage ...I bet he hadent changed his under wear that day either !!
ps: Well spotted.
surely he goes commando !!
The majority of Invicta brand watchs:
Like the wire rope around the caseThe majority of Invicta brand watchs:
Classy
I've handled this beauty!
The majority of Invicta brand watchs:
The majority of Invicta brand watchs:
Looks like something a contestant on forged in fire might be given to make their signature blade from.
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