Watch 'Cool wall'

[pembers]

I'm thinking along the lines of Top Gears cool wall, but with of course watches.

Which watch is just well...cool, you can't really put your finger on it, it's off the beaten track, quirky, but you just love it.

This is not an investment timepiece, its heart over head.....just something you have to have!

I'm sure you get the idea.

Here's my entrant for cool wall watch!

Bell&Ross 02 Phantom

[MattG]

That B&R is the uncoolest watch I have seen in my entire life.

[Jeff wilson]

That B&R is the uncoolest watch I have seen in my entire life.

+1

[AIDM]

I can think of a few contenders, but I believe the coolest watch I've ever owned oozes '70s cool:



Rob

[Jeff wilson]

Now this is a cool watch Omega 120 big blue

[ticothijs82]

This one isn't cool, it's sub zero:

[andy armitage]

That B&R is the uncoolest watch I have seen in my entire life.

Crikey!!!!!!! +1

[Tomw2000]

Hey. This was my idea first and I was slated for it :)

[pembers]

That B&R is the uncoolest watch I have seen in my entire life.

+1

Crikey!!!!!!! +1

LOL it's not to everyone's taste.....prob not 99.99%! But that's the idea.....remember....it's in the eye of the beholder!

[Captainhowdy]

Not for everyone but I think this is a cool watch.

[AlphaOmega]

[chicaneuk]

I could easily see this descending into a slanging match! All it'll take is a Rolex to get posted...

[TakesALickin]

If I'm understanding the thread properly, then this ought to qualify - rare, exotic metal, cutting edge at its time of introduction. It may not be to everyone's taste, but I'd love to have one. pic shamelessly pilfered off the web...

[helidoc]

At the risk of what many might consider a well deserved beating, may I suggest something like this:



I swapped watches with my daughter today, and her 36 mm sub-esque Ice watch is really cool. Not sure I can carry off the pink face, but it is very likeable, and cool

D

[spud]

LOL it's not to everyone's taste.....prob not 99.99%! But that's the idea.....remember....it's in the eye of the beholder!

I'm with you; its cool! Came so very close to having one myself... Still wouldn't necessarily say no either!

[hugo2703]

Not sure this thread is going to work very well....we don't have a "Jeremy" equivalent...:(

Anyway, this is cool:

[AIDM]

I could easily see this descending into a slanging match! All it'll take is a Rolex to get posted...

True, I don't believe many a rolex qualify as 'cool' - many other positives, but not necessarily cool, (and I'm an owner, not a hater)...

But IMHO if anything Rolex is going to qualify it'll be a 1665 like Hugo's above.

Rob

[Kozzy]

At the risk of what many might consider a well deserved beating, may I suggest something like this:



I swapped watches with my daughter today, and her 36 mm sub-esque Ice watch is really cool. Not sure I can carry off the pink face, but it is very likeable, and cool

D

Based on TG's cool wall you might be onto something here. Horological significance is completely irrelevant but whether cool people would wear one is very relevant. In the same way a Seiko, while great watches, are like Toyota and can never be really cool. If you have a GS you need to tell others 'this is a really expensive, spring drive Seiko!!'. Not cool.
Vintage subs on a nato seems to be very en vogue at the moment.

[dougair]

Has to be Tony's 1655 on SC. my all time grail and the coolest watch ever IMO.

[hugo2703]

True, I don't believe many a rolex qualify as 'cool' - many other positives, but not necessarily cool, (and I'm an owner, not a hater)...

But IMHO if anything Rolex is going to qualify it'll be a 1665 like Hugo's above.

Rob

Thanks Rob :)

But come on, the KING OF COOL himself wore Rolex!

[pilotman]

Not for everyone but I think this is a cool watch.

THAT is one cool watch - what is the exact model number of that watch?

[Captainhowdy]

THAT is one cool watch - what is the exact model number of that watch?

It's a BC4E Ltd Edition.



http://www.oris.ch/en/watches/oris-4...-7616-4284-set

[UMB]

6309-7040

Because it just it is.

(this ones mine 8D )

[Murdoc]

LOL it's not to everyone's taste.....prob not 99.99%! But that's the idea.....remember....it's in the eye of the beholder!

I disagree. The whole point about 'coolness' is that it's based upon what others think.

I don't think any Rolex is 'cool' (and I own a Sea Dweller) - there's nothing cool about people asking you if your watch is a fake (or assuming it is without asking).

My vote for a cool watch is the Seiko SKX007 - it doesn't have to try hard.

[SlimJim16v]

Speedbird GMT
Zenith El Primero Rainbow
Rolex GMTII 'Coke'
Seiko RAF gen 1, or most military watches
Anything worn by Steve McQueen
PRS-17-C, maybe?

[Iano]

Based on TG's cool wall you might be onto something here. Horological significance is completely irrelevant but whether cool people would wear one is very relevant. In the same way a Seiko, while great watches, are like Toyota and can never be really cool. If you have a GS you need to tell others 'this is a really expensive, spring drive Seiko!!'. Not cool.

Grand Seiko is basically Lexus then?

[Thorien]

If I might take Clarksons' role in this for a bit. I believe be would put it something like:

'Imagine you were on a date with Kristen Scott Thomas and said:
(Spoken in a nasal tone):

"ooh look at my Seiko it's a really cool watch!"

She's just going to look at you in a strange way.'

It wouldn't impress her. Therefore it's not cool!

Unfortunately I can't think of any watches that would!

[Fords]

Move over Subs and Seadwellers

Daddy's arrived and he's Absolute Zero.

[Thorien]

^ actually that may well make her 'have a crisis' lol. Sub zero!

[Michael E]

Simple answer from me.
Cheers Mick

[Lampoc]

I love Rolex Subs. Are they cool though? Are they bollocks. Just like supercars on the Top Gear wall are automatically uncool, so are all high end watches - especially Rolex.

Vostok - now they're cool. And Bill Murray wore one.

[tixntox]

Still ran perfectly on all functions:-



Cool as cool can be!

Mike

[Foxy100]

What is 'cool' and why on earth is Clarkson a judge of it? Clarkson and cool, surely an oxymoron if ever I heard one?

Having said that I do agree with him that the LFA is probably the greatest new car out there.

For the coolest watch I'm going to have to go for the Heuer 2446 as worn by Jochen Rindt. Here he is crashing in 1969:



And recovering in hospital:







There are a lot of people who'll immediately think of McQueen and his Monaco. McQueen was just an actor though, albeit handy behind the wheel. Rindt was wearing a Heuer long before Siffert came along and sold Heuers to other F1 drivers and influencing McQueen's choice of watch in the film Le Mans. The 2446 is a proper watch, as worn by a proper driver and F1's only posthumous World Champion. Had great taste in shirts too.

[snowman]

Tempted to say Speedmaster Pro...

Now, hear me out because I know you're all going to say nerdy space watch and wannabe sales rep, but...

Is there another watch that so many people like? It's easy to wear on a bracelet or leather strap, doesn't have the same kind of 'aspirational' image as Rolex (the sub scores highly, but its a nerds watch, everyone refers to it by numbers, like BMW or Honda civic enthusiasts - there is only one Speedmaster Pro, despite what omega want you to think. It's either Pro or its not) and its still relatively affordable.

A woman at work commented on how cool my Seiko 6138-3002 was once, so maybe that's a candidate?

The Blancpain Fifty Fathoms is a great one, though. Cold as ice. I think.

I think the blue dialed Rolex yachtmaster andy tims keeps posting photos of is cool, I never thought I'd be so drawn to a Rolex, but I'm smitten by it (too expensive for me though).

The biggest thing against it is that its a Rolex!

M

[Plake]

The last time we discussed this the general conclusion was that anything that a bunch of Internet autists find cool was by definition not cool.

http://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.php?t=256733

[Meinessex]

Any watch that is identified by a number is uncool.

To be cool a watch must have a nickname.


The Great White,

The Big Blue,

The Moon Watch,

Etc.....

[Mrcrowley]

This one isn't cool, it's sub zero:

Too right

But excuse my ignorance
What is it?

[Mrcrowley]

Seriously cool


http://youtu.be/OznSdw2Y1nw

[Dave O'Sullivan]

A couple of months ago, I had a guy come into work looking for a service for his car. Scruffy bugger he was. As he reached over the counter, he revealed this:



He was impressed that I knew what it was. I think these are pretty cool.

[gentlemenpreferhats]

I usually bring out this picture when someone starts going on about "cool".
Watches are not, in themselves, "cool". The owners on the other hand....

[Foxy100]

Watches are not, in themselves, "cool". The owners on the other hand....

Well then there's our cool wall, all the watches I own!

[gentlemenpreferhats]

I hear the last GTG was totally cool.

[uwtc]

[Concub1ne]

The cool wall was the most nonsensical thing ever. In this context it makes no more sense than any of the other subjective rankings of brands etc. But hey, knock yourselves out.

[Itsguy]

Based on TG's cool wall you might be onto something here. Horological significance is completely irrelevant but whether cool people would wear one is very relevant. In the same way a Seiko, while great watches, are like Toyota and can never be really cool. If you have a GS you need to tell others 'this is a really expensive, spring drive Seiko!!'. Not cool.
Vintage subs on a nato seems to be very en vogue at the moment.

Actually GS are really cool, but (or possibly because) very few people know that. In fact, mainly only the owners know it. And here we have the great paradox of coolness - if most people think something is cool, it probably isn't.

Consider beards. Are they really cool now? Or is it more that they were really cool, but now everyone knows they are cool (including M&S adverts) they are getting close to being kind of over. GS are in the lucky position that most people don't yet think they are cool, so in fact they probably very much are, until such time as more people agree that they are, at which point they might not be any more. Simple really.

Also, Rolex were cool a long time ago, then they gradually became extremely uncool, then they became so uncool that vintage models became cool again, partly because they actually looked good, but also because they were slightly challenging, just like a Casio digital.

And finally, to worry about how cool your watch looks.... seriously uncool.

[seikoking]

Being Cool myself, i believe my Heuer Autavia 11063 qualifies ...

[ticothijs82]

Too right

But excuse my ignorance
What is it?

That's a Seiko Spacewalk.

[Thewatchbloke]

Funky and cool. And that's just me

[gladders]

LW Oktopus?

[Mrcrowley]

That's a Seiko Spacewalk.

Thanks for clearing that up:-)