Reply With QuoteNot my cup of tea but maybe they grow on you?
They are all around you 😄
A couple are missing as can't find them readily
Not my cup of tea but maybe they grow on you?
Not for me!
Im not a fan, but then I don't like MB hands either. It wouldn't stop me if I really liked the rest of tha e watch though.
I'd like to try a watch with them but there are few affordable options not built like a tank! Like the idea of them...
Love em. The hands on my Pelagos are my second favorites, close behind the Sinn U1 handset. I think it's my engineering / geometric background...
Hmmmm ...... no.
Not a fan either, they seem to jar and spoil the look of the watch for me
I have never been a fan but i prefer them with the pointed hour hand (personal opinion)
Snowflakes are beautiful and delicate. How did this description ever get applied to a hand design that is so brutish and ugly?
I like them really!! more on a vintage Tudor than anything else and thats why Ive had a few but I do like the BB and the Pelagos also!!
Chris
Really like them on vintage Tudor, Black bay and Pelagos.
I like them on the Pelagos and other Tudors. They give them some identity. Who was the first manufacturer to use them?
Never used to like at all, but have over time really love the look especially on the Pelagos. I guess the only problem maybe a lack of precision of where it is actually pointing to (OCD ?!)
Personally I love em, I still regret selling my snowflake.
Love em.
I'm the opposite and they'd prevent me from buying any watch. For me they lack any subtlety. Each to their own, of course.
I definitely dislike them - but I won't use the h*** word on something as trivial as a watch hand.
...on a Tudor:
Anywhere else? Not so much.
Regards,
Adam
love them
Love em,
Developed by Tudor for the french navy in 1968-
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I tend to agree.Originally Posted by craniotes
Snowflake hands are fantastic in every way. For those who think they are too indelicate to be called snowflakes they have also been referred to as axe hands. :)
Like others have said I think the hands really work on the vintage Tudor Submariners. It is so much part of the look, enough to become a defining feature. Following on from this heritage, it suits the Black Bay and Pelagos to a T. Other watches using the hands seem to be plagiarising this heritage.
Similar to Rolex's Mercedes hands. Not a personal favourite look of mine but so deeply ingrained into the total fabric of the watch's character.
Just don't look right
Not for me. That hour hand is the one thing that puts me off the BB.
I don't exactly love or hate them, but I do quite like them. Give me snowflakes over Mercedes any day though.
I dislike them massively, but I also dislike Tudor too so maybe it's related :D
Nah do nothing for me either. I've tried over the years to get to like them, they just look all wrong to me. But what do I know?
Snowflake hands have never really done it for me, which is a shame since alot of the time their attached to watches i would otherwise buy.
.... although its not like they can't be swaped out for good ol' sword hands.
They differentiate between the hour and minute hands very effectively a d make the dial very easy to read. Tbh I can't see what's to dislike - when I first saw them on an old snowflake Sub maybe it was a visual jolt but now I don't really notice it as an odd or unusual style?
I'm in the love em camp.
Love them.... In their correct place... In a Tudor.....
I think the snowflake hand only looks right with the square markers - that killed the Black Bay for me :(
Pelagos really is a near-perfect watch...
I really like them (unlike Mercedes hands which make me feel ill every time I see them).
Used to hate them, now I quite like them.
One of my favourites, the Longines Hydroconquest, has one
That said, it's not a feature that ever leads me to a watch, but, clearly, it doesn't put me off 100%.
One question, though, WHY "snowflake"? It's a diamond!!!!
M
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Oddly I hadn't even noticed that my hour hand was a snowflake until this thread! 29.5mm HydroConquest here, looks fine to me :)
Not for me. Too blunt an instrument
I think I'm with you on that. Also, when I bought mine it was the Mercedes hands that I found difficult to get on with but curiously don't have that problem now.
That I like alot!One of my favourites, the Longines Hydroconquest, has one
That said, it's not a feature that ever leads me to a watch, but, clearly, it doesn't put me off 100%.
One question, though, WHY "snowflake"? It's a diamond!!!!
M
Snowflake always makes me think of stumpy looking hour hands, that Longines on the other hand is lovely.
They are what they are - if you don't like them, don't buy them. That's their style, just like sword/flieger/Mercedes/dauphine/cathedral/aiguille hands. They are a Tudor signature, not for everyone although it's worth noting that on your average 32-60" computer monitor, a tiney little hand no more than a couple of mm wide becomes as big as your head, so it's no wonder that people point and scream when it's perceived as so much larger than life :)
...but what do I know; I don't even like watches!
Granted they are a signature detail for Tudor, but personally I'm not that keen. And it's not just the snowflake hands, but the dial as a whole, for me square things on / in a round 'setting' just doesn't work.
I'm a bit concerned about the choice here. I don't hate them, but I'm not certain I love you either
Love my Pelagos.
So do I perfection Imo, but only on a Tudor.Love my Pelagos.
^ great pic and a very nice watch.
I have never been much of a fan of the Rolex sub (please don't hate me), however when I discovered the snowflake I knew I had to have one.
It's now my one of favourite watches and I am thinking about flipping something so I can buy a pelagos.
I think the snowflake hands and dial are an iconic design feature, as well as being practicle - making reading the watch easier in low light.
I agree with comments regarding the mixture of square hands and round indices on the BB, it does not work for me.
Hideous, ugly, clumsy and incongruous - i don`t care for them at all..
Most are not even a diamond - they`re bloody square!
I don`t suppose `square` conjures the same esoteric and romantic overtones though does it, and some WIS seem to thrive on the chance of giving any distinctive (or not) watch design element a twee nickname....
I really like them. On tudor.
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