Reply With QuoteThe movement in a sky dweller is too complicated.
I don't like ceramic bezels
The movement in a sky dweller is too complicated.
I have nothing against them but why do they have to be so shiny? I’d like to see more of the ones found on the pelagos.Originally Posted by pete-r
Polishing a Rolex is fine
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The gloss really annoys me, especially when the rest of the watch ages gently but the bezel looks brand new
Tudor today are what Rolex used to be.
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Anyone who buys a watch larger than 39mm diameter is compensating for their tiny penis
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From this day forward I shall be known as Kenny No Nob.
I only own quartz
What are people who type in bold compensating for?
Omega are overrated and need to cull at least 50% of their lineup. They have about 500 watches in their catalogue and lost their way a long time ago.
Anyone involved in their leather bracelets and sunglasses lines should be sacked and banned from ever working in watches. Utter clown show.
The T-Clasp bracelet on Tudors is utterly useless when the adjustment is equal to or less than one link. How can you release a clasp like that when it’s still possible to be between sizes?
Copy the easy-link from Rolex or make the adjustment length 1.5 links minimum.
Upside down watches, you know the ones, date and crown on the wrong side and military types try and give them a fancy name. I’m not having it, simples.
The Submariner 114060 is a much better watch than the 14060M.
The only date window that doesn’t ruin the look of a watch is the cyclops… and only because it’s a design icon.
All other date windows are butters.
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Spending over £200 on a G-Shock is pointless.
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So called watch enthusiasts who buy a Rolex and then moan their socks off about the costs of servicing it. Then come here asking where they can get it done on the cheap. You knew the cost of servicing you moron when you bought the watch, so why moan now.
Also self same morons who moan when watch makers restrict parts to accredited repairers only. They are doing it to ensure that morons like you don't buy a frankenwatch with dodgy parts supplied by someone with a friend of a friend in China.
If you don't want to maintain it properly, buy a G-Shock.
Watches are fundamentally designed for fantasists. Be it tough action fantasists who buy military watches. Jacques Cousteau fantasists who buy dive watches, racing fantasists, pilot fantasists or even suave bourgeois fantasists who want small little dressy things from another time.
It’s all just marketing and any talk of specs feeds into the fantasy of what a watch needs to be able to do.
(I include myself in this).
Or indeed any watch if we are honest with ourselves.
Other than some small independents, you could remove 95% of watches from most manufacturers catalogues without watch enthusiasts shedding a tear. There is a lot of chaff, Rolex included!
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....And yet, Omega are still more innovative and make better watches than Rolex.
Rolex are the strongest brand in the world. Shame their watches aren't the mechanical equivalent.
Really what’s the difference between a Sub, GMT, SD, DSSD, or DS Challenger?
Or the difference between a LadyJust, DateJust, DayDate or SkyDweller?
Rolex only make three watches — Sub, DateJust, Daytona. Same barbies, different dresses.
Personal taste, but once you have had a clear out of the blingy two tone and PM stuff, the less interesting of the steel stuff, that doesn’t leave such a lot.
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Not much, and they are all as dull as ditchwater although the Explorer edges them.
Don't just do something, sit there. - TNH
My dislikes..
California Dials... confusing
Panerai...too big and cumbersome
Royal Oak... ugly
NATO straps.... cheap for a reason
Weak lume.. why bother at all?
Misleading waterproofing capabilities
Smart watches... computer on the wrist. Why?
Press fit watch backs
Cheap watch tools
AND SO ON...
Drink some of that ditchwater and things might not be dull for long.
I'm comfortable with my unpopular watch opinion. Half my office have one or more of those and they don't tend to be people with much of an interest in horology.
Don't just do something, sit there. - TNH
I meant some actual ditchwater and wait for both ends to revolt!
Rolex should offer the Submariner in a quartz version - a bit like Omega used to with the Seamaster.
Won’t be long until we have a Swatch / Submariner. They will get on to that after trashing BPs reputation.
Aha, got you. For many years I believed that I had built up full immunity from such things thanks to taking a rather relaxed view to drinking water sources whilst growing up in West Africa, however suffered a very rude awakening on a trip to Israel where I discovered why hotel sinks are ideally within leaning distance of the khazi.
Don't just do something, sit there. - TNH
If Rolex didn’t exist 90% of this forum content would vanish. For the better.
There's no such thing as a 'smartwatch' / 'smart watch' -
They're not smart: they're generic, boring and utilitarian.
They're not watches: they're wrist-worn communication computers and voluntary tracking devices.
And they don't belong on a watch forum. Get over yourself.
Poor planning for breakfast today left me with multiple coffees and satsumas. The result was me doing my best impression of you in Israel.
Someone should package that up as a detox and make millions.
Another ex Hublot owner. I think they are excellent watches but Dear Lord buy pre owned!
A lot of people on this thread don’t like brands, watches, certain features, the size and some clearly have a very tight grasp of their cash. Can only assume they buy from Argos when there is a sale on or low ball me on e-bay.
Members of TZ-UK could never be accused of being flash with their money. A very careful lot indeed.
Dive watches supplied on leather straps are not suitable dive watches
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Tool watches are obsolete.
Tool’s watches.
All watches are tool watches.
Patina should be polished away. Vintage watches should look nice not battered.
This has got to be the best thread ever. The unspeakable truths just come out in a very honest form. I would have said that you have to be a right prat to walk around wearing some bashed up old wreck instead of wearing the watch as it was made originally.
I like Sinn, but their innovations such as inert gas, drying crystals, hydro, low temp oils are solutions looking for a problem that no one has.
That’s why my 144 has none of them!
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Were you a member of a specific Military Regiment? Yes? Excellent, wear that special edition Bremont/Breitling with pride.
Oh you weren't a member of a specific Military Regiment? Then why the farking hell are you wearing it then?
I agree with the caveat that if you yourself put that patina and wear into the watch then it is a catalog of your life and should remain as is. If you have however purchased a battered old watch and are wearing it in such a way as to impart the image of a life of action upon yourself, then don't.
Back to unpopular opinions
80% of watches posted on the forum are too big for their owners' wrists
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Rolex is now a fashion brand
And the other 20% just look plain shit. Funny why we even bother.
It is. It is a lovely piece of jewellery. I don’t need it to tell the time because I have multiple clocks and digital displays around the house and I can’t go out in it for fear of Eastern Europeans hiding in the bushes and the cherry on the top of the cake is when those who sell them and make their living from it dismiss the buyers as rich lemmings then I think we can all agree that we are being taken for a ride.
When does the Swatch x Aquanaut come out?
Agree......if it's done carefully and correctly. Never seen the appeal of a scratched up battered watch, as I`ve proved many times it's possible to refinish a watch to get it close to original appearance without spoiling it.
Bi-metal/two tone watches.
When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks long into you.........
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