Seamaster's are much, much better than Speedmasters
Seamaster's are much, much better than Speedmasters
Maybe not an opinion but a potentially silly thing nonetheless- I realised last week that my 16800 matte dial is pretty much a straight swap to a similar condition president in yellow gold. And I’m now tempted.
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Any watch with ‘Snowflake hands’ is ruined.
Celebrity endorsement- again, more likely to repel than attract me
Like brown shoes with black trousers, black dials with brown straps are just wrong
All watches should have a date function
A mechanical watch with more complications than a date is a gewgaw
Roman numerals are a thing of the long since past and should have stayed there
The only valid reason to have more than one watch is when one is a spare
Breitling look like they were designed and made by partially sighted people, with chisels, who were stuck in a time warp (except the Navitimer)
Two tone watches look cheap, but they did have their era, but it’s not this one
Bell & Ross square watches look tragic
A Rolex owner is very likely to own a Mont Blanc pen
I think that sometimes, "As New In Original Packaging" ain't all it's cracked up to be...
Looking at 'Clinton watches' for sale on eBay in the same style, the bezels are single inserts, just painted to look like doubles.
To get a new rolex sports watch do you have to have a brown nose
Or a relative thats on the staff
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Rolex Submariner ‘Hulk’ and ‘Kermit’ models were designed for the Middle Eastern market...............
I like G-10/NATOs. Judging by the thread so far that makes me as popular as a bottom burp in a packed car. *runs*
The Rolex OysterQuartz is a better finished and more innovative movement than the automatics they were building when it first came out.
TAG Heuer makes better watches and keeps better records than vintage Heuer did. For a period in time Heuer came out with fantastic industrial designs, but I don't rate them as a great house like Omega, Rolex, Longines.
Rolex don't make a single watch I actually like.
The New Omega Seamaster Professional is a better watch than the Planet Ocean despite being cheaper.
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I love quartz
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I've long-lusted for all things Breguet
People genuinely aren’t going to like this but...
An Apple Watch is a great choice in most situations.
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The Rolex Deepsea is an ugly watch, by far the ugliest SS dive watch they make
I dont like the look of most AP/Cartier/Richard Mille or Hublot either!
Unnecessarily antagonistic post there.
Let me tell you a tale. I used to work in insurance. Years ago before the crunch I went to a suppliers day at a major U.K. insurer. The owner of one of the suppliers was there, turned up in his Lambo, real big-timer, had a FM Crazy Hands on and black diamond cuff links that ‘cost 250 bags’. All this to meet with mainly mid level procurement folks.
Now this is an extreme example but even wearing a £6k Omega/Rolex you run the risk of looking flash and putting your audience off. You’ll never do that with one of Cupertino’s finest; CEOs and street sweepers sport them. Save the fun stuff for the weekend.
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That special edition GS is really pretty icky - that blue looks like something you'd see on a nursery wall.
But it's photos. GS do have a habit of taking really crap pictures of otherwise beautiful things.
I don’t believe in watch collections. One watch is enough. Only change it if a better option becomes available.
I never could understand flipping and now have far too many watches. They just hang around as a guilty reminder of my numerous ill-considered overindulgences. Now I get flipping.
Most of the Breitlings are disturbingly ugly.
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I once saw an interview with Lennox Lewis. He was talking about having money and said something along the lines of ‘why have a fleet of cars? You’ve only got one ass so can only sit in one at a time’ basically his view was that he can buy a nice car (an S Class iirc), change it as often as he wants and use the money that others spend on a fleet of cars on other, more productive things.
Lots of boxers risk their brains coming out of retirement for a payday. Lennox didn’t. No coincidence that.
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Absolutely second this opinion , the Tudor hour hand is horrendous and if the brand was not associated with Rolex it would surely be derided throughout the community. It only succeeds as a brand for the people who cannot afford a Rolex ( ok , some can so don’t bite just yet ) but want to be asked about their watch and then be able to reply “ it’s made by Rolex don’t you know”.
A bit like the ugly Evoque is only a success because it’s a poor mans Range Rover . Funny how those owners I have spoken to have always told me they own a Range Rover ( no mention of Evoque ) . Oh and pink or yellow Ralph Lauren shirts every man and his dog seems to wear when you are on holiday , probably along with a Tudor hoping people will think they are loaded.
I mean no offence to anyone by the way , just thinking out loud and hope this doesn’t get me banned from the forum.
I’m going for a lie down now.
I think this is probably a good philosophy, but I think I might struggle a bit to thin all the way down to 1.
I did sort out the watch box earlier to ones I could let go of and those I'd like to keep, but the keep pile still has 7-8 on it. With 5 in the could go list.
ETA, I'm still considering picking up one of the citizen LE's however......
As to my own opinion, well I think too many buy watches to impress others rather than themselves
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I see what you mean....but there's a philosophical point - I have rather an unnecessarily large number of watches (I'm not sure how many, say 10 I actively wear, plus others I don't anymore), but does this mean I have a 'collection'? I buy watches to wear, not to curate (to use a terribly modish word!).
Edit:
forgot that I found this on Watch Talk, not the Bear Pit
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Nobody needs a GMT complication - if you can't subtract from 24 you shouldn't be spending more than $10 on a watch.
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... I have a few GMT complications
Double time zone watches would be much better if the numbering read midnight to 11am, then noon to 11pm.
With midnight at the bottom of the dial, so that the rising and falling of the 24 hour hand follows the rising and setting of the sun. Dusky blue for 6pm-6am, gold for 6am-6pm.
I have owned and enjoyed Hublot. I’d have another one happily.
I’d have a Richard Mille in a heartbeat, I think they’re a superb piece of engineering.
An Urwerk is my exit watch.
Every watch face should be iced and case sides to match.
“ Ford... you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.” HHGTTG
Love a cyclops...
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Nobody needs to spend more than £200 on a watch, including with a chronograph or GMT complication.
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