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A couple of days ago there was a review* of the new Mido Commander on Worn And Wound. In the comments below the review there was an exchange:
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John Clemente: "That is a nice looking watch. The 40 mm size is great. Also, the picture of the man wearing racing gloves has the watch on wrong. Lols."
Paul Lloyd >> John Clemente: "It’s common practice in rallys, when one has a navigator, for the driver to wear his watch this way; both as a backup chronometer for the navigator and, symbolically, as a statement of disinterest in time while focusing on driving."
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* Mido's new Commander Gradient...
https://wornandwound.com/midos-new-c...om-both-sides/
Have you heard about this before? Of course the picture (in the next entry so it doesn't get squashed by the ad) is from a car with the steering on the left.
The picture to the text above.
I can’t answer definitively, so probably shouldn’t comment at all, but it’s seems unlikely to me that the navigator would use his driver s watch as a back-up in this way? Firstly, he d be focused on navigating, secondly he couldn’t guarantee that the watch was visible when/if he needed to view it and thirdly, even if the watch was displayed as in the photo, he has no control stabilising his view of it to read it clearly.
It doesn’t seem very practical so I m going to be interested to hear authoritatively from someone, if this is indeed “a thing”.
It’s wrong to wear driving gloves!
I can’t see it being practical the navigator would not be able to read the drivers watch when racing over rough ground at 80mph.
So I guess it’s bull to try explain why they have daft photo shown.
Last edited by Sinnlover; 10th May 2020 at 08:38.
To be honest anyone “driving” seriously while wearing a blazer and chinos (not to mention those ridiculous gloves) is more than disinterested in the time, they are going to be mainly concerned about the colour of the parasol in their evening cocktail.
Do rally drivers wear ordinary shirts and jackets whilst rallying?
Best Regards - Peter
I'd hate to be with you when you're on your own.
I think it's a load of guff personally.
The dapper ones who frequent Sales Corner do.Originally Posted by Griswold
Na, utter BS. The photographer has posed the watch and now someone is trying to explain it away with a daft excuse - they should have just let it be.
Rallying isn't a leisurely sunday drive, the drivers hands move so quickly that no navigator in the world is going to be able to read his watch, especially not while... well, navigating.
If it was a thing someone on the forum would have heard of it before. I certainly haven’t. Hello magazine do this all the time, the celebs always have their watches on upside down.
Yes dear now move on
I FEEL LIKE I'M DIAGONALLY PARKED IN A PARALLEL UNIVERSE
Dear God (No).
'Dear God' moment is 2 minutes into video. Navigator Terry Harryman can be seen looking at his watch at the start of the stage.
To be fair there is more than one type of “rally” driving, e.g. regularity rallies which are far more sedate.
Best Regards - Peter
I'd hate to be with you when you're on your own.
Sounds very much like a made up justification for the posed pic IMHO. Incidentally, I quite like that watch! Maybe the ‘thing’ is the trend for a transparent dial - I notice the latest CW does the same.
Carroll Shelby dressed up like a farmer
Love the outfit!
The picture to the text above.
Just needs a DBS V8 with a young Britt Ekland in the passenger seat...............ohhh... must have dozed off and dreaming again.....
Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
How else would the photographer have shown the watch off to best advantage in the picture?
If the watch was being worn according to convention it'd be upside down in the pic.
Is his hand on the handbrake, or is that an auto box on his rally car?
Best Regards - Peter
I'd hate to be with you when you're on your own.
It's not showing the watch at its best as the image jarrs - it distracts from the watch. The photographer ought not to have forced the watch into a setting in which it just doesn't work.
No, not a thing...
I like the watch though!!!
Is it just that I'm getting old and increasingly cynical, but is marketing BS getting more & more pathetic? This one is just so utterly half baked. (Pro) Rally co-drivers seem to wear watch-like devices on both wrists, though I suspect that they have a wider range of functions than just telling the time! And I suspect the car will be fitted with absurd amounts of mobile computing technology which might at a pinch in an emergency tell the time.
This thread finally got me to find out why the navigators add “maybe” to a lot of instructions. Always wondered the answer from the days of playing Colin McRae on the PS1.
I sincerely hope the chap driving the car is also wearing a flat cap and a cravat.
F.T.F.A.
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