Friday Watches - August 2021

[Wimm]

Beneath a blanket of grey cloud August came and went in a flash. Winds that seemed to arrive from most points north of the compass made autumn feel a lot closer than usual. Which is not really what this years staycationers were hoping for when they booked an exorbitantly priced getaway in an idyllic cottage somewhere in our beautiful countryside. But I am not here to complain about the weather, no I want to complain about the declining standards of the Friday thread, one of the last bastions of decorum on this forum. On the 27th the bounds of decency were not merely stepped over, CaptainRockNRoll hopped, skipped and jumped right over them. In what Tetlee christened a "throne shot" the offender of sensibilities shared with us a photo of not only his BB58 but also his Morley's from within the public bogs at the Studland ferry, Poole presumably having just released Tarka. I suppose it could have been worse, he could have been in the worst toilet in Scotland.

Numbers echoed the slide in decency and dropped further as holidays were taken and the stresses of daily life and forum politics were briefly and gladly forgotten. Some 555 watches were posted throughout the month which means we struck a new monthly low. This low was echoed in just about all of our stats. Lowest weekly average (138.75), lowest number of brands (118) and a few brands had monthly lows too but more of that a little later on.

The month started in predictable fashion with Rolex ruling the roost and Omega and Seiko jostling for the second and third spots. However, on the 20th there was disturbance in the force. Omega kicked off and wasn't pulling any punches, being the first to ten examples (a rare event) and ending up on fourteen, only one watch behind Rolex's fifteen. Added to this Seiko had their worst week ever and didn't make it in to double figures hitting a miserly seven. They were beaten into sixth by Timefactors, Tudor and Panerai. The disturbance didn't last very long and come the 27th Omega were back in their usual third place with Rolex in second on twenty and Seiko bouncing back to first on twenty one.

There were some beacons of light in the darkness. On the 6th we saw the most Linde Werdelin of which four examples were seen, helping earn that brand a spot in the top ten that week. On the 20th Panerai hit their new weekly high of eleven which helped them to their second best monthly figures of thirty one. Yet another weekly high came from Scurfa who hit three on the 27th. Certina attained a monthly high of five.

The number of new arrivals also dropped but to a still healthy thirteen. There was only one previously seen brand to make their first appearance this year and that was Scubapro. Amongst the twelve brands making their first appearance on the Friday thread were: (surprisingly) Hermes, the well named Duckworth Prestex, Bund and Tactical Frog. To stick with the natural theme JackW treated us to his rather nice Pellikaan.

We were treated to a wonderful range of interesting watches, from Tokyo Tokei's Cyma G10, Gav's Junghans Mega and JackW's sublime Aquastar Seatime. One watch launch which caught my eye when I first came here was the Zodiac's LE Super Sea Wolf so seeing Coredriller's example made me smile. One final mention goes to Rajen and his Kobe Bryant tribute watch which bears more than a passing resemblance to a Blancpain.

Time constraints this month have been such that I haven't been able to produce any bonus content, plus I ran out of ideas so you will just have to be satisfied with the numbers. Here they are in all their glory:

1 Rolex 79
2 Seiko 57
3 Omega 51
4 Panerai 31
5 Timefactors 31
6 Tudor 28
7 Breitling 15
8 Grand Seiko 15
9 Sinn 11
10 Zenith 10
11 G Shock 9
12 Heuer 8
13 Doxa (modern) 8
14 Damasko 6
15 CWC 5
16 Certina 5
17 Ming 5
18 Scurfa 4
19 Patek Philippe 4
20 Citizen 4
21 Tag Heuer 4
22 Pulsar 4
23 Squale 4
24 KMK 4
25 Bell & Ross 4
26 Christopher Ward 4
27 IWC 4
28 Helson 4
29 Oris 4
30 Vostok 4
31 Linde Werdelin 4
32 Audemars Piguet 3
33 Bremont 3
34 Junghans 3
35 Hamilton 3
36 Fortis 3
37 Longines 3
38 Tutima 3
39 Boschett 3
40 Casio 3
41 Jaeger-LeCoultre 3
42 Steinhart 3
43 Tissot 3
44 Luminox 2
45 Lorier 2
46 Orient 2
47 Farer 2
48 Alexander Shorokhoff 2
49 Ball 2
50 Blancpain 2
51 Mido 2
52 Sterile 2
53 Timex 2
54 Cyma 2
55 Frederique Constant 2
56 Helvetia 2
57 Nomos 2
58 Aquastar 1
59 Archimede 1
60 Breguet 1
61 Caravelle 1
62 Chronoswiss 1
63 Edox 1
64 Enicar 1
65 Helm 1
66 L L Bean 1
67 Lanco 1
68 Minase 1
69 Schofield 1
70 Scubapro 1
71 Shirryu 1
72 Stowa 1
73 Wyler 1
74 Alpina 1
75 Girard Perigeaux 1
76 Hermes 1
77 Jean Marcel 1
78 Nodus 1
79 Pellikaan Timing 1
80 Revue Thommen 1
81 Rotary 1
82 Tactical Frog 1
83 Undone 1
84 Vacheron Constantin 1
85 Wolbrook 1
86 Zelos 1
87 A-13A 1
88 Amazfit 1
89 Anordain 1
90 Batavi 1
91 BND 1
92 Borealis 1
93 Bund 1
94 Dekla 1
95 Duckworth Prestex 1
96 Gevril 1
97 L U Chopard 1
98 Lemania 1
99 Signum 1
100 Victorinox 1
101 Zodiac 1
102 6B 1
103 Apple 1
104 Bulova 1
105 Favre Leuba 1
106 Franck Muller 1
107 Glycine 1
108 Helva 1
109 Marloe 1
110 MMI 1
111 Monta 1
112 Ollech & Wajs 1
113 Pontus 1
114 Rado 1
115 Steeldive 1
116 Trias 1
117 WMT 1
118 Zeno 1

[Sinnlover]

As always thank you for the write up.

[Rinaldo1711]

As always thank you for the write up.

+1 I always enjoy this.

[ralphy]

+1 I always enjoy this.

+2, much appreciated OP.

R

[magirus]

Thanks yet again for taking the time to produce this.

[Chris_in_the_UK]

Great piece of work Will - much appreciated!

[ASW1]

Great work. Thanks!

[Saxon007]

Well done, thank you. :)

[deepdivedaz]

Great read. Good effort.

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[Quality Man]

Thanks!


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[seikomatic]

Beneath a blanket of grey cloud August came and went in a flash. Winds that seemed to arrive from most points north of the compass made autumn feel a lot closer than usual...............

this is the first time that I went through all those 500+ words but don't really understand too much..will try google translation later

[tommyzzj]

Thanks as usual!

[NickRed71]

Thanks for the write-up, a pleasure to read. I want to forget the Throne Shot ASAP though


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[markrlondon]

Interesting reading.

[RAJEN]

Thanks again for the thread.
Good to see an uptick in Panerais.

[earlofsodbury]

Thanks for the entertaining analysis, bought a smile to my face

[RogDen]

Interesting thanks


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[Kamakazie!]

Nice one Wimm!

[snowman]

Luckily I missed the Throne Shot (And I'll resist the urge to check it!).

Always an interesting read, I certainly felt numbers were down, so good to see it wasn't just old age creeping up on me.

It'll be interesting to see if numbers pick up as the Autumn and Winter arrive or whether this is a general downturn.

Keep up the great work, it's appreciated!

M

[sish101]

Good work and good reading. Thanks

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[JackW]

Great read, thanks. Two honorable mentions almost made me blush.

[Bonny Marco]

Hi Wimm,

Always a great read. Thanks for compiling this.

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[Topcat30093]

Thank you for making the time to produce your monthly bulletin.
I don't always read it.....sorry
But read your latest one and it made me smile with the way that you have written it.

[Ozyjohn]

Have to make a point of following this. Thank you.

[gaurav_tzuk]

Great work as usual!

I’m Assuming low watch count could be due to people Going on holiday?