I have a complete blind spot for IWCs. Totally illogical but they just leave me clap cold, and for no sensible reason either as I know they're lovely things.
Anyone else have brands they just cannot connect with?
I have a complete blind spot for IWCs. Totally illogical but they just leave me clap cold, and for no sensible reason either as I know they're lovely things.
Anyone else have brands they just cannot connect with?
PANERAI
Not seeing it............ sorry.
Never have.Originally Posted by blackal
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."
'Populism, the last refuge of a Tory scoundrel'.
all Marathon watches ...
Panerai
Richard Mille
Hublot
Ana-digi watches
Breitling, Panerai and Hublot. Some APs as well. I like the slim RO, but some of the chunkier divers that look like they have rubber washers around the crown - sorry.
I said it a few years ago on this forum and got slated for it... but I'll say it again
Patek philipe
Looks naff sounds naff and the advertising makes me want to puke.
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Paddy Phillips? What’s not to like?
I think the bar for this is watches that you don't regard as awful - i.e. not what you hate but what you cannot love, but for no obvious reason. For instance, I think Hublot make hideous things which are bought, in the main, by hideous people, mostly Uzbek gangsters. They're foul. But they don't count in this for me because I think they're foul. IWC on the other hand make lovely watches with a great heritage and in designs which are by any reckoning very handsome - and yet I have no desire to own one, at all.
I totally agree with your sentiment and for me the brand and particularly the watch, is the PP Nautlus. I don't find anything particularly wrong with it and I'd go so far as to say that I don't mind it but I have no desire to own one, ever, even if it was affordable.
I think that's actually the point. Definitely a watch that if the premise appeals to you, you would wear it but if you don't really get it then it seems pointless.
I've tried a UN Freak and it's a really appealing watch, very easy to wear and totally different. If I had the budget I would definitely go there.
I know why I don't like Rolex, but I am baffled by Panerai.
Just can't see the appeal.
They are a loose copy of the MKI Oyster and so the two are not unrelated.
Ball. Never seen one I'd wear. And their model names are just weird; Fireman and infamous Ball Skin Diver.
H Moser and Cie. Every one I've ever seen looks like it cost £89 from Argos.
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Not sure if you have seen this one:
https://www.ablogtowatch.com/h-moser...rade-hands-on/
Thanks, I hadn't seen it. It's lovely but why make a £30k watch look like an Apple Watch costing £300? Bizarre.
Just spilt my coffee reading that!
Breitling unfortunately for me in terms of not being of interest.
Don't want to get all me-too, but IWC leaves me stone-cold. They make a style of watch I very much like, and for the last few years I assumed the rapidly increasing prices must be justified by quality of execution, but I had the chance to get up-close and handle a couple of new examples a few months ago, and nope... I get it even less now: very ordinary - swap the branding with a similar Hamilton aviator and I couldn't tell which is which without a good look at the movement.
The thought of paying Richemont's servicing charges is pretty offputting, too.
Heritage is dandy, but Laco has it too, for example, and still charges very fair prices for its watches...
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Also don't get Ulysse Nardin. Feels like they wish they were Breguet, and they certainly make some similarly cartoonish wristwarts at comparably ambitious prices, but Breguet also make some great looking-watches, and some with real heritage. There's not many brands out there where I cannot find a single redeeming feature in any of its offer, but UN accomplishes that feat.
Is it just me, or does a faint stench of death hang over Kering Group in general?
Mine is completely illogical but I can't help it. I just can't take to any make where the brand name consists of a person's name (both christian and surname). Patek Philipe, Christopher Ward, Richard Mille etc etc.
When I see them, I just think "shopping channel". As I said, completely illogical, but it is what it is.
You don’t fancy a Harold Pinchbeck then?
Just had to Google the name and its a resounding no. Maybe my illogical stance is not so illogical ;)
And don’t forget Robert Loomes. Pure gash!
The Robin and The Robina. What has been seen, cannot be unseen....aaargh!
Bell & Ross, never quite got what their 'style' is and hate the logo.
Patek Philippe is 2 surnames from 2 different people, Antoine Norbert De Patek and Jean Adrien Philippe.
Cheers,
Ben
..... for I have become the Jedi of flippers
" an extravagance is anything you buy that is of no earthly use to your wife "
Didn't know that thanks.
Pat and Phil watch company
Please don't Google the insanely-expensive Cecil Purnell watches. I think they've rebranded to simply 'Purnell' to have more appeal specifically to you!
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Jim.
Blimey they are expensive, haven't looked at a picture in case the new branding sways me ;)
I think my worst "dont get" has to be Steinhart as it crosses into active dislike.
Others - Seestern, Helson, Konstantin Chaykin, Romain Jerome, Ball, Bremont, Chr Ward, Graff, Harry Winston.
That’s a shame. When I think about IWC my thoughts turn to models like the Aquatimer 812 AD and the Pilot series Mark XI through to the later XII and XV models. These are the best of IWC, albeit long since discontinued.
Jacob & Co. What are they all about? If I had that kind of money, and I don’t I’d like to think I’d have more taste than that.
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Another vote for Jacob and co here! Ugly bling watches in my opinion of course !
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I’m going to say Breitling. Always too fussy. Always a flashy detail I don’t like, or a dial so busy it makes my eyes hurt. And as for all the pilot marketing - well, that’s like making a watch and saying ‘as worn by bus drivers’. Why do I care about pictures of aeroplanes? It’s a watch. Of all the Swiss brands of that ilk, it’s the only one I’ve never owned, in fact I don’t think I’ve even tried one on!
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Breitling and Panerai for me.
Graham…..naff name naff watches..
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That is funny - Naff Watch Top Trumps winner !Graham…..naff name naff watches..
No brand imparticular but don't like 'Iced Out' watches, totally unnecessary in my opinion
I agree with some of the already mentioned, but I've got to put in my potentially controversial entry. Here goes...
Casio.
I'm shopping for a garage/building work beater watch and a g-shock would be perfect, so I've tried so hard to 'see the light', but I just don't like any of them. Most are too large, and the smaller ones just do nothing for me. Why anyone over the age of 16 likes those Mudmasters is beyond me. They look like a transformer toy
With you (all) on modern Breitling but I think they have some beautiful things in their back catalogue. I have a Datora chronograph which is just lovely.
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Bremont. I cannot the see the appeal.
I tend not to think about brands in terms of what I would or wouldlt buy, but thinking about it for a moment I can’t see me buying anything from these even if I liked the watch itself.
TAG
Franck Muller
Graham
Girard Perragaux
TW Steel
U Boat
BRM
Parmigiani
I will confirm my place as a tasteless, crass and low brow watch lover but…
I have no wish to own any of the holy trinity of watch makers
PP, AP, VC - they make nothing I would like to own and I just don’t get the Nautilus or Aquanaut. (Or the cult that is Rolex)
Maybe I need another hobby.
Nah, stick to the likes of Sinn that are much more appealing.
This! There is no denying the quality, but I just do not get the appeal.
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Every watch that they have ever made??
Yes. I recognise many are very good, I just don’t want one at all. It must be a brand thing I suppose.
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Rolex. Totally overpriced.
Rolex for me too. They almost all look ugly to my eyes.
Same old outdated designs.
I can't say Rolex because I do "get" them, although I don't want one. Sold my last years ago. Agree massively over-priced but the reason for that is the reason I don't want one - they are sold in the main to people who want to be seen wearing a Rolex (honourable exceptions to many on here). They're status symbols recognised by the average non-watch-fan as very expensive watches, and that's why so many people buy them (again, not all, before anyone gets furious) over comparable brands. It's the one watch brand I was always uncomfortable wearing because I always felt like I looked like I was showing off. Easy to say "Your problem" but that's how it was. My last was a GMT which I determined to sell after a bloke in the buffet car of the Paddington to Didcot express - a bloke with a nasty suit and those very long pointy shoes which curl up at the end because he doesn't know what a shoe tree is - felt empowered to tap me on the shoulder and ask" 'Ere, is that real then or what?". I knew it had to go. Never had another.
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