IWC 40mm 3239 - the oversized crown guards, which blend in with the case / bezel from head on creating a 44mm mis-sharpen lump of steel. Certain GS have the same issue due to the polishing, while it's not an issue on sports Rolex.
This not being a 3, 6, 9 dial. Would've nicely filled the hole left by the Explorer's recent swelling:
Interesting, I'm currently torn between an SUN025 (which I fear will be too large for my wrists) and an SARB017. A GMT would be useful as I travel with work, but then I have an iphone (sorry, just facing facts!). I had thought of using the compass bezel as a sort of substitute for a GMT hand.
Thought of another one
The WR on a Speedy Pro.
It would be Sooooooo easy for Omega to make the Speedy Pro 100m WR, then I would buy one.
It is the only Lemania-powered icon I have no plans to own, for that reason (well, if I am honest it is also because everyone thinks I should own one, and I am contrary like that).
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People that do not like Roman numerals. Why? I like them.
Power reserves. I don't like them. Because I think they take up dial space for no good reason.
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SEIKO ... written 3 times, in 2 fonts and as an initial letter
SPRING DRIVE ... a foolish term, because almost all mechanical watches are driven by a spring ... here in another font, sans serif
GMT ... with serif
And, finally, another font for the writing around the 6 index
What a mess!
No Date on the cosmograph! Got to have a date for me.....
Watches with MASSIVE crown guards are a turn-off. They may, on occasion, be functional but just not for me.
I also agree with all those below who dislike power meters.
Roman Numerals
Overly fussy dials
My wrist size
Unfortunately for me a lot of modern watches, that I like, swamp my small wrists. I'd love a Seiko Tuna, but 6.2 says no.
Having said that I can look at a lot of vintage pieces without worry.
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To me, that seems like one of the better examples of typographic competency out there, and it has some obvious attention to detail. Breguet even went to the trouble of matching the date wheel to the dial, which very few bother to do any more.
It's far from being a mess compared to most chronographs of this style. While there's some (desirable, IMHO) variation in the elements, they integrate well, and it's leagues better than the lazy Windows-default crap that's too often seen from companies that really ought to know better.
Speaking of which, here's what a true mess of a dial looks like:
:)
Cant stand Faux patina. If they removed it alot more watches would make the short list. Like the JLC Deepsea boutique edition, Tag Heuer Monza PVD, LH Pelagos with Beige markers.
^ coin edged bezels (the spring looking ones)
Actually, I've come round to your way of thinking in the past couple of days. It almost should be a mess, but it manages not to be.
As for the Patak, I've never noticed the reduced size of the 5 and 27 before. Probably related to never holding one, but I do think that would annoy me every time I looked at it.
I have returned two brand new Rolexes to ADs because there were obvious differences in the widths of the lugs - visible to the naked eye and measurable with a digital caliper. A lot of others I have seen in ADs have the same problem - it is particularly noticeable on the 36mm DateJusts and OPs. The cause is apparently the hand finishing - but for Ł4000 plus I find this unacceptable.
Right hand lugs are usually thinner on Rolex / some tudors. It's just the case shape.
Top right can occasionally make a person very twitchy indeed ;)
Don't know about the ceramic or supercase sizes but it's certainty true of the older models.
Anyway. Came to add Roman and Arabic numerals.
PCLs on so many of Rolex's current range are a massive turn off to me.
Most Nomos watches have one feature that puts me off - the thin lugs and wire lugs on some really bother me.
The polished section on the Grand Seiko bracelets is annoying. I have a speedmaster with a similar bracelet and I really don't like it.
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I've thought of another one. The A. Lange & Sohne 1815 Up/Down. A beautiful watch, except for the unnecessary GANGRESERVE text. It destroys the symmetry of the otherwise perfectly proportioned dial, and once you see it, it can't be unseen. In short, it's a monstrous carbuncle on the face of an elegant friend.
This week I have been wearing my 16700 GMT Master and I do find the crown rather small.
I'd prefer it if it had the same sized crown as the Sub but I'd guess the smaller case and gap between the GMT's crown guards would make that impossible.
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I dont understand the dislike for Roman numerals. Why do people hate them so much?
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The subject of the thread has flipped over from watches that you almost like but for one detail, to the usual list of betes noires.
Now it has been pointed out, I can't warm to the SMPc due to the painted index marker next to the date, when the others are all applied.
Please remember the title of this thread: "Watches you'd like if it weren't for one detail."
I admire Seiko watches and I'd love to have an automatic (but not 'Spring Drive') Grand Seiko. Sadly for me, however, the hotch-potch on the dial stops me.
(I suspect that Japanese designers would do a much better job in Japanese.)
In contrast to the Grand Seiko above, the script on my old BELL-MATIC is quite elegant.
Taking a dislike for the text on a modern Grand Seiko doesn't imply a sweeping disdain for Seiko if what you really want to see is something like this:
Tudor Heritage Chrono, who decided to do pushers that have to be unscrewed? I love the watch but that detail is just poor and is the one thing that has stopped my buying one :(
Sinn 556 - 'Automatik' in German, and 'Made in Germany' in English.
Tudor dive watches
if they were 1-2mm smaller diameter and thin enough to fit under a cuff then i would probably be wearing one right now.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by '..it's so it's lined up with 4:30', but I thought the reason why the window doesn't fall exactly between the 4 and 5, is that the date wheel is slightly too small for the case it's fitted in.
It's one of my pet hates and you see it a lot on budget boutique divers.
Gary