Just spilt my coffee reading that!Originally Posted by TaketheCannoli
Breitling unfortunately for me in terms of not being of interest.
I too have a lack of love for IWC. In common with others, I can recognise the virtue of many of their watches, just don't desire to own any. Don't know why.
Marcello C I won't buy as it sounds like a hairdresser, or a 90s Italian piano house music outfit.
Other manufacturers I can dislike specific models, but not the whole maker.
I think you kind of missed the question, there......................
U Boat.
I’ll check with the OP shall I?I think you kind of missed the question, there......................
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Haha - I can relate to that (except I never owned a sub)!
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Maybe not so much make but if they have diamonds in the watch , and coloured ones ............ OMG.
Hublot do seem to have a real love / hate relationship going as well. Mainly the latter .
https://youtu.be/jPn_SYRP3rE
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.
Panerai - Big ugly looking things
Rolex - Mostly bland designs just hyped with good marketing - tbf Rolex are genius for what they have created with hardly any development in the last 50 years
Patek - A family member has a few, if you did not know anything about watches you would think its a £100 watch (its a calatrava), the dial looks so cheap its just awful
Tag Heuer for the last 25 years.
I don’t get them. Such a wide range of things that do not look particularly good.
No idea what the brand is trying to do.
Longines. Probably decent kit, but do nothing for me.
Richard Mille. What even is this?
Chopard. Did they used to make jewellery or perfume? Nothing.
U-boat. This has to be a joke?
I am a Seiko fanboy but lots of their ranges and aesthetic language just makes me scratch my head.
Moser and that Japanese one, with the plain enamel dials - I am properly lost at the fuss all about them
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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.
The list is long but distinguished.
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.
Pat and Phil watch company
Modern Rolex: very well made, I’m sure but miles away from the rugged tool watches they are famed for. It’s all polished center links and shiny bezels on slightly over-sized watches. They’ve lost their way, regardless of any pricing and market pressures
Moser: I don’t understand the hype. They all look pretty ugly to me, though I respect their technical merit
Panerai: genuinely don’t understand why you would want an enormous piece of steampunk costume jewellery on your arm. They’re trapped in a very distinctive design aesthetic which has had its time.
Citizen: Similar to Panerai: Giant, over designed, 90s inspired dive watches and very bland, pretty expensive HAQ dress watches. They don’t get that much hype but when they do, I don’t get it.
To keep it within the OP question, I don’t hate any of them, just don’t get why people love them. I think my theme is I don’t get massive shouty watches. There’s quite a few others.
Hublot
Breitling
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
Can't argue with any of this. This has been the Rolex USP for years. Of course, all us TZ'ers know that Rolex make exceptionally good watches whether you like them or not but the 'average' Joe sees it, for the most part, as a purely aspirational brand.
My two teenage nephews will fawn all over my 16600 but will not bat an eyelid over my Speedmaster, '68 Seamaster 300, even my last-gen OP36. One of them thinks my SD looks like a Daytona ! (seemingly, THE aspirational Rolex).
Of the brands I just don't get:- Hublot (handed out like sweets to footballers), Jacob & Co., Maurice Lacroix, Graham, Franck Muller, RM to name but a few.
While some brands do not generally appeal on the basis of their marketing and advertising, for example Bremont, "even" they produce some watches that I like, for example the MB2. Brands I do generally like, for example Rolex - on the basis of their products not their release policies - produce watches which leave me cold, for example the Daytona.
So in the same way that not all Germans are humourless and not all Mexicans are not lazy or feckless, I prefer to evaluate watches on their individual attributes.
G-shock.
I appreciate that they are pretty good if you are in the army or into extreme sports but to wear a gigantic plastic watch that looks a kids toy for pleasure is beyond me.
Cheers,
Neil.
You’ll scores of little G-Shocks on deployed wrists but none of the big ones. Except perhaps the odd TA.
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I don't understand how some companies can produce so many different watch designs and yet there isn't a single one I would ever consider wearing. Not even talking about the obvious big money watches like Hublot or Richard Mille, I think the main object of my ire is Oris. I hate every single one of their designs. Not just slightly dislike, I really hate them. My dad has, but never wears, an Oris TT1 from around 2000? and I think it might be the ugliest mass produced watch I've ever seen.
Omega.
When at school I read that Omega had paid for product placement in James Bond films. I thought that they mustn't be much good if they have to pay to be worn instead of the previous brand being placed for free. Haven't been able to shake that off since.
You think Seiko weren't paying? Hang on, no, did Bond wear a Rolex again in Licence to Kill and Living Daylights?
Don't think Rolex paid to be in the books.
Well played sir.
Top one for me is Rolex; I absolutely understand the quality and the heritage, I get why people love them, but I have never seen one that I want, either vintage or modern. They just… Leave me cold, for some reason. So not an active “dislike” by any means, but I really don’t get them.
Grand Seiko - their watches just remind me of the Seiko 5, they do nothing for me…..but wouldn’t do for us all to like the same things.
89% of the Rolex brand.
Cyclops, it just looks ugly.
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Not a popular opinion but one I second! I know the old SKXs were a forum fav but having tried a couple i cannot understand the appeal. With the price some Seiko models are now, I can see better places to spend the money.
How old are you?
For a lot of us - it was (at the time) an elegant solution to making the date more readable, but I appreciate that it has diminished in relevance over decades.
Now for Rolex - it is perhaps 'traditional' rather than aesthetic, which won't appeal to all.
The famous Seiko SKX, bracelet made out of a Kit Kat wrapper, accuracy all over the place and the Citizen equivalent was half the price (before anyone starts I paid £60 for the Citizen automatic at the time the Seiko was £120. Orient Mako was £55 on a rubber strap)
I never really did "get" Panerai. I understand and appreciate the heritage, but the watches themselves do absolutely nothing for me.
Hublot, Graham, Jacob are another bunch of manufacturers which do zip for me; they fall into the "fashion watch" category for me.
Great question BTW OP. It really highlights the "one man's meat..." element of watch collecting. Which is part of the pleasure imo.
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Main one for me is Romain Jerome. I simply cannot fathom why anyone thinks it is a reasonable, sensible or an appropriate idea to purchase a watch with a bit of the Titanic in it? Really??? Shall we have a RJ General Belgrano and Lusitania to complete a special trio? Is that something you actually want to wear or spend money on?
Do I really want to spend thousands of pounds on a watch with the Spiderman logo, Hello Kitty or space invaders on the dial never mind the above? What on earth are they thinking? Even if they are an excellent watchmaker, why add this rubbish onto their watches, makes no sense to me.
I prefer talking about the watches/brands I ‘do get’. And there are plenty of them.
I’m a Rolex fanboy and even I agree! And that’s at list prices!!
Breitling - just don't get the modern stuff, especially that weird Breitling for Bentley range
Longines - never seen one I'd buy and don't get the brand
Cartier - to me, pure jewellery not watchmaking which makes sense for women's watches but I don't get the mens watches (even though my dad had one)
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A brand I always associated as old mens dress watches, but I’d have this 77 year old beauty in a heartbeat.
Seiko - with a caveat.
High street Seiko watches are numerous, varied and interesting.
What I don't get is the higher end market. No matter how someone tries to convince me that they have lovely swirlies all over the movement and everything's well finished etc, I just can't understand the love for the higher priced models when they have similar looking watches at reasonable quality, in their lower ranges .
My eyes always see "bog standard," especially with their dive watches. And that's harsh, because I have barely heard a bad word about them, but there you are.
On the other hand, I have several Seikos in the £hundreds price range, which to me are fine, and I think that's where they should be at.
McManus
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John
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Hublot for me. I don’t get the design language. Looks like an AP offshore from afar but none of the finesse up close.
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Cartier not watch making?
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33.
I know some people love it, for me it's ghastly, just imagine the skydweller without it.
But then again I like the milgauss over the rest so that says alot.
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Check out a square. The pics may not take you, but they just feel right on the wrist. Stick a metal bezel on (or buy a fancy metal one) and you're golden
I think you need to check the history books on that one!
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