What time is it? Watches and horology

I'm starting to think that a cyclops is a 100% necessity for Arabic dates. Either that or laser eye surgery.

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Hehehe

Not bad if you are after one of these. Four left and you can get another £50 off by trading in any other watch. One for the big wrists though:

https://www.johnlewis.com/seiko-spb077j1-men's-prospex-automatic-date-bracelet-strap-watch-silver-black/p3657170

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They wear a lot smaller than the dimms would illustrate.

Yeah they’re a chunk of steel but not outrageous. If you go by the dimensions it sounds bigger than the SPB051 et al (the 62MAS inspired ones) but they wear smaller as the case flares out past the bezel (the bezel is slightly recessed into the case) and the underside of the case is heavily scalloped.

Also they’re not what you would call thin but they’re popular with the Seiko fanboys because they’re at least 2mm thinner than any of the regular Marinemaster 300 models that are a similar case shape. Plus the bracelet (excuse the greasy fingerprints) is nicer than the ones on those despite the watch costing less than half the price.

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Like in English, you wouldn't read these letter for letter but rather recognize the word as a whole.

Very cool watch and the Arabic date makes its even nicer in my opinion.

Seiko day-dates generally have two languages that you can switch between. On a lot of international market Seikos the second language is Arabic (my turtle is English and Arabic).

Friday is easy because its in red :)

What kind of luxury life do you lead when you don't know what day of the week it is?

I don't know but would be happy to find out, you know, for science.

It’s Friday. Post your pics. I’ll not bother - my Apple Watch fails to excite.

Watch Friday in Cologne. Pawn shops quite interesting and lots of omega/tag watches in there. Popped into and had a nice chat with the Swatch group's AD.
BB58 €3480 in another AD, which is a lot more than the UK even with the rubbish exchange rate (I think).

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Wearing this daily for everything, commuting 20miles on the bike with it as well 👍🏻

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I'm always coming back to my Citizen. Not very exciting but look at its liddle face...

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No keyboard. Just a fat fountain pen today.

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Not much of a watch enthusiast admittedly, although I feel I can appreciate nice design. As a genuine question, can I ask about the styling of higher-end watches? They all seem to communicate to me "I would like to be landed gentry with a taste for the sea, but I live in Woking." Why all the shiny metal plated bands, roman numerals, and gothic fonts? Why the zillion dashes circumnavigating the face? Breitling would work as a benchmark here.

More succinctly, can someone provide me a link to a wide-view aesthetic justification for why these watches look like they do?

there are as many styles in high end watches as in low end watches. price reflects finishing, quality of materials, movement, brand history, marketing...

here, these are five figure watches without a zillion dashes

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It's a Junghans day today.

not mine btw!

Reading

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(my alkin accompanied me on holiday, as it does most places)

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What's a movement? Is it like a groupset for a watch? Can a variety of fancy watches have the same movement?

Timex all this week

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Thanks, those are certainly a bit outside what I mentioned. However, saying there is a huge variety isn't really the same as saying "here is why the over-arching aesthetic is this". Is it an aesthetic hangover from the 'dead reckoning by slide rule' days?

Also surely we can agree that the pricing of larger brand luxury and premium goods is absolutely divorced from the reality of the cost of the goods and their construction.

Autodromo today

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