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Jonte
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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?