What time is it? Watches and horology

Same old, same old. But for next week, something new this way comes...

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New beater. Going full millennial and bucking gender stereotyping.

Also, wears better than the ‘male’ version at less than half the price. Colour is bad in the photo. More of a darker dirtier grey than this IRL.

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The new Alkin is looking pretty sweet.

Sandwich dial for hour markers.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BzQLuSdnVLG/?igshid=5hwbrx0khax1

So massive, but so good. I am really not feeling big watches on my skinny wrist but really do love that. Wish it were smaller.

As soon as I can stop spending money on cars (lol) I want to get an autodromo. I really like them.

I think we'd all probably challenge the key point of your post - i.e. that overdesign is the norm. Because if you ever look at the classic Rolex sumariner or Omega Speedmasters or what have you, they're never overdesigned. They're masterpieces of functional design.

So I wonder if one of the reasons you have that perceiption is because of the shops. If I ever go to an Omega shop they'll never have the nice minimal sandwich dial SM300 but they'll have loads of the wavey background skeleton hand SM300. I think that's primarily because if you just want an Omega you can buy one of their less popular models more cheaply, but if you want the one that you want, you're prepared to wait, and your'e prepared to pay full price for it. When you go to many watch shops, the ones you're looking at are the ones left over.

That's the only explanation I can think of for your perception. Sure there are gauche overdesigned watches designed solely to be bought as 40th birthday presents by dutiful wives (or, as someone memorably put it on here, by a 30 year old insurance salesman with his first bonus) but speaking personally, clean elegant design is at least half of why I loev watches. Busyness is the opposite of what I look for.

Was looking at those again the other day. So good on the Perlon. Kind of wish it had an ETA in it though.

Looked at my watch and it was ten to two so I’m obliged to post a picture I guess. Same old for me as well this week.

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Thanks, very helpful post, cheers! You can see I'm a noob obviously, but it is also interesting as an outsider looking in - from my perspective it's like going into a bike shop for the first time and only seeing Pinarellos built up by dudes doing the Etape.

So if I may make a crass analogy, is having a Submariner the equivalent of having SRAM Force eTap on the commuter? Ie a way to enjoy ultimate design and functionality completely removed from its intended context? Or these watches still genuinely used for navigation on boats and planes?

“You dick, I thought you were taking a family photo”

Baggy bracelet on the hummer.

@pdlouche I like that, very clean

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In homage to the recent homage debate...

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This arrived an hour ago, so Friday watch part 2. Haven’t cleaned it up or polished the crystal or anything.

It’s got an actual Brevet 313813 Compressor casing, not double, but the original type, and with the crosshatched crown. 17 jewel AS ST 1803 movement, and 20 micron electroplated hold case.

Kinda like the lugs on it.

Edit: polished it a little and popped a dark navy leather strap to see how it suits. Navy, what with it being a navy star...

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Working at home/in the garden

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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.

We discussed this in the Rapha thread

This on today

Who can guess what I’m reading about? Mystery watch for the winner 👀

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Watches

tudor BB

Yes this is the stuff. I like the Oyster Prince Day date too. Great balance on this.

Yeah nice, looks rugid too.

Auction catalogue?

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Nope

No

In-flight magazine?

Thought it was topical

In this months Revolution magazine

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