What time is it? Watches and horology

Instagram has been spamming me with the Top Time. I quite like it which makes me suspicious

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Wasn't @regal saying very recently that a top time reissue would be a winner? I think it is nice, but looks thick.

Likewise am a suspicious admirer! I keep thinking what's the catch (obvs apart from the reassuringly expensive price - mind you, it's £2k less than the similar looking Premier). It's good they haven't gone overboard with the text and kept the face un-Breitlingly subdued. Suspect it's quite chunky and those lugs look a bit long but hopefully this is the first of more Top Times

I agree, think it's their best looking range by far and given that every brand seems to be looking through their back-catalogue for inspiration it was surely a matter of time (mind you their pricier chrono's fall pretty close to the TT look).

I was. Georges knows what he’s doing.

I’d like to see all the standard white / black / panda / reverse panda colour options as well as the jazzy “Zorro” design, but I’d imagine those will come. Also a bit of a shame they couldn’t find a way to bring it back with a manual fifths-of-a-second movement, but I doubt anyone wants to be making a hand-wound 2.5hz chrono calibre in 2020.

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Wildly subjective but Pelagos LHD vs Sinn 144 ? Anyone?

Like the Breitling... but you can get a lovely original TT for half that price....

41mm vs 36mm though, I imagine they wear very differently. 38-39mm and hand wound I’d have definitely been interested. I really like the original two register TT design (the tri-compax is also nice but a bit more generic, maybe?).

Tudor by a mile for me

However if it was the Bell and Ross variant.

Might be a closer race imo. 😎

Ha - it is the B&R that I’m looking at.

True true, but size aside i generally prefer new over old (I know, I know, i'm a philistine!) as I've got a real paranoia about buying a vintage and either breaking it by being too rough with it or getting a fake/franken. I think I'm too ignorant / clumsy / lazy to venture onto the used market and i deffo don't have the money to bear a mistake. Warranties ease my troubled mind :)

I agree, i think they should try and shrink the dimensions. I like the two dial design, in general i prefer tri-compax for chronos as sometimes the bottom looks a bit lonely, but the Zorro details help lessen the effect.

Depends what you're after - Sinn has more tech etc but Tudor wins for me. I think the dial's more interesting - I really like the 3Dness of the hands and markers and the cut outs from the rehaut.

Anyone know what the dial is made from on the Pelagos? Is it the same matte ceramic as the bezel insert ?

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PVC or leather?

Aargh.. timing could not be worse .. two months ago I was dead-set on a Sinn 144 B&R. Now one is being offered at an OK price (albeit in the US so I’ll have to deal with headache of shipping).
In the meantime I started looking for a pelagos because dial/bezel/LHD etc.

Also, now does not feel like the time to be dropping cash on anything that you cannot either eat or wipe your arse with.

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You could wipe your arse with it... Its depth rated right?

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