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Interesting stuff.
I think if I'd see what you see, I wouldn't buy that watch. It's good to know that I am not the only one being picky/having odd preferences :-)
PawG-
Being a typographer is a curse, to be honest. So much you can't un-see.
I think that Big Eye is a really nice watch, I like the case back as well. And the arabics really aren't bad, I'm massively nit-picking for the sake of the font nazi lols.
The new heritage chrono, though, that I couldn't live with - about half the fonts are really well done and then they've totally messed up the tachy scale by 1) using monospaced numerals so all the 1s have too much space around and 2) tracking the numbers too tight to compensate meaning some of them are colliding - you'd never, ever see either of those things on a vintage watch. Plus the "BASE 1000" text is in a font from the 1970s and digitally distorted (stretched) - just completely wrong.
Regal
I'm talking about the gap between the 1 & 0, the 1 & 1 and the 1 & 2 in the 10/11/12 numeral pairs.
It's normal that you'd have a bigger gap in the 11 but in general with numerals like these you'd expect to see a more consistent spacing within the 10 and 12. On the Big Eye, for me, both the 10 and 12 are a bit tight and in the 10 in particular the 1 & 0 are a lot tighter than I'd expect. (I say a lot tighter, we're talking minuscule differences here.)
Couple of examples of vintage Longines that have spacing more in line with what I'd expect for the style: