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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.
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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 :-)