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My favourite description of it from someone on here was Its a bit reichy.
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Yeah, think I mentioned that before, a friend said to me “it looks a bit Reich-y”. It’s made me think of White Castle a few times.
I’ll write an essay of a reply one of these days about the Grand Seiko blackletter type, because I’m a nerd. It’s a thing in Japan and it is very much to do with the German influence from WW2. As is the “zaratsu” polishing (a transliteration of Salatz, I think, which was the German maker of the zinc disc polishing machines they acquired and started using on watch cases).
Basically, I reckon they were simply trying to make it look European and imply history or heritage with it. They were obsessed with beating the Swiss at the watchmaking game. Blackletter was the dominant lettering style in Germanic languages for hundreds of years.
Guess that turned into an essay.
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such nice watches and i want to love them, just cant get over the Grand Seiko font. Looks so steampunk/suburban chinese takeaway to me