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Sinn 240 is on my long list of watches.
Might get promoted to the short list, now you have reminded me of them.
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by chance I am wearing a 356 now. Got it from chronomaster quite a long while ago. It has the plastic, not the crystal, and what some people think is the "proper" German day/date wheels. A bit more going on than you want but good proper tool watches. Expensive to service. Price gone up a fair bit, but hold their value well if that is a consideration.
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Sinn are good watches. They are definitely interesting from a watch enthusiast perspective, being identifiably German and very "tool"-focused. They started making pilot's watches and navigation clocks, and have gone on to design and produce quite a few watches for special forces, police, firefighters and so on.
Nowadays they use off-the-shelf but good quality Swiss movements and then apply their own design and some unusual tech - eg a dehumidifying system that prevents fogging, and their hardened "tegimented" steel cases. Hard to think of another brand with better all-round tool watch credentials or a more function-first design approach.
Has been some criticism in some quarters of their prices rising, but pretty much all watches have gotten more expensive over the last five years.
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The first Bell and Ross watches were mostly joint projects with Sinn. Some of the parts look identical to Sinn parts. The Bell and Ross Hydromax used a Sinn patent for oil-filled watches. I don't know exactly what the patent was for, but it enabled the Hydromax to have a bottom-of-the-Mariana-trench depth rating without having a big case. For an extreme depth diving watch, it's tiny.
IIRC Sinn used to have no dealers or marketing. Just direct sales and word of mouth.
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Talk to me about Sinn watches.
I’ve had some good news and I thought it could be nice to mark the occasion by getting a watch. And for some reason I have kind of fallen for Sinn watches. In particular I like the rather plain ones like 556, 856 and 756.
What I am missing is the ability to see them from a watch connoisseur’s perspective. Not sure what I would want to know, but I guess it is important to me that if I were to spend that kind of money I would be getting a nicely rounded engineering project. Something where all features are properly thought out and their priorities are evenly weighted.