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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.
Regal-
Excellent, just the sort of answer I was looking for.
Their prices - I guess it depends on how much that same off the shelf movement would cost in a watch from a lesser brand? I've got a Seiko that I liked the colour of. The plain steel and blue version of the same model cost about half when I bought mine. Meaning I paid a 100% premium for aesthetics only. I don't regret it, but of course, there comes a point where paying extra for having your movement in a nicer looking case just becomes silly.
For the sake of argument, would there be any reason to consider Sinn watches gimmicky in any way? I think the 756 range look like a lot of fun. But of course, there could be a very good reason why nobody else seems to be doing two instead of the usual three sub dials.
starfish&coffee
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.