What time is it? Watches and horology

Wearing the old MTG today.
The first watch I bought were I said "this is the last watch I'll ever buy"

(Spoiler alert, it wasn't)

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As much as I like these. I think I'm waiting for a new G-Shock with solar digital face. Ive got mechanical watches for hands spinning.

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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.

Sinn 240 is on my long list of watches.
Might get promoted to the short list, now you have reminded me of them.

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.

Right, but Mark already has a big wealthy customer base made up of finance bros in NYC and Hong Kong. These will sell out immediately. Just like the Moser collab they did. He knows his audience.

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.

crap photo - but got new cns strap which is a bit too long. best way to carefully trim excess? @edscoble you have the same :-)

Fold it

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Ugly watch on a comfy strap

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oh shit you must be a spy

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.

Terrific dial and bracelet. Are you returning it via the c24 procedure?

I'm a fan of the 105 UTC by the way. Good size and not overly thick.

https://www.sinn.de/en/Modell/105_St_Sa_UTC.htm

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.

Has it always had the bubble? My B&R Hydromax used to have one, from time to time. I liked it, but B&R have had complaints. I think they've tried to get rid of bubbles by injecting the oil under pressure.

That’s badass

I love my 556 - super legible, comfy size, decent build quality. Totally rate Sinn as a company too.

Wearing the turtle today as I pull a Jeremy Corben sat outside a toilet on a long haul train.

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there could be a very good reason why nobody else seems to be doing two instead of the usual three sub dials.

There is no running seconds hand unless you leave the chronograph engaged.

Not worn this for a while. Half pondering selling it but I do like it when I wear it. Maybe I'll just get a new strap instead.

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The black one is now on my list. A Sinn in 41mm

Blue Apple Watch , someone will tell me it’s a faded blue Im sure … but it’s a clever bit of kit .Smadhed my series 4 on a tile floor .. trade in value 0

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Yes these are great. Also a fan of the U50 sub

@starfish&coffee not much to add to the above. I had an EZM3 (now with @Bainbridge) and was super impressed with it - anti magnetic, 200m water proof, dehumidifying tech, temp and low pressure resistant (and 41mm for @ChainBreaker). Don’t think price has gone up too much and value wise, don’t know of many automatic brands that offer a similar tool tech punch for that money. Was obvious that thought had gone into the design as well - little touches like how the ends of the handset were the same thickness as the minute markers. Don’t think you can go wrong with them.

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