What time is it? Watches and horology

Haven't had this off since I got it.. the BB58 has been relegated..

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Camping

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Cheers for the links and the thoughts 🙏

The practical answer might lie in using and abusing the free returns policy… (thanks, EU)

Love that green. Dammit's van in the background too.

Very much Howard’s van now.

Great watch. I am very very tempted to get one of these.

I've said it before and I'll say it again.
That is supercool.

I met one of the owners of Nodus last night at dinner and he brought these along. Honestly really impressed with them at their respective pricepoints. I know the Sector Deep (diver) is quite derivative of a few other watches, but I think its still enough of its own thing to be cool. Bezel action is genuinely superb. It has a 47mm lug to lug and a 38mm case, but the larger bezel makes it wear a bit larger in a good way.

The Unity is really cool too. Shame it has the date window with black text, but otherwise really solid. Photos don't do the dial justice at all.

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Oh, also met a watchmaker from Cartier who had worked at Vacheron for 30+ years. He just came back from Japan with this Seiko and its numbered 1 of 2500, which is quite fun. Enamel dial. Reissue of the Seiko Laurel, Seiko's first wrist watch.

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That Seiko is great.

Rolex have released a 100th Anniversary white gold Daytona with a modernised Paul Newman dial……what?!?!

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Saw one of these in person yesterday at a meeting (board meeting, so investor types) https://www.iwc.com/en/watch-collections/pilot-watches/iw503605-big-pilots-watch-perpetual-calendar.html

It's surprisingly nice in real life, I've never much liked the look of IWC but whilst large this actually looks clean and elegant.

Not sure it's wishlist worthy but it's damn nice.

What I am looking for though is inspiration of something reasonably clean that can do a world timezones thing, i.e provide an easy way to see timezones around the world.

Nomos Zurich Worldtimer? Simple but effective design and lovely in house movement https://nomos-glashuette.com/en/zurich/zurich-world-time-midnight-blue-807

JLC Master Control Geographic

AP Quantième Perpetual for me

Off to Japan tomorrow, with the yen where it is I’m going to be vaguely on the look out for something nice.

My initial thought was "nah" world timers always look fussy and shit. But that is really well executed.

It is. Love how it allows to see the different time zones at a glance. Nomos are also really well finished!

it looks like Grand Seiko is happening.

Did you see this article in Watchpro? https://www.watchpro.com/how-to-grow-grand-seiko/ It says the status of GS outside Japan was turbocharged by help from Hodinkee to form an unofficial GS fan club called GS9. Clearly you are doing the same with LFGSS. I mean, the initials already match. I for one welcome the opportunity to boost your branding by wearing a freebie while consuming Dom Perignon and ortolans in your showroom.

He has been a hater of GS since day one.

This is nice too for a travel watch https://www.glashuette-original.com/en/watches/senator/senator-cosmopolite-1-89-02-05-02-61/ https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/heading-home-with-glashutte-originals-senator-cosmopolite

Doesn't quite do the "show multiple timezones" but it does an effective home / destination swap with comprehensive selection of time zones and daylight savings, accommodating things like going to India in the Summer (where there's no DST and the difference has a half hour offset).

Kinda like that.

Saw some nice older Rolex’s yesterday sorted out a deal on the milgauss and the day date for a couple of friends

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The GS9 club is 100% official and organised and funded by GS.

The 24h counter is actually quite a neat change - better than it being purely a cosmetic LE.

The heat has encouraged me to put the P39 on its rubber strap for the first time and it’s… actually really good. And not overly long like most divers straps. In fact I reckon they’ve sized it for smaller wrists because I’m miles away from the tightest setting, the fifth or sixth pin hole, when on most things like Seikos I’m on the second or thereabouts.

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