What time is it? Watches and horology

Pick of the bunch for me was this sbga413. The titanium is incredibly light, the case felt thin, there is no bezel and a lovely domed glass, and the feather pattern on the dial is amazing.

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It is massive isn't it? Case shape and lugs make it sit so high. The bracelet is fairly chonk as well. The baby mm300 is far nicer aesthetically.

Now you see that’s interesting, isn’t the case the same size and shape as the blue dial one, apart from being titanium and having different polished/brushed treatments? Was it just the weight that made the difference? I like the winter one with the dial that looks like galvanised steel.

I don't know. Is it any narrower in the titanium or spring drive models? It could just be psychological because of the lightness of the material. Everything about that model felt feathery. The ti polish is slightly duller as well.

The measurements I’ve seen are identical. The weight makes a massive difference though, I’m sure. Plus the titanium ones are more brushed and less polished (tops of the lugs especially).

Utter wank

LOL.

'No buttons, no functions, no light, fully waterproof and no changing that 10 year battery.
It just tells time'

Except you can't change the time during daylight savings so it doesn't tell the time you want. So good.

Isn't this project wasteful?

Yes. If you consider this as a purely functional watch, it's a waste of materials, time >and energy. This watch takes a fully function watch and removes almost all its >functions, doesn't let you change its battery, and will become less accurate over time.

duly noted, in fairness. if it was $60 and not 160 I think it would be far more palatable as a novelty

Solid State Watch has a circular fluorescent orange dot placed over the date on the movement. The F-91W movement doesn’t account for leap years, so the date will be incorrect after a Leap Year. The fluorescent orange dot simultaneously masks and draws attention to this imperfection.

Great

This dial is a banger.

Lol

Guardian wrote about you people

Also @Regal the market has decided

That’s quite the “please buy my bikes!” Post from Feather.

Millennials wrote about you Gen-xers

TBF there’s not much advertising you can do being an independent framebuilders when you get Specialized advertising on every magazine spread, website, even shop windows.

Specialized

who also happen to make better bikes relatively cheaply that you can buy today

This idea that a watch is useless because we have a mobile phone now can only be true if your phone is permanently glued to your hand is being checked a million times a day. Fuck that.

Aquanaut vibes. Love the dial.

Mm, I have thoughts about that, not for here though.

I was partly selling mine to fund the Rolex, ended up not needing to so I’m not desperate to move it on, but it’s still not being ridden at the moment. Not because it’s not a great bike, just because I have no storage solution for it.

Maybe the market for custom bicycles is collapsing as everyone moves onto Swiss watches.

RolexXfeather

I know it looks a bit naff , but I wear two a lot .
Automatic on right wrist , Apple Watch ( phone) on the left , mainly for health reasons , it records HR and will even do an ECG of sorts .
But love wearing a watch , but the aesthetic of the apple is not my bag .

It does have a crown on...

Meanwhile I have 3 sons that all love to wear a watch , especially when going ‘out’, so it’s not like there’s a generation that doesn’t feel the need , but when you read how many Apple watches are sold you do wonder where the automatic watch will be in 20-30 years .
My guess , still very much in use

Guardian wrote about you people

“A watch was merely a watch,” until mobile phones arrived, says Bill Prince, editor of GQ Watch And Jewellery, “whereupon it was assigned many more attributes, not least the ability to define the wearer’s taste and social standing.”

What a load of shit.

What about gold retirement watches being given as gifts? What about stainless dive watches? What about the Swatch revolution based on the Bic model of cheap disposability?

Watches have always had an element of status.

The idea that Castro rocking a gold president back in the day didn't convey his taste or social standing, or say the Mad Men costume dept having Don Draper wearing an stainless Explorer later on as fashions moved in a more casual "adventure" direction is fucking laughable. Especially from someone at GQ.

/rant

Off topic but I feel like Ricky's post is fair enough. I certainly skipped contacting some frame builders because I assumed they had a very long waiting list - clearly that isn't always true.

And yeah, that Guardian article is lame-o. Watches are no more redundant than jewellery. At least watches still serve a purpose...