tikkathree wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2024 3:01 pm …but neither you nor I any longer have any business at the water cooler/coffee machine/copier.

I'm very happy for those still in employment to wear a suitably celebratory watch.

Yeah, it’s pretty irrelevant for me now.

I think it’s a fun idea for a watch, but even if I was still working (and in a corporate environment), I’d never buy it. Maybe if I came across it at half price on the secondary market, I’d consider it.

I take it collaborations like this are more exercises in marketing and raising brand awareness than in trying to move watches?

It's fantastic...as an idea.
But...I would never want to own one.

Too gimmicky to wear every day...or ever.

Have I just woken up from hibernation on april 1st

Yuck

I've no idea what they're smoking down at CW towers but they need to change the baccy. What on earth are they thinking?

This is neither fun nor wacky or even cartoonish; it's just cringe.

Is this what CW has been reduced too? Tacky gimmicks to be worn as a novelty? Or a cynical cash grab using the left over bits from the parts bin?

I quite like it! Quite a cool/funny design. Presumably the actual design was mainly by the collaboration, rather than CW?

Probably won’t be getting it any time soon, but maybe if one comes up in the future I’d be tempted

does the bezel turn? if so WTF!

Certainly quirky and clearly a marmite watch. I'm not sure what my colleagues in the office would think, I would imagine I'd be sent off for an immediate D & A test (which we do in the construction industry!)

It's not terrible in my opinion, but the price is prohibitive for such an out there design. Seems to be right on track for seconde's style.

I admit it's not my cup of tea.

But I don't think it's primarily aimed at us watch enthusiasts. I think it's more aimed at fans of seconde/seconde. I've no idea if it will be popular with them, but I wouldn't be surprised to see it sell quite well.

To me, it seems designed by someone who has a clichéd view of what office life is like, but who hasn't actually worked in one, or at least not for a long time.

Confession time that I’m a bit of a fan of a gimmicky watch and this has it in spades. So do I like it? I think so?

Would I buy it? Is it personally what I’m looking for in a CW? No. Plenty of other brands out there doing wacky watches which are the essence of their brands.

But I’ll see it for what I think it is, a bit of harmless fun (assuming this isn’t a longer-term direction), and onto the next!

this an April fool?!!!


seriously?

I think it’s ok and will serve the intended purpose, of further raising the profile of CW.

I get that some CW customers may think it is rather silly, but I doubt there are any# who will boycott CW because of the collaboration.

Looking at it had me thinking about the distant past of office life, albeit only momentarily.

[# ok maybe a few, there are some strange folk about ]

Neil