mvlow wrote: ↑Thu Aug 25, 2022 5:24 pm
It looks like CW really screwed up on their timing of this release. How can they expect to compete against the Swatch x Dragon Ball Z release. I think it's going to be bigger than the Moonswatch
Oh now come on!
We've all learned that Swatch collaborations exist largely on t'internet solely for the amusement and fantasy of tiktokkians and are quite the anithesis of the
CW mail order marketing model which despite the, ahem, occasional "demand is greater than anticipated" slight delays in shipping are actually available to the ordinary Joe.
This particular ordinary Joe, having enjoyed the zoom pre-launch forum exclusive without wondering how I missed out on the CWE pre-launch zoom announcement, finds himself a bit conflicted by the Trident Pro 300, not because I associate "Trident 300" with earlier, battery powered variants (which I do) and which we might now call e-watches just as we now have e-this and e-that, all powered by precious metals mined and refined at prodigious expense and with about as much hope of solving the global energy crisis thing as I have in getting in my car tomorrow, finding a hitherto hidden switch and accelerating to warp drive, circling the planet and disappearing up my own single-screw adjustable bracelet.
No, CW is right to commit to a long-term strategy of promoting (person) P-powered watches which don't rely on the internet for software/firmware/adware updates which then slow performance to the point where the time shown by your watch is updated twice daily when the satellite floats overhead, or at least it would had not some tetchy global power player hijacked it to prevent freedom of information.
Trident Pro 300 as the Trident which is "lighter, slimmer, more accessible": does that excite me? Not hugely as I'm already very happy with the older, fatter, heavier. (
To thine own self be true?) After all, that's what I've been loving all this time.
But wait..... smaller, lighter, slimmer: is this CW's commitment to the future of the planet?
Voluntary reduction in resource consumption? Should I get with the programme? Whenever did the family automobile take even the teensiest step towards lighter, slimmer, more accessible? Not in my neighbourhood.
You know I'd take a deeply engraved steel case back over a bamboo and cardboard box any day. The former gives me daily aesthetic pleasure from, the latter just takes up space. Not only would I take the neater steel case back over the taller crystal exhibition back, it's quicker to type and takes up less page space too.
But seriously folks....
Trident Pro as a brilliant white gloss
but untextured dial? : How will this sit against either the C63 Anthropocene, one of my all-time favourite CW watches or against the C60 Trident SH21 with all that power reserve, thickness, orbit-shifting weight
and a textured dial....
And then there's the C63 Sealander (non-GMT) Automatic: bright white lacquered dial, unmarked bezel.
I guess this is where I've got to find separation, a line in the sand to tempt me in one direction or t'other. Trident Pro 300 or C63 Sealander?
Or just wait for more colours to be rolled out? Honestly, right now I'm not clear and I like that very much: I need to put some effort in. More than it's taken for me to input all these words.
