robinbarke wrote:
Richard, I admire both yours and Mortis's blind loyalty to this brand but the case you have both made in support of the abitrary placing of the date wheel on the C60 is fully understood by me. You are both coming very close to insulting my intelligence. No brand which aspires to 'bringing luxury watches to within the reach of all' should be adopting such cheap compromises when clearly, the evidence on this thread alone shows that it is not necessary. If Archimede, Stowa, Rado and many others who offer inexpensive watches can avoid this issue then why, with a little more ingenuity could not CW?
Robin, sorry to say you are also coming close to insulting my intelligence. My loyalty to the brand is not blind; it is pragmatic. We have to be realistic in what we can expect from CW at the price the sell for. Archimede, Stowa are both significantly more expensive than CW and you are not comparing apples with apples. I have no clue about Rado.
In my opinion, the compromise on the date position on the Trident is an extremely trivial issue. I cannot put it any more plainly. That is not blind loyalty or anything else. It is my opinion.
In the same way, it is your opinion that the date should be positioned differently. It is your opinion..nothing more than that.
Neither of us are right or wrong, but you keep asking the same question, expecting to receive a different answer.
The debate is becoming circular and boring - just like the date position on most watches.