1928 'digital watch'
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1928 'digital watch'
Why do so many of these "high end" makers (Richard Mille, I'm thinking of you in particular (but not exclusively)) seem to delight in making watches so bloody difficult to read?
My primary requirement with any watch is being able to tell the time at a glance. If I have to get out logarithmic tables, a a calculator or read it over my left shoulder using a mirror, I'd be tempted to dismiss it as being different, just for the hell of it. But no, these are serious horological items here - that couldn't possibly be the case, it must just be me being a curmudgeon...
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NO IT'S NOT!!!
My primary requirement with any watch is being able to tell the time at a glance. If I have to get out logarithmic tables, a a calculator or read it over my left shoulder using a mirror, I'd be tempted to dismiss it as being different, just for the hell of it. But no, these are serious horological items here - that couldn't possibly be the case, it must just be me being a curmudgeon...
I've got news for them...
NO IT'S NOT!!!
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Re: 1928 'digital watch'
The 'digital' pieces in this thread don't look hard to read to me, just look at the numbers.
The Lange in particular couldn't be any clearer.
At Salon QP we stood looking at it for a few minutes just to watch the number change. I can't remember if it was the 'regular' Striking or the crazy Minute Repeater but they are both beautiful.
The normal Zeitwerk looks slightly bland compared to its Striking sister, but then 50 grand extra is a lot of money for some gongs.
I don't think my family would be happy if I sold the house to buy one...
The Lange in particular couldn't be any clearer.
At Salon QP we stood looking at it for a few minutes just to watch the number change. I can't remember if it was the 'regular' Striking or the crazy Minute Repeater but they are both beautiful.
The normal Zeitwerk looks slightly bland compared to its Striking sister, but then 50 grand extra is a lot of money for some gongs.
I don't think my family would be happy if I sold the house to buy one...
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1928 'digital watch'
Couldn't agree more about the Lange, but they're traditional high end watchmakers, not ones where being different is almost the reason they exist...hughesyn wrote:The 'digital' pieces in this thread don't look hard to read to me, just look at the numbers.
The Lange in particular couldn't be any clearer.
Neither of these two appeal in any way, certainly in respect to readability, not to mention price, although IMO the confusion for money ratio is pretty high.
I forgot to mention, I think the Harry Winston is just plain ugly, the other is actually quite handsome, albeit in an "excuse me, what's that you're wearing on your wrist" way.
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Re: 1928 'digital watch'
I'd really like a similar digital watch, shame there's nothing in the affordable expensive price range.
Maybe someone's missing a kickstarter opportunity...
Maybe someone's missing a kickstarter opportunity...
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Re: 1928 'digital watch'
jtc wrote:
Maybe someone's missing a kickstarter opportunity...
unfortunately you just have incredibly refined (read expensive) tastes.....
the lange is absolutely striking (quite literally )
i appreciate the obscure and 'messy' ones - the ones that look a bit like props from a sci-fi film and don't look much like watches at all - for their mechanical wizardry, but the cartier is still my favourite for its beautiful simplicity (and the fact that the dial smiles at you )
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Re: 1928 'digital watch'
I wonder how the Cartier was viewed when it was released in 1928, I suspect it was also viewed as rather sci-fi and way out.missF wrote: i appreciate the obscure and 'messy' ones - the ones that look a bit like props from a sci-fi film and don't look much like watches at all - for their mechanical wizardry, but the cartier is still my favourite for its beautiful simplicity (and the fact that the dial smiles at you )
Now it just looks like a lovely classic watch with a twist, I would love one but doubt I can ever afford it.
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Re: 1928 'digital watch'
very fair point, and a good reason to find a small corner in our hearts for the sci-fi non-watchy watches of today - they push boundaries and take us beyond the comfort zone into new territories while utilising mechanical excellence to power them. it may well be that at some point in the future we'll be looking back on the 'traditional' 1-12 round dial style of watch wiith a kind of vintage fondnessziphos wrote:I wonder how the Cartier was viewed when it was released in 1928, I suspect it was also viewed as rather sci-fi and way out.
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Re: 1928 'digital watch'
You're obviously not extending your "affordable expensive price range" far enough into the "if you have to ask, you can't afford it" price range!jtc wrote:I'd really like a similar digital watch, shame there's nothing in the affordable expensive price range.
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Re: 1928 'digital watch'
If only that pesky mortgage didn't need payingThermexman wrote:You're obviously not extending your "affordable expensive price range" far enough into the "if you have to ask, you can't afford it" price range!jtc wrote:I'd really like a similar digital watch, shame there's nothing in the affordable expensive price range.
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Trouble is, when the mortgage is paid, those monthly instalments that were going to come in handy, just evaporate into thin air! Poof, where'd they go?jtc wrote:If only that pesky mortgage didn't need payingThermexman wrote:You're obviously not extending your "affordable expensive price range" far enough into the "if you have to ask, you can't afford it" price range!jtc wrote:I'd really like a similar digital watch, shame there's nothing in the affordable expensive price range.
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Re: 1928 'digital watch'
If CW could produce a mechanical digital watch like the Zeitwerk then I've got a big wad of money in my pocket I'd be willing to throw at it! I dare CW...
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Re: 1928 'digital watch'
The Cartier is really quite fantastic. Every time I see it pop up somewhere online I'm drawn to it. Until today though, I've never noticed that it is also a sterile case. No Cartier logo anywhere on the front of the watch.
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Re: 1928 'digital watch'
One of my biggest pet peeves in the world of horology. Watches costing tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars and you can't get the screwheads aligned? REALLY? 19th century gun smiths had that figured out.Thegreyman wrote: ↑Thu Aug 10, 2017 12:17 pmI agree that is a bit strange on an otherwise really interesting (and no doubt VERY expensive watch).gaf1958 wrote:
Interesting indeed, but I wonder why the two holes between the hours and minutes have different fittings (one a screw, the other, no idea what it is). There must be a reason, but I find it distracting.
I could imagine the fact that the screw isn't even level at the horizontal would bug some of our more OCD inmates
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Re: 1928 'digital watch'
+1.gaf1958 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 12:20 am Why do so many of these "high end" makers (Richard Mille, I'm thinking of you in particular (but not exclusively)) seem to delight in making watches so bloody difficult to read?
My primary requirement with any watch is being able to tell the time at a glance. If I have to get out logarithmic tables, a a calculator or read it over my left shoulder using a mirror, I'd be tempted to dismiss it as being different, just for the hell of it. But no, these are serious horological items here - that couldn't possibly be the case, it must just be me being a curmudgeon...
I've got news for them...
NO IT'S NOT!!!
I might have my grumpy moments but if I had to try and read the time on most of these I would turn into a curmudgeon really, really quickly.
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