What is your PERFECT watch?

Patek Philippe MR in ocean blue

This will never happen, but I love the Hajime Asaoka Tsunamis that I've seen online . . .

Sending an email to Sensei is like a writer sending an unsolicited script to Steven Spielberg with a winky face emoji haha.

I'd have little reservation about liquidating most of my collection for this.

Huh, I was going to go with “no such thing”.

Did anyone else see whatever I did that said part of what we love about watches is their imperfections? I don’t recall if it was an article, WC post, or YouTube vid, but somebody made that point and I agree. It sounds counterintuitive, but I don’t think I’d enjoy a “perfect” watch.

Latest build with the parts i like best, GS dial, BB58 hand set, Seiko NH34 GMT movement with a 38mm case, Sapphire, fixed 24 hr bezel. Cost me around $120.00 CDN to build.

I've said it 1000 times. This is perfect. Everything I want. (And will never get)

I already own my perfect watch. It's the Seiko SGEH49P2 "Neo-Classic" Quartz. Dead accurate, sapphire, 100M, beautiful dial, all for less than $100. It's so perfect it has imperfections, like its lumpy crown guards and weird looking second hand. At first they bothered me, but over time, these "imperfections" have become lovable quirks.

I’ve said for years that watches are perfectly imperfect. That’s what makes that machine on your wrist so amazing!

I have a few

Low end:

-Tissot Gentleman with a fluted bezel and or a jubilee bracelet. 6 o’clock date

-Hamilton Khaki Field Mechanical 150m water resistance, screw down crown

High end:

- 38mm Rolex Datejust with same looks of the 36 with stick indicies. No magnifier.

- Tudor Black Bay 58 with a 6 o’clock date

Perfection.

I have list by Pinterest actually I have two lists with 409 pins …

Some pins are from the same watch but different color/ strap etc.

Let’s say that list has 300-350 pins. I couldn’t say one is the perfect watch for me.

A lot getting my attention again and again… but the style and the Funktion are often very different.

My “perfect” watch needs to be versatile, water resistant, thin, durable, sapphire, open caseback with beautiful movement, exciting dial with applied indices with lume and is not too busy, 38-40 mm cas, 46-49 lug to lug, comes with a easy to swap metal bracelet witch is adjustable.

To be honest I think I need a collection 😅🙈

My perfect watch is the lovechild of the white Aqua Terra GMT and blue AT DayDate. That child would have the blue/grey Seamaster color pattern, a 12/6 day/date, travelers GMT with the independent hour hand adjustment and Metas specs. Oh and 42mm diameter with 48 lug to lug, 21mm strap and 10mm thick.

Is that really too much to ask?!?

Probably a Sherpa Graph style watch but smaller to fit a 6.25 inch wrist (basically impossible!)

Probably this:

A 36mm silver tuxedo with the old "hidden clasp". If I had one wish, then I would pick their current DJ movement, but other than that...

This beauty ❤️❤️❤️

You could also mod to your taste. Just saying

I agree 10,000% 😍😍😍😍

Top: Enicar ATP from the 1940s. I think the ATP watches, as a whole, are quite perfect, and were suitable enough to go to war in. 28-33mm, legible white dial, sub-seconds so it’s old-school charm, radium lume hands and dial (not great now, but great back then), and a selection of solid movements running them. The Enicar uses an AS 984, this one winds buttery-smooth and keeps incredible time. Fixed lugs so it’s ok to use on a NATO, a Perlon, or clip on leather, it’s incredibly versatile. This, on paper, to me is a perfect watch.

Middle: 1930s Vertex Allproof - similar to the ATP, and dating from the decade prior, this Francois Borgel Taubert & Fils-cased all-rounder houses a cracking Revue movement and is designed for all terrain. “Allproof” - it works with everything. It’s small, at 28mm (30mm with the crown) so it’s clearly a difficult wear for a lot of you, but as I say real men wear sub-30mm on 7’1/2” wrists.

Bottom: a concept, and well-executed, “vintage Luna Rossa”. I’m actually well beyond day 30…

My favorite watch would be one not based on a particular brand, but attributes. Not every brand will fit the bill, but now your Frankenwatch theory has given me pause.

I don't think this watch exists but here's what I'd want in a perfect watch

Tricompax chronograph with recessed subdials: one for the running seconds, one for a 60 minute totalizer, and one for an independently adjustable GMT hour.

• Royal blue dial and dauphine hands

• Date display

• 100m Water resistance

• Doesn't have to be automatic. A new mechaquartz movement that can do this would be amazing.

Pelagos 39. But the LHD version with roulette date, cream lume, matt bezel and the whole shabang. And with extra bracelet in the form of a heavy duty titanium milanese or shark mesh. ETA-movment. Tudor rose instead of the sheild and two lines of text: Pelagos - Chronometer.

THIS! But with a royal and navy blue dial, and with the hours marked with VC Historiques 1921 font

Damn, I saw a Monopusher Rattrapante Chronograph Shutter Dial in Walmart just the other day, but it was the 42mm version.

Schwarzenegger liked this watch so much he named himself after it.

Heuer Autavia Valjoux 22. My father gave me his 1969 model for my 18th birthday (almost 37-years-ago) and it was stolen soon after. There is no watch that I don’t already have that I want more than another clean example of this one.

PP perpetual calendar in blue just about hits every spot, nerve and goosebump of mine👍🏻

orient mako III (RA-AA0818L19B)