Minimal vs Busy

Mainly minimal #tissot but sometimes busy #citizen 🤷‍♂️

100% minimal

I definitely most of the time prefer minimal, but (and that is a big BUT), there are exception to that rule. Here is my example of a busy dial that I like very much.

I love pilot watches so busy dials for me. Then again the dial needs to make sense.

This dial makes sense to me:

This dial does not makes sense to me:

Always minimal.

Minimal all the way.

Time only, no date preferred.

Im in a "good design" camp. Minimal can be boring, busy can be cluttered, both can be stunning. It depends on the execution. Those pictures represent the worse cases.

The only busy watch I like is the Navi apart from that all very very simple

Usually somewhere in the middle, maybe leaning towards minimal, but I do have busier watces. Too minimal and the watch can become boring to me after some time. I need some detail to keep me interested. Too busy and things just seem a little cluttered and not well thought out. I try to just enjoy watches for what they are.

Depends on the watch, I guess.

Minimally Busy

Busily Minimal

Forever confused 🤷

Both!

As proud owner of the Citizen Nighthawk above in the 1st photo, yes, I do love my busy dials. But In the other examples that you have shown, I think that the term that I am trying to find here is "structurally busy." Like the the AVI-8 in the middle. That huge horizontal metal strip crossing the face and then that "arc" above the 6 o' clock mark. (???) Not a fan of that sort of build but that's just me.

Both

Generally in the middle, trending toward minimalist. But this super busy Citizens are always tempting

Mostly minimal. I have one chrono and it was a gift, I would have not bought it for myself.

Both, as long as they're well executed.

Ultra minimal! 🙂 https://www.watchcrunch.com/leatherngold/posts/wruw-2023-11-12-7257c533-ktaipbmf-248486

Both

That Citizen is great, I love when there is something going on, on my dial.

But then again I sometimes like it clean.

I definitely enjoy minimal, though if the busy has features that I could use, or if the busy is executed nicely. Then I wouldnt mind a more busy dial. But overall Minimal for sure

Picture tells a thousand words 😊

If its got a complication, it has to serve a purpose and not take 15 min of digging in the manual to sus it out.

Minimal.. this Tissot is gorgeous.

I am generally a minimalist but I do like me a nice chronograph. If someone offered me a “Speedy” I wouldn’t turn it down 😂!

Mostly minimal in layout, but with interesting color and/or texture, for example:

Minimal unless it's iconic I.e. Speedmaster.

Minimal is my speed. Busy makes me dizzy. All I want my watch to do is tell the time.

Your photos certainly illustrated the point. The Citizen dial had me scrambling for Tylenol to relieve the headache.

Right there with ya. Complications are usually minimal, but the textures on dials are my weakness