Which cliché phrase do you dislike most?
Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo is an italian film, why did it become an opener for watch reviews? And there are more clichés in the watch scene. What other ones do you know?
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Cheap Hangover
Casual cheapskate with a taste for both the classic and the colourful.
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I’m going to get booted off Crunch by saying “GADA” is cringe.🤣
“Buttery smooth”
“Workhorse movement”
“Hugs the wrist”
“Wear it in good health”
“Strap monster”
“Inky black”
“Glows like a torch”
I’m going to get booted off Crunch by saying “GADA” is cringe.🤣
But apparently it’s OK if you apply the term to your newly acquired watch, that you love SO much and could be your One True Watch - you know the one that, in six month’s time, will be sat in a box, never to be worn again (also know as GNDN - Goes Nowhere Does Nothing)
I’m going to get booted off Crunch by saying “GADA” is cringe.🤣
Yes, that is a strong entry. Why use "versatile" when you can use four words, right?
Shoddy terminology is another thing staining this hobby. "True GMT" (as if Rolex GMT Master was not a true GMT watch), "homage" used for copied designs and so on.
“Buttery smooth”
“Workhorse movement”
“Hugs the wrist”
“Wear it in good health”
“Strap monster”
“Inky black”
“Glows like a torch”
Too many working horses around here! 👏
However, what do you propose instead of "strap monster"? "Watch that looks good with every strap" is kinda long.
Too many working horses around here! 👏
However, what do you propose instead of "strap monster"? "Watch that looks good with every strap" is kinda long.
It’s a cliché - It doesn’t mean it’s incorrect or ineffective, just that it’s over-used.
It’s not that everyone should avoid clichés, but should stop relying on them. Sometimes writing “This watch looks SO good on so many straps” can be much more evocative than a bland, tired “This watch is a strap monster”. Or maybe try something more creative? “This watch is like Heidi Klum - everything looks good on it”
It’s a cliché - It doesn’t mean it’s incorrect or ineffective, just that it’s over-used.
It’s not that everyone should avoid clichés, but should stop relying on them. Sometimes writing “This watch looks SO good on so many straps” can be much more evocative than a bland, tired “This watch is a strap monster”. Or maybe try something more creative? “This watch is like Heidi Klum - everything looks good on it”
I understand now.
So...generally speaking, a basic, default term should be mundane, boring, safe, reliable. Not as exciting as strap MONSTER.
“The watch is so much better in the flesh.”
“The watch wears smaller than the diameter suggest”.
“Punches above its weight”
“In the metal”
And the absolute worst: “God Tier”
“Stunning”
Every time anybody picks up a watch they are literally stunned. Every time.
It‘s a strap Monster. 🥱🙄
Got the call
I remembered one more: "POP OF COLOUR"
(Alternatively "splash of colour")
It's compulsory for every YouTube watch reviewer to use the term -
"Without further ado"
before the camera cuts to a close-up.
For me, “Got the Call”.
“Hellllooooooo”
This thread quickly turned into a YouTubers punching arena !
Gals if you read us !
"Gets a lot of wristime lately" 🤢
Needless use of French. “maison ”, “ Côtes de Genève” (Geneva stripes), “ haute horologie”
“““Destro”””
“True GMT”
“Homage”
And the people who for some reason call manual-winds “mechanical” but not automatics. Needlessly confusing practice. And by the same token, referring to mechanical watches as “automatic” by default.
I HATE when people call a manually-wound watch just "mechanical" and an automatic watch "automatic" as if it has somehow stopped being mechanical. My other pet peeve is the idea that digital = quartz.
I would like those people to show me the battery and quartz oscillator of this hand-wound mechanical Baumgartner 582.
"Value proposition"
I'm not saying a person shouldn't be budget conscious or stay comfortably within their means. Not at all. That's very important to me, for instance. But what an overused term... And I'm guilty of that too, I'll admit.
I agree. For your hobby, asking any question that involves money is oftentimes the wrong question. If you want to spoil yourself, you don't need the affirmation of some strangers on the internet. Just do it!
I HATE when people call a manually-wound watch just "mechanical" and an automatic watch "automatic" as if it has somehow stopped being mechanical. My other pet peeve is the idea that digital = quartz.
I would like those people to show me the battery and quartz oscillator of this hand-wound mechanical Baumgartner 582.
I HATE when people call a manually-wound watch just "mechanical" and an automatic watch "automatic" as if it has somehow stopped being mechanical. My other pet peeve is the idea that digital = quartz.
I would like those people to show me the battery and quartz oscillator of this hand-wound mechanical Baumgartner 582.
I'm fully with you here! But that's Hamilton's fault, it's their nomenclature.
Technically, a date wheel is a digital date display - it displays digits.
“Hellllooooooo”
"You have to start with 'hello'!"
~ James May.
Punches above its price point
Yes, that is a strong entry. Why use "versatile" when you can use four words, right?
Shoddy terminology is another thing staining this hobby. "True GMT" (as if Rolex GMT Master was not a true GMT watch), "homage" used for copied designs and so on.
Personally I differentiate between the two tho. If I call a watch versatile I mean I can wear it with many outfits. If I call a watch gada I mean I can wear it in different scanrios
Watch "journey"
Let's be real this isn't some journey of self discovery, it's consumerism on a watch of all things
I HATE when people call a manually-wound watch just "mechanical" and an automatic watch "automatic" as if it has somehow stopped being mechanical. My other pet peeve is the idea that digital = quartz.
I would like those people to show me the battery and quartz oscillator of this hand-wound mechanical Baumgartner 582.
I don’t mind it if they call autos “automatics”, but I think there is definitely an overuse the term to the point where newbies thing “automatic = mechanical watch”. Like “got my first automatic” is a specific thing to say but can be vague because it can mean one or the other.
I even once saw an article show an old diagram of what looked like an old manual-wind Eta mov’t, but labeled it something along the lines of “Diagram of an automatic movement” 🤦♂️
Watch "journey"
Let's be real this isn't some journey of self discovery, it's consumerism on a watch of all things
Agreed. I think there can be something to the phrase tho if it has some meaning behind it. Like if there’s an interest in self-education about it. It’s something I see the most of the Soviet watch community. “Journey” vs “watch collecting journey”.
Personally I differentiate between the two tho. If I call a watch versatile I mean I can wear it with many outfits. If I call a watch gada I mean I can wear it in different scanrios
Ah, for me the latter is a "tough" watch (or a beater, because it can get some beating).
Ah, for me the latter is a "tough" watch (or a beater, because it can get some beating).
For me gada has to be decently tough enough to take a beating, even if it isn't as built as a dedicated beater (eg my casio is a gada, whilst my gshock is a beater) both of those are different than my daily watch, which is an auto
For some these words might be one and the same, it just depends the individual