You know, I was searching for advice on legibility of blank watch faces and trying to remember that famous brand (MOVADO! Ha: finally came to me).

Anyway, I've known this for years, and keep rediscovering it. I saw it right away when I came here to look at your pics after google brought up your post when I searched about difficult-to-read watches.

and the thing is, I can clearly tell what time it is on all of the watches you pictured, even the one with a little teeny tiny picture clearly shows if I remember correctly about 445. It definitely takes a second, I'm not saying that they're anywhere near as legible as a Citizen or Seiko tool diver.

But ya can figure it out. And I think that's part of the style: he may need to know the time frequently or quickly, but he's a hawkeyed observer and a quick read of situations.

Or the opposite message, which I think it might also say for many people: I live too luxurious and elegant a life to ever bother really needing to know the time with any kind of precision or urgency.