1WC Day 11: The Fire Rises and the SARF011 to Victory

I write this to you having slept not at all for the past three days.  My newest child, treasure though she is, appears to be trying to murder me via sleep deprivation.  I imagine we will get over it at some point, but I'm beginning to take it a bit personally.

So if I sound a little nuts, you should know this is probably sleep deprivation instead of late onset nihilism.  Probably.

But my competitive drive remains in deterred and indeed, I am more confident than ever that I will win.  

This is not because of my watch.  At least not directly.  My Seiko SARF011, wonderful though it is, would not win on its own.  It's titanium build is very light but it is the very definition of a vacation watch.  Too tall, too specialized, too whimsical. 

It's a travelers GMT with a dial evocative of a peaceful stream. Can anything be further from my life right now?

But you see , choosing a black dialed GADA watch would have been too easy.

My Seiko will win because I deem it too absurd at this point in my life to quit.  You merely adopted the #1wc .  I was born in it.  Molded by it.  I didn't think you could own more than one watch until I was already a man.

https://youtu.be/bpmNgPzklmQ

If the #1wc betrays you, it is because it already belongs to me.  There is no true despair without hope.  The fire rises.

Now obviously I think Bane would have loved a Seiko SARF011 (he could use some color in his wardrobe) but he's a DC guy not Disney. I'm a rules follower by nature so far be it for me to try and shoehorn a non Disney villain into this challenge.

I have long considered who might be an appropriate villain to wear a sky blue titanium JDM Seiko.

Being sleep deprived, I went to everyone's favorite large language model chat prompts to see if they could give me some ideas.  

"The Seiko Sarf011 is a diver's watch with a black dial and bezel, and a stainless steel case and bracelet. It is a stylish and versatile watch that would be perfect for a Disney villain."

So much for the intelligence behind artificial intelligence.  

Anyway it went on to describe Cruella DeVille and Ursula as the perfect villains for my sky blue dialed, titanium bezel, case and bracelets GMT travelers watch.

I mean seriously guys, these are some phone it in choices.  First, can any one of us imagine that Cruella would be anything but a massive Made-in-Switzerland snob? 

And second, while I'm not particularly conservative about depth ratings but Ursula lives well below 200m.  My watch has 100m of WR and a push pull crown.  The octopus lady might be the only entity in the world that could justify daily wearing a Rolex Deepsea.

As usual, regular intelligence will have to suffice.

Fortunately your faithful correspondent is on the case and asked a simple question.  What Disney villain is enough of a Japanophile to want to wear a titanium JDM Seiko that you have to dig through seedy Japanese proxy bidding sites to get?

The obvious answer is Syndrome, a snubbed Jimmy Olsen wannabe to Mr Incredible's superman.  Heck, his entire villain move is a giant robot that springs from a ball and wrecks a city.  It's like bad Pokemon/Gundam crossover fanfic.

There are other things too.  Syndrome owns a private jet and a remote island, clearly a world traveler. 

His robots apparently have some super hardened armor (that can only really pierce itself) and titanium is definitely the material of a metals hipster.

But mostly, only a watch-o-holic weeb would seek out this watch.  And Syndrome fits the bill.

Don't you judge me.

P.S. - For the ignorant among you who might doubt whether or not Syndrome is a Disney Villain, I refer you to the officially branded "Disney Villains: An Essential Guide to the Evilest of them All" published by DK books.

Syndrome has his own two page spread (page 72-73)

11:16 of the following Video 

https://youtu.be/nDVg4dUYoZs

For a company as IP conscious as Disney, this is can only be taken as an official blessing more binding than a Supreme Court ruling.

I rest my case.