Creating The Most Durable Mechanical Movement
Picture for attention! You've been hired by the Wristwatch Company ©®™, and you're tasked with developing the most durable and toughest automatic or handwind movement.
How do you go about it and what features or specifications would you include?
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Matthew
I'm a flight instructor with a healthy obsession with watches of all shapes and prices.
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I’d go on Fiverr and outsource the design for $40 then spend the next 2 weeks aimlessly scrolling the web before turning in my completed conceptual design…
Joking of course.
The Tissot rock watch…. True 80s icon :)
Buy a Gshock and leave the fanciful notions of ultratough mechanical movement timepieces behind you :)
The more you spend on it, the less roughly you’d want to be with it….
I would buy a bunch ok SW200 movements and dress up the rotor with some carving. Then stuff them into Chinese cases calling it in-house. Hype it on instagram and pay some Youtubers to sing its praises. Follow that with giving a couple to some celebs to get their picture with it without the official endorsement. To top it off start an Amazon store and a Walmart store to peddle them.
Work a deal with Richard Mille to purchase the RMUL2 Calibre used in the Bubba Watson RM055 from them.
Even though it would be costly to develop at first, I'd copy some vintage workhorse movements. Then I'd machine cases out of base metal (i.e. whatever scrap metal is sitting in the nearest skip) instead of stainless steel to "stay true to the vintage feel." I'd finish it with flat mineral glass cut from my neighbour's window. Et voila, the perfect "vintage inspired" or "reimagined" watch.
I still have two Rock Watches. I loved them. Then Tissot discontinued the model. Then, because they chose a non-standard strap and decided to leave their customers out in the cold, eventually could not wear them. Tissot’s abandonment of their customers, of which I was one, is something I am still bitter over. In the thirty years since, my anger has yet to reach its half life. I will never, ever consider Tissot as a brand again, and I will never, ever stop letting people know of Tissots lack of care for its customers.
Rant over, now back to regular programming . .
The Tissot rock watch…. True 80s icon :)
Buy a Gshock and leave the fanciful notions of ultratough mechanical movement timepieces behind you :)
The more you spend on it, the less roughly you’d want to be with it….
if it's a tool watch, it's meant to be used as one.
I still have two Rock Watches. I loved them. Then Tissot discontinued the model. Then, because they chose a non-standard strap and decided to leave their customers out in the cold, eventually could not wear them. Tissot’s abandonment of their customers, of which I was one, is something I am still bitter over. In the thirty years since, my anger has yet to reach its half life. I will never, ever consider Tissot as a brand again, and I will never, ever stop letting people know of Tissots lack of care for its customers.
Rant over, now back to regular programming . .
Yep. It never stops hurting, does it.
Nice and Funny!