Tell us a surprising watch fact..
I’ll go first…
The little pocket on your Levi’s was originally designed for your pocket watch!
Here was me thinking it was for keys or coins or something.
So you next. Share the knowledge.. what you got for us?..
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Justin
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The price of a watch has very little to do with the cost of making it.
You can use your watch as a compass for general direction finding.
The price of a watch has very little to do with the cost of making it.
Although if it’s Christopher ward is is 1/3rd the cost
You can use your watch as a compass for general direction finding.
How?
Although if it’s Christopher ward is is 1/3rd the cost
Yes I'd guess CW have lower gross margin than most.
Shit....I better get my weed outta there!!!
Here's another:
Seiko could equip all its watches with sapphire crystals and still turn a profit, but it would be less good for shareholder value.
How?
Watch as a compass:
Put the watch horizontal. In Northern hemisphere point the hour hand to the sun, and South is midway between the sun and 12 on the dial.
In Southern hemisphere the same method finds North.
Some watches (like the Citizen Promaster Navihawk A-T) have a rotating compass bezel, but obviously any rotating bezel helps make it easier to fix the other ordinals.
Picture below unashamedly taken from Citizen website.
Watch as a compass:
Put the watch horizontal. In Northern hemisphere point the hour hand to the sun, and South is midway between the sun and 12 on the dial.
In Southern hemisphere the same method finds North.
Some watches (like the Citizen Promaster Navihawk A-T) have a rotating compass bezel, but obviously any rotating bezel helps make it easier to fix the other ordinals.
Picture below unashamedly taken from Citizen website.
Amazing!
Watch as a compass:
Put the watch horizontal. In Northern hemisphere point the hour hand to the sun, and South is midway between the sun and 12 on the dial.
In Southern hemisphere the same method finds North.
Some watches (like the Citizen Promaster Navihawk A-T) have a rotating compass bezel, but obviously any rotating bezel helps make it easier to fix the other ordinals.
Picture below unashamedly taken from Citizen website.
Very cool. I was aware that some Seikos have a compass bezel but didn't realise you could do it with any watch.
Watch as a compass:
Put the watch horizontal. In Northern hemisphere point the hour hand to the sun, and South is midway between the sun and 12 on the dial.
In Southern hemisphere the same method finds North.
Some watches (like the Citizen Promaster Navihawk A-T) have a rotating compass bezel, but obviously any rotating bezel helps make it easier to fix the other ordinals.
Picture below unashamedly taken from Citizen website.
Thank you for explaining. Was stuck in meetings and couldn’t answer.
Very cool. I was aware that some Seikos have a compass bezel but didn't realise you could do it with any watch.
Yes, the Alpinist has a compass bezel, but you use it in conjunction with the hour hand and 12 marker to then turn the compass bezel to mark south
The world's first Television advert was for a Bulova watch
Mar 9, 1961 - first watch in space was a Pobeda 34-K strapped to the leg of a dog called Chernuska ("Blackie").
Mar 9, 1961 - first watch in space was a Pobeda 34-K strapped to the leg of a dog called Chernuska ("Blackie").
And she made it back unharmed!
Hanging out on Watch Crunch makes you want to add another watch to the collection...😁
I told my stupid mate at school the little pocket is for a condom ( name of gullible mate withheld ) 😂
Instead of keeping time, watch(es) can make you lose track of time.
For coins or few keys
A lot of people don’t know this but Rolex aren’t the be-all and end-all of watches.
When Abraham Lincoln made his Emancipation Proclamation, Vacheron Constantin had been in operation for 108 years.
Mar 9, 1961 - first watch in space was a Pobeda 34-K strapped to the leg of a dog called Chernuska ("Blackie").
Wow. The first dog to tell the time. The Soviet Union kicked a lot of ass in the space race.
Longines have the oldest (continually used) trademark in the world - the 'winged hourglass' - registered in 1867.
If you took all the components out of your watch and laid them end to end, your watch wouldn’t work anymore.
Very true. In addition, if a watch stops working. It is only accurate twice a day. Unless it's one of them fancy 24h watches. Then it's only once daily.
Bands, bracelets or straps are very important parts of your watch. Otherwise your watch falls to the floor.
The more you know.
If you don't have a watch pocket in your jeans, there is another option:
This seems like an under-the-radar insult I'd like to see popularised: "Hey! Keep in your own lane y'freakin' watch pocket!"
The "Swiss Made" mark was introduced because of the British Merchandise Marks Act of 1887, which was designed to protect British consumers by clearly marking inferior foreign goods.
The price of a watch has very little to do with the cost of making it.
Not sure if that’s true I’d argue higher end watches are usually the higher price ones not saying that it’s justified but some of the highest priced ones are the best finished, crafted, and technically impressive
Not sure if that’s true I’d argue higher end watches are usually the higher price ones not saying that it’s justified but some of the highest priced ones are the best finished, crafted, and technically impressive
What I'm alluding to is that so many watch reviews and online comments judge whether a watch's price is justified based on the cost of materials, labour and quality control. There's often an assumption watch A has worse materials/finishing/specs than watch B therefore watch A's price should be lower.
That is not how companies set prices for their products. They need to recover their overheads (marketing, distribution, research and development etc) and take into account whether they are trying to grow a new market or trying to take existing market share from competitors (see Grand Seiko). At the luxury end of the market prices will be set extremely high, far beyond the costs of production in order to create an image of exclusivity - price as the cost of entry (see the behaviour of Veblen goods).
Pricing also tends to vary depending on where a product is in its life cycle - e.g. high price at launch for the early adopters to maximise margin and recover as much of the development costs as early as possible, followed by lower pricing to optimise number of units sold albeit at lower margin. The costs of production will also vary, usually getting lower with time as any production teething problems are ironed out and continuous improvements are made.
Most of you might already know that Rolex doesn't use anti-reflecting (AR) coating on the crystals of their watches, but did you know that they use AR coating on their date magnifiers, and only there?