Watches, almost perfect, except ONE thing...

For many watches, including my Credor, the one thing that really needs improvement is the clasp. A watch meant to be worn as a daily, all occasion, option needs a micro adjustment clasp. The Credor doesn’t have micro adjustment and that hurts because it has 100m water resistance, sapphire crystal, everything needed, but the lake of micro adjustment hurts. 🤔

Literally any Hamilton & their longer than usual lug to lug dimensions. They’ve been doing it for so long, on so many models, I think they’re doing it on purpose at this point. They finally took a step in the right direction with the new murph.

My Hamilton Khaki field mechanical, it’s perfect…but those damn lugs

I feel the same about my Orient Makoii. Why the 22mm lug width? It would have a much more refined look with 20mm lugs.

at least thats a 42mm watch, not a 40mm 😅

I like Sinn. I want to own a Sinn. This is my favourite model. I would have bought one years ago if it weren’t for that stupid, tiny date window. I actually like the 4:30 position. It’s the easiest and most natural position to read the date.

But I mean, if you’re going to put on a date window, at least make it large enough to see and be practical. I don’t want to reach for my glasses every time I check the date. Buy this one is worse than that. It’s so small, you can barely tell it’s a date window at all. It just looks like a pimple or manufacturing flaw on an otherwise perfect watch.

But wait… there’s more!!!!

The Sinn 556 actually does come in a no date variation. You have to get a blue or or other coloured dial to skip the date. If you want the 3, 6, 9 dial, you get a date. The worst part of this is is that it’s exactly opposite of what you’d expect. The coloured dials are a perfect daily/office/casual watch where you probably want the date. But the date is the only choice on the flieger/field version where the no date is more desirable.

/rant

C’mon Sinn. Do better.

The Hamilton Khaki Field Murph 38mm could be perfect but the poor AR is a shame…

It's a deceiving 42mm. I feel like a YouTuber saying this but it wears like a 40mm. Now if I can just get paid for saying that I'll be golden.

The Nomos Orion/Club models - I've come very close on some of these over the years, but that long L2L is a problem on the larger models. More recently I was about to get over myself and get a 35mm Orion which is about as perfect as a dress watch gets and has a short L2L of 45mm... But then there's that gap between the case and the strap. I know it's a conscious design choice and doesn't look too bad on some wrists, but throw some dark male arm hair in the mix and it's enough to ruin it for me.

Nomos put out so many versions of their designs, maybe one day they will do what Hamilton and Longines have done and at least offer these designs in the same cases but with redesigned lugs.

And where they put the holes in those long lugs you can't wear a two piece strap unless you're OK with the huge gap between the end of the strap and the case. So you're stuck with a nato strap or bracelet. My khaki field mechanical came on the bracelet so I've kept it on that.

GS with the power reserve on the dial.