What’s your type?
Field watches are my thing, I genuinely think a watch is a tool to tell the time and these kind of ultra legible, made for purpose pieces are all I need. What type of watch is breeding babies in your watchbox? What is your type?
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David
It’s been a long journey - from ridiculously oversized Breitlings in my youth - to 36mm field watches in maturity. Some have stayed, many have left, the destination is always changing, it’s all about...
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For me it’s divers. I try to try out other ones but keep coming back to divers.
Hopefully getting the Venezianico in a couple of weeks. Also I find myself more drawn to smaller independent brands than the larger mainstream ones.
Divers definitely seem the most popular modern style it would seem
I always felt I was a chronograph kinda guy and am often drawn to images of them but I’ve only actually got one. Turns out I’m a diver kinda guy!
For me, it is a movement type. I like solar-powered watches. These have become my go to watches.
For me, it is a movement type. I like solar-powered watches. These have become my go to watches.
Wow never thought about movements like that, so cool
The Vertex is superb. Well done.
Left to just my neanderthal brain, I'd have only divers & chronographs.
That seems wasteful to me, so I am trying to get good pieces of the main types.
If I could only have 1 type it would be divers but I'm keeping my collection small so won't have many of the same of anything.
If I could only have 1 type it would be divers but I'm keeping my collection small so won't have many of the same of anything.
Makes total sense, technically I should really sell the Sinn and the Hamilton as, for me, the Vertex is probably the grail of the Field watch genre (now that the Explorer has mirror finished hands and is bloody hard to read) maybe IWC Mark XX as the ultimate but too much for me.
Once upon a time it would have been divers, but as I've thinned the collection and refined things, I see no clear winner these days. It's like, "Oh, there's a few divers, there's a few chronos, there's a couple of fields, and there's a digital..." I have no clear winner in this.
I'm more surprised, personally, that I no longer own any fliegers!
Once upon a time it would have been divers, but as I've thinned the collection and refined things, I see no clear winner these days. It's like, "Oh, there's a few divers, there's a few chronos, there's a couple of fields, and there's a digital..." I have no clear winner in this.
I'm more surprised, personally, that I no longer own any fliegers!
Yeah I’ve tried to be rigid and varied but these field watches keep multiplying
Tall. Usually lighter hair. Green or blue eyes. Athletic.
Off topic, but that sinn is stunning.
Chronographs, preferably racing with a legible tachymeter.
Off topic, but that sinn is stunning.
Thanks, it is indeed
Quite like that, might need to do some more looking...
Don't have an Aragon yet...😂
I know that 44mm may scare away many people. With the 49mm lug to lug it is very wearable.
Yes there will be a 36mm at some point the owner has said, I love the dial so much I just feel it would be difficult to downsize even though I love smaller watches and historically 40mm is not accurate. I just feel the dial works so well at at this size, it wasn’t a major impulse for me, I did buy unseen and did a lot of research, for me it’s worth every penny
I’m with you, I don’t feel the watch is over priced. And if they can make this solid lumed Arabic numbers smaller for the 36 whixh im sure they can and keep the proportions I think the dial will keep its specialness .
I know that 44mm may scare away many people. With the 49mm lug to lug it is very wearable.
Meh, I like watches. Have much bigger and still enjoy them. It's in the radar for sure.
Meh, I like watches. Have much bigger and still enjoy them. It's in the radar for sure.
Too bad that is not the universal consensus 🤣
Gahdam I can't stop looking at that Vertex
Same. I started watching reviews… here we go again 😂😂😂
Three Handers no date different cases :)
Yes there will be a 36mm at some point the owner has said, I love the dial so much I just feel it would be difficult to downsize even though I love smaller watches and historically 40mm is not accurate. I just feel the dial works so well at at this size, it wasn’t a major impulse for me, I did buy unseen and did a lot of research, for me it’s worth every penny
Awesome watch collections!
It’s good to know he’s planning on introducing a 36 mm later. In that case, I am going to hold off until it’s released. I don’t mind waiting a few years. Then I can check out both sizes at Windup Watch Fair in Chicago.
Three Handers no date different cases :)
Ahaaaa look closer the Sinn has a date window 😜
Ahaaaa look closer the Sinn has a date window 😜
Yeah but Sinn do it well :)
Yeah but Sinn do it well :)
They really do!
Type 1 - pil/mil/field/dive (modern and vintage alike):
Type 2 - 1930s to 1960s dress and casual watches:
Type 1 - pil/mil/field/dive (modern and vintage alike):
Type 2 - 1930s to 1960s dress and casual watches:
Wow some amazing pieces in there, love the Glycines
I like field watches in general. Legible, practical, durable! Although I recently got a Militado chronograph, it is still very legible despite the sub dials. It has a field watch look to it. Today I have a Bertucci A-2S.
I like field watches in general. Legible, practical, durable! Although I recently got a Militado chronograph, it is still very legible despite the sub dials. It has a field watch look to it. Today I have a Bertucci A-2S.
If my wrist was any bigger I be more one the diver and pilot size watches. But since I have smaller wrists I learn to love the field watches more.