Am I Mental??
Morning fellow Crunchers. Firstly can you spot what these 3 watches all have common??
Am I Mental?? I was watching a watchfinder video yesterday and I had an epiphany! I have 4 watches in my collection, 3 I love and one I like a lot but haven’t felt in love with and I couldn’t put my finger on why that was. And then it hit me while I was watching this YT clip…….
I love watches with hands that end in a point!! Am I mental??
Now I recently bought a zelos Blacktip titanium with a burnt orange sunburst dial. It’s a gorgeous watch, very light and fantastically made for the price, noisy rotor to be expected with a Miyota movement but it’s great, but I just haven’t fallen in love with it, and I think it’s because it has squared off thick hands. And for some reason I believe this is what is stopping me from loving this watch!
I did wonder if I am indeed going mental until I looked in my iPhones photo album of “watches I’d like” and found all of these watches have pointed hands, it must be 15 very different watches but all have that design Q.
But what about you guys? Do you have design features in a watch you have to have or couldn’t have on a watch??……. Or am I just mental??
Been watch collecting for about 5 years now, don’t necessarily follow the masses with trends, tend like the older style watches as they seem to have a bit more style to them! You do get some gems in t...
I have a thing for applied indices. Ideally applied numbers but any raised indices do it for me.
I like the 3D affect it creates on the dial. I can just stare at it.
And domed crystals…not that I don’t like flat crystals but the ‘wobble’ on applied 3D indices does it for me every time.
Longines Spirit 37mm
Fears
Farer
I think I have a ‘type’. 😂
Oh, I guessed that you liked incomplete numerical indices. I will say that the fly in the ointment on my Timex Easy Reader is the square ended stick hands. I'd say I'm a big fan of very minimal dial text and branding. I don't believe I own any exceptions to this,maybe the applied Seiko 5 emblem. It's gotten to the point where this is now the reason I couldn't do Rolex. That coronet, the best part of the watch, is now not discreet enough.