What is a popular brand/watch/category/feature you dislike ILLOGICALLY?
Let's try to keep this civil & respectful by just naming the brand/watch/category/feature and not the reasons.
Mine: Huge logos & illegible skeletons
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Todd
Long time watch appreciator, 2022 inductee into the obsession. Originator (or perpetrator depending on your point of view) of #WhimsicalWednesday, #MacroMay & #MacroMonday Omega Speedmaster simp. Like...
Utah, USA
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7.50” / 19.05 cm
Gmt bezels on watches without a gmt hand. And ghost date positions
I have rationalized most of my biases, but my disdain for chronographs would probably have the least argument behind it. There's no real rationale behind my aversion to ana-digi watches either, I guess.
Date/month complication 😏 I’m too lazy to set the dates I just want the time sometimes hence I love my Tudor BB no date haha! The only watch I have that only tells time and that’s it! Oops I forgot about the Cartier hahaha
Not sure if these should be included, but smart watches/fit bits. It is illogical given my love for Multiband 6 and all the complications of G Shock and Pro Trek, but I just don't like them.
I dislike "fussy" dials, like featured in Seiko/GS.
I also dislike GMTs, and chronographs.
Who the fck needs a helium escape valve. I mean. Come on.
You hit the nail on the head with "illogically." I mean, why the f*ck should I dislike any feature or brand??? Makes no sense whatsoever.
But, something @hbein2022 said in another post really resonates with me:
That sort of a$$hattery is just ridiculous to my mind. And, somehow, in my ignorant imagination, I see brands such as Hublot, Richard Mille, PP/AP/VC integrated-bracelet sports watches, and any watch worn by any famous / rich athlete, musician, reality TV star, and actor/actress as the embodiment of that sort of a$$hattery.
Thus, my illogical dislike of those brands and watches!
Hard back cases! For me, if the watch is not a diver, then it should be with a sapphire back 100%
ugly screw all over the face and hands that blend into dial clutter
Who the fck needs a helium escape valve. I mean. Come on.
What, you don't like to spend time in a decompression chamber? (At least it's useful in theory.)
Not sure if these should be included, but smart watches/fit bits. It is illogical given my love for Multiband 6 and all the complications of G Shock and Pro Trek, but I just don't like them.
they have their place for me, but not as a main watch.
Most of these complaints or distastes are LOGICAL. Ghost dates? Why? Fussy dials? Of course. A helium escape valve for a watch that you take off to wash dishes? Ugh. Unreadable skeletons (but, I repeat myself)? Double ugh.
I don't like street names where the persons' whole name is used. It doesn't matter who that person may be. I will take the Francis Parkway over the Norman C. Francis Parkway every day (formerly the Jefferson Davis Memorial Parkway).
So, no Christopher Ward or Raymond Weil for me.
For me I really dislike jewels on watches. Whenever I’ve seen it it just looks gaudy.
You hit the nail on the head with "illogically." I mean, why the f*ck should I dislike any feature or brand??? Makes no sense whatsoever.
But, something @hbein2022 said in another post really resonates with me:
That sort of a$$hattery is just ridiculous to my mind. And, somehow, in my ignorant imagination, I see brands such as Hublot, Richard Mille, PP/AP/VC integrated-bracelet sports watches, and any watch worn by any famous / rich athlete, musician, reality TV star, and actor/actress as the embodiment of that sort of a$$hattery.
Thus, my illogical dislike of those brands and watches!
This is a tricky question. If you try to take the Bling-Factor out of it: Hublot and Richard Mille have at least designs that are not boring. I have at least give them credit for pushing the envelope.
Could I personally get over it? Probably not, it's like how Justin Bieber ruined the Ballon Bleu for me. You cannot "unsee" certain things.
Who the fck needs a helium escape valve. I mean. Come on.
"I know, I agree, it's pointless" I say while wearing my Deep Blue Defender with the helium escape valve. 🤣
This is a tricky question. If you try to take the Bling-Factor out of it: Hublot and Richard Mille have at least designs that are not boring. I have at least give them credit for pushing the envelope.
Could I personally get over it? Probably not, it's like how Justin Bieber ruined the Ballon Bleu for me. You cannot "unsee" certain things.
Justin Bieber!!!
Was playing poker with my buddies from high school - we been at it for 3 decades now. Years ago, story about Justin Bieber came up, in which a woman from San Diego had accused him of being her baby daddy. He was like 16 at the time and she said that they went into a bathroom stall for ~30 seconds.
Buddies: No way! He's not the father. He's like a good born-again Christian boy. And his parents chaperone him everywhere
Me: Guys, you're telling me that at age 16, no matter how "good" of a boy you are, you wouldn't have leapt at that opportunity???
A few weeks later, Justin Bieber goes on Letterman to talk about how the woman was clearly a gold-digger, trying to extort money out of him, etc., etc. Victory lap for the Beebs!
Buddies: See? He's exonerated
Me: Uh, guys, his lawyers negotiated a PRIVATE paternity test, to which the woman agreed. Then, after the test, the results of which remain PRIVATE, Justin Bieber announced that he's not the father, and has gone out on a PR tour to all the late night talk shows. Now... if the woman's suit were frivolous, why wouldn't Justin Bieber's lawyers have conducted a PUBLIC paternity test, to signal to everyone that Justin is clearly not the father, and then show the results far and wide, and then SUE THE HELL OUT OF THAT WOMAN FOR MAKING FALSE CLAIMS? Think about it: If this were a frivolous claim, and they fear that lots of women are going after his money by making these sorts of claims, they could very easily shut this whole thing down by saddling a false accuser with millions of dollars of damages due to defamation. Instead, they negotiated everything in private, have kept the results of the test private, and they've privately "settled" the suit with the woman
So, agreed. No Ballon Bleu for me either.
Justin Bieber!!!
Was playing poker with my buddies from high school - we been at it for 3 decades now. Years ago, story about Justin Bieber came up, in which a woman from San Diego had accused him of being her baby daddy. He was like 16 at the time and she said that they went into a bathroom stall for ~30 seconds.
Buddies: No way! He's not the father. He's like a good born-again Christian boy. And his parents chaperone him everywhere
Me: Guys, you're telling me that at age 16, no matter how "good" of a boy you are, you wouldn't have leapt at that opportunity???
A few weeks later, Justin Bieber goes on Letterman to talk about how the woman was clearly a gold-digger, trying to extort money out of him, etc., etc. Victory lap for the Beebs!
Buddies: See? He's exonerated
Me: Uh, guys, his lawyers negotiated a PRIVATE paternity test, to which the woman agreed. Then, after the test, the results of which remain PRIVATE, Justin Bieber announced that he's not the father, and has gone out on a PR tour to all the late night talk shows. Now... if the woman's suit were frivolous, why wouldn't Justin Bieber's lawyers have conducted a PUBLIC paternity test, to signal to everyone that Justin is clearly not the father, and then show the results far and wide, and then SUE THE HELL OUT OF THAT WOMAN FOR MAKING FALSE CLAIMS? Think about it: If this were a frivolous claim, and they fear that lots of women are going after his money by making these sorts of claims, they could very easily shut this whole thing down by saddling a false accuser with millions of dollars of damages due to defamation. Instead, they negotiated everything in private, have kept the results of the test private, and they've privately "settled" the suit with the woman
So, agreed. No Ballon Bleu for me either.
... especially not a pre-owned Ballon Bleu.
I hate overpriced homages.
I hate:
Well that was great, I’m having a good giggle at myself, now. 😂
I'm also adding the hour hands on Tudor Black Bay's