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Welcome to the club. I have this bronze watch, as well as two other Oris bronze. They patina well. But maybe consider this: Removing the patina and get a really nice, shiny new watch. I do this all the time, and the watch looks great. Who says bronze absolutely HAVE to have patina. A bit of lemon juice and you got a fresh new watch that is looking good. I really like this model, just swapping out the strap for something else.
I’m with you. I didn’t think much of skeleton watches…until I saw this Defy. And now it’s on my wrist :-)
I have one. I can see that a few persons tried this watch on and found it too big. From the onset I could see that would be an issue for some people, based on the dimensions and the case shape so I took extra care and tried it on in a shop (which is difficult in these online times). Thankfully it worked nicely for me, but it either requires a 7 inch wrist or at least a flat topside wrist, so I recommend to try it on before buying it.
I got a totally different version of the Defy.
This is the rose gold version with titanium case and alligator strap. The rose hands are so legible against the titanium skeleton dial. Skeleton dials can often be somewhat difficult to read, but not this one. I love most of Zeniths watches and there’s two or three others that I wouldn’t mind trying on.
Hi watchaddictwt,
I like your question…because I have struggled with it myself. One thing I can say with certainty is that only today is it possible to ask that question, simply because the level of microbrands are much higher. 20 years ago the situation was different, but today the quality and diversity of design is so great that it is possible to do only microbrands and have good quality.
So that brings us to the question: Microbrands or just one mainstream brand? I have struggled with that question, too. My choice was “both”. Talk about going down the rabbit whole. I, too, voted with my wallet and it felt it. I choose mainly microbrands of high quality, and then have just a few mainstream brands - and I try to limit those. So “either or” becomes “both” in a way. But it is an important question you asked, and one we all have to wrestle with - purchase after purchase.
No, no, no. I love the tall rehaut. It gives the watch such depth. But like everything with wathches there is a battle between opposite views (date vs no date, bracelet versus strap etc). I have trouble with small depth watches where the dial is right below the sapphire - and I love a deep well (like the Seiko Marinemaster 300 depth). The Nodus has a surprisingly deep dial position and it really makes it more 3D. I have the Nodus Sector Malibu with same proportions and I like it, and am going to buy this Nodus GMT, partly because of the tall rehaut. So there you go - there’s always two opinions about any subject :-) Seriously like your video and the camera work is outstanding!!
For the first time ever I really “geeked out” and counted my wrist time for all of 2022. I know, I know. It’s only here in WatchCrunch I can admit such a thing, so don’t tell anyone else. Crazy, right? So I counted my wrist time for 2022 and the overall winner for 2022 was the bronze Hamilton.
It is actually a bit difficult to tell the winner if you have several watches incoming, because they tend to get more wrist time in the honey moon period. But at the end of the year the bronze Hamilton got the most wrist time, which surprised me a bit, actually. I like Hamiltons but don’t typically love them. There is a difference. However, I wear bronze maybe 60% of the time, and the Hamilton has a good size, a good combo of bronze and black dial, together with a wonderful strap, so there you go.
I won’t count wrist time for 2023 because it is too much work. There‘s a limit to how much geekiness I can muster. However, I do think 2023 will have another winner, but the Hamilton bronze will likely stay in the top 5.
