I drive @coaxial_thamuel crazy with my super niche taste in watches so I feel like this post is definitely up my speed.
My biggest quirks are probably that I really really don’t like circles hour indicators and need have a very specific amount of numbers needed to be happy. Sam’ll show me a watch and I’ll tell him I don’t like it purely because of the shear amount of numbers on it. There’s a very specific “sweet spot” for the amount of information I want to be given from my watch, and so far the NOMOS Tetra fulfills that the best.
For traits I seek out, usually orange hands are big draw for me. (Orange anything really). So in that regard, the holy grails are the Ploprof and the Mille Gauss.