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Do you think when watchcrunchers see the 33mm wrist compasses, they’ll complain that it would have been perfect if it was 39mm?
The Neptune was all I knew of Lorier and never considered them because I already had a watch similar to it. It was the Astra that caught my eye and made me reconsider them. I ended up with a Falcon instead! The Astra wasn’t in stock at the time..
This is timely. What are the chances that one of these Hodinkee collaboration watches is the one in the original post?
Even though I was a child during those decades, I remember wanting one also. I also thought it was strange that they were the same company that makes shavers. I have a couple of braun travel clocks now, but they were fairly recent purchases. The design is similar, but I’m not sure if the quality matches with the ones from the 70s.
I have no experience with internal rotating bezels. Do these not click into specific positions or are they just friction?
I’ve got a 14.4mm Scurfa that feels overly thick to me, but I have a Maranez Samui (doxa 300 homage) which is 14.5mm and doesn’t feel nearly as thick. The watch actually feels pretty small despite it being 42mm also. Maybe cushion case watches should be measured at the bezel. I’m hoping the hydra wears like the Samui.
It’s also funny because a seiko turtle is about 13.2mm thick and none of the height is from the crystal. I’d be totally fine adding a top hat sapphire crystal to that.
I just purchased the Falcon III, and it definitely has converted me to an acrylic lover as well. I’ve been eyeing the Hydra now. The grey dial and bezel does confuse me a little. I heard that the inspiration were faded ghost bezels, but that doesn’t look like that to me at all. It kind of just looks like a flat grey. Does it look like a ghost bezel to you in person? And in some photos, the grey even looks black! How do you find the thickness? The criticism overblown?
