What are your watch icks?
In other words what are you absolute, no will not buy, features on a watch?
Here are some of mine.
Odd lug widths
Anything that is a direct copy (looking at you Pagani Designs)
Non-clicking rotating bezel (what’s the point)
Vegan leather strap (I suppose if I like the watch enough I may, but the strap will never touch my wrist)
Anything Richard Mille-ish, to be clear I will never have the money to spend on it but I just can’t get behind the design.
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Cyclops.
To each their own but mainly Ugly logos for me.
Cyclops.
Even on a Rolex?
To each their own but mainly Ugly logos for me.
Who do you define as ugly?
Integrated straps/bracelets
Overlapping scales or subdials
Diamonds
Branded Fakes
Snowflake hour hands
MB&F
Watches that require software.
Watches with precious stones. (Just not for me.)
Hublot… I’ve just never liked them. My dislike for them predates Nico’s for whatever that’s worth.
Richard Mille, Hublot, Romain Jerome, Jacob & Co
Jewels and precious gems of any kind on a watch. Cyclopses. Not sure if I’d call it a complete turn off, but I really don’t like Bauhaus minimalist dials.
Certain brand names.. (Erebus looking at you* 😂 👀🤏🏻 all in good nature btws)
Non drilled lugs
No lume
*IFYKYK 😂
Apple Watch🤮
Skeleton hands
Apple Watch🤮
Yeah watches that keep perfect time just suck!
With rare exception, (Accutron for example) quartz movements. If I want an electric watch I have my Apple Watch.
Black or gold pvd watches
"Bio-Ceramic"...
Sometimes some things you say no! no! no! to, you might change your mind the future.
I think as we mature as humans we have different wants and our view of the world changes.
In the past I had said no to:
Non-3 handed watches
Gmts
Chronographs
High polish cases
Watches that didn’t come with a scratch resistant coating or bezel
Acrylic crystal
Watches that didn’t come with OEM bracelet
Leather straps
Quartz watches
Solar powered watches
Colorful dials
Non on-the-fly adjustable claps
Lesser known brands (like a microbrand)
Rolex
Larger watch cases
Smaller watch cases
Watches that don’t come with lume
Watches that don’t have applied indicies
Etc
Your watch collection is a collection your ideals and personality. I used to want a huge watch collection but as I’ve only one wrist (I’ve tried double wristing but it’s not for me) I’ve downsized my collection and really thinking with my head instead of all heart.
You’ll make a lot of mistakes in watch collecting but you’ll hopefully learn from it.
Happy collecting!
super retro lugs that look like they were soldered to a pocket watch case
rectangular, square and tonneau dials
no hour markers
no running second
gemstones anywhere
golden cases or bracelets
vintage watches
mechanical movement without handwinding
plastic lookalikes of famous designs
Cyclops.
That might change with age.
The usual culprits for me are:
24Hr indicators on chronographs. They are as useless as tits on a bull or a conscience for a politician.
NATO straps. It's the fastest and surer way to insta-cheap the look of any watch and to make you look like a gypsy fortune teller shaking her bangles.
"Snowflake" hands. This isn't even the official name but nobody wants to take the responsibility to grant a name to a road hazard post masquerading as a watch's hand.
Cyclops/magnifiers: The crystal pimple is as welcome as a wart on my butt.
Two tone gold watches. I'm simply not close enough to retirement to consider an "old man special" wrist accessory.
Roman numerals, because not everyone can be like Cartier
California dials because they just look like they are trying a bit too hard to look interesting and unusual.
Integrated bracelets. It's just not my style.
Negative displays on digital watches. Also see "tacticool". Idiocy that pretends to be useful in unlikely scenarios but just makes the watch close to unusable most of the time.
Misaligned bezels. There should be no excuse for this If any no name AliExpress brand can sell watches with a perfectly aligned bezel for the price of a modest sandwich.
Gotta admit I had a good laugh…not with your list but rather your annotations. As an old man who IS retired, I especially liked #5. I have TWO such watches! Keep skinning those cats!!!
How do you feel about every watch just being a sellita SW200 movement? I'm personally kind of over it. It just feels over played so I'm steering clear. I respect it for what it is but it feels like watch companies are defaulting to it and mehhh.
For me, Sellita SW200 is in the same category as ETA 2824-2 and PT5000. ETA being the original, Sellita being the second best and PT5000 third.
I value those 3 movements more than Powermatic 80,the robot-assembled, hard-to-service, 3Hz, sometimes plastic parts movement.
Just my subjective opinion.
I don't like the secretomany about movement characteristics. Even if is dressed in a marketing poem.
Anything gold, it gives off old man, cheesy mafia gangster vibes. To each their own but it isn’t for me.
For me, Sellita SW200 is in the same category as ETA 2824-2 and PT5000. ETA being the original, Sellita being the second best and PT5000 third.
I value those 3 movements more than Powermatic 80,the robot-assembled, hard-to-service, 3Hz, sometimes plastic parts movement.
Just my subjective opinion.
I don't like the secretomany about movement characteristics. Even if is dressed in a marketing poem.
Agreed! I don’t have a Powermatic 80 and I don’t want one.
Anything gold, it gives off old man, cheesy mafia gangster vibes. To each their own but it isn’t for me.
Ufffff. As a New Jersian, I’d be lying if I said I didn’t want one watch to make me look like Tony Soprano. lol. But no hate, gold’s not for you. My husband feels the same way.
Sometimes some things you say no! no! no! to, you might change your mind the future.
I think as we mature as humans we have different wants and our view of the world changes.
In the past I had said no to:
Non-3 handed watches
Gmts
Chronographs
High polish cases
Watches that didn’t come with a scratch resistant coating or bezel
Acrylic crystal
Watches that didn’t come with OEM bracelet
Leather straps
Quartz watches
Solar powered watches
Colorful dials
Non on-the-fly adjustable claps
Lesser known brands (like a microbrand)
Rolex
Larger watch cases
Smaller watch cases
Watches that don’t come with lume
Watches that don’t have applied indicies
Etc
Your watch collection is a collection your ideals and personality. I used to want a huge watch collection but as I’ve only one wrist (I’ve tried double wristing but it’s not for me) I’ve downsized my collection and really thinking with my head instead of all heart.
You’ll make a lot of mistakes in watch collecting but you’ll hopefully learn from it.
Happy collecting!
Totally agree. I think my “no’s” have become more lax, and I’ve come to appreciate most watches for what they are.
Ufffff. As a New Jersian, I’d be lying if I said I didn’t want one watch to make me look like Tony Soprano. lol. But no hate, gold’s not for you. My husband feels the same way.
Make sure you pair it with gold rings and a gold necklace outside your shirt haha
Make sure you pair it with gold rings and a gold necklace outside your shirt haha
Have to commit to the bit!
Referring mainly to this one. Ruined a great watch imo.
Bring it
I can live with the hands but the steam whistle glued on the left is a deal breaker for me.
San Martin, Phoibos, Orient's cigarette carton logo to name a few.
I have to admit that the pseudo heraldic logo of Orient looks exactly like something I would expect to see on a cigarette carton.
"Iced out" or "bling watches"
Mercedes, snowflake, broad arrow hands
Fluted bezels
Chronograph dials that are "too busy"
California dials
Rose gold, bronze & two-tone
Integrated bracelets
Anything that requires a battery
Vintage watches that have been redialed, reprinted, refurbished, over polished
Vintage styled watches with fake patina
Designer/fashion watches
4:30 date windows
Power reserve indicators on the dial
I forgot about the fluted bezel. Absolutely a hard pass for me.
Odd date window placement. I like the practicality of a date window, but I don’t like when it’s the first thing your eye is drawn to! 👀
Absolutely.