A watch brand just by seeing someone wearing it, you can tell a watch enthusiast.
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GS would be a mainsuspect 🤔 Oris is another one!!
The most obvious for me is anOrdain, especially if the person is wearing a fumé watch. You can't miss the sparkly coloured dial from across the room, and only enthusiasts would pay over $3k USD (or a premium on the re-sale market) and wait a few years for a microbrand.
https://czapek.com waiting on my Antatique Passage De Drake. Blows the Royal Oak out of the water.
The most obvious for me is anOrdain, especially if the person is wearing a fumé watch. You can't miss the sparkly coloured dial from across the room, and only enthusiasts would pay over $3k USD (or a premium on the re-sale market) and wait a few years for a microbrand.
Congrats! beautiful blue. I am on the waitlist for a year, and on list for June 2024 delivery.
Congrats! beautiful blue. I am on the waitlist for a year, and on list for June 2024 delivery.
Oh it's not my watch haha. Still waiting for the email to get a build slot
Most German brands and higher end micros. For each, you know that they had to go out of their way to get them.
Halios. Nobody except a broken in the head collector would stay up for one of those drops.
GS and JLC
Ball, Christopher Ward, Frédérique Constantin, Alpina,
Most German brands and higher end micros. For each, you know that they had to go out of their way to get them.
Agreed, no normal person buys a Sinn.
Anything I own? LOL JK
Squale, Farer, Oris, Christopher Ward, Phoibos are a few
Anything I own? LOL JK
Squale, Farer, Oris, Christopher Ward, Phoibos are a few
All of those evoke, “tell me about your watch?” Vs a “cool watch” comment.
I was in a jewelry store and another customer came up to me and said "Whoa! Is that a Sinn? That's a watch guy's watch!" He was wearing a Rolex.
I think Grand Seiko is a safe bet, casuals wouldn't spend that amount of cash for a watch with 'Seiko' on the dial.
Dude sat down opposite me on the train yesterday wearing a Blancpain.
He was a chatty type anyway so after five minutes I say ”Couldn’t help but notice… is that a Bathyscaphe?”
Well that was us off for the next hour or so, making everyone else around us eyes roll no doubt 🤣🤣🤣🙄
You might as well just throw every single microbrand, high horology maison and independent into the pan.
Add a touch of obscure special editions, plus actual limited editions (discard anything branded Omega) and mix.
Add spices liberally and pour the vast majority of relics your butcher of a watchmaker calls vintage.
Mush it with mostly mid-tier and specialized Germanic brands together with forgotten French brands, take it to the oven for 1:30 h at 180 degrees (celsius!).
When the Vulcain Cricket explodes, it’s ready.
Sprinkle JDM and a few Swiss family names atop, like Jenny or Racine, and voilà 😙👌!
Any JDM Casio's.
German Haute Horology- A. Lange & Sohne
German Horology- Nomos, Glashuette Original, Sinn
High End Japanese Horology- Credor/Grand Seiko
Swiss-MB&F, JLC, Brequet, Daniel Roth, F.P. Journe
endless micro brands too
Agreed, no normal person buys a Sinn.
@hbein2022 Marty, got home and immediately pulled this out of the box to celebrate not being normal.
Anything pre-quartz crisis
Illinois Watch Co.
GS would be a mainsuspect 🤔 Oris is another one!!
Oris, not really. Those have a tendency of sitting on shelves in a lot of ADs here and they flush them regularly with sales. So it's more like, "Waah, I got a nice brand for cheap! So smart, so smart!" kind of watch.
I see people buying Oris who otherwise just know Rolex, Omega and Seiko.
Bremont
This watch tells me you may have multiple personalities.
A seagull 1963 or a vintage speedmaster tells me you may be an enthusiasts.
My criteria depends on geography.
Like, seeing an Islander, a Shinola or or someone who knows what the hell Ball's counterweight means in Asia-Pacific or Africa.
Or a Titoni in America, even better if it's not a Seascoper but an Air Master, a Space Star or a Cosmo King.
King Seiko, Ming, Universal Geneve to name a few
Oris, not really. Those have a tendency of sitting on shelves in a lot of ADs here and they flush them regularly with sales. So it's more like, "Waah, I got a nice brand for cheap! So smart, so smart!" kind of watch.
I see people buying Oris who otherwise just know Rolex, Omega and Seiko.
I would argue that that would be the Tissot(pre-PRX)-crowd you are describing there.
I think the reason there are lots on Oris on the shelfs is because it's mostly us nerds that buy them and it's not that many of us 🤔
Everything thats not a mainstream brand or hella expensive ^^
Lange & Söhne, JLC, GS, Breguet...
I would argue that that would be the Tissot(pre-PRX)-crowd you are describing there.
I think the reason there are lots on Oris on the shelfs is because it's mostly us nerds that buy them and it's not that many of us 🤔
Maybe, but where I am there's as many watch nerds and bargain hunters who buy things at a discount. It's the Asian interacting with cheap things in us. 😂
How to differentiate between the two? See how they react when they try to sell their Oris and told Oris don't keep value like a Rolex/having to service the Oris after the manufacturer's guarantee expires.
At times you can see their souls leave the body at seeing how little they get/how much they have to pay for the service.
GS, GO, JLC, ALS, Sinn, Zenith, Nomos, Blancpain, Micro-brands.