Watch you would most like to smash with a hammer
Disclaimer: This would be a hypothetical watch only, not an actual person's actual watch. No actual watches were harmed in the production of this post.
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Tom
Catholic, father of two, born before the Quartz Crisis, worked in hospital for 37 years, retired, also was semi-pro drummer (drumset) in loud rock bands and hand drums drummer (African) in acoustic du...
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7.00” / 17.78 cm
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Lots of watches I don’t like, some I think are terrible, but none I want to smash.
Addendum: The premise of the thread seems simple enough to me. People talk about punchable faces. The Lange One has one. That stupid Mr. Potatohead dial fills me with hatred and the desire to smash it with a hammer is far from zero.
I could fill Room 101 with watches I don't like. But I wouldn't apply a hammer, I'd probably get more satisfaction by carefully taking them apart cog by cog and putting all the parts from all the watches in a single mixed bin.😮
Richard mill
Any fake. Take your pick.
Any fake. Take your pick.
Yup-all branded fakes are fair game
Anything by Studio Underdog. Yuk!
all chinese movement watches but dead ones first
RM & FM I’d hire a steam roller ! 😂
I'm with you on this one. I respect the horology and all that jazz with the Lange One, but I can't stand how it looks. It's just... I don't know, the dial that's inside the dial next to the other dial. It looks like it sounds like a church bell.
Addendum: The premise of the thread seems simple enough to me. People talk about punchable faces. The Lange One has one. That stupid Mr. Potatohead dial fills me with hatred and the desire to smash it with a hammer is far from zero.
Damn son, this is not the forum to be pooh-poohing ALS designs. I can hear Crunchers lighting torches and sharpening pitchforks...
Yeah, I don't know that I want to take a hammer to the actual objects but I wouldn't mind administering a good backhanded slap to everyone who had a hand in designing and approving the manufacture of most 90s-era Tag Heuer's...
San Martin! Pagani Design !
Any watch that claims to have an in house movement but clearly does not.
Lots of watches I don’t like, some I think are terrible, but none I want to smash.
Yo! You’re alive!!! Haven’t seen you post ?!! You sick or something ?? 😉
Anything digital or with a quartz movement.
Even a quartz Grand Seiko?
I don't blame you. Sort of looks like yet another expensive Sekonda imitation.
I had a comment, that I lost while writing and gave up, that included that exact word!
In short, I was saying that true beauty and art needs no explanation. It inherently stirs the soul and is appreciated with no context. Modern art (aka bad art) is of course revolting but the scam is that it is a shibboleth of wealth or education (if you need years of indoctrination to "understand" it, how is it art?), so gobs of people pretend to like it in order to maintain a facade of social status. Anyway, like many German watches, the Lange One is modern art. The emperor has no clothes.
" . . . if you need years of indoctrination to "understand" it, how is it art ?)".
Here's how to determine if something is art. Ask yourself, could I do that? If the answer is yes, then it ain't art.
I love this thing! What’s it?
I like it too. Very 1960s.
The all-sapphire RM. No contest. Can you imagine how satisfying it would be??
If only it was made of solid hardlex, the hammer would probably bounce right off.
If the hammer keeps bouncing off, that's how we know something truly is our nightmare watch.
Sorry, but not even Steve McQueen can get me on board with this cuboidal disaster.
Hour markers are offensive.
Tampons for Hands.
Max Verstappen as an ambassador..
...fetch me the sledgehammer.
I love this thing! What’s it?
It looks like a Fairwhale piece. He has one just like it. The Fairwhale name alone is hilarious.
Maybe the atomic clock is wrong. Or maybe it's a hoax. These days, nothing would surprise me. Maybe there never was an atomic clock. For all we know, the "atomic clock" could just be some guy in an office in Colorado that wears a 6 year-old Seiko 5 and sends out a radio signal every day.
It worked for about two years.After that it started to keep wrong time and date.
I love this thing! What’s it?
My friend gave it to me as a joke. It's huge and I think it's ugly LOL! He said he got it on Amazon.
I had a comment, that I lost while writing and gave up, that included that exact word!
In short, I was saying that true beauty and art needs no explanation. It inherently stirs the soul and is appreciated with no context. Modern art (aka bad art) is of course revolting but the scam is that it is a shibboleth of wealth or education (if you need years of indoctrination to "understand" it, how is it art?), so gobs of people pretend to like it in order to maintain a facade of social status. Anyway, like many German watches, the Lange One is modern art. The emperor has no clothes.
So. Many. Words. Just to say “I don’t like it.” As if all those words make your taste, or lack thereof, somehow principled, and to say that something that takes a moment of reflection to appreciate is to be dismissed. Valorizing the superficial. Philistine. I do like it. No words necessary.
Invicta
Sorry, but not even Steve McQueen can get me on board with this cuboidal disaster.
Hour markers are offensive.
Tampons for Hands.
Max Verstappen as an ambassador..
...fetch me the sledgehammer.
haha, you got me with Max Verstappen as ambassador, haha
Two of mine: Mind you, I have no one to blame but myself, and I wasn't out too much, less than $75.
This $12 AliExpress Lord of the Blings:
This fake eBay "Swear its Genuine, Boss" G-Shock (has all the classic tell-tale signs)
After the horrible customer service experience it would be without question my Ciga Design. Beautiful watch with 💩 customer service.
Damn son, this is not the forum to be pooh-poohing ALS designs. I can hear Crunchers lighting torches and sharpening pitchforks...
Yes it is. If we all can't say what we want about watches on a WATCH FORUM, we might as well give up. I don't like that A. Lange either. I'm still laughing because you said it had a "Mr. Potatohead dial". Now I can't unsee it - it really does remind me of Mr. Potatohead. There are obviously people who like this watch. Watches are like food. Some people like broccoli, and some don't.