You are now Dictator of the Watch World
You are now Dictator of the Watch World. It's Day One. What's the first thing you do?
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YOU GET A ROLEX, YOU GET A ROLEX, EVERYBODY GETS A ROOOOOLEEEEX!
YOU GET A ROLEX, YOU GET A ROLEX, EVERYBODY GETS A ROOOOOLEEEEX!
I didn't say you had to be a benevolent dictator, but YES!!
Dictator you say? Hmmm...
I was gonna kick "snowflake" hands in the nuts and out, but that's such small potatoes.
No, gotta go big... All plastic homages are cast into the depths of hell in perpetuity
No more fakes, “homage” or cheap knockoffs.
Abdicate
No more fakes, “homage” or cheap knockoffs.
All right then. Are you sure now? This puts a lot of pressure on you to be an 'authentic' dictator.
Abdicate
Thread winner! We're done here.
Date window at 4 and 4:30 are now forbidden.
Pass a worldwide customs clearance exemption law for wristwatches.
Every watch needs to be checked every time it is sold. So comes with full inspection details and history and it's available online.
Every manufacturer has to send me at least one of their watches before it can go on sale. A bit like they do with Watchfinder. 😁
Date window at 4 and 4:30 are now forbidden.
And Cyclops please 🙏
No more fakes, “homage” or cheap knockoffs.
I can see an assassination attempt in your future. 🤔
Ban 4:30 date windows, unless horizontal.
Flippers get an embarrassing rash whenever they sell a watch for profit.
I don't like cyclops, and not just from an aesthetic standpoint but also a functional one. Unlike the time, it's never necessary to know the date at a glance. You always have a few seconds to read it on your watch, and move your arm closer if necessary.
I tend to know the date because I can add one from the day before. 😁
Everyone who mentions an integrated bracelet from now on gets twenty lashes.
The Tudor Black Bay 58 becomes a prescription sleeping pill.
Any display of Tiffany Blue is punishable by fifty lashes.
I will outlaw the Tissot PRX just to spite people and have a laugh. Being caught with a PRX is punishable by having your wrist shrunken to three inches.
Lefties will be phased out in my eugenics program.
Mentioning the Hamilton Khaki Field is equivalent to conspiracy against the state and punishable by attaching your head to a mule's body. I am doing this out of spite and to have a laugh.
Dress watches become the primary currency. Owning a vintage dress watch of 36mm or smaller boosts your social credit score.
Owning a fake watch is punishable by having a new disease injected into you.
What, you asked for a dictator...
Everyone who mentions an integrated bracelet from now on gets twenty lashes.
The Tudor Black Bay 58 becomes a prescription sleeping pill.
Any display of Tiffany Blue is punishable by fifty lashes.
I will outlaw the Tissot PRX just to spite people and have a laugh. Being caught with a PRX is punishable by having your wrist shrunken to three inches.
Lefties will be phased out in my eugenics program.
Mentioning the Hamilton Khaki Field is equivalent to conspiracy against the state and punishable by attaching your head to a mule's body. I am doing this out of spite and to have a laugh.
Dress watches become the primary currency. Owning a vintage dress watch of 36mm or smaller boosts your social credit score.
Owning a fake watch is punishable by having a new disease injected into you.
What, you asked for a dictator...
I've got no gripe against most of this, except my head attached to a mule's body has always been my go-to Halloween costume. Now everybody will just think that I mentioned the Hamilton Khaki.
I tend to know the date because I can add one from the day before. 😁
That makes you overqualified to be on this site.
No more fakes, “homage” or cheap knockoffs.
Preach #truth
Abolish Rolex
Day one decrees:
1. Abolish date windows
2. Ban polished center links on bracelets
3. Require all watches be no thicker than 12mm and ideally be less than 11mm.
4. Stated Water Resistance actually needs to be tied to water resistance of timepiece at stated depth (this will be standardized across the industry)
5. All bracelets will come standard with micro-adjust.
Abolish Rolex
We could abolish Rolex. But then what would we complain about?
Never mind. I'm absolutely sure we'd find something.
For one day only, all Rolex watches, worldwide, both factory and gray market, would cost what they did back in 1980 (i.e., about $500 each) and there would be no waiting list, and all watches would be available that day for immediate purchase, and the amount of stock available would be enough for all requested items. 😎 Then I would buy like 3 of them. 🤣 A GMT like Tom Selleck had in Magnum, a DateJust like Tom Selleck had in Blue Bloods, and a Daytona like Paul Newman had.
All watches with unidirectional timing bezels would have a bi directional option available.
For one day only, all Rolex watches, worldwide, both factory and gray market, would cost what they did back in 1980 (i.e., about $500 each) and there would be no waiting list, and all watches would be available that day for immediate purchase, and the amount of stock available would be enough for all requested items. 😎 Then I would buy like 3 of them. 🤣 A GMT like Tom Selleck had in Magnum, a DateJust like Tom Selleck had in Blue Bloods, and a Daytona like Paul Newman had.
You really would have to become dictator for all this to happen, or even one of these to happen. Over the years Rolex has mutated into something almost unrecognizable.
All watches with unidirectional timing bezels would have a bi directional option available.
That's an interesting thought, and one I haven't seen yet on this post. I like bi directional friction bezels myself. They are more practical in timing real life events. The only time you would really need a unidirectional bezel instead would be if you were actually diving underwater.
Immediately flood the market with homages.
Pay every single actor who is a brand ambassador to exclusively wear Spaghetti Scametti, San Martin, Tactical Frog, IxDAO, or Baltnay, dealers choice.
Light a giant bag of dog poop on fire in front of a certain company and run away giggling like a naughty school boy.
https://timeandtidewatches.com/trademark-wrangle-over-nato-straps/#:~:text=That's%20because%20a%20company%20called,trademarked%20the%20word%20%E2%80%9CNATO%E2%80%9D.
Outlaw Sapphire, Mineral and any other crystal that is not acrylic/Hesalite/Plexiglass.
Make all of the above laws in any country that allows such things, with a term limit of 6,969 months, 69 days, 69 hours, 69 minutes and 13 seconds.
Go drink an amazing hand made espresso and watch the weeping and gnashing of teeth start.
This strikes me as being only a bit more chaotic than what we have now.
Day one decrees:
1. Abolish date windows
2. Ban polished center links on bracelets
3. Require all watches be no thicker than 12mm and ideally be less than 11mm.
4. Stated Water Resistance actually needs to be tied to water resistance of timepiece at stated depth (this will be standardized across the industry)
5. All bracelets will come standard with micro-adjust.
The proles are grumbling a bit here. For number 1, they say date windows can be useful, and some watchmakers can integrate them successfully. For number 2, they can take this or leave it. For number 3, they also don't care about thickness, saying a watch can be any thickness and the free market will sort it out. They're forgetting this is now a dictatorship. But for numbers 4 and 5 - water resistance standards and micro-adjust bracelets - they are completely on board and are prepared to be dedicated Party members/soldiers in the military/useful idiots or whatever is required.