Your One (1) most beautiful watch
I haven't seen this post yet, maybe it's been done, and even if it has, can we go around again? Be serious (I know it's difficult on WC) and don't play too fast and loose with the word "beautiful". A good rough test might be if a non-watch person would consider it beautiful. Another could be a watch that you would wear to a milestone event. This will disqualify most G-Shocks and tool watches, unless you really have one that can make the case. Otherwise, cost, brand, age, all are fair game.
And this is not a cheap trick I'm doing just to see a bunch of Seiko Ginza photos. You may even have a Ginza and not consider that your most beautiful watch. In that case, I really want to see what you consider your most beautiful.
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Yes, a bit on the sporty side but most beautiful of my collection
Has to be my Zelos. I get it’s not for everyone but I feel it has a certain quality of beauty you can’t deny with a dial like that, even if it’s not up your ally!
Dornblüth and Sohn as the back is a good as the front
My watch collection veers toward utilitarian so I guess this is my dressy one. Cocktail time Open heart.
Nobody said watch collecting was easy (though maybe somebody should).
Yes, a bit on the sporty side but most beautiful of my collection
Definitely a looker. What's going on there? Is that a Brew in black?
My watch collection veers toward utilitarian so I guess this is my dressy one. Cocktail time Open heart.
The world should be this utilitarian. People can say what they want about Seiko (and they do) but when it comes to producing beautiful dials they can really bring it.
Definitely a looker. What's going on there? Is that a Brew in black?
Yes, Brew Metric - PVD Black. Inspired a bit less by coffee and a bit more by classic sports car instrument clusters.
Dornblüth and Sohn as the back is a good as the front
I'm thinking I have good memories of this watch from the Green Watch post. A guy doesn't see many Dornbluth and Sohn watches. I give the edge to the front but like the back too. Looks from here like a straight hand wind, no rotor.
Has to be my Zelos. I get it’s not for everyone but I feel it has a certain quality of beauty you can’t deny with a dial like that, even if it’s not up your ally!
I'm biased towards any orange watch, but on my screen that looks like an actual real orange inside the dial. Yes, even a complete non-watch person should like that, unless there was something (legitimately) wrong with them.
It’s an easy answer when you only have one watch lol
I'm biased towards any orange watch, but on my screen that looks like an actual real orange inside the dial. Yes, even a complete non-watch person should like that, unless there was something (legitimately) wrong with them.
I’ve gotten a lot of ‘interesting watch!’ whilst wearing it. It is for sure an eye catcher, and I absolutely love it and think it’s beautiful!
Perhaps my vintage Bulova day-date?
Perhaps my Seiko speedtimer?
Or perhaps this zelos great white?
I feel like this one might be it lately:
But who am I kidding? They’re all my watches.. I love them all 🤣
It’s an easy answer when you only have one watch lol
It's a beautiful watch (though NOT a beautiful watch Collection - you need at least two for that!) Thank you for showing it. Wave dial really visible on my screen.
I should have known better . . . I guess on WatchCrunch, counting to ONE is a pretty High Bar for us. But this can be a bonus of one extra beautiful watch. The Waltham(?) looks like it's out of a movie or storybook. And check out the condition it's in. I can almost read the dial off the reflection. And somebody very recently had a post featuring Socrates, so the judges say it's only fair that Aesop is represented too. Thank you for showing both of these. I think they would bowl anybody over.
Keeping us in suspense are you? You could have posted two photos and had just one watch. This is definitely a special occasion watch. Only problem is it almost demands a special occasion. But also by wearing this watch you could turn a borderline special occasion into a really special one.
Hahahaha. It is def an occasion watch. Weather in NYC is hot and muggy, hate sweating in the leather band so don’t wear it often during the summer season.
Although I recently paired it with a “fabricish” type strap, can potentially use it as a daily now. I picked a few straps to switch out depending on my mood.
You will have to elaborate on this one, Sir. Not quite clear about your drift, economy, world war three, apocalypse, doomsday, meteor?! 🤔
It's the economy. I've been doing volunteer work in my hometown since early 2017. Almost always food and clothes, no big $$$ outlays. The Covid Wuhan Pandemic really wrecked the city. The "cure" was much worse than the disease. Very few people were allowed to work. When we would go to their houses, most would say they were much more afraid of losing their jobs than they were of the virus. A lot of independent businesses downtown went out of business, and so far nothing has replaced them. In the little 12 block area we look after, almost no one now owns a house. I just heard on the news that across the river in Cincinnati, legal action is being taken because just two companies are buying up all the properties the former 1-2 building owners lost during Covid.
These days, the usual person we visit still needs food and clothes, but also about $700 rent and $1500 utility money. Can't blame this all on recent events because creeping social pathology has been happening for years, but I can blame some of it on dumb policies. How? I just received a letter from my utility company. They say my prices have gone up, and are going up, because of "constraints" (quoting their word) on natural gas. That's where our electricity comes from. The whole country might be sitting on an ocean of cheap energy, and in my 12 block neighborhood, poor people are now not able to afford any.
I'd go as far to say that Jean-Claude Biver, or Wing Liang, or the head banana at Seiko could do a better job of running things than these mad scientists or dumb world leaders. The watch guys have already proved themselves in their industry. And the Watch Company leaders at least know what morals and imagination and beauty are.
I shouldn't complain, but I will because I've spent a lifetime doing it and am starting to get pretty good at it. I feel like I'm just coming into my own. Dumb and immoral policies haven't destroyed my retirement but they have damaged it quite a bit. A regular guy used to be able to save 25-30 years, retire, and live off the interest. Can't do that now. There is no interest. There is only the crazily manipulated stock market, so trust your life savings to that if you must. And indeed you must, because right now there's nothing else.
All I want is a lot of say in my own life. Where I live, it reminds me of that old joke that all of life is High School. Don't know about that, but if today's World Leaders are in fact yesterday's High School dweebs, they're using as playbooks the same dystopian novels we read back then, namely Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, Harrison Bergeron, and Nineteen Eighty-Four.
I got to complain a little bit, so now I'll stop. I'm still able to afford my $150 Seiko or Citizen or off-brand every few months. I just bought the new Seiko Big Date SUR517P1. Sapphire, 100mWR, sailcloth strap, dial like a working man's IWC. All for 160 bucks. Maybe a bit extravagant compared to what others in the city have, but after sticking people's lives back together for the past year and a half and seeing my own life and retirement tick away, I might as well get to see it counted down on the face of a beautiful new watch.
This is what it's like where I live. If I owned a Vulcain Cricket right now the alarm would be going off.
That is indeed an easy one. Disclaimer: I'm a big fan of Seiko, Grand Seiko, Presage, Prospex, Lorus, Alba, etc. And I love a blue dial on a watch. So there's a lot of bias here. But that's a stunner. I love how it shows its pattern when you turn the dial. GS claims some of its dials were inspired by nature, and sometimes these explanations can be a bit much for me. The jaded side of me just thinks it's overblown advertising. But it could be authentic Japanese culture, so who knows. Either way, I would rather not know what inspired the dial, and just enjoy the beautiful design.
Looks great on bracelet or the straps that you have, naturally on black leather, even pulls off the greyish nylon? sailcloth? canvas? one. My favorite though is the bracelet. If that's the original, that's a perfect compliment to this watch. There are so many complaints about Seiko and even GS bracelets. I have old school Seiko 5s and Seiko Essentials. They supposedly have bottom of the barrel bracelets but they're fine with me. I can only imagine the quality of a GS bracelet. But some are not completely happy with them.
Thank you for posting your Grand Seiko.
It is indeed the original GS bracelet. I think the reason it pairs so well is both the bracelet and case are made from the ever brilliant steel GS uses on a handful of their models. It has an almost whiteish hue that really makes the thing shine. Not that it needs any more!
And I hear you on the nature inspired dial stories. Funny enough, I like this one because it looks like wood grain to me (not the night sky and orbit) and I do some light woodworking as a hobby. So it was a perfect fit for me.
Im quite torn between boring datejust, explorer and iwc and some better looking tool watches so i respectfully decline!
Im quite torn between boring datejust, explorer and iwc and some better looking tool watches so i respectfully decline!
Noted, thank you. That's a good problem to have!
You got it in one. I find using the slide rule on a #fighty easier (successfully calculated remaining fuel a total of 1 times BTW!) Than figuring out the time, let alone the date. Funnily enough, mid-July it's easy, the 14th is just after 3 o'clock and July is at 9 o'clock:
but the 31st of December is going to require multiple clicks of the A button!
I'm also perpetually (pun intended) a day behind because for the life of me I can't set the day and date despite reading the largest #seiko manual I have ever seen! (Luckily I work in 2 timezones occassionally and it works out ok).
Not quite a #beadsofrice bracelet, I forget what this one is called but it's the stock Seiko one. And yes, I would regularly switch to brown leather, but haven't found one I like just yet. In the meanwhile this is still good:
(Wife's pink doilie for contrast).
Despite all of this, I find it quite elegant, perhaps because of the complicated nature of the... #complications.
Fire 🔥 emoji for that awesome slide rule of a watch
..AND for the pink knit doily 🔥🔥🔥
That is indeed an easy one. Disclaimer: I'm a big fan of Seiko, Grand Seiko, Presage, Prospex, Lorus, Alba, etc. And I love a blue dial on a watch. So there's a lot of bias here. But that's a stunner. I love how it shows its pattern when you turn the dial. GS claims some of its dials were inspired by nature, and sometimes these explanations can be a bit much for me. The jaded side of me just thinks it's overblown advertising. But it could be authentic Japanese culture, so who knows. Either way, I would rather not know what inspired the dial, and just enjoy the beautiful design.
Looks great on bracelet or the straps that you have, naturally on black leather, even pulls off the greyish nylon? sailcloth? canvas? one. My favorite though is the bracelet. If that's the original, that's a perfect compliment to this watch. There are so many complaints about Seiko and even GS bracelets. I have old school Seiko 5s and Seiko Essentials. They supposedly have bottom of the barrel bracelets but they're fine with me. I can only imagine the quality of a GS bracelet. But some are not completely happy with them.
Thank you for posting your Grand Seiko.
Dude! 100%
Put me also in the category of loving my Seiko bracelets. It’s not rose colour blinders: my Seikos and GSs are the BEST fitting bracelets I own.
my Swiss watches (Oris, Rado, Zodiac..) fit ..’good enough’ but are not quite spot on.
This watch usually gets the most attention out and about
Perhaps my vintage Bulova day-date?
Perhaps my Seiko speedtimer?
Or perhaps this zelos great white?
I feel like this one might be it lately:
But who am I kidding? They’re all my watches.. I love them all 🤣
I have both Seiko's and one that is solar and is a WT and gets time from the sky ! Would someone tell me how to upload pics, I am a bit of a dolt and cant figure that out
Gone, but not forgotten:
Take your pick because I can’t decide which is more beautiful.
I love and want both. Thx for sharing
I like that curved dial on your Timex.
This watch usually gets the most attention out and about
No wonder, there. I never would have guessed that's an IWC watch.
No wonder, there. I never would have guessed that's an IWC watch.
Yeah, I have to say that IWC is known for their pilot line back when machismo was all the rage of the early 2000's.
But the IWC dress watch lines are not often discussed. I personally think the new Portifino calendars are elegant - competitive with JLC. Absolutely off the beaten path, and a well-overlooked gem