Show me your busiest dial!

That SNA411 is without a doubt the busiest dial in my collection, yet I find it surprisingly easy to read at a quick glance. It's actually the business of the dial that made me add one to my collection.

In the same vein as the Flighty. I own a Nomos, and I own the Nighthawk. I like minimalism and and maximalism. I've learned that maximalism goes a ways towards making large watches wearable. 42mm on me often looks like a dinner plate, but the Nighthawk wears OK. 

I think this also counts as busy. Despite being 42mm across and 14mm+ thick, it wears rather nicely. 

I've had my eye on this for a while, another very busy dial.

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I'm the same way. I like clean lines & dials, but watches like the Flighty are so busy, they turn clean. It's like all that 'extra' text blends together if you are just glancing at the time. 

Does this count…I have no clue what those round things on top…

My one and only Seiko seems to have made good use of the dial space. 

Then there’s my Tissot. 

With G-Steel and my Citizen Chronograph in joint third. 

Behold! The Citizen Navihawk AT (not mine as mine’s at home in the box). Busy as hell, but fun to think you can calculate how much fuel your plane is using.

My Navihawk for sure. I‘m so jealous of how busy it is that it motivates me to clean the house top to bottom!

They stare at you while you sleep!👻

Love that temp gauge! 

I am very much a 3 hands + (day)date collector. 

This is in my collection because I wanted to own that awesome porcelain dial - in a configuration where you notice that special material of the dial. However, I am not a super fan ot this watch because the "busy" dial.

I used to have an Citizen Eco-Drive Skyhawk Blue Angels Titanium that had a busy dial, but the capacitor died and I never replaced it (come to think of it, I'm not sure what happened to the watch itself):

Currently, this is my busiest dial:

I have that last one -- it's currently my busiest dial:

I just got my new Citizen Nighty in the mail today, and yes, I am going to call it my Nighty, like the Omega Speedy and the Seiko Flighty! 😂🤣

I put it on a sailcloth strap from Barton.

I'll avoid the Flighty, Navitimer, and related pilot's watches - since those are so obviously busy.

Here's a blast from the past from Wakmann - the Regatta Yachting Timer...

And maybe more recently...Vulcain's Nautical Heritage...

i go old school and those were fast to use.What dial?

Like many here, I'm usually drawn to cleaner dials but this one. There's this weird order in madness going on here.

This one's pretty illegible. 😂

Christopher Ward C70 DBR1

Torgoen T1

Citizen Attesa Jetsetter

Flightmaster

I guess it will be this one. Have not very busy dials in general, but this one has lots of numbers in it. Glycine Airman Base 22 GMT.

Busy, yet EXTREMELY legible, especially at night. Was pretty darn surprised, to say the least😂

How about eight (8!) hands? 

Best I can do and it appears I'm outmatched by many others before me.

This topic reminds me of the ultra complicated pocket watches made by the likes of Patek Philippe prior to WWII. They had so many complications that they needed two dials to read them all so they would still be legible. 

A good example is the famous Henry Graves "Supercomplication" made by Patek in 1933 with 24 complications:

The JLC alarm.  The Alarm window makes an otherwise highly legible watch a tad busy

The Yes watch with quite a bit of info including sunlight hours, moon phase along with rise and set

The MB Nick R.  Quite a busy way of doing the chronograph.

Whilst I love things like the Seiko flighty or Breitling Navitimer, I just couldn't manage them without my reading glasses.  So the above are as busy as I can go.

Add me to the pile of bodies that own a citizen nighthawk blue angels edition thats dead to the world.
Another busy face is a Breitling Navitimer.  I tried on one for fun a couple weeks ago thinking it’d be fun to try out a fugly watch… and then found myself liking the slide rule mayhem of a face. 🤪