Are power reserves overrated!
Does anybody really care about the power reserve on an automatic watch? I know I’m a watch nerd and useless functions are cool to me. But an 8 day power reserve seems a bit extreme even for a nerd like me. Now I have watches with 30 hrs up to over 3 days of power reserve. I even have one with a power reserve display on the dial. Pretty cool watch I must say. And I’m thinking about buying another one. But the reserve does almost nothing for me unless I’m switching the same watches around every day or two which I don’t do very often.
What I usually do is pull a watch out of the box, (The box has 4 winders and I don’t use them by the way.) shake it to if the second hand starts running maybe wind it if I feel like it. Then I set the time and go. Sometimes I don’t even set the date until later in the day. I’m I alone in my thinking or are there others of you out there like me?
Just a guy filling up a box with watches.
Absolutely brilliant watch - one I don’t see nearly as often (talked about or on the wrist) as one should. But I am happy about that because it means GO remains the incredible value that it is
Totally pointless imho. I have an old Rotary with a Hangzhou movement in it, and as soon as I pick it up it starts. It then runs to the end of the day and it's still running the following morning. Why do I need something to tell me that it's still running when I can see the second hand tick. It's like having the weatherman tell you that right now it's raining outside, when you can hear it hitting the window.
...still... I've not ruled out getting one just for the sake of owning another complication...
Beautiful timepiece!! Is it with clear back as well
Beautiful timepiece!! Is it with clear back as well
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8 Day seems excessive and it’s just a testament to what watchmakers could do if they wanted to. I have a couple of Tissots with Powermatic80 which is a cool novelty but they’re dead by the time I cycle back to wear them.
I think power reserve displays are useful for manual wind watches, but it does add to the clutter.
I don't care a lot about power reserve because neither their functionality nor execution appeal to me. However I can and do understand why it would be something that other people like.
Power reserves are a bit of a useless gimmick for me because when worn the watch is winding itself and when I don't wear a watch its either in the winder of a box and my rotation schedule is longer than the power reserve. Therefore in my case I would prefer to have on the dial a complication that is more useful to me, or none at all.
To comment on the actual question being asked - here, I love it, because it makes the watch look more like the Patek 5170G, which is one of the most beautiful watches I’ve ever seen. Although this GO is very much its own watch which is brilliant for its own design language - I just like the symmetry.
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I find their movements really unique and beautiful
On the contrary, I find them to be one of the few actually useful complications in modern day watches. You could easily say that a self-winding watch, kept in a watchwinder when not being worn, doesn't require a power reserve meter, but in that sense nearly every watch complication is made superfluous by the existence of something else.
For many enthusiasts who might own several watches and revolve around their collection a few times a week or month, and with watches that can hold power for a day or two, it's useful to know when a watch is getting low so you can wind it up a little to last the night, and maybe switch to wearing it the next day. That way you can keep your collection running smoothly, and not have to worry about setting the time/day/date as often.
Of course, everyone's individual experiences with their watches does dictate what they feel is necessary or not. A person who wears a single watch for long periods of time, or a person who changes so frequently that no watch will ever run out completely, might not ever find a PR indicator to be too useful.
Only depends if you don’t like setting your watch. But I don’t mind
@whystopatone Power reserves for me is more about the complication and the same can be said with chronographs. having said that, with my GS White Birch, it is nice to know that with the 5 day PR, I can wear it from Friday evening to Monday morning then wear a different watch during the weekdays and when it comes around to Friday evening again the watch is still ticking or in this case with Spring Drive, it is sweeping.